Who Will Protect Us From the Protectors?
In the same week in which President Donald Trump announced that he was federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers and dispatching them to the streets of Portland, he quietly signed a Presidential National Security Memorandum that purports to federalize policing....
SC man finds hundreds of relics in neighborhood, including musket and buttons from Washington’s army
RAVENEL — Mark Anders loves hearing that beep, beep, beeping sound his metal detector makes as he scans his neighborhood for artifacts and uncovers buried treasures long lost from centuries ago. With 6,000 acres to comb through in the Poplar Grove community, sometimes...
Beware What You Wish For
President Donald Trump wants revenge. He has made getting even the centerpiece of his administration, as if vengeance is a popular or attractive response. It isn’t. Over the weekend, Trump asked Attorney General Pam Bondi on Truth Social why “nothing is...
News From Around the South, 9/22 to 9/29
SOUTH CAROLINA: Misconceptions of a Civil War general’s time in Columbia persist, historians say COLUMBIA — Many who grew up in South Carolina have a very particular picture of Gen. William Sherman’s March through the state. One shaped by historical accounts passed...
Free Speech and Its Discontents
“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press …...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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