News from Around the South 8/19-8/26

by | Aug 26, 2013 | Southern Partisan, Uncategorized

Florida: Controversy brewing over portrait of Robert E. Lee FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Lee County chapter of the NAACP wants to hold demonstrations because the county refuses to take down a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee that hangs in the commissioners’ meeting...

(CSA) Flag Football

by | Aug 22, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

The beautiful Confederate flag of Dixie is in the news again and… It is reported that a Southern Heritage group has purchased land in Richmond, Virginia to fly a 10-by-15 foot Confederate flag on Interstate 95 in the city. Susan Hathaway founder of the Virginia...

Lost Cause Free Trade

by | Aug 16, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

The French classical economist Frédéric Bastiat once remarked, “when goods do not cross borders, armies will.” Democratic Senator James Hammond of South Carolina infamously agreed with those sentiments on March 4, 1858, nearly eight years after Bastiat’s death. In a...

Looking for Lincoln

by | Aug 13, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

At the Australian embassy in Washington, DC, last month, I asked Kim Beazley if he had had the chance to indulge his fascination with Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War while serving as Australia’s ambassador to the US. “The Civil War is seminal to the...

News from Around the South 8/5 – 8/12

by | Aug 12, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Virginia: Confederate Flag to be flown by I-95 A Confederate heritage group has announced plans to fly a Confederate Flag on I-95, the main highway running the length of the East Coast. The group Virginia Flaggers said that the Confederate Flag would be flown just...