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Aug22

Ignorant Rape Comments No Surprise

by RISadlog on August 22nd, 2012 at 9:20 pm
Posted 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

by RISadlog on August 23rd, 2012 at 10:59 pm
Posted 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…

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Aug24

Shrinking from the Debate

by RISadlog on August 24th, 2012 at 10:38 pm
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A recent episode of the HBO program “The Newsroom” featured an expose of the lame presidential debate procedure we have accepted in America. The producer of the series, Aaron Sorkin, set up a confrontation between some Republican flunkies and the noble newsroom folks who wanted to change the debate format. Sorkin, a committed leftist, used […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Aug24

Leading Faulker Scholar passes

by RISadlog on August 24th, 2012 at 10:52 pm
Posted 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…

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Aug28

Last Hurrah of Nixon's 'New Majority'?

by RISadlog on August 28th, 2012 at 9:09 pm
Posted 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…

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Aug29

News From Around the South for Week of 8/27

by RISadlog on August 29th, 2012 at 5:48 pm
Posted 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…

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Aug30

A Grand Old Party?

by RISadlog on August 30th, 2012 at 1:44 pm
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Sep04

General Lee Stripped by PC

by RISadlog on September 4th, 2012 at 3:21 pm
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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…

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Sep05

Did Northern Aggression Cause Civil War?

by RISadlog on September 5th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Posted 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…

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Sep05

News from Around the South for Week of 9/3

by RISadlog on September 5th, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Posted 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…

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