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Today at the Editor’s Glance:
The Flagler County School Board holds a special meeting at 9 a.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The board will approve advertising changes to the student code of conduct, including wording controlling student demonstrations, and advertise the policy that incorporates changes to the district dress code. The policy change proposals have to be advertised for 30 days before the board may approve the changes, as it is expected to later this summer. It will also consider adopting wording for the proposed renewal of the district’s half-cent sales tax supplement, in effect for the past 10 years and due for renewal at the November election.
The Blue 22 Forum, a discussion group organized by the Palm Coast Democratic Club, meets at 12:30 p.m. at the African American Cultural Society Center, 4422 U.S. 1 N in Palm Coast between White View Pkwy and Palm Coast Pkwy. Look for the white pyramid in front. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
Notably: George Orwell’s 1984 was published on this day in 1949. He’d written a letter to Francis Henson of the United Auto Workers about it on June 16, 1949. The letter was lost. But Life and The New York Times Book Review published excerpts. This amalgam of the excerpts was published in Orwell’s complete essays, the Godine edition: “My recent novel is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions to which a centralised economy is liable and which have already been partly realised in Communism and Fascism. I do not believe that the kind of society I describe necessarily will arrive, but I believe allowing of course for the fact that the book is a satire) that something resembling it could arrive. I believe also that totalitarian ideas have taken root in the minds of intellectuals everywhere, and I have tried to draw these ideas out to their logical consequences. The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasise that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else and that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.” In 1953 on this day, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. decision, ruling 8-0 that restaurants in D.C. may not refuse to serve Black patrons. In 2018, the court in a 7-2 decision ruled bakers could refuse to serve gay patrons.
Now this:
Flagler Beach Webcam:
The Live Calendar is a compendium of local and regional political, civic and cultural events. You can input your own calendar events directly onto the site as you wish them to appear (pending approval of course). To include your event in the Live Calendar, please fill out this form.
August 2026
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Primary Election Early Voting in Flagler County
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Randy Fine Press Conference/Campaign Stop at Beverly Beach Town Hall
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Primary Election Early Voting in Flagler County
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
The NatCons are wrong to think there is a unified thing called “the left” that hates America. This is just the apocalyptic menace many of them had to invent in order to justify their decision to vote for Donald Trump. They are wrong, too, to think there is a wokeist Anschluss taking over all the institutions of American life. For people who spend so much time railing about the evils of social media, they sure seem to spend an awful lot of their lives on Twitter. Ninety percent of their discourse is about the discourse. Anecdotalism was also rampant at the conference—generalizing from three anecdotes about people who got canceled to conclude that all of American life is a woke hellscape. They need to get out more.
–From “What I saw at the National Conservatism Conference,” by David Brooks, The Atlantic, Nov. 18, 2021.
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As is so often the case, you share treasure:
1984 AUTHOR GEORGE ORWELL : A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HIS LIFE AND LEGACY.
One hour and six minutes well spent.
“…If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face. Forever.
The moral to be drawn from this dangerous nightmare situation is a simple one: don’t let it happen. It depends on you.”
— Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell