“We have met the moment and we have prevailed,” said President Donald Trump Monday, as he supported the opening of Read More
SOUTH CAROLINA: Confederate Group Criticizes Marine Plan To Ban Paraphernalia CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Marine Corps’ top officer is hoping to ban all Confederate paraphernalia from its bases worldwide, a Read More
Not long ago people protesting public displays of Confederate flags in various states would say that such relics of a bygone era belong not on flagpoles but in museums. Now the folks at the Lynchburg Museum have to decide if that is literally true. Last month the Museum’s advisory board expressed concerns about plans to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie has long been fascinated by the Confederacy, which his ancestors fought for during the Civil War. For years, he belonged to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a group that defends public displays of Confederate symbols. And he used to attend the annual memorial ceremonies in Washington to mark the birthday […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
WASHINGTON — Did you follow the press in 2018? Apparently, most members of the press do not like our president, Donald J. Trump. Many of them think he is a tyrant in the making. Others think he is stupid and a tyrant in the making. They believe he is likely to be beaten in 2020. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
TEXAS: Sons of Confederate Veterans Gain Charter FORT STOCKTON, TX. — The removal or destruction of historical monuments with ties to the Civil War-era Confederacy has stirred debate and protest in many parts of America. Amid the controversy, Pecos County recently saw the Iraan-based Judge Roy Bean Camp #2298 granted a charter by The Sons of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The budget shutdown is currently the second-longest on record, on track to break the 1995-96 shutdown, which lasted 21 days. That shutdown — between President Bill Clinton and my dad, Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., was over a seven-year budget. They eventually compromised and passed a budget. Once the sides have been staked out, it becomes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No one need look far in the current political climate to find issues that divide the nation. Abortion, immigration, and gender questions commonly rise up to cleave our attention. These issues, however, pale when held against the historical glass of slavery in America before the Civil War. In “The War Before the War,” Andrew Delbanco, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
SOUTH CAROLINA: Broken Pipe May Have Sunk Hunley CHARLESTON, S.C. — A broken ballast tank pipe might have sunk the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley. That’s the latest discovery by the Clemson University conservators working to restore the doomed vessel. The scientists found a roughly 1-inch gap where the pipe should have been mounted on the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Democrats and others on the left offer three reasons for their opposition to building a wall on America’s southern border. 1. A wall is ineffective. 2. A wall is too expensive. 3. A wall is immoral. Each one is false, so false as to constitute lies. So, the only question is: Do Democrats and others […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RALEIGH, N.C. — Hours after the last remnants of a Confederate statue were removed overnight from North Carolina’s flagship public university, the state university system’s governing board pushed out the official who ordered them gone. UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt had said Monday that she would leave at the end of the school year in May, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The replica Confederate flag taken down from the S.C. State House grounds has finally been displayed at the S.C. Confederate Relic Room and Military museum. The flag had been in storage in an acid-free box alongside actual Civil War relics since it was handed to Relic Room Director Allen Roberson in 2015 by a mixed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
