Canada & the Civil War

by | Jun 18, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

The American Civil War of 1861 to 1865 haunts the United States to this day. Canadians also have an enduring fascination with the conflict that set state against state, community against community, family against family and killed around 750,000 Americans in the North...

News from Around the South 6/10 – 6/17

by | Jun 17, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Alabama: Poll: State Should Keep Jefferson Davis Holiday MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama should keep its state holiday in recognition of the birthday of Jefferson Davis, said a majority of respondents to an AL.com poll. AL.com posed the question yesterday, when state...

Who's Your Daddy?

by | Jun 14, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

With Father’s Day on Sunday, there is good news and bad news. First the negative: Single mothers head up almost 9 percent of American households. The good news? Fathers who care are making a huge difference in this country. How do I know? It is estimated that...

The Great Civil War Lie

by | Jun 13, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Civil War buffs have long speculated about how different the war might have been if only the Confederacy had won formal recognition from Britain. But few recognize how close that came to happening — and how much pro-Southern sympathy in Britain was built on a lie....
Terror and Safety

Terror and Safety

by | Jun 12, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

This week, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said the National Security Agency’s data mining violates our Fourth Amendment right to be “secure in their persons, houses, papers” and is “tyranny that our founders rebelled against.” Good for him. In an...