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 especially care if the Ocean State decides to change it based on flimsy historical interpretations...
confederate nostalgia
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.
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 junction of Interstates 4 and 75.It's now 30 by 60 feet, compared to the...
*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.
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.
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 northern states. We’re going to have another Civil War here...
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.
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 Rights Cases is one.