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Days after a group of state senators took preemptive aim at so-called vaccine passports, another state lawmaker is pushing a sweeping ban on private businesses requiring immunizations.The passports ëƵ which so far exist in only a few places around the world ëƵ would serve as digital proof of ...

Thank goodness for the historians

Thank goodness for Margaret Leech.For as Sean Wilentz, one of the countryëƵs great academic historians, has written, ëƵWhen describing history, more is at stake than the past.ëƵPast, present, and future is more like it. How aware would we moderns be, and how significant would we view it, had ...

Spiritual supply and demand

In Economics 101, the principle of supply and demand is explained. In the most simplistic terms, it comes out like this: The amount, or worth of ëƵsomething,ëƵ is determined by how much someone is willing to pay for that something. Generally, the more of something that is available, the worth ...

The beating heart of the Civil War

It was a Sunday in April, a church service in Brownsville. The pastor, Presbyterian minister R.M. Wallace, told his congregants, ëƵIt is the duty of all citizens to aid the constitutional authorities in maintaining the supremacy of the Constitution and the laws.ëƵThe national government,ëƵ ...

The return of Jim Crow?

We live in a world where new ideas should be applauded.The good ones.In Georgia, though, thereëƵs a new idea thatëƵs become a nationwide head-scratcher. Deservedly so.You canëƵt hand any refreshments to a person standing in line at a polling place.ThatëƵs illegal now in Georgia.Who was the ...

The bottom line of Easter

There are many cultural aspects to Easter, most arising out of tradition. The Easter bunny and hiding eggs for children to find is probably the most popular one. Parents and groups get together to watch the little ones find eggs with many usually having a small treat inside, like candy. Easter ...