During the past week, President Donald Trump excited two bitter public controversies by sending and publishing two highly inappropriate and [...]
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NORTH CAROLINA: Confederate Flag Wristbands Dumped After Mixup
Forsyth County said the Confederate flag wristbands were ordered by mistake. [...]
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Apr09
Already Deep in the Politics of Hate
on April 9th, 2019 at 9:32 amPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
During an Iowa town hall last week, “Beto” O’Rourke, who had pledged to raise the level of national discourse, depicted President Donald Trump’s rhetoric as right out of Nazi Germany. Trump “describes immigrants as ‘rapists’ and ‘criminals’” and as “‘animals’ and ‘an infestation,’” said Beto. “Now, I might expect someone to describe another human being […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Apr10
Racist Listserv Post Splits Academia
on April 10th, 2019 at 10:02 amPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
Scholars and teachers of writing are on the front lines of demographic and other shifts in higher education. They face students with increasingly varied backgrounds and Englishes, and they’re tasked with preparing students to communicate across an increasing variety of platforms, genres and audiences. For many of these instructors, the Writing Program Administration Listserv, or WPA-L, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Apr10
If one needed evidence of the gross ignorance of millennials, and their teachers and college professors, it’s their solid support for socialism and socialist presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders. Socialism has produced tragedy wherever it has been implemented. Last year marked the 40th anniversary of nearly 1,000 Americans perishing in a mass suicide/murder in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Apr15
News From Around the South 4/8 to 4/15
on April 15th, 2019 at 8:48 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
Kentucky: Sons of Confederate Veterans Still Pushing in Paducah PADUCAH, Ky. — In a new twist on an almost two-year-old controversy, the Paducah Sons of Confederate Veterans say they’ll stop pressing to participate in the city’s annual Veterans Day Parade, if the city will repeal an ordinance keeping them and the Confederate flag out of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Apr15
Humans — particularly of the American variety — will knock you for a loop now and then. They seem down; they seem out — licked, run over, beaten to a pulp. Then lo! Then behold! They pull off something big and improbable of who’d have-thunk-it dimensions — just the way Tiger Woods did in Augusta, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Apr17
How the South Won the Civil War
on April 17th, 2019 at 2:35 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
Not so long ago, the Civil War was taken to be this country’s central moral drama. Now we think that the aftermath—the confrontation not of blue and gray but of white and black, and the reimposition of apartheid through terror—is what has left the deepest mark on American history. Instead of arguing about whether the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Apr23
News From Around the South 4/15 to 4/22
on April 23rd, 2019 at 10:27 amPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
BEAUFORT — “What brings you to our little corner of history today?” A volunteer greets each guest with the question as they wander into the Old Beaufort Firehouse across from the Arsenal on Craven Street. It feels appropriate for the spot that sits off a small intersection in this seaside town’s historic district. For just […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Apr23
The Democrats Divide on Impeachment
on April 23rd, 2019 at 10:31 amPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
The release of the Mueller report has left Democrats in a dilemma. For consider what Robert Mueller concluded after two years of investigation. Candidate Donald Trump did not conspire or collude with the Russians to hack the emails of the DNC or John Podesta. Trump did not distribute the fruits of those crimes. Nor did […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Apr24
The Dueling Columns of Clay and Calhoun
on April 24th, 2019 at 12:32 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
As they were rivals in life, so, too, it seems, did senators Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun try to outrival each other in death—or at least their supporters did. In 2014, as part of a post I wrote about Calhoun-related sites in his home city of Charleston, South Carolina, I mentioned the towering Calhoun monument on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Apr24
The Green New Deal’s goal is to move America to zero carbon emissions in 10 years. “That’s a goal you could only imagine possible if you have no idea how energy is produced,” James Meigs, former editor of Popular Mechanics magazine, says in my latest video. “Renewable is so inconsistent,” he adds. “You can’t just put […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lessons From Past Migrations
International migration is one of the most pervasive social phenomena of our times. According to recent UN estimates, as of 2017, there were almost 260 million migrants around the world. In the last five decades, [...]
African-American Confederate Pensions
During the Civil War, with practically every fit white man serving in the Confederate Army, South Carolina had a serious shortage of conventional labor.
So, since most of the population consisted of enslaved African-Americans, that’s where [...]