Open For Corruption
Is America open for corruption now? Unabashedly? Nakedly? Are we tossing aside not just our hard-won victories over infectious diseases but also the more than hundred-year battle against fraud, bribery and graft? Honest, clean government doesn’t follow...
Thomas Jefferson Claimed He Introduced Bill to Free Enslaved Blacks 100 Years Before Civil War. Was He Lying?
Imagine a world where the Civil War never happened. Slavery would have ended a century earlier than it did, sparing the country decades of division and a bloodbath that cost thousands of Americans their lives and created an ideological chasm that persists to this day....
America Joins the Jackals
As I watched election returns on the evening of Nov. 5, 2024, I was struck by the sense that Americans had missed the memo. Across the nation, in blue states as well as red, county after county showed a marked rightward shift. It was so seemingly normal. What do you...
News From Around the South, 2/17 to 2/24
SOUTH CAROLINA: SC museum procures Revolutionary War artifacts for 250th exhibit Two Revolutionary War-era items are entering the Charleston Museum’s collection of 2.4 million artifacts in time for a special exhibit next year honoring the 250th anniversary of...
The Feds and Their Own Bribery
Normally, when the government asks a judge to dismiss criminal charges against a defendant, the judge will happily do so. This does not occur frequently, but occasionally, the government will reevaluate the strength of its own case and conclude it cannot prove the...Recent Posts
NORTH CAROLINA: Bragg to Liberty and back Again: Ceremony Rechristens Army Post Once Named for a Confederate FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The short-lived existence of Fort Liberty came to an Read More