When Are Secrets Not Secret?
“Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Last week, President George W. Bush’s torture regime reared its head in an unusual argument before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2002, Abu Zubaydah was captured by...
South’s Resistance To Vaccine Has Historical Precedent
On Monday, David Leonhardt’s morning newsletter for the New York Times introduced a grim new term into our pandemic vocabularies: “Red COVID.” The partisan gap in the effects of the pandemic, the newsletter explained, had widened. “Every reliably blue state now has a...
Sink The New World Order Taxi
Last Friday, in a triumph for transnationalism, 136 nations, including the U.S., agreed to mandate a global corporate income tax for all nations that will not be allowed to fall below 15%. “Virtually the entire global economy has decided to end the race to the...
News From Around the South 10/4 to 10/11
SOUTH CAROLINA: DAR CHapter Donates To Military Museum Springfield is home to an incredible treasure and variety of historical artifacts, photos and medals, all relating to battles fought from the American Revolutionary War to the war in Afghanistan. The Orangeburg...
A Brief History of the Law of Personal Privacy and Bodily Integrity
As more governors issue so-called mandates requiring municipal and state employers, as well as private employers and public accommodations, to require their employees and patrons to be vaccinated against COVID-19, they are being challenged by arguments based on...Obiter Dicta
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VIRGINIA: Virginia Museum of History and Culture launches Revolution Revisited podcast Calling all history buffs! The Virginia Museum of History and Culture is launching a podcast that you don’t want Read More