News From Around the South

VIRGINIA: Confederate Soldier Finally Gets Headstone NORFOLK, Va. — More than 100 years after his burial at Elmwood Cemetery, a Confederate soldier finally has a headstone. About 35 family members, friends and well-wishers recently gathered at the gravesite of...

What Did Clinton Say?

“I’m just saying, you know, if I were Osama Bin Laden — he’s a very smart guy, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about him — and I nearly got him once. I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have to destroy a little town...

Creating an Irish Civil War Widow

On the 20th July 1864, the 33rd New Jersey Infantry of the Army of the Cumberland found themselves at Peachtree Creek, outside Atlanta. They were gathered on a hill some 300 yards in front of the main Union position acting as an outpost for their brigade. Their...

Here Come the Indian Mascot Killers

Anyone who thinks the cultural left is going to stop its political correctness with the Washington Redskins isn’t reading USA Today. On the top of their Sports front page on July 22, the paper reported on activists taking a stand against “redface,”...