Editor: Today, April 12th, is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. Confederate forces fired on Union forces manning Fort Sumter in the middle of Charleston Harbor. For 34 hours the bombardment continued and, eventually, the Union forces left the island fortress. Much of Charleston has not changed since that fateful cannon barrage.
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Boeing announced that it has selected South Carolina to open a second assembly line for the 787 Dreamliner.
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Walking the streets of Charleston, South Carolina’s well-preserved historic district, it’s hard to imagine that perhaps no other U.S. city has struggled so hard to survive over the four centuries since its founding. Raided by pirates, besieged by the British, burned to the ground during the Civil War, demolished by an earthquake and flooded by hurricanes, Charleston’s history is one of continual rebuilding after natural or manmade disasters.
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Hew Hampshire and Montana faced down the Department of Homeland Security and received assurances that their drivers licenses will be accepted at airports after the May deadline for Real ID.
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The Department and Homeland Security (DHS) and these states are playing a game of bureaucratic chicken. DHS laid down the law. Most states have complied or applied for legal waivers. These four have not. Come May 11, there may be a big problem.
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