Late last month, the Supreme Court ruled on a challenge to a question that the Commerce Department announced it would [...]
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NORTH CAROLINA: Confederate Flag Wristbands Dumped After Mixup
Forsyth County said the Confederate flag wristbands were ordered by mistake. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Joe Biden’
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Aug14
Mitt Romney is a bit of a sci-fi buff. He not only took his grandkids to see “The Hunger Games” when the movie came out but also read the Suzanne Collins trilogy. I wonder whether he was thinking about the books when he picked Paul Ryan to be his running mate. On the surface, Romney […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Jan18
To understand the depth of the Republican dilemma that continues to brew in Washington, you only needed to listen to two voices last week. One belonged to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. The primal scream he aimed at his fellow Republicans in the 112th Congress, who on their final day refused to take up a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Did Slave Pilots Help or Hurt British Navy?
It might be one of the more intriguing mysteries behind the Battle of Sullivan’s Island, the 1776 Patriot victory in the Revolutionary War commemorated every June 28 as Carolina Day:
How did enslaved ship-pilots affect the [...]
The South’s Strangest Fourth of July
It began like many other Fourth of July celebrations Charleston held in the decades after the United States won its independence.
At 3 a.m., the traditional sound of cannon fire erupted from Citadel Green (what today [...]