by RIS Secure | Aug 22, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
From Memphis and Kansas City-style barbecue to the Lowcountry fare of South Carolina and Georgia to the Cajun and Creole of Louisiana, the Southern states offer some of the most amazing, unbelievably delicious cuisine this country serves up. If you’re unable to...
by RIS Secure | Aug 21, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Amid a controversy about moving a statue of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith to Lake County, a Democratic lawmaker has urged Gov. Ron DeSantis to place the statue at the Olustee Civil War battlefield in rural North Florida. State Rep. Geraldine Thompson,...
by RIS Secure | Aug 20, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Friday, President Donald Trump met in New Jersey with his national security advisers and envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who is negotiating with the Taliban to bring about peace, and a U.S. withdrawal from America’s longest war. U.S. troops have been fighting in...
by RIS Secure | Aug 19, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
GEORGIA: State Democrats Embrace Slavery Reparations Proposal ATLANTA — Two of the top Democrats seeking Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat in 2020 are embracing a proposal to examine reparations for the descendants of slaves, a concept senior members of the party shied...
by RIS Secure | Aug 14, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
In a photograph no bigger than a playing card, a woman dressed in military costume cradles a sword, staring confidently beyond the frame. Her name is Pauline Cushman, an actress turned Civil War spy whose story dances between the boundary dividing history and fiction....
by RIS Secure | Aug 13, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Ten weeks of protests, some huge, a few violent, culminated Monday with a shutdown of the Hong Kong airport. Ominously, Beijing described the violent weekend demonstrations as “deranged” acts that are “the first signs of terrorism,” and vowed a...