The Tariff Target on Roses Makes Zero Sense
May is usually the best month for florists, Mother’s Day being a big reason. But Donald Trump’s tariff war is raining pain on their bestselling season. Pierson’s Flower Shop and Greenhouse in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, expects customers to dial back on...
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SOUTH CAROLINA: New preserve protects SC sea island cotton fields and memory of the enslaved who toiled there COOSAW ISLAND — What started as a idle observation made during the isolated days of the pandemic culminated recently in the dedication of the Coosaw Sea...
Arresting a Judge
Last week the FBI arrested a Wisconsin state judge as she was walking into the courthouse where she works. The feds had alerted the media — but not the judge — to this event, and they arrived and recorded the arrest. The standard and preferred practice when arresting...
Bronze Alamo Cannon Spared From Mysterious ‘Growing’ Substance
An 18th-century bronze cannon used in the Battle of the Alamo has been the subject of a preservation effort to remove an unusual substance that was growing mysteriously on its surface. The effort, led by a team of specialists from the anthropology department at Texas...
A Cabinet of Clowns
There is the secretary of defense sharing battle plans with his third wife, a former Fox News producer, on Signal. His top aides have all quit or been fired. The department is leaking like a sieve about its leader. Disarray, they say. He was stunningly unqualified for...Obiter Dicta
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GEORGIA: Bill backed by Confederate monument defenders knocked down in the Georgia House Sponsor argued his bill would protect all monuments, not just Confederate monuments A bill backed by neo-Confederates Read More