by editor | Aug 31, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
WASHINGTON — I wonder how my old pal Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan would view race relations today were he around. In 1970, he wrote a memo to his boss, then-President Richard Nixon, counseling a period of “benign neglect” for the discussion of racial...
by editor | Aug 29, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Wednesday morning, Nov. 9, 2016, Republicans awoke to learn they had won the lottery. Donald Trump had won the presidency by carrying Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. All three states had gone Democratic in the last six presidential elections. The GOP had won...
by editor | Aug 29, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
NORTH CAROLINA: UNC Says It Can’t Legally Remove Confederate Statue The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said on Tuesday that it did not have the legal authority to remove a Confederate monument from its campus, despite guidance from Gov. Roy Cooper...
by editor | Aug 24, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is in trouble again with his Moral Superiors. His problem, of course, is that he cannot throttle his B.S. Detector. It seems he acquired a B.S. Detector at some point in life that has usually served him well. It certainly did during...
by editor | Aug 23, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Monuments celebrating figures of the Confederacy have surged back into the national spotlight after the deadly violence that erupted this month at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Since the violence in Charlottesville, some protesters have reacted by...