Prayer, Strength and Gratefulness
We lived in Belgium in the late 1960s while my father researched for his dissertation. I was too young to remember, but my mother told me that, while traveling in France, we were greeted by a standing ovation at a restaurant because we were Americans, and American...
South Carolina’s Palmetto Trail Offers A Walk Through History
COLUMBIA — From the marshy lowlands of the South Carolina coast to the rocky peaks of the Upstate mountains, the Palmetto Trail will eventually meander more than 500 miles. Hikers might run across the remnants of an old liquor still in a Lowcountry swamp, an old water...
On Ukraine, Biden Shows Resove But Also Restraint
Restraint is a useful but often unsatisfying virtue, and in the case of Ukraine, there are plenty of people who think that it’s not a virtue at all. Fortunately, American policy is being set by Joe Biden, who has a sober understanding of the perils of overreach....
News From Around the South 5/30 to 6/6
LOUISIANA: Vote Means 2 Confederate Holidays Going Away BATON ROUGE, La. — House-passed legislation to erase Robert E. Lee Day and Confederate Memorial Day from a list of Louisiana holidays was approved 28-4 on Friday by the state Senate. The measure by state Rep....
The Government’s Culture of Death
When the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche proclaimed that God was dead, he didn’t mean it literally, as that would have been impossible. He meant that God’s creatures have so failed to acknowledge Him and relate to Him, it is as if He decided to end...Obiter Dicta
Those who have sown the wind shall reap the whirlwind.” — Hosea 8:7 The federal antipathy to compliance with the Read More
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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 Read More