Ronald Reagan received well-deserved scorn in 1985 for visiting Kolmeshöhe Cemetery, where several dozens of SS members were buried; even so, the circumstances of that visit could at least be rendered moderately sensible, given the incompetence that preceded the trip in the first place (e.g., Michael Deaver’s inability to realize who were buried there) and […]
Tag: confederate nostalgia
Spencer handles the general idiocy of the Donnelly-Schmitt op-ed on the Gates defense budget... Schmitt and Donnelly argue for a continuation of most of the programs Gates is cutting, and do so throug
Pathetic: The largest Confederate battle flag in the world has grown by 10 feet. Members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans unfurled the bigger flag Sunday, which is on private property at the juncti
*Snicker* chortle heh heh heh heh.
My wife asked the other day why I seemed so interested recently in the self-evident absurdity of “Black Confederates.” The short, pragmatic answer is that I’m teaching a course on th
Courtesy of The United States Army. From now on, when anyone asks about “black Confederates,” I’m going to refer them to this.
You’ll all be stunned to learn that the Sons of Confederate Veterans have laid claim to the grave of another selfless bondsman who loved his master so very much that he was willing to serve in defense of his master’s right to own him. In related news, the Sons of Confederate Veterans have discovered that […]
St. Paul, Minnesota: Three high school seniors were barred from Bloomington Kennedy High School’s graduation ceremony Wednesday night at Target Center because of what the school district called
Via Think Progress, Alexandra Liddy Bourne of the Heartland Institute, speaking to the Heritage Foundation: So yet again, the South has to pay on its back the cost of using coal in this country to the
I’d be remiss in letting the day pass without noting that April 4 is not only the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination but also the 149th anniversary of the first known performance of “Dixie” (or “Dixie’s Land”) by Bryant’s Minstrels in New York City. The song was a hit in New York in […]
Dave’s post on Confederate nostalgia premised on an imaginary commitment to “States’ Rights” reminds me that one reason why John Marshall Harlan’s dissent in the Civil Ri