by RIS Secure | Sep 4, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Twenty-five years ago, as the school bell rang and I gathered my books to leave Mrs Bischoff’s American literature class, Mr Goebel, my history teacher, came in to discuss some administrative business. She interrupted him to ask if he “watched it last night”. Without...
by RIS Secure | Sep 2, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
A federal case moving to trial in Texas could provide a means to stop the practice of extending automatic U.S. citizenship to children born to illegal aliens. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump recently called for legislation to end that unpopular...
by RIS Secure | Sep 1, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
DALLAS (AP) — Siddharth Jaganath wanted to return to India after earning his master’s degree at Texas’ Southern Methodist University. Instead, he built a new life in the U.S. over a decade, becoming a manager at a communications technology company and...
by RIS Secure | Aug 31, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
TEXAS: Confederate Statue at UT-Austin Has Been Removed AUSTIN, Texas — Statues of Jefferson Davis and Woodrow Wilson were removed on Sunday from the pedestals at the University of Texas on which they have stood for 82 years. “This is an iconic moment. It really shows...
by RIS Secure | Aug 27, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Spartanburg County school districts do not plan to follow a policy recently established in Charleston County public schools banning Confederate items from clothing, jewelry and cars on campus. Charleston students violating the policy are subject to removal from...
by RIS Secure | Aug 26, 2015 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The horrific shooting of nine churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina back in June did not spark this public debate about the place of Confederate iconography in public places. Rather, it intensified it to a degree that few could have anticipated. Over the past ten...