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Is ‘Autocracy’ America’s Mortal Enemy?

by editor | Aug 23, 2022 | Archive, Southern Partisan

In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden declared to the nation and world: “We are engaged anew in a great battle for freedom. A battle between democracy and autocracy.” On her trip to Taiwan, Speaker Nancy Pelosi echoed...

News From Around the South 8/15 to 8/22

by editor | Aug 23, 2022 | Archive, Southern Partisan

GEORGIA: Book Retells Atlanta History During Civil War Lt. William Hoyle Nesbit, 21, was languishing in a Virginia hospital after having his arm shot off in the Battle of Gettysburg. A caregiver, trying to help, sent a dictated telegram to Nesbit’s father on July 14,...

Trumo and the Department of Justice

by editor | Aug 18, 2022 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Former President Donald Trump will soon be indicted by a federal grand jury. He is the victim of a federal government that knows no bounds and has assumed powers nowhere granted in the Constitution by the sheer force of its own will. It has created a security state,...

Could Vanished Scottish Colony Be Under Downtown Beaufort?

by editor | Aug 17, 2022 | Archive, Southern Partisan

BEAUFORT — Archaeologist Chester DePratter looked beyond the edge of the city. From the park at the bottom of The Point, he could see 5 miles down the Beaufort River. “This is the highest point around,” DePratter, a research professor at the SC Institute of...

News From Around the South, 8/8 to 8/15

by editor | Aug 15, 2022 | Archive, Southern Partisan

SOUTH CAROLINA: Army’s Largest Training Base Has More Confederate Names Than All But 3 Other Bases One in four roads on Fort Jackson could be renamed as part of a wide-ranging study that has already suggested new names for nine military bases with Confederate...

The Dwindling Difference Between Our Two Parties on Spending

by editor | Aug 10, 2022 | Archive, Southern Partisan

For a few years, I have sounded the alarm that a growing wave of conservatives are working to make Republicans indistinguishable from Democrats on social spending. Some say that to win elections, Republicans need to pay more attention to families — by which they mean...