News From Around The South 10/17 to 10/24
SOUTH CAROLINA: A Confederate Statue Fight Renewed: How this S.C. City is Looking to the Future Thirty years after a monument honoring Confederate soldiers was erected in the middle of Main Street in downtown Greenville, the marble statue atop a soaring granite base...
Alex Jones and the Freedom of Speech
“Congress shall make no law abridging … the freedom of speech.” — First Amendment to the Constitution The iconic language of the First Amendment can be recited by schoolchildren, yet it is ignored by judges in Connecticut when the speech has been...
U.S. Military to Stop Honoring Confederate Names
The Defense Department has identified more than 1,100 items that commemorate the Confederacy and has plans for removing or renaming some of them The Confederate States of America, the short-lived rogue collection of states addicted to slavery and its profits, will...
Where U.S. and Ukrainian War Aims Collide
To President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine, Crimea and the Donbas are national territories whose retrieval justifies all-out war to expel the invading armies of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Yet, who controls Crimea and the Donbas has, in the history of...
News From Around the South 10/10 to 10/17
NORTH CAROLINA: JROTC Cadet Wore Confederate Uniform to Armed Services Night A student in Erwin High School’s JROTC program wore a Confederate uniform during a football game ceremony on Oct. 7, bringing up issues the school has dealt with in years past. The...Obiter Dicta
There is lore about the 1862 meeting between Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” — the influential novel Read More
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Louisiana: Legislators could use their campaign cash for clothing if bill passes Louisiana lawmakers might lift a prohibition on using their campaign and political action committee funding to purchase clothing Read More