by RIS Secure | Nov 19, 2017 | Archive
VIRGINIA: Robert E. Lee Decamps City Hall for Museum ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The city of Alexandria has quietly removed a portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that hung on the wall of the City Council chambers for 54 years, relocating it to the Lyceum, a local...
by RIS Secure | Nov 15, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina echoed the Southern Baptist Convention in denouncing racism in a resolution adopted at the state convention’s 2017 annual meeting Nov. 6-7 in Greensboro, N.C. North Carolina Baptists stopped short, however, of endorsing...
by RIS Secure | Nov 14, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders found a clever way to combine two passions — tweaking reporters and supporting big tax cuts — during a recent press briefing. She laid out a scenario in which 10 reporters had a beer together every day...
by RIS Secure | Nov 13, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
ARKANSAS: Study Begins for Civil War Museum It didn’t draw a lot of attention, but the 2017 legislature approved Rep. Jana Della Rosa’s legislation directing the Arkansas Heritage Department to conduct a feasibility study of establishing a Civil War...
by RIS Secure | Nov 9, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
While Democrats across the nation are declaring both victory and a potential turning tide after this week’s off-year election, Republicans might want to turn to their old playbook to prove the Democrats wrong. But it won’t be easy. For Democrats, still...