One curious line of reasoning used by many who defend appalling exercises like Confederate History month is to attempt to muddy the waters by observing that Lincoln, the Republicans, or "the North" were not, in fact pure as the driven snow with respect to slaver....
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I'm slightly embarrassed to admit I didn't know Rhode Island's full name, so while I would support efforts by states to make their names longer and goofier, I guess don't.
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.
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 through some curious omissions and outright misstatements. The alternative to the F-22 Raptor jet...
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.
*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 the US Civil War era this fall, and I plan to spend no small amount...
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.
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 a prank involving Confederate flags.Rick Kaufman, a spokesman for the Bloomington School District, said three male students brought...
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.
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.