When The News Feels Like The Weather
One way to think of the national news is like a political weather forecast. Facts don’t come first — the emotional tone does. The Donald Trump project always sounded doomed, perpetually on the verge of dying in darkness. During the 2016 presidential campaign,...
Film Highlights ‘Lost Cause’ Myth, Mississippi Voices
Holmes County Central High School students wore the required red polos and khaki pants that are part of their school uniforms as they fidgeted in their seats, waiting for documentary director Rachel Boynton and her one-man crew to adjust the lights and sounds for her...
News From Around the South 11/8 to 11/15
VIRGINIA: Three Slain Black Civil War Soldiers Honored With Monument LIGNUM, VA. – On the stunningly sunny and crystal clear, crisp morning of Saturday, Nov. 6, just ahead of Veteran’s Day, some 200 people from far and wide came together in rural Culpeper County,...
Mystery: How Augusta Paper’s Civil War Editor Blamed For Outcome
Here is the mystery of Nathan S. Morse, the war-time editor of The Augusta Chronicle. Here is the mystery of a man so principled, he left his native North, decrying the power grabs of new President Abraham Lincoln. Here is the mystery of a man who came South to...
The Government Lies About Its Secrets
Recently, this column offered a critical analysis of the state secrets privilege. Last week, the government twice brought it to new lows. Here is the backstory. A legal privilege is the ability of a party in litigation to keep a communication from the court and...Obiter Dicta
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