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I Hate to Be an Old Fuddy-Duddy, But I Think Working with Russia to Start a...
(For best results, read as Jimmy Stewart.) You kids today… you think you’re all so smart with your hippity-hoppity music and your fidget spinners and your...
View ArticleIt is time for the US army to rename ten installations
all of which are named after traitors, people who took up arms against the United States.Here are the bases:Camp Beauregard in Louisiana, named after General Pierre Beauregard, who was responsible for...
View ArticleArm yourself with the truth
I read a good post from a fellow Texan at forwardprogressives.com about how to deal with Civil War cause reality deniers.With the white supremacists coming out of the woodwork to protect monuments...
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The Historic City of Charlottesville Erupts in Violence Because of a...
Charlottesville, Virginia is not just any American city; it is a city full of history that makes it unique. Its history and uniqueness come from the following three things: it was the home of two...
View ArticlePublic sculpture is not the public enemy
Sculpture is not the problem.I am certainly a progressive, I am from the North, I have no sympathy for the mythology of "States Rights" as an excuse for the Civil War, and the whole romanticization of...
View ArticleMr. President, Confederate leaders were not “fine people.” They told us so.
Defending the indefensible on Tuesday, President Donald Trump traveled back in time to deploy the “both sides do it” talking point to explain the Civil War. Providing air cover for white supremacists,...
View ArticleDonald Trump's Lawyer Forwards Email Echoing Secessionist Civil War...
Trump’s lawyer forwarded a email that had a confederate secessionist defense of Donald Trump’s defense of neo-Nazis. The forwarded e-mail even said Black Lives Matter has been infiltrated by terrorists...
View ArticleHey Trump and Bevin: The South lost and the North won. That is a good thing.
Trump said in one of his typical rants:“… Many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. This week, it is Robert E. Lee and this week, Stonewall Jackson. Is...
View ArticleThe president has declared war on his own country
What now that the president has declared war on his own country? Remembering how it was back in the day of taking it to the streets protesting another evil Republican president who declared war on his...
View ArticleCivil War II
These truths are self evident: The States are not United.We are still fighting the aftermath of the bloodiest war in our history because Congress then, as now, gave up the fight against white supremacy...
View ArticleCSGOPOTD: Jason Lewis- 2017 Update
It was one year ago today that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” presented our original profile of the now U.S. House Representative for Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District, Jason Lewis, who did...
View ArticleThe Truth About That Southern Heritage and the Lost Cause...
Odds are you’ve run across those who can’t understand why people are so upset about a bunch of old statues. (About those statues...)It’s part of our history they say. It was about people fighting for...
View ArticleWhite Nationalism, the Confederacy, and Muddying the Waters
I’ve found myself disturbed about a variety of ways in which rhetoric about White nationalism, white supremacy, conservatism, Trump, and economic populism over the past few days has introduced what we...
View ArticlePernicious Monument at Harpers Ferry, WV
Look at this confederate monument from Harpers Ferry, WV.It mirrors Trump nationalist revisionism.The monument is revering a freeman, Heyward Shepherd, for having been a "good ****er" for staying true...
View ArticleSo, when anyone tells you that the Civil War wasn't about slavery, ask them...
If I had a dime for every time some conservative lectured me that slavery was not the cause of the Civil War, I would have some Trump money to toss around (though procured honestly). Next time someone...
View ArticleBuild This Country Up: You Get Monuments. Tear This Country Apart: Nope.
For Trump and those like him, here is a simple rule to determine which statues and monuments will be preserved as part of the history of the United States of America, and which should be brought down...
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If you do want to learn Confederate history from a statue, I have just the one.
It even has a handy inscription that explains everything you need to know about the Civil War.xIf you want to learn about the confederacy by looking at statues, this is the only one you need to see....
View ArticleWhy I'm Ready to Leave Today's March at a Second's Notice
I’ll be marching today in New Orleans, at an event sponsored by TakeEmDownNOLA as a “solidarity with Charlottesville” protest. Happy to do so.I’m also ready, at the drop of a kepi, to turn off the...
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Nazi white bread will never rise again ... Trump the lost cause Northerner
Three Rs — a Revanchist, Revisionist, Reactionary history demonstrates how Trump is the patron saint of a Lost Cause … including Nazis! The protests against those protesting Confederate statuary...
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