Boston celebrates its tea party history today. One in Charleston, S.C., came first
On this day 252 years ago, angry colonists in Massachusetts boarded a British ship in the Boston Harbor to protest what were seen as unfair circumstances regarding tea imports. Dressed as Mohawk Indians, the mob on Dec. 16, 1773, dumped more than 300 chests of tea...
A Human Swastika
They clearly wanted attention and attention is what they got. Eight students at Branham High School in San Jose, Calif. posted photos of themselves on social media forming a human swastika — and lest there be any doubt, accompanied the photo with a quote from Adolf...
News From Around the South, 12/8 to 12/15
SOUTH CAROLINA: A hidden treasure was buried in Charleston decades ago. A Summerville man thinks he’s found it MOUNT PLEASANT — For over 40 years, a 19-line poem has intrigued treasure hunters. The prose, and a corresponding painting, is one of 12 riddles...
The President’s Immigration Policy Is ‘Beyond Inhumane’
Absorbing the news about the brutal treatment of detainees, to say nothing of the outright murder of “suspected” drug runners in the Caribbean, I think back to a conversation I had in February of this year. My interlocutor was a Trump voter who had just...
Civil War wrecks vanish, then drone finds buried ‘anomalies’ on land, SC data shows
Shipwrecks frequently get lost, but a search for four missing Civil War blockade runners off South Carolina has come to the unusual conclusion that at least three are now buried on land. The fourth one is still unaccounted for off Fort Moultrie, but it’s also likely...Obiter Dicta
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