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 […]
Ending the Backlash - “Ending the Backlash on LGBTQI+ Issues” is the title of the report out this week from the respected liberal think tank The Center for American Progress. As you might expect, the Center report urges Democrats to stand firm in supporting transgender soldiers and gender-transition care. But when it comes to girls’ sports, it’s not what […]
News From Around the South, 7/20 to 7/27 - SOUTH CAROLINA: A ‘treasure hunt’ with a purpose: USC students seek clues to university’s untold past A ring of portable yellow barriers surrounds an active worksite at the head of the historic Horseshoe on the University of South Carolina campus. Inside, a handful of laborers dressed in bucket hats, gloves and work boots crouch in […]
The American Presidency and Perpetual War - One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress’s constitutional authority over war. The Constitution grants Congress — not the president — the power to declare war. Congress decides to go to war. The president wages it. Over the past several decades, presidents of both major parties have […]
