by RIS Secure | Nov 19, 2017 | Archive
VIRGINIA: Robert E. Lee Decamps City Hall for Museum ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The city of Alexandria has quietly removed a portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that hung on the wall of the City Council chambers for 54 years, relocating it to the Lyceum, a local...
by RIS Secure | Nov 15, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina echoed the Southern Baptist Convention in denouncing racism in a resolution adopted at the state convention’s 2017 annual meeting Nov. 6-7 in Greensboro, N.C. North Carolina Baptists stopped short, however, of endorsing...
by RIS Secure | Nov 14, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders found a clever way to combine two passions — tweaking reporters and supporting big tax cuts — during a recent press briefing. She laid out a scenario in which 10 reporters had a beer together every day...
by RIS Secure | Nov 13, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
ARKANSAS: Study Begins for Civil War Museum It didn’t draw a lot of attention, but the 2017 legislature approved Rep. Jana Della Rosa’s legislation directing the Arkansas Heritage Department to conduct a feasibility study of establishing a Civil War...
by RIS Secure | Nov 9, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
While Democrats across the nation are declaring both victory and a potential turning tide after this week’s off-year election, Republicans might want to turn to their old playbook to prove the Democrats wrong. But it won’t be easy. For Democrats, still...
by RIS Secure | Nov 9, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Recent controversial comments on the Civil War from White House Chief of Staff John Kelly reignited the debate over the proper interpretation of this historic event. As many have observed, Kelly’s statement to news commentator Laura Ingraham that “the lack of an...