In Search of Monsters
“America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy … She might become the dictatress of the world, But she would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit.” — John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) In the middle of his term as Secretary of State, the...
How a Revolutionary War battle in SC helped Name Two Navy Ships, a Festival and a Book
Connected by a name, the small town of Cowpens holds a festival every year celebrating two ships When Revolutionary War troops fought the Battle of Cowpens in 1781, the name only made sense: The area, now near Spartanburg, was dotted with literal cow pens. In the more...
Goodbye, JFK Democrats
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s exit from the Democratic Party (or was he booted out?) is only the latest sign that there are no more JFK Democrats left in positions of power in the Democratic Party. President John F. Kennedy was a staunch anti-communist who fought...
News From Around the South, 8/19 to 8/26
GEORGIA: Statue of John Lewis replaces more than 100-year-old Confederate monument DECATUR, Ga. — A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed Friday, at the very spot where a contentious monument to the...
The Right to Be Left Alone
“Every move you make And every vow you break Every smile you fake Every claim you stake I’ll be watching you.” — “Every Breath You Take,” song by The Police The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to privacy....Obiter Dicta
“That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which Read More
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NORTH CAROLINA: New N.C. bill would introduce AAPI history to school curriculum A new bill in the N.C. General Assembly is calling for Asian American and Pacific Islander history to Read More