Bush, Guantanamo, and the Rule of Law
Last week, the government announced that it does not want to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four of his colleagues whom it claims are the remaining conspirators of the attacks on 9/11. All five are awaiting trial at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The...
Experts Rate Best 7 Best BBQ Bites in 2022
Editor’s note: A few weeks ago we recapped Southern Living’s most-recent barbecue rankings, but in the interest of diversity one of our favorite weekly barbecue newsletters is ‘The Smoke Sheet,’ and it just put out its own best bites of 2022...
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SOUTH CAROLINA: A Confederate Statue Fight Renewed: How this S.C. City is Looking to the Future Thirty years after a monument honoring Confederate soldiers was erected in the middle of Main Street in downtown Greenville, the marble statue atop a soaring granite base...
Alex Jones and the Freedom of Speech
“Congress shall make no law abridging … the freedom of speech.” — First Amendment to the Constitution The iconic language of the First Amendment can be recited by schoolchildren, yet it is ignored by judges in Connecticut when the speech has been...
U.S. Military to Stop Honoring Confederate Names
The Defense Department has identified more than 1,100 items that commemorate the Confederacy and has plans for removing or renaming some of them The Confederate States of America, the short-lived rogue collection of states addicted to slavery and its profits, will...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Furman U researchers uncover 1,238 racially restrictive deeds connected to former board chairman In the post-World War 2 era, Alester G. Furman Jr. was in charge of the Read More