by RIS Secure | Jul 10, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Closing a chapter on a symbol of the Deep South and its history of resistance and racial animus, South Carolina on Friday lowered the Confederate battle flag from outside its State House, where it had flown for more than 50 years. The flag came down...
by RIS Secure | Jul 9, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
As Southern Baptists gathered for their annual summer meeting, gloom hung over the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Perhaps it is not the utter despair wracking the “mainline” denominations — Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal and others — who are in...
by RIS Secure | Jul 8, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Hillary Clinton’s campaign again signaled its contempt for the press during a July 4 parade in New Hampshire. Aides brought out ropes to cordon off the media. It was the perfect metaphor for a “news” media so cowered by their candidate that they...
by RIS Secure | Jul 6, 2015 | Southern Partisan, Uncategorized
NORTH CAROLINA: City Pulls Down Signs With Confederate Battle Flag HIGH POINT, N.C. — The City of High Point has taken down signs bearing the Confederate battle flag along High Point roads in the wake of the killing of nine people in the Emanuel African Methodist...
by RIS Secure | Jul 3, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
As a kid, the Fourth of July was always my favorite holiday: the bike parade with the crepe paper so carefully threaded through the spokes, the afternoon of running and jumping contests where everyone won something, and, of course, the highlight, getting the old ratty...