Obama Flops on Russia

by | Mar 5, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

After Russia invaded Ukraine, demonstrating how Vladimir Putin has zero fear of President Barack Obama, Fox News anchor Bret Baier reran a snippet from the third presidential debate in 2012, showing who felt Russia was a geopolitical threat, and who thought that...

Wall Street & The South

by | Mar 5, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Think of Dixie, and your mind probably conjures something like “Duck Dynasty” — bearded men bouncing along dirt roads in pickup trucks, raucously waving rebel flags. You probably wouldn’t think of black-tied bankers cavorting in the plush ballroom of Manhattan’s St....

An Embattled Flag

by | Feb 27, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Georgia officials last week approved a specialty license plate featuring the Confederate battle flag. Civil rights advocates were upset. Those who support the idea of the flag as a symbol of Southern and/or Confederate heritage were pleased. Ray McBerry of the Sons of...

News from Around the South, 2/17 – 2/24

by | Feb 24, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Virginia: Civil War Soldier’s Letters Return Home DANVILLE, Va. — For 150 years, the letters written by a Confederate soldier — Pvt. Joseph Payne — back home to his wife in the Whitmell community of Pittsylvania County were carefully stored by descendants who...
Liberal Plutocrats

Liberal Plutocrats

by | Feb 20, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Let the reader beware. At a recent confab at a billionaire’s ranch, an elite gathering of business titans agreed to spend $100 million — thanks to legal loopholes that allow them to skirt federal campaign contribution limits — to elect like-minded politicians...