Shoot the Drones!
The skies over New Jersey have been littered with strange flying objects during the past two weeks; and the feds are either hiding the truth from terrified folks on the ground or scratching their collective heads along with the rest of us. Since early December, there...
Why Are Southern Cities Round?
Legend has it that the city of Laurens owes its existence to a brandy bottle. One day in the early 1800s, a group of men took a drinking break while looking for a place to build a new courthouse. One of them tossed an empty bottle, which landed on a hill. Upon closer...
To Bring Joy to America: End the Weaponization of the IRS
One of the highest priorities for the incoming Trump administration should be to end the Democrats' weaponization of powerful government agencies against taxpayers and businesses they don't like. Nowhere has this mission been more pernicious than the party-line vote...
News From Around the South, 12/9 to 12/16
SOUTH CAROLINA: Join An Archaeological Artifact Survey in S.C. for Free! HILTON HEAD, S.C. -- Join the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Heritage Trust for a free guided tour of Green’s Shell Enclosure Heritage Preserve as they conduct an archaeological...
Will Donald Trump Stop Domestic Spying?
During the course of an FBI written response to a Freedom of Information Act request asking about the trade names and suppliers of surveillance software the FBI had purchased, the government has yet again quietly acknowledged its antipathy to constitutional provisions...
Why Democrats Got the Politics of Immigration So Wrong for So Long
They spent more than a decade tacking left on the issue to win Latino votes. It may have cost them the White House—twice. The election of Donald Trump this year shattered a long-standing piece of conventional wisdom in American politics: that Latinos will vote...
Whiskey Resurgence in the Heart of the Rebellion
LATROBE, Pennsylvania — The making of whiskey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, has often been fraught with a fair amount of drama. Whether it was those trying to make it or those trying to drink it, the government has sought to tax and sometimes even ban both activities. Two...
News From Around the South, 12/2 to 12/9
Mercer Project Digitally Preserves History of Small Georgia County TOWNS COUNTY, Ga. -- Towns County lies nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains of northeast Georgia. Home to about 12,500 people, the county is rich in heritage, yet little of its...
Three Cheers For Hunter’s Pardon
My initial reaction to the issuance of a full pardon by President Joe Biden to his son Hunter was emotional. What father wouldn't pardon his own son, if he could? I suspect that the president has harbored these paternal thoughts even while he denied numerous times...
Would the Revolution Have Succeeded Without George Washington?
In 1965 James Flexner published the first volume of his biography of George Washington in which he coined the term now indelibly stamped on the image of the iconic Founder: Washington was the “indispensable man.”1 Supposedly, he was the individual central to American...
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