Archive for ‘Southern Partisan’

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Apr13

News From Around the South 4/6 to 4/13

by editor on April 13th, 2020 at 10:57 am
Posted In: Archive, Southern Partisan

ALABAMA: Prehistoric Forest Found On Sea Floor Off Coast An ancient forest has been found “entombed” in the floor of the Gulf of Mexico off Alabama, prompting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to orchestrate a study of the haunting site. Among the goals: To see if the jumble of prehistoric trees host undiscovered “compounds for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Apr14

Shutdown Could Kill More Than Virus

by editor on April 14th, 2020 at 9:12 am
Posted In: Southern Partisan

Thursday’s unemployment update confirms that over the last three weeks, nearly 17 million Americans have been laid off because of the shutdown. That’s one-tenth of the nation’s workforce. It’s not just an economic fact. It’s a public health disaster. If the shutdown is dragged on, as many public health experts recommend, it is almost certain […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Apr15

Remembering a Civil War Chaplain

by editor on April 15th, 2020 at 4:12 pm
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When General Robert E. Lee was engaged at Chancellorsville in May 1863, and when Brigadier General William Barksdale’s Brigade faced an attack by an overwhelming number of Union troops back in Fredericksburg, the man who rode bareback to warn Lee was a small, slightly built Confederate chaplain, William Benton Owen of the 17th Mississippi Infantry […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Apr16

Death in Slow Motion

by editor on April 16th, 2020 at 8:39 am
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During the past month, as Americans have been terrified of the coronavirus, another demon has been lurking ready to pounce. It is a demon of our own creation. It is the now amply manifested inability of elected officials to resist the temptation of totalitarianism. And it is slowly bringing about the death of personal liberty […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Apr20

News From Around the South 4/13 to 4/20

by editor on April 20th, 2020 at 9:20 am
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MISSISSIPPI: Gov. Takes Break From Pandemic to Declare Confederate Heritage Month JACKSON, Miss. — As coronavirus spiked across the state, the Mississippi Sons of Confederate Veterans posted a copy of an April 3 state proclamation naming this month as “Confederate Heritage Month.” Gov. Tate Reeves apparently signed the proclamation two days after he did an about-face and issued a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Apr21

Benefits v. Costs and COVID-19

by editor on April 21st, 2020 at 1:00 pm
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One of the first lessons in an economics class is everything has a cost. That’s in stark contrast to lessons in the political arena where politicians talk about free stuff. In our personal lives, decision-making involves weighing costs against benefits. Businessmen make the same calculation if they want to stay in business. It’s an entirely […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Apr22

Patriotism Won’t Stop Racism

by editor on April 22nd, 2020 at 12:25 pm
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Among the many appalling consequences of covid-19 has been an increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans. Verbal harassment has been common, but acts of violence are on the upswing as well. In Texas, a man allegedly tried to kill an Asian family in a grocery store (which included stabbing a 2-year-old child). Although the increasing harassment has been widely condemned, some […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Apr23

Puzzling Over African-American COVID Deaths

by editor on April 23rd, 2020 at 3:09 pm
Posted In: Archive, Southern Partisan

The numbers are preliminary, but it seems that African Americans are dying from COVID-19 at alarming rates. In Louisiana, for instance, blacks represent 70% of the dead but only 33% of the population. In Michigan, blacks comprise 33% of the infected, but 40% of the fatalities. This has occasioned an outpouring of analysis suggesting that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Apr27

News From Around the South 4/20 to 4/27

by editor on April 27th, 2020 at 9:21 am
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MICHIGAN: Lawmaker Apologies for Confederate Flag Facemask A Michigan state senator is now apologizing for wearing a face mask with what appeared to be a Confederate flag pattern. State Sen. Dale Zorn, a Republican from Ida, apologized in a pair of Twitter posts Saturday for the face mask that he wore on the Michigan Senate floor […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Apr28

Revolt of the Plain Folks

by editor on April 28th, 2020 at 10:36 am
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“So the city was filled with the confusion…Now some cried one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together.” — The Acts of the Apostles, 19:29-32, Revised Standard Version. And, hey, that wasn’t even Washington, D.C., or New York City. It was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…