Race-Based Justice

Race-Based Justice

by | Aug 22, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Among the demands of the “protesters” in Ferguson is that the investigation and prosecution of police officer Darren Wilson be taken away from St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch. McCulloch is biased, it is said. How so? In 1964, his father, a St....

Civil War Monument Angers Writer

by | Aug 21, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

The eventful life of Civil War correspondent Lynde Walter Buckingham was cut short in Loudoun County as he encountered a group of “Mosby’s Rangers” one evening in June 1863. As he was riding to Washington to file his latest dispatch for the New York Herald, his horse...

News From Around the South 8/11 to 8/18

by | Aug 19, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

  TENNESSEE: Professor Publishes Civil War Diary CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – On a cold night in February 1862, the moans and whimpers of injured Confederate soldiers filled the streets of Clarksville. Hospitals had been set up in local buildings to treat the wounded,...
Disruption, Inc.

Disruption, Inc.

by | Aug 14, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

“You can make money without doing evil” is No. 6 on the list of 10 things Google (the corporation) knows to be true. The Google list leaves out a few caveats. Like: You can make more money flouting antitrust laws. You can pay your brainiacs less if they...

Female Re-Enactors Go Both Ways

by | Aug 13, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

MOBILE, Ala. — Step onto a Civil War re-enactor’s battlefield and you’ll be surrounded by grizzled, mustachioed soldiers smoking cigars and wielding dangerous-looking period-style weapons. Take a closer look, and you’ll realize some of those...