by editor | Feb 18, 2025 | Archive, Obiter Dicta, Southern Partisan
You made it. There are any number of reasons you should not have been confirmed, but Republicans were afraid to buck Trump. They voted in lockstep (except polio survivor Mitch McConnell, who Trump then ridiculed), and now you are the most powerful man in the world...
by editor | Feb 17, 2025 | Archive, CSA, Southern Partisan
SOUTH CAROLINA: SC Native American tribes sign treaty promising to work together The treaty was likely the first of its kind in the country, tribal leaders said COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s Native American tribes will pool their resources and advocate as a group for...
by editor | Feb 13, 2025 | Archive, Southern Partisan
“The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was...
by editor | Feb 12, 2025 | Archive, Homepage, Southern Partisan
In 1861, the United States was desperate for warships. The navy was small, with half its ships deployed overseas and most remaining in the United States in a state of maintenance or layup. The Navy Department spent the war’s first months purchasing, outfitting, and...
by editor | Feb 11, 2025 | Archive, Southern Partisan
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order barring transgender girls and women from playing as girls and women at federally funded schools, colleges and universities. Nearly all schools receive federal funds. A day later, the NCAA, the governing...
by editor | Feb 10, 2025 | Archive, Southern Partisan
FLORIDA: Students Are Giving Up Their Saturdays to Learn History Their Schools Don’t Teach TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Buried among Florida’s manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of...