Reparations and ‘the monster in the closet’
TweetDoug Ross suggests that there would be great interest in a discussion of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ piece in The Atlantic on the subject of reparations. OK, so I’ll raise the subject. I can’t really...
View ArticleUm… is this debate about bikers at the beach really about race? (If so,...
Tweet A couple of weeks ago, I spent the night in Surfside Beach after attending the Galivants Ferry Stump Speaking. As I was leaving the next morning, I stopped for coffee on the way off the Strand to...
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Yo, T-Rav: There’s a REASON Stonewall Jackson never wrote a ‘little note’...
TweetT-Rav, military historian At the end of the story relating the appalling news that Thomas Ravenel is seeking to put his name on the fall ballot for U.S. Senate was this gem: Still, Ravenel is...
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In the South, we don’t just take the pain; we take the pills
Tweet Burl Burlingame says he was discussing this with our fellow high school classmate Gary Berliner, a physician in Georgia, and he shares: Health care providers in some states prescribe far more...
View ArticleSheheen’s bold stand is the ONLY way the flag will come down
Tweet Vincent Sheheen’s call to remove the Confederate flag from the State House grounds isn’t some here-today, forgotten-tomorrow campaign gimmick. It’s a game-changer. But only if he somehow manages...
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SC story makes The Slatest. Guess which one…
Tweet Yep, this one. And so it is that our reputation both precedes and follows us, without end…
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The absence of SC’s poet laureate from inaugural
Tweet Sorry to repeat myself, but I find this digression from a previous thread sufficiently interesting for its own post. M. Prince brought this story to my attention, asking, “Was it really a matter...
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It’s not ‘rewriting history;’ it’s paying ATTENTION to history
TweetCindi Scoppe had a good piece on the issue of unnaming Tillman Hall at Clemson today. Basically, she took apart the silly argument from certain quarters that changing such a name constitutes...
View ArticleThank you, North Carolina! (is what Jon Stewart should say)
Tweet I want to thank the newbie senator from North Carolina for taking some of the heat off South Carolina: Apparently, making restaurant workers wash their hands before exiting the bathroom is a sign...
View ArticleDo YOU hear Hillary using a Southern accent?
Tweet Ever since yesterday, I’ve been scoffing at reports from national press that Hillary Clinton slipped into a Southern drawl while in Columbia yesterday — supposedly an acquired skill from her time...
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U.S. and S.C. flags at Statehouse are at half-mast. The Confederate flag is not.
Tweet Since there was so much chatter on the Web about Confederate flags in South Carolina — the ones on Dylann Roof’s car, and the one on our Statehouse grounds — I thought I’d go over and take a...
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SCV presser: The most dramatic example of the human capacity for...
Tweetwistv.com – Columbia, South Carolina OK, the really nutty stuff is starting now, with Clementa Pinckney not even in the ground yet. I just watched the Sons of Confederate Veterans presser on WIS,...
View ArticleWhat in the world got into Ben Affleck?
TweetAs we wrestle with our own demons and angels here in South Carolina, let’s pause a moment to look away, look away, look away toward Tinsel Town and ponder this puzzling situation: When Ben Affleck...
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Y’all go over to Facebook and give our governor some love
Tweet Phillip Bush brought it to my attention that Nikki Haley was getting some predictable criticism over on Facebook. You know, the usual stuff like: I hope you never plan on running for any other...
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We have ONE flag to deal with, and in SC, we know which one it is
Tweet This morning, The Washington Post ran a story headlined, “Did Republicans jump the gun on the Confederate flag?” It was prompted by a national poll that showed the public evenly split on whether...
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Lee Bright’s Bizarro perspective on the Confederate flag
TweetThere are two measurements for how far we have so suddenly come on the Confederate flag issue. The first is on the positive side — all the people who once would have opposed removing the flag, or...
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Why South Carolina seceded (in case you’re still confused)
TweetSlave sale in Charleston, 1856 Lee Bright’s bizarre view of history, and Prof. David Carlton’s related comment about South Carolina secessionists’ attempt to justify their action, remind me that...
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Raw video of the Confederate flag being raised in 2000
Tweet “Raw” in more ways than one. Bill Castronuovo, also a former editor at The State, shared with me this video that he shot on July 1, 2000, the day that the Confederate flag atop the dome was...
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No more flags, no more pole, no more ‘compromises’ that are anything but
TweetRep. Mike Pitts, speaking in the House this afternoon. This is a dangerous moment. More than two weeks have passed since that magnificent moment of unity and purpose in the lobby of the State...
View ArticleCindi’s good idea for Greenwood monument could be applied in a lot of areas
TweetCindi Scoppe had a good column about the absurd problem that the town of Greenwood faces. The town decided some time back that it wanted to revise the lists of dead from the world wars on local...
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