Who Is An American?
So now all the babies born to undocumented parents in the 28 states that didn't challenge President Donald Trump's executive order will have to sue (anonymously, of course, lest this administration deport them, which it would if it could find them) to demand that the...
News From Around the South, 6/23 to 6/30
SOUTH CAROLINA: Carolina Day marks 249th anniversary of triumph on Sullivan's Island SULLIVAN'S ISLAND, S.C. — Saturday is Carolina Day, marking the 249th anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan's Island during the Revolutionary War. The battle was the first decisive...
The Coming Police State
We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have infiltrated the United States and it is somehow necessary to expand the powers of the government and shrink protections for civil...
Visitors of Charleston Historical Sites Are Being Asked to Report ‘Negative’ Stories About America
SULLIVAN'S ISLAND — Some of the Confederate shots that started the Civil War were fired from here. And today, if you don't like what you hear or see about the story you can report it for being negative about U.S. history. In the past month, signs encouraging visitors...
Our Homegrown Extremists
The suspect in the Minnesota murders, Vance Luther Boelter, has been charged, for now, with second-degree murder. He allegedly killed two people, Melissa and Mark Hortman, in cold blood, and shot and wounded two others. According to Minnesota police, he showed up at...
News From Around the South, 6/16 to 6/23
SOUTH CAROLINA: How a raid in SC freeing 700 slaves became a Pulitzer Prize-winning book Author and researcher Edda Fields-Black discovered her own family tie to the raid in the process Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came...
Trump, War and the Constitution
Has the United States become what President Donald Trump recently condemned? Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? These questions...
“The Most Incompetent Man in the Confederacy”: John Pemberton In Over His Head
ECW welcomes back guest author Lucas Simmons. John C. Pemberton ended the Civil War with a less-than-stellar reputation. Confederate surgeon John A. Leavy remarked after the battle of Champion Hill that his commander was either “a traitor or the most incompetent man...
No Kings
What does it say when Alex Padilla, a sitting member of the United States Senate, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration, is wrestled to the ground and handcuffed like a common criminal? Not a rapist, not a murderer, but a member of...
News From Around the South, 6/9 to 6/16
VIRGINIA: Trump Orders Virginia Army Installation Renamed Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams may be having their names removed from the signs at Fort Gregg-Adams, but the post’s commanding general has told their families that she was “committed” to...