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Tom Baxter

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A freedom of speech question: What would Charlie do?

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By Tom Baxter
| Saporta Report Verified
To hear him tell it, Charlie Kirk was all for freedom of speech, which he energetically exercised in calling out liberal orthodoxies and challenging racial sensitivities. There is no telling what he would have thought of the turmoil over free speech that has followed his death. Last week, the Oglethorpe County School District agreed to pay Michelle Mickens, a high school English teacher, $272,420 plus $17,080 in legal fees, and she agreed not to seek employment in the district again.
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In soccer and war, it’s how you keep score

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By Tom Baxter
| Saporta Report Verified
The World Cup has afforded us a timely lesson that applies to much more than sports. On the world stage, winning and losing have everything to do with how you keep score. Bear Bryant once said that a tie in football was like kissing your sister. His sport listened, and over time instituted a variety of tie-breaker schemes at both the college and professional level. If a tie is so ignominious, then a scoreless tie would count as the worst of all.
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South Carolina and Georgia have more in common than peaches

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By Tom Baxter
| Saporta Report Verified
The month before the special session began here in Georgia, South Carolina’s legislature convened with the same mission: to redraw the state’s congressional map in line with the U.S. Supreme Court barring the consideration of race. What happened there was an accurate indicator of what would happen here. Since the high court handed down its decision in Louisiana v.
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