Liberty
Cancel culture turns on Feinstein
Alex Nester reports for the Washington Free Beacon on one of the latest unlikely targets for cancel culture. The San Francisco Unified School District has decided to rename an elementary…
Dixie
Liberty
Winston-Salem dragging its heels on Dixie Classic Fair name change
Sometimes this happens–citizens and the media get all worked up over an issue and then it just goes on the back burner for a while, if not forever. That seems…
Liberty
Dixie Classic Fair name change hearing gets heated
There was considerable tension at last night’s public hearing on changing the name of Winston-Salem’s Dixie Classic Fair. That’s right–some in the W-S community say the name “Dixie” evokes the…
Liberty
Dixie Classic Fair name change controversy
Winston-Salem’s Dixie Classic Fair will no longer go by that name, the City Council and Mayor Allen Joines have unilaterally decided: City officials say the question is no longer whether…
Liberty
North Carolinians know bad writing
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a “whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.” Winner, Adventure: From the limbs of ancient live oaks moccasins…
Liberty
Dixie Stampede, RIP
At least the Myrtle Beach incarnation. Dolly Parton is pulling the plug on the long-running dinner theater attraction. To replace it, something called Pirates’ Voyage. So cowboys and cattle out,…
Liberty
The disappearing Southern Democrat
Plenty of Southerners register as Democrats, of course. We North Carolinians should know this better than others, since Democrats continue to hold most of the state?s most high-profile public offices.…
Liberty
People’s Cube on Hillary’s Southern Exposure Tour
The People’s Cube has fun with Hillary Clinton’s really bad Southern accent recently. Here’s “Dixie” updated for the N.Y. senator’s benefit: Well I went down South to the land of…
Liberty
On GOP infighting in state legislatures
In reading a Southern Political Report account of a Republican challenge to the sitting GOP speaker of the Texas House (yeah, I read that sort of thing for fun), I…
Liberty
Merry Christmas From DIXIE!
Since its the season to spread that Christmas joy, we have already started here in Raleigh at the John Locke Foundation. Roy has already sent me his Christmas greeting with…
Liberty
God Bless the Old North State!
Two of my former political professors at WCU wrote this op-ed piece in the Greenville, SC newspaper this week. As for the fight over the historic symbols of Dixie, I’ve…
Liberty
The Return of Bamagate
Or should I say Meckgate? I’m beyond disappointed that The Charlotte Observer opted to dredge up an odious — and ancient! — Paul Krugman column for Sunday. You know the…