News From Around the South 4/25 to 5/2
ARKANSAS: Arkansas Legislature Prevents Confederate Statue From Being Removed From Courthouse Lawn Talk surrounding moving the Confederate monument on the Sebastian County Courthouse lawn has stalled, leaving the statue in place. County Judge David Hudson said a plan...
The Problems With Disney and Florida
The core of the problems with Disney and Florida is the American addiction to corporatism. This is the use of government power for the benefit of the government’s patrons. Stated differently, it is a symbiotic relationship between the government and a private...
Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant complicated 200 years after birth
The legacy of Ulysses S. Grant isn’t getting any less complicated 200 years after his birth. Grant battered the slave-owning South into surrender as President Abraham Lincoln’s top Union general, yet he owned at least one enslaved person before the war. A Native...
Why Biden Needs to Revive the Iran Nuclear Deal
Donald Trump was a fierce critic of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal negotiated under Barack Obama. Because of it, he said in 2018, “In just a short period of time, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror will be on the cusp of acquiring the world’s...
News From Around the South 4/18 to 4/25
TENNESSEE: Williamson County Gets Permission To Remove Confederate Flag FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Two years after voting to remove the Confederate flag from its seal, a Tennessee county finally has the go-ahead to do so. The Williamson County Commission voted in 2020 to...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: ‘Once in a lifetime opportunity’: Spartanburg Revolutionary War flag acquired by library SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – A significant piece of local and American history – one no Read More