These Five “Witness Trees” Were Present At Key Moments In America’s History - These still-standing trees are a living testament to our country’s tragic past A witness tree begins its life like any other tree. It sprouts. It grows. And then it’s thrust into the spotlight, playing an involuntary part in a significant historic event. Often, that event is a devastating, landscape-scarring battle or other tragic moment. Once […]
Dr. Fauci’s Good Lawyers - 111 times. That’s how many times Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid falling into the perjury trap Sen. Rand Paul was setting for him. Dr. Fauci was not brought in to testify because they needed to know more about what he had said and done in the past. No, he has not […]
News From Around the South 7/27 to 8/3 - SOUTH CAROLINA: One of Beaufort’s best-known trees topples. Will its other half survive? One of Beaufort’s most famous and historic trees split in two over the weekend, with half of it falling to the ground with a crash heard around the Lowcountry. The towering live oak is located in a parking lot at the Beaufort […]
Why the Blanche Nomination Should Be Rejected - Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is not qualified to be the attorney general of the United States because he has demonstrated a hopeless conflict between the rule of law — which he has taken an oath to support — and his sense of personal loyalty to President Donald Trump, whom he represented for several years […]
Following President George Washington’s footsteps through Salem and the Guilford battlefield - In the spring of 1791, President George Washington visited Salem and the site of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse as part of a tour of the southern U.S. that took him from Virginia to Georgia, according to Warren L. Bingham, author of a book about the trip. Washington believed his trip would increase public interest […]
