The Other Shoe

The Other Shoe

The other shoe just dropped. Or maybe it’s the first shoe. It’s a new committee to keep an eye on the way the government collects information on private citizens. Good idea? Sure, why not. As the new speaker, Kevin McCarthy, put it, “Government...
News From Around the South 1/9 to 1/16

News From Around the South 1/9 to 1/16

TENNESSEE: Nashville Suburb Sues State Historical Commission Over Confederate-Named Streets During the late 1950s and early 1960s — in an era marked by desegregation and white flight — a pair of real estate development firms built a residential enclave in the...
The Other Shoe

A Government By Experts

I have often thought that after Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson was our worst president. By worst is meant least faithful to the Constitution and most destructive of personal liberty. With the exception of Lincoln’s dictatorship — during which the federal...
The Other Shoe

Is The Conscience Reliable?

“A person’s moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one’s behavior” — the dictionary definition of “conscience.” Whenever I make the common-sense argument that people need to hold themselves accountable to a...
News From Around the South 1/2 to 1/9

News From Around the South 1/2 to 1/9

SOUTH CAROLINA: WW2 Veteran’s Remains Identified By Federal Agency After 79 Years COLUMBIA — Nearly 80 years after he went missing in action, the remains of a Columbia native airman who served during World War II have been identified. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt....