The Right Thing Costs You - “If you’re trying to decide what to do, and you only have two choices, do the thing that’s hardest,” my pop used to tell me. “The right thing is always the hardest thing.” Which is how Scott Pelley got canned off “60 Minutes,” a television news show that rose to journalism and stayed there for […]
News From Around the South, 6/1 to 6/8 - SOUTH CROLINA: Preservationists hope SC battlefield’s designation as endangered will boost attention Hanging Rock Battlefield is one of 11 of the most endangered historical places in the country, a national preservation trust decided COLUMBIA — As South Carolina grows, a battlefield in Lancaster County is among historic places across the country most at risk of being […]
Gitmo and Torture Revisited - America’s longest current criminal prosecution is in its 15th year, on its fifth judge, and still has no trial date. The defendants are Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four alleged mass murder co-conspirators. Mohammed is the second person that the government has characterized as the ringleader of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Originally, the feds […]
June 2, 1863: Harriet Tubman Combahee Ferry raid freed 700 slaves - On June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman, along with Black soldiers, took part in a daring Union raid of Combahee Ferry near Beaufort, South Carolina. She became the first American woman to lead a major military operation when she and at least 150 Black soldiers helped to rescue more than 700 Black Americans who had been […]
The Investigation of E. Jean Carroll - President Donald Trump may be the smallest, meanest and most vengeful man to serve in the Oval Office. Every time I think he and his minions could stoop no lower, they surprise me. There is simply no limit to Trump’s hunger for vengeance, or the willingness of his minions to do his bidding, no matter […]
