We need to differentiate between experiences and facts. We know that our individual perspectives affect how we experience events, but [...]
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Pinterest and The Knot Won’t Promote Plantation Weddings Anymore
Pinterest and the Knot Worldwide, two of the country’s biggest online wedding-planning platforms, [...]
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Jan24
It’s the silly season again in American politics. In honor of the season, below a few cartoonists offer a little humor on presidential politics…
Jan26
What if actor Clint Eastwood gave an interview in which he explained why, in the 2008 presidential election, he voted for John McCain: “I voted for McCain because he was white. ‘Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them. … That’s American politics, pure and simple.” No, Eastwood […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jan27
Tax Breaks for the Wealthy are the Whole Ballgame
on January 27th, 2012 at 9:41 pmPosted In: Southern Partisan
In the old days, Labor Day marked the start of the presidential race. This year Democrats won’t officially choose their candidate — our guess is Barack Obama — until two days after Labor Day. The campaign between the incumbent president and his putative Republican challenger Mitt Romney began to crystallize last week. The 2012 campaign, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jan30
Alabama: Civil War Trust seeks to develop Anniston battlefield The Washington, D.C.-based Civil War Trust is hoping to turn an Alabama industrial site into a park commemorating Civil War history, according to The Anniston Star. The site of the former Blue Mountain Industries was key in the Confederate war effort from a training and transportation standpoint, and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jun21
Ray Bradbury was one of several authors who came to prominence in the 1940s and ’50s not just as writers of science fiction but also as champions of freedom. Another was Robert Heinlein, who helped popularize the saying “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch” and is still celebrated by libertarians. But it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Jul10
Since progressives want government to run health care, let’s look at what government management did to K-12 education. While most every other service in life has gotten better and cheaper, American education remains stagnant. Spending has tripled! Why no improvement? Because K-12 education is a virtual government monopoly — and monopolies don’t improve. In every […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jul11
The Dickey I Knew: A Death at 15
on July 11th, 2012 at 11:17 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
Surrounded by stacks of yellowed books, resting in a stained yellow chair and imprisoned in a ruined yellow body just two months from collapse, James Dickey’s eyes welled with tears he made no effort to conceal. It’s been 15 years since his death and 40 years since Deliverance hit movie screens on July 30, 1972, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Methodist Church Same-Sex Split
Homer United Methodist Church in Winona, Minn.Credit…Madeline Heim/The Winona Daily News, via Associated Press
Leaders of the United Methodist Church, the second-largest Protestant domination in the nation, announced on Friday a plan [...]
UNC Faculty Opposes Silent Sam Settlement
UNC faculty has expressed opposition to the University’s $2.5 million settlement which gave the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.5 million and Silent Sam.
A number of UNC faculty departments have released statements in opposition [...]