Cooter and Fast Eddie

by | May 23, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

It isn’t every day that one makes preparations to go and play music for some friends but instead ends up being portrayed in the national press and on the Internet as some sort of antediluvian racist who should not be seen in the company of someone aspiring to the...

South Most Courteous

by | May 22, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Ohioans are the most foul-mouthed people in the country, while Southerners are the most courteous, according to new data from researchers at the Marchex Institute.  Researchers made the discoveries after mining for curse words, ‘pleases’ and ‘thank...
The Spectator President

The Spectator President

by | May 21, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

No, this is not Watergate or Iran-Contra. Nor is it like the sex scandal that got Bill Clinton impeached. The AP, IRS and Benghazi matters represent a scandal not of presidential wrongdoing, but of presidential indolence, indifference and incompetence in discharging...

News from Around the South 5/13 – 5/20

by | May 20, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Mississippi: Remembrance Set for Key Civil War Struggle CHAMPION HILL, Miss. — One hundred fifty years after the bloody, tide-turning Battle of Champion Hill, key in the Vicksburg Campaign, the loudest ruckus was a leaf blower. This site had served as Gen. Grant’s...

Civil War CSI

by | May 17, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Legendary Confederate fighter Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson died 150 years ago but the actual cause of his death has been a subject of debate. And it was again at the 20th annual Historical Clinicopathological Conference in Maryland. Jackson got the...