News From Around the South, 9/2 to 9/9
NORTH CAROLINA: Buried military site emerges on NC’s Outer Banks, prompting beach contamination alert A stretch of Outer Banks beach within North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras National Seashore was closed Thursday, Sept. 5, due to contamination bubbling up from a...
Now, the Feds Are Spying on Congress
Those who have sown the wind shall reap the whirlwind.” — Hosea 8:7 The federal antipathy to compliance with the Constitution is well known and well documented. Presidents have declared war in contravention of the constitutional command that only Congress may do...
The Violent History of the U.S.‑Mexico Border
Chinese immigrants, escaped slaves, and Native Americans were all people U.S. forces tried to keep on one side or the other. America’s southern border—which has shifted multiple times with U.S. expansion—was formed through violence. Texas and American militias used...
What Are We Conserving?
When my friend David French — New York Times columnist, pro-life evangelical, and lifelong conservative — announced that he would be voting for Kamala Harris, it was like dropping a Porterhouse steak amid a pride of lions. The Dispatch’s Jonah Goldberg wrote a...
News From Around the South, 8/26 to 9/2
SOUTH CAROLINA: Former Slave and S.C. Rep. Will Soon Have State House Monument At 23-years-old, Robert Smalls won freedom for himself and his family. The Beaufort County man went from slavery to pilot during the Civil War before being elected to Congress. He is the...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