by editor | Feb 18, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Virginia: USS Monitor Burials to be Interred at Arlington Cemetery RICHMOND, Va. — Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says the remains of two unknown Union sailors recovered from the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery on March 8. In...
by editor | Feb 13, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
We’ve heard another State of the Union speech, and my president said grand things like: “Think about … a future where we’re in control of our own energy … I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China … I will not...
by editor | Feb 12, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Red ink has seized the U.S. Postal Service corpus like a cancer. The post office’s life-saving prescription is to amputate a limb — the organization this week announced that starting in August it intends to discontinue Saturday delivery of the mail. That may...
by editor | Feb 11, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
A chilly day and I am thinking of starting the hickory fire and putting some pork on the smoker. BBQ – perhaps the most discussed, fought over, and eaten jewel in all of Southern cooking. As a chef of l’étoile in Charlottesville, I may know a thing or two about it....
by editor | Feb 8, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
In Atlanta, just minutes away from city offices and downtown attractions, 14 acres of brush and woods have caught the eye of apartment housing developers. That in itself is nothing new. But what makes those 14 acres special is this: The prime piece of in-town real...