Martial Law or Civil War
Trump sounds like he’s declaring martial law , sending the military into states without those states asking for it. If that happens expect a civil war. He doesn’t have that authority to do that...
View ArticleCan You Spare, Literally, Two Clicks (10 secs.) to Help Remove Confederate...
This is little, but it is no longer acceptable to let even little things slip by.A Fox news affiliate radio station in Richmond, call sign, “The WORD,” is running a one question poll -"Do you favor the...
View Article'No offence but that of negritude'
NOTE: I would like to apologize for the use of some archaic language and painfully explicit descriptions in what follows. Difficult as it is to read, I believe it helps highlight true horrors in our...
View ArticlePetraeus sees the light - finally
On the Atlantic, David Petraeus signs a piece titled Rename the Rebel Forts.He talks in favor of the idea of renaming the bases named for the confederate generals. It seems that for someone who had his...
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The Monuments to an Open Rebellion
13 years ago I decided to ride my motorcycle across the country. I was still young (at 64!) and doing something like “getting lost” on the road for a month or so was something I always wanted to do....
View Article10 military bases named after Confederate generals? Only 2 named after Union...
Disclaimer: The following is the product of research performed using online searches of material readily available on the internet, and may be subject to correction by those whose expertise in...
View ArticleWhy are Army bases named for Traitors?
With all the attention currently being paid the the US Army bases named after Confederate soldiers, I was curious about US bases named after Union soldiers. First, I discovered that in this instance,...
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In Their Own Words: It WAS About Slavery
I may be preaching to the choir here, but wanted to arm my fellow Kosaks with a rebuttal to the “heritage, not hate” crowd. To ensure historical accuracy, I’ll use the words of the traitors themselves....
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A person yearning for irreparable destruction has the launch codes
I read somewhere that some more sensible people around Richard Nixon, seeing him go crazy toward the end, created some kind of buffer between him and the nuclear launch codes to prevent him from...
View ArticleTear Down the Lee Statues, Purge His Name from Schools and Streets
Who is the Robert E. Lee honored across the United States? According to a partial list compiled for Wikipedia, there are five towns, eight counties, eight building, three military facilities,...
View ArticleA BIG BARREL OF "BAD APPLES" BECOMING A BURDEN!
The proverbial “bad apple” that corrupts the rest of the barrel of “good apples” because that one bad apple has become so rotten that it is causing the contamination and decomposition of the remaining...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico,...
View ArticleIt Wasn’t North vs. South; It Was Patriots vs. Secessionists
There is an awful lot of mythology about the South and Southerners shortly before and during the American Civil War. It is a conflict often framed as the Northern states against the Southern states....
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Trump's walk to White House after failed rally is the saddest, most wonderful...
And someone set it to Ken Burns Civil War music. xDone ðÂÂÂpic.twitter.com/f25DvZ4SeF— Tyler Pruett (@aufrwpfu) June 21, 2020He didn’t get his leg sawed off by 19th century field surgeons who’d...
View ArticleWhite Supremacy and the Lie: A Long-Standing Unholy Alliance
This piece will be running as a newspaper op/ed — under the title “Racism and Falsehood”— in my very red congressional district, VA-06.************************The wounds of bigotry can be found all...
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Before Frederick Douglass became Lincoln's thorn and partner, he ripped the...
Versions of this essay have appeared previously at Daily Kos. It concludes with excerpts from Frederick Douglass’s famous Independence Day speech delivered in Rochester, N.Y. on July 5, 1852. Douglass...
View ArticleTerrorism experts fear outbreak of violence by pro-Trump 'Boogaloo' fans...
It’s not a secret that Donald Trump has been winking and nudging his True Believers with the suggestion that maybe they should start using their guns and other kinds of violence to defend his...
View ArticleCrazy/Stupid Republican of the Day: Donald Bolduc
Welcome to what is the 885th original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Donald Bolduc, a 2020 candidate for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, and veteran of 36...
View ArticleIf the South Had Won the Civil War
I often like to do thought experiments. How would history be different if something changed. It could be something like, how would the decade of the 1960s wound up in Kennedy had not been...
View ArticleIt wasn't a "Lost Cause." The Statues Mean Something Down South, Because THE...
We don’t like to think about it. In fact, we DON’T think about it. We know all the history, because we make it our business to know the history. What we don’t think about, any more than a frog thinks...
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