by editor | Jun 21, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The most recent chapter in the story of America’s relationship with its Confederate past began in church. Since Dylann Roof, a rebel flag-waving white supremacist, opened fire at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal in Charleston two years ago, the debate over...
by editor | Jun 20, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Sunday, a Navy F-18 Hornet shot down a Syrian air force jet, an act of war against a nation with which Congress has never declared or authorized a war. Washington says the Syrian plane was bombing U.S.-backed rebels. Damascus says its plane was attacking ISIS....
by editor | Jun 19, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
NORTH CAROLINA: Wreckage of Civil War Ship to become North Carolina’s First Heritage Dive Site FORT FISHER — On Oct. 1, 1864, the blockade runner Condor, a falcon class ship built in Glasgow, Scotland, sank 700 yards shy of Fort Fisher in 25 feet of water. It...
by editor | Jun 16, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu delivered a powerful speech last month justifying his city’s removal of Confederate statues from public spaces. “These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign...
by editor | Jun 15, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
“He was hunting us.” Those were the words of Republican Congressman Mike Bishop describing the depraved gun assault on members of Congress while they were innocently fielding ground balls and practicing base hits on a suburban Virginia field. The politics...