Taking the Constitution Seriously - Last week, the President of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously. He ordered the murders of 11 people who were riding in a speedboat in the Caribbean Sea around 1,300 miles from the U.S. Afterward he said he did so because he believed that they were members of a “narco-terrorist gang” and […]
Centuries-old bridge that linked Charleston to N.C. will close for repairs until spring - The bridge was part of a $1 million project to create commerce routes to the Charleston port After 205 years, Poinsett Bridge in South Carolina’s Upstate is getting a facelift. The historic bridge, once part of State Road extending from Charleston to North Carolina, will close between Sept. 29 and March 31 as preservationists repair […]
Rahm Emanuel: Democrats Have Lost Touch With Roosevelt, Johnson and Truman - SPRINGFIELD, Illinois — In casual conversations with Democrats in August from across the Midwest, I found that their biggest frustration with the national party is that its platform didn’t appeal to them. I was not surprised to see that same sentiment captured in a poll by The Wall Street Journal around the same time. It […]
News From Around the South, 9/1 to 9/8 - SOUTH CAROLINA: Experts work to ID remains of Revolutionary War soldiers found in woods: “This is the ultimate cold case” The Battle of Camden is mentioned in history books and even films like “The Patriot,” but the precise location of much of the fighting remained unclear until Legg and Smith began their archaeological survey in […]
Jury Nullification - Jury nullification is a fancy term for what it’s called when juries — or, in this case, grand juries — say no. It doesn’t happen very often, which is why you may have never heard of it. The old line is that a good prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. […]
