Transgender Teens
According to data from the CDC analyzed by the Williams Institute at UCLA, some 3.3% of American high school students ages 13-17 self-identify as transgender. Earlier studies, sometimes asking the question differently, have reported a range from 1.2% to 2.7%. Who...
News From Around the South, 12/15 to 12/22
SOUTH CAROLINA: Charleston historian uncovers date SC flag was first flown. It’s not the design we know today. A Charleston historian has uncovered brand new information about the first recorded appearance of South Carolina’s signature crescent flag. But he had to go...
Tucker Carlson and the Freedom of Speech
Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf of himself and 40 other Senate Democrats that, if passed, would record the sense of the Senate as condemning the media superstar Tucker Carlson...
Boston celebrates its tea party history today. One in Charleston, S.C., came first
On this day 252 years ago, angry colonists in Massachusetts boarded a British ship in the Boston Harbor to protest what were seen as unfair circumstances regarding tea imports. Dressed as Mohawk Indians, the mob on Dec. 16, 1773, dumped more than 300 chests of tea...
A Human Swastika
They clearly wanted attention and attention is what they got. Eight students at Branham High School in San Jose, Calif. posted photos of themselves on social media forming a human swastika — and lest there be any doubt, accompanied the photo with a quote from Adolf...
News From Around the South, 12/8 to 12/15
SOUTH CAROLINA: A hidden treasure was buried in Charleston decades ago. A Summerville man thinks he's found it MOUNT PLEASANT — For over 40 years, a 19-line poem has intrigued treasure hunters. The prose, and a corresponding painting, is one of 12 riddles compiled in...
The President’s Immigration Policy Is ‘Beyond Inhumane’
Absorbing the news about the brutal treatment of detainees, to say nothing of the outright murder of "suspected" drug runners in the Caribbean, I think back to a conversation I had in February of this year. My interlocutor was a Trump voter who had just had a friendly...
Civil War wrecks vanish, then drone finds buried ‘anomalies’ on land, SC data shows
Shipwrecks frequently get lost, but a search for four missing Civil War blockade runners off South Carolina has come to the unusual conclusion that at least three are now buried on land. The fourth one is still unaccounted for off Fort Moultrie, but it’s also likely...
Summers Is Not the Biggest Reveal From the Epstein Emails
If you followed the twists and turns of the Jeffrey Epstein saga over the last few weeks, you already know that several prominent names emerged from the tranche of emails that the Epstein estate released. Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers,...
News From Around the South, 12/1 to 12/8
FLORIDA: Bill establishing Black History Museum Board clears Senate hurdle Will 2026 be the year? With Florida’s Museum of Black History soon taking shape in St. Johns County, state lawmakers are moving closer to setting up a board to run it. Sen. Tom...
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