COVID-19 and the Failure of America’s Major Religions
For two years, Americans have been partially or entirely deprived of fundamental freedoms — of assembly, speech, religious liberty, making a living, a child’s right to an education, access to early treatment for a potentially deadly virus, and more — for the...
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ALABAMA: History of 1800s Black Baptists a story of Alabama’s post-Civil War rebirth It was just 20 years after the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619 when the first Baptist church formed in Rhode Island. Nearly 150 years would pass before the first...
Love of Country
In the next few weeks, we will celebrate both Valentine’s Day and Presidents’ Day. The two holidays recall two of our many presidents who loved our country and sacrificed for it: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Both presided over our country during...
Charleston Calhoun Monument May Find Home in Columbia Museum
After sitting in storage for over a year, Charleston’s statue of John C. Calhoun may be headed to the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia. City of Charleston and museum officials have worked out an agreement for an “extended loan” to the museum, according to a...
Putin Wants His Own Monroe Doctrine
When the Union was fighting to preserve itself in the Civil War, the France of Napoleon III moved troops into Mexico, overthrew the regime of Benito Juarez, set up a monarchy and put Austrian Archduke Maximilian von Habsburg on the throne as Emperor of Mexico — one...Obiter Dicta
I probably don’t agree with anything Mahmoud Khalil has to say about Israel. He’s the Columbia University student activist who Read More
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GEORGIA: A new push to change Georgia law concerning Stone Mountain’s Confederate monument Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park — once home to the Ku Klux Klan and the site of the Read More