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The Problem of Confederate Statues on Public Lands

by RIS Secure | Oct 7, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Let’s do a mental exercise about Confederate monuments in public spaces: I’ll describe one that doesn’t exist, and you tell me whether you’d find it offensive if it did. It sits near a major city, on a scenic patch of federally owned land, in what used to be a...

Ten Days That Shook The Presidency

by RIS Secure | Oct 6, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan

What a difference a week can make. Saturday, Sept. 26, was among the best days of the Trump presidency, or so some of us thought watching the president introduce in the Rose Garden his sterling candidate for Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court. The...

News From Around the South 9/28 to 10/5

by RIS Secure | Oct 5, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan

TENNESSEE: Task Force Says Remove Confederate Flag From County Seal FRANKLIN, Tenn. — A task force designated to determine the livelihood of the Williamson County seal has reported to county commissioners that they should consider removing the Confederate flag from...

The World’s Brokest Billionaire

by RIS Secure | Oct 1, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Seated at the breakfast table, scanning The New York Times story on Trump’s taxes, I said to my husband, “We have a greater net worth than Donald Trump.” He knitted his brow. I was thinking of a story that Ivanka Trump shared a while back: “I...

Some Golf Clubs Names Have Uneasy Confederate Ties

by RIS Secure | Sep 30, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan

For years at Secession Golf Club in Beaufort, S.C., a private, links-style course surrounded by marsh brimming with nature, the club featured two sets of tees after Union generals (Grant and Sherman) and three after Confederate generals (Lee, Stuart, and Jackson).Or...

Supreme Court and Rules of the Game

by RIS Secure | Sep 29, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan

The United States Constitution’s Article 2, Sec. 2, cl. 2, provides that the president of the United States “shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the...