News From Around the South 10/15 to 10/22
SOUTH CAROLINA: Conde Nast Names Charleston Top U.S. City for 8th Consecutive Year Eight years and counting, Charleston is Condé Nast Traveler’s top U.S. tourist destination. The magazine announced the winners of its 31st annual Readers’ Choice Awards Tuesday morning...
America v. the World is a Losing Game
The Trump administration is full of people who think that if you’re making the rest of the world mad, you’re doing something right. “It was a blessing to go into the U.N. with body armor every day,” said Nikki Haley after announcing she will...
Female Soldiers in the Civil War
The outbreak of the Civil War challenged traditional American notions of feminine submissiveness and domesticity with hundreds of examples of courage, diligence, and self-sacrifice in battle. The war was a formative moment in the early feminist movement. In July of...
The Electoral College Debate
Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, seeking to represent New York’s 14th Congressional District, has called for the abolition of the Electoral College. Her argument came on the heels of the Senate’s confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme...
News From Around the South 10/8 to 10/15
TEXAS: SCV Proposes Specialty Confederate License Plates AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas’ agriculture commissioner says he will back a Confederate group’s latest attempt to sell specialty license plates, because “there’s no profit in hiding...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: SC Attorney General Threatens Lawsuit After Robert E. Lee Marker Removed By Charleston S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson is threatening to sue the city of Charleston after a Read More