There are 160 known, active Ku Klux Klan chapters in the United States, according to research from the Southern Poverty Law Center. South Carolina comes out rather well, with only 3 in the state borders. A bit surprising given that SC was the source of most of the ideas that undelay the KKK’[...]
Posts Tagged ‘South Carolina’
June 22nd, 2014 - 4:19 am § in America
Why Do People Choose to Live In South Carolina?
June 10th, 2014 - 8:25 pm § in Misc.
South Carolina’s No Speech Zone
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution doesn’t apply everywhere. Specifically, it doesn’t apply in South Carolina’s legislative building. There, assembling peacefully to petition your elected representatives for redress of grievances is a crime for which you can be arrest[...]
June 2nd, 2014 - 8:38 pm § in Uncategorized
On Prisoner Swaps
Some people are already questioning whether our government should have traded 5 Taliban guys for an American POW. The more indelicate versions of this question put it this way: Should President Obama have traded 5 terrorists for a deserter? That’s not an easy question to answer. (I’[...]
May 10th, 2014 - 4:08 am § in Misc.
Confederate Memorial Day: South Carolina
Happy Confederate Memorial Day .. in the state where two weeks ago the white Republican leadership of the SC government refused to honor its own son, a descendent of a Confederate soldiers, who wrote the first court decision integrating this state and where the same state appointed a man whose [...]
May 9th, 2014 - 10:43 am § in Misc.
SOUTH CAROLINA: Why would any AMERICAN want to live there?
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April 28th, 2014 - 3:11 am § in Misc.
South Carolina: Why would anyone choose to live there?
GOP Has No Time to Honor Statue of The Man Who Ordered Their Predesccors to Desegregate Who wrote: “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal?” The descendent of Southern aristocrats and the son of a Confederate veteran, In 1951, 3 years before Brown v. Board of Education, J[...]
April 23rd, 2014 - 11:33 pm § in Misc.
South Carolina: to arm fetuses?
Proposal to Include Fetuses in ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law Moves Forward in SC Emily Crockett for RH Reality Check April 16, 2014 – 7:00am A South Carolina bill that passed a senate committee on Thursday would expand the state’s “stand your ground” self-defense law to allow pregnant wome[...]
An Open Question for my Relatives in South Carolina
You guys chose to live in South Carolina … cradle of the confederacy, a state with a heritage of slavery, a holocaust against Native Americans, and a current set of politicians worth of that heritage. Even the Jews of this state have “enjoyed” this tradition .. supporting slavery[...]