by editor | Mar 10, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Pushing back against what they called America’s “woke mob,” a group of GOP lawmakers want to protect South Carolina historic monuments and markers and penalize any community or elected official that removes them. “It’s time to stand up and defend the history of South...
by editor | Mar 9, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
I have been telling parents for decades that sending a child to almost any college is playing Russian roulette with his or her values. But it is a different version of Russian roulette. In the traditional version, only one of the gun’s six chambers contains a...
by editor | Mar 8, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
NORTH CAROLINA: Iredell County Votes To Remove Confederate Memorial TATESVILLE, N.C. — Officials in North Carolina’s Iredell County have voted to move a Confederate memorial that has stood outside the court house for more than a century.The Statesville Record...
by editor | Mar 4, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
“In short, we do not need good laws to restrain bad men. We need good men to restrain bad laws.” — G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) Why do people in power try to silence speech with which they disagree? Last week produced news about the suppression of speech on...
by editor | Mar 3, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
In 1896, Francis Marion Boyer, fleeing threats of racial violence, traveled more than 1,200 miles from his home in southwest Georgia to New Mexico. The educator and graduate of what is now Morehouse College thought life on the Great Plains could offer the land...
by editor | Mar 2, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
FRIEDENS, Pennsylvania — Imagine if you had a job. A good job, one that required skill and critical thinking and had a broad impact in the community where you lived. A job you didn’t just show up to do. It was a job you were good at, and because of it, you were...