by editor | May 2, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
FLORIDA: Town to Fly Confederate Flag at History Day BELLEVIEW, Fla. — A third flag will join the U.S. and Florida ones on Wednesday at Belleview’s City Hall to honor Confederate History Day. The third national Confederate flag, also known as the “blood-stained...
by editor | Apr 27, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
History shows with painful clarity that whenever human beings get too much power, that power ends up corrupting the very values that prompted people to seek it in the first place. Why? Because human beings are flawed, self-interested, imperfect creatures. No one has...
by editor | Apr 26, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
More than 150 years after the Civil War, there is a new push across the South to take down Confederate monuments. Officials in Austin, Texas, and Louisville, Kentucky, have already voted to remove statues, and New Orleans is about to do the same. In Charlottesville,...
by editor | Apr 25, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Each year, Earth Day is accompanied by predictions of doom. Let’s take a look at past predictions to determine just how much confidence we can have in today’s environmentalists’ predictions. In 1970, when Earth Day was conceived, the late George...
by editor | Apr 24, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
LOUISIANA: New Orleans Begins Removing Confederate Monuments NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans on Monday began removing four monuments dedicated to the era of the Confederacy and its aftermath, capping a prolonged battle about the future of the memorials, which critics...