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Can Republicans Keep Relying on Whites?

by RIS Secure | Feb 21, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

“This is the last time anyone will try to do this,” said a Republican strategist during the 2012 campaign. He meant that was the last time that a Republican presidential candidate would focus largely on white voters in order to win the White House. This...

GOP's Civil War

by RIS Secure | Feb 20, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Republicans continue to argue about whether the party needs to take steps to prevent the next Christine O’Donnell, Sharron Angle, Todd Akin and Ken Buck, as well as how it might do so. Those inept and seriously flawed candidates lost races that other Republicans would...

Free World Rocking

by RIS Secure | Feb 19, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

While watching the Grammy awards last Sunday, it occurred to me that American culture has been defined by music ever since the end of World War II. After the Germans and Japanese surrendered in 1945, millions of GI’s returned home to marry and begin families....

News from Around the South 2/11 – 2/18

by RIS Secure | Feb 18, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Virginia: USS Monitor Burials to be Interred at Arlington Cemetery RICHMOND, Va. — Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says the remains of two unknown Union sailors recovered from the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery on March 8. In...

State of the Union?

by RIS Secure | Feb 13, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

We’ve heard another State of the Union speech, and my president said grand things like: “Think about … a future where we’re in control of our own energy … I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China … I will not...

Rescuing the Post Office

by RIS Secure | Feb 12, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Red ink has seized the U.S. Postal Service corpus like a cancer. The post office’s life-saving prescription is to amputate a limb — the organization this week announced that starting in August it intends to discontinue Saturday delivery of the mail. That may...