by editor | Nov 2, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
AUSTIN — Outside Rep. Eric Johnson’s office in the state Capitol is a plaque that claims secession was not an act of rebellion and the Civil War was not fought to sustain slavery. It was installed in 1959, when his parents were growing up in the West Dallas housing...
by editor | Oct 31, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Well over a year after the FBI began investigating “collusion” between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has brought in his first major indictment. Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has been charged with a series of...
by editor | Oct 30, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
KENTUCKY — Plaque Honoring Jefferson Davis To Be Removed FRANKFORT, Ky. — A plaque proclaiming Jefferson Davis as a hero and a patriot will be removed from Kentucky’s Capitol, the latest effort to alter Confederate monuments across the country following...
by editor | Oct 26, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Three winds currently blowing through political Washington: the never-ending, middle school-esque drama talk, the steady reduction of executive overreach and the need for legislative leadership. All three will have an effect on mid-term elections next year. The...
by editor | Oct 26, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Although America’s Civil War battlefields are wracked with memorials, few of us take the time to notice the dates that are actually on them. Pay close attention, and you’ll suddenly realize that although the war ended in 1865, only a handful of statues went up in the...
by editor | Oct 24, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
“The Kurds have no friends but the mountains,” is an old lament. Last week, it must have been very much on Kurdish minds. As their U.S. allies watched, the Kurdish peshmerga fighters were run out of Kirkuk and all the territory they had captured fighting...