The Femininity Factor

The Femininity Factor

by | Sep 28, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Are Republican women politicians more “feminine” than Democratic women politicians? That’s the conclusion of a new study by UCLA researchers, who found that Republican women are so much more “feminine” that college students were able to...
Honey Boo Boo and the Death of Quality

Honey Boo Boo and the Death of Quality

by | Sep 27, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Is Here Comes Honey Boo Boo the worst thing on television? Probably. Is it the worst thing to happen in terms of confirming ignorant opinions from the rest of country about Southerners since The Beverly Hillbillies? Definitely. (And really, that’s being...

News from Around the South 9/20-9/26

by | Sep 26, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Georgia: Kennessaw Group Brings to Light Cobb’s Civil War Roots By H.M. Cauley, for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution As historians, researchers and interested readers of Civil War lore will confirm, Cobb County has a wealth of connections to the conflict. For...
Book Review

Book Review

by | Sep 24, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

“WE HAVE THE WAR UPON US: THE ONSET OF THE CIVIL WAR, NOVEMBER 1860-APRIL 1861” By William J. Cooper, Knopf ($30). Blaming “Inflexible” Lincoln Misleading, Wrong More than 150 years after Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, historians...
I Like Gary Johnson

I Like Gary Johnson

by | Sep 21, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

All political candidates call themselves freedom-lovers, but they are not. Neither major party really opposes government control of the economy or of our personal lives. I’m a libertarian because I see the false choice offered by political left and right:...