News From Around the South, 11/10 to 11/17
GEORGIA: The Military History Hidden Under Today’s Chamblee This week, on Veterans Day 2025, angling through 5 p.m. Atlanta traffic with my aging vehicle in need of repair, I was attempting to get to the Chamblee dealership before it closed. Credit: Jeff Hullinger The...
Can the President Disrupt Free Speech?
While the country's attention was drawn to the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), which purports to designate the ideology of antifa as a "domestic terrorist organization" and directs...
How Ken Burns’ Revolutionary War Series Reveals the War Within
Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to unpredictable alliances, the war was less a straight line to freedom and more...
From President to Profit
Donald Trump's approval numbers continue to crater. Even Republicans have cooled on the president's performance. But the president shows no sign of noticing, nor is he changing his ways. Even his gaslighting has gone wan. He's failed to make Americans believe that...
News From Around the South, 11/3 to 11/10
SOUTH CAROLINA: North Charleston Community Seeks to Protect HIstoric Roots NORTH CHARLESTON — For lifelong resident Kerry Gambrell, Liberty Hill has always been home. Gambrell, now in his 60s, grew up on Hassell Street, once the neighborhood’s hub with a community...
Can the President Tax You?
This week the Supreme Court will begin the process of deciding if the president can impose a sales tax on products and services which originate in foreign countries and are purchased in the United States. The president calls these taxes tariffs. Tariffs are nearly as...
Jailed in America for Free Speech
In the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk, many folks who dared to express views of him and his work outside the mainstream lost their jobs, professional standing and State Department visas as they were fired or otherwise disciplined by employers or bureaucrats...
Book Review: Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War
In the summer of 1857, abolitionist Rev. John Rankin, at a meeting of the National Emancipation Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, advocated for compensated emancipation as the only viable way to end slavery in the United States. “Life was more precious than money, and…...
News From Around the South, 10/27 to 11/3
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Confederate statue restored as part of Trump's efforts to reshape how history is told WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has restored a memorial to a Confederate general in Washington, D.C. that demonstrators took down during racial justice...
Shoot First, Ask Questions When?
The United States is engaged in summary executions on the high seas. That bald fact is being obscured by talk of drug interdiction and war powers and whether we're certain the drugs on those boats were headed for the United States or somewhere else. Let's be clear....

