How to Remain Grounded and Thankful Amid the Chaos
In a year marked by political vitriol in seemingly every conversation, a relentless scourge of political violence, and the highest-profile political assassination since 1968, Thanksgiving arrives just in time. Truthfully, it always does. And it always reminds us that...
News From Around the South, 11/17 to 11/24
TEXAS: Texas education board debates narrowing focus of history curriculum In September, the board adopted a plan that emphasizes Texas and U.S. history, while reducing focus on world history and cultures. AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) is...
How Low Can Deviancy Go?
The central scandal in the Epstein’s sex abuse ring targeting children is not the sex. It’s the children. What powerful men do with grown-up women — that is, females 18 or older — bothers me little. I never cared much about Donald Trump’s assignation...
What Is The Seawee Shell Ring?
Visitors come from all over the globe to see Charleston’s beautiful, centuries-old historic buildings. Yet very few people — even locals — ever make the half-hour drive to Awendaw to see what may be the Lowcountry’s oldest, and most mysterious, man-made structure: the...
What the Founders Feared
“The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” — James Madison (1751-1836) America today would terrify the Founding Fathers. Armed troops roam the streets of major cities, masked government agents arrest...Obiter Dicta
Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf Read More
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