Tucker Carlson and the Freedom of Speech - Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf of himself and 40 other Senate Democrats that, if passed, would record the sense of the Senate as condemning the media superstar Tucker Carlson because of the political, historical and cultural opinions of a guest […]
Boston celebrates its tea party history today. One in Charleston, S.C., came first - On this day 252 years ago, angry colonists in Massachusetts boarded a British ship in the Boston Harbor to protest what were seen as unfair circumstances regarding tea imports. Dressed as Mohawk Indians, the mob on Dec. 16, 1773, dumped more than 300 chests of tea overboard into the saltwater – in what has since […]
A Human Swastika - They clearly wanted attention and attention is what they got. Eight students at Branham High School in San Jose, Calif. posted photos of themselves on social media forming a human swastika — and lest there be any doubt, accompanied the photo with a quote from Adolf Hitler calling for the killing of all Jews. Happy […]
News From Around the South, 12/8 to 12/15 - SOUTH CAROLINA: A hidden treasure was buried in Charleston decades ago. A Summerville man thinks he’s found it MOUNT PLEASANT — For over 40 years, a 19-line poem has intrigued treasure hunters. The prose, and a corresponding painting, is one of 12 riddles compiled in “The Secret: A treasure,” a book by Byron Preiss. The […]
The President’s Immigration Policy Is ‘Beyond Inhumane’ - Absorbing the news about the brutal treatment of detainees, to say nothing of the outright murder of “suspected” drug runners in the Caribbean, I think back to a conversation I had in February of this year. My interlocutor was a Trump voter who had just had a friendly encounter with an African immigrant striver — […]
