The release of the Mueller report has left Democrats in a dilemma. For consider what Robert Mueller concluded after two [...]
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Sep06
What I Ask of Romney and Obama
on September 6th, 2012 at 5:41 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
The Republican Convention ended on the theme “Believe in America.” That sounded nice, but it was just another platitude. Mitt Romney’s speech was filled with platitudes: “We will honor America’s democratic ideals. … We’re united to preserve liberty.” Please. Liberals and conservatives have real differences. We should state them. America is going broke, and tough […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Sep10
According to a new poll by The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., 54 percent of likely voters believe President Obama does not deserve another term based on his economic record. With rising gas prices once again punishing working Americans and with fear in the air over unemployment, there is a very good chance that Obama […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sep12
News from Around the South, 9/5-9/12
on September 12th, 2012 at 5:40 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
Tennessee: Civil War cannons return to Memphis’ Confederate Park By Kevin McKenzie, Memphis Commercial Appeal Just in time for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, four cannons resembling those used during the War between the States were installed in Confederate Park in Downtown Memphis on Wednesday. Just as intended, the replica artillery immediately sparked […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sep13
How Technology Shaped the Civil War
on September 13th, 2012 at 5:06 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
* Secession not only spurred rapid improvements in warships and weapons, but also led to advances in communications and medicine By James Marten, Scientific American Any Civil War buff is familiar with the technological advances of that era: the carnage caused when tactics failed to accommodate breech-loading rifled muskets and artillery pieces, the truly revolutionary […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sep17
On Jan. 8, 1962, President John F. Kennedy wrote a letter celebrating the work of James Cardinal Gibbons, who died in 1921. Kennedy, who rarely discussed his Catholicism, did so while describing the Cardinal: “He nobly expresses the essential traditions of my church in the United States … the deep sympathy for the plight of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sep18
The Sharpshooter 1862-1864, by Charles Phillips Charles Phillips takes his reader back to the days of the Nueces massacre, an intense and violent conflict between the Confederate soldiers and the German Texans of August of 1862 in his novel The Sharpshooter: 1862-1864. Like many other first-generation German immigrants living in Kinney County, Texas, Jurian Baecker did not […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sep19
News from Around the South 9/12-9/19
on September 19th, 2012 at 4:14 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
Alabama: Bedford statue still stirs controversy BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – Racist, murderer, or savior of the town? Nathan Bedford Forrest still stirs controversy in Selma, Alabama, where emotions are running high over plans to replace a monument honoring the Civil War officer and Ku Klux Klan founder. A bust of Forrest was stolen from a […] ↓ 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 [...]
