The release of the Mueller report has left Democrats in a dilemma. For consider what Robert Mueller concluded after two [...]
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Aug22
Ignorant Rape Comments No Surprise
on August 22nd, 2012 at 9:20 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
It’s not easy to find the precise adjective to best describe Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin’s comments about “legitimate rape” and the female body having “ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” “Ignorant” isn’t bad for starters. “Clumsy” is a bit weak. Disastrous, heinous, horrible, awful, infuriating, frustrating, devastating … the list goes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Aug23
News from Around the South for Week of 8/20-8/26
on August 23rd, 2012 at 10:59 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
Alabama: Monument to Civil War General Sparks Controversy By Miranda Leitsinger, NBC News The renovation of a monument honoring a Civil War Confederate general, who was the first “Grand Wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan, is once more creating controversy in Selma, Ala., 11 years after protesters got it moved off of public property. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Aug24
Leading Faulker Scholar passes
on August 24th, 2012 at 10:52 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
We came across these two items in the Picayune (Miss.) Item and thought they’d be of interest to Southern Partisan readers about the passing of the country’s preeminent William Faulkner scholar: Services Set for Polk Memorial HATTIESBURG — A memorial service for Noel Polk will be held on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Thad Cochran Building […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Aug28
Last Hurrah of Nixon's 'New Majority'?
on August 28th, 2012 at 9:09 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
Looking back all the way to America’s Civil War, there have been three dominant presidential coalitions. The first was Abraham Lincoln’s. With his war to restore the Union and his martyrdom, Lincoln inaugurated an era of Republican dominance that lasted more than seven decades and saw only two Democratic presidents: Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Aug29
News From Around the South for Week of 8/27
on August 29th, 2012 at 5:48 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
Mississippi: For Miss., an angst-filled Civil War Anniversary By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS – Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War can be an angst-filled task in Mississippi, with its long history of racial strife and a state flag that still bears the Confederate battle emblem. Well-intentioned Mississippians who work for racial […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sep04
One of the many problems with political correctness is that it often ignores context. Well, that’s being kind. Political correctness doesn’t just ignore context, it assumes you aren’t smart enough to understand it. At its insidious core, it can be nothing more than elitist censorship, wherein people who presume to know better than you remove […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sep05
Did Northern Aggression Cause Civil War?
on September 5th, 2012 at 4:17 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
By James Oakes, Jacobin/salon.com On 6 November 1860, the six-year-old Republican Party elected its first president. During the tense crisis months that followed – the “secession winter” of 1860–61 – practically all observers believed that Lincoln and the Republicans would begin attacking slavery as soon as they took power. Democrats in the North blamed the Republican Party for the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sep05
News from Around the South for Week of 9/3
on September 5th, 2012 at 4:51 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
Alabama: Hurricane Isaac uncovers Confederate ‘mystery ship’ By Paul Conner, The Daily Caller In the latest installment of a spooky pattern of events, Hurricane Isaac uncovered a boat believed to be a Civil War blockade runner on the beaches of Gulf Shores, Ala. Photos of the ship were posted to Facebook by Meyer Vacation Rentals. Gulf […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rediscovering CSA Truce Flag
The artist Sonya Clark performs, mopping up dust with a dish towel printed with an image of the Confederate battle flag. The dust, on a section of the Declaration of Independence inscribed on the [...]
Racist Listserv Post Splits Academia
Scholars and teachers of writing are on the front lines of demographic and other shifts in higher education. They face students with increasingly varied backgrounds and Englishes, and they’re tasked with preparing students to communicate [...]
