Trump’s Latest Invitation to Universities
It's called the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." It is anything but. It asks the schools who received Wednesday's letter to give up their academic freedom and adopt the right-wing partisan platform on education in exchange for preferred access to...
News From Around the South, 9/29 to 10/6
GEORGIA: Georgia’s highest court sides with slave descendants fighting to protect threatened island community Atlanta (AP) — Georgia’s highest court Tuesday sided with Black landowners in a fight over zoning changes that weakened long-standing protections for one of...
Who Will Protect Us From the Protectors?
In the same week in which President Donald Trump announced that he was federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers and dispatching them to the streets of Portland, he quietly signed a Presidential National Security Memorandum that purports to federalize policing....
SC man finds hundreds of relics in neighborhood, including musket and buttons from Washington’s army
RAVENEL — Mark Anders loves hearing that beep, beep, beeping sound his metal detector makes as he scans his neighborhood for artifacts and uncovers buried treasures long lost from centuries ago. With 6,000 acres to comb through in the Poplar Grove community, sometimes...
Beware What You Wish For
President Donald Trump wants revenge. He has made getting even the centerpiece of his administration, as if vengeance is a popular or attractive response. It isn't. Over the weekend, Trump asked Attorney General Pam Bondi on Truth Social why "nothing is being done"...
News From Around the South, 9/22 to 9/29
SOUTH CAROLINA: Misconceptions of a Civil War general’s time in Columbia persist, historians say COLUMBIA — Many who grew up in South Carolina have a very particular picture of Gen. William Sherman’s March through the state. One shaped by historical accounts passed...
Free Speech and Its Discontents
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ... " — First Amendment to the U.S....
S.C. BBQ Joint Named Best in South
A highly regarded West Columbia restaurant has been named the top barbecue joint in the South by Southern Living magazine. City Limits Barbeque, located at 1119 Methodist Park Road, was No. 1 on Southern Living’s Top 50 BBQ Joints in the South list for 2025, which was...
This Is Not Funny
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, told a right-wing podcaster, "this" being the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. They did it the easy way. All Carr had to do was speak the words, and within...
News From Around the South, 9/15 to 9/22
SOUTH CAROLINA: As America turns 250, nonprofit offers free lessons to help K-12 students learn about SC’s role The announcement coincided with the 238th anniversary of the Constitution’s signing NINETY SIX — Just a mile down the road from Edgewood Middle School is...
Obiter Dicta
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