Respect or Fear?

In the course of his losing race with the teleprompter during his Oval Office address on Dec. 17, President Donald Trump returned to a theme that obsesses him — respect. Even before his entry into politics, Trump was convinced that "weak" leaders including Reagan,...

News From Around the South, 12/22 to 12/29

GEORGIA: Alicia Johnson sworn in as first Black woman elected to Georgia Public Service Commission Dr. Alicia Johnson was ceremonially sworn in this week as Georgia's newest Public Service Commissioner, marking a historic milestone for the powerful body that regulates...

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...

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...

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