by RIS Secure | Sep 6, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
For decades, liberal journalists have often tried to discredit conservative protest movements, from the tea party to the pro-lifers, by smearing them with violent extremists. So it’s fascinating to read liberal Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan...
by RIS Secure | Sep 6, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
TENNESSEE: East Tennessee’s Civil War: Pro-Union with Divided Loyalties It was June 1861 and Tennessee was about to leave the United States to join the Confederacy. East Tennesseans didn’t want to go, and they put up a fight. Tennessee voted to join the...
by RIS Secure | Aug 31, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
At the center of the “Unite the Right” rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville was a protest of the city’s plan to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee. White supremacists, neo-Nazis and others have made monuments to the Confederate commanding general a flashpoint —...
by RIS Secure | Aug 31, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
WASHINGTON — I wonder how my old pal Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan would view race relations today were he around. In 1970, he wrote a memo to his boss, then-President Richard Nixon, counseling a period of “benign neglect” for the discussion of racial...
by RIS Secure | Aug 29, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Wednesday morning, Nov. 9, 2016, Republicans awoke to learn they had won the lottery. Donald Trump had won the presidency by carrying Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. All three states had gone Democratic in the last six presidential elections. The GOP had won...