by editor | Oct 20, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The fearsome Rebel ironclad CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimack, aka Merrimac) materialized in Hampton Roads, Virginia, that calm and clear Saturday morning, March 8, 1862. “The ‘Merrimac’ was steaming slowly towards us,” recalled Seaman Frederick H. Curtis of the wooden...
by editor | Oct 20, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
It is distressing for those of us who believe that the Constitution means what it says to observe the destruction of liberty caused by vaccine mandates. On one side of this destruction are those whose opposition to vaccines finds comfort in the executive orders of...
by editor | Oct 18, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
FLORIDA: A Close Brush With History—UWF History Trust’s Black Politicians Exhibit It was recently announced in the last Emerging Civil War newsletter that I’ve taken on a part-time position with the University of West Florida’s Historic Trust in Pensacola, Florida. I...
by editor | Oct 14, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
“Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Last week, President George W. Bush’s torture regime reared its head in an unusual argument before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2002, Abu Zubaydah was captured by...
by editor | Oct 12, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
On Monday, David Leonhardt’s morning newsletter for the New York Times introduced a grim new term into our pandemic vocabularies: “Red COVID.” The partisan gap in the effects of the pandemic, the newsletter explained, had widened. “Every reliably blue state now has a...
by editor | Oct 12, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Last Friday, in a triumph for transnationalism, 136 nations, including the U.S., agreed to mandate a global corporate income tax for all nations that will not be allowed to fall below 15%. “Virtually the entire global economy has decided to end the race to the...