Rolling Stone Crumbles

by | Dec 9, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

No parent wants to consider the travesty that when he sends his 18-year-old daughter to college, she could be vulnerable to sexual assault. But in the increasingly punitive atmosphere surrounding sexual-assault allegations, he should also fear sending his 18-year-old...

News From Around the South 12/1 – 12/8

by | Dec 8, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

GEORGIA: Civil War Photo Exhibit Opens WALESKA, Ga. — A unique photo exhibit centering on the Civil War is on display now through Feb. 1 at Reinhardt University in Waleska. “Images of the Atlanta Campaign and the March to the Sea,” from the private collection of...
The Hypocrisy Over Presidential Kids

The Hypocrisy Over Presidential Kids

by | Dec 4, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

It’s an obvious rule: Never pick on a president’s family. Elizabeth Lauten, the formerly unknown “communications director” for two-term GOP congressman Stephen Fincher resigned after a national-media feeding frenzy over some stupid words about...

Lower Oil Prices = Free Market Victory

by | Dec 2, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Seldom has so much good news been portrayed so negatively. Oil prices continue to fall in the U.S. and around the world, but nearly everyone in the media is grumpy about it. The headlines today are among the silliest I’ve seen: Energy-company stocks are...

The Myth of Black Confederates

by | Dec 2, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Patrick R. Cleburne, a prominent general in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, could see what was happening in the South in late 1863. Southern troops were outnumbered, soldiers were demoralized, and the institution of slavery was collapsing. So on January 2, 1864,...