by editor | Jan 9, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
No one need look far in the current political climate to find issues that divide the nation. Abortion, immigration, and gender questions commonly rise up to cleave our attention. These issues, however, pale when held against the historical glass of slavery in America...
by editor | Jan 9, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The budget shutdown is currently the second-longest on record, on track to break the 1995-96 shutdown, which lasted 21 days. That shutdown — between President Bill Clinton and my dad, Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., was over a seven-year budget. They eventually...
by editor | Jan 9, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
TEXAS: Sons of Confederate Veterans Gain Charter FORT STOCKTON, TX. — The removal or destruction of historical monuments with ties to the Civil War-era Confederacy has stirred debate and protest in many parts of America. Amid the controversy, Pecos County...
by editor | Jan 2, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
WASHINGTON — Did you follow the press in 2018? Apparently, most members of the press do not like our president, Donald J. Trump. Many of them think he is a tyrant in the making. Others think he is stupid and a tyrant in the making. They believe he is likely to be...
by editor | Jan 2, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie has long been fascinated by the Confederacy, which his ancestors fought for during the Civil War. For years, he belonged to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a group that defends public displays of Confederate symbols. And he...