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Photo Diary: National Civil War Naval Museum, Columbus GA
Although the American Civil War was fought almost entirely on land, it also had a naval component to it. As part of its “Anaconda” plan to starve the South into submission, the Union Navy blockaded...
View ArticleCartoon: Dorky Dancing
On The Fence is a continuing story. Imagine if you were somehow plucked out of your life in 2012 and dropped into all the craziness of the present day you would be totally disoriented. By the same...
View ArticleCartoon: Snivel War
On The Fence is a continuing story. Imagine if you were somehow plucked out of your life in 2012 and dropped into all the craziness of the present day you would be totally disoriented. By the same...
View ArticleTruth Sandwiches: Rs Want Civil War
OK. I’ll just stand out of your way. No, this is not the Second Civil War against Northern Tyranny that so many losers have tried to provoke for a century and a half. It’s R vs. R, in every way. More...
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Photo Diary: Fort McAllister, Savannah GA
Fort McAllister was one of three forts that defended the city of Savannah GA during the Civil War. (The other two were Fort Jackson and Fort Pulaski.) Located at the mouth of the Ogeechee River, it was...
View ArticleWhat Makes People Vulnerable to Lies? (In Newspapers in My Very Trumpy Region)
This piece will be appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).****************************What Makes People Vulnerable to Lies?I’ve discovered in recent years that the truth...
View ArticleToo Small for an Insane Asylum: A Reminder that Civil War was Really About...
On this date in 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union. Four days later, they explained why [A]n increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the...
View ArticleFree at Last? Or What?
Be it resolved. Since the truth may sting, but can set or keep us free, those who peg the unpalatable unprintable do us no favors. Indeed, they effectively push “IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH;” so long as...
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Watching the Chaos in the House, contemplating a remedy we... dare not use?
Welcome to the day before the Anniversary of January 6. The current ongoing debacle in the House is both entertaining and terrifying. It’s entertaining to see Republicans reaping the whirlwind after...
View ArticleLauren Boebert and Sean Hannity's fight on Fox News reveals bankruptcy of the...
The Republican Party is in disarray. It isn’t an ideological battle going on as the leadership old and new have been on the same page for some time about not having any policy ideas. The main...
View ArticleCartoon: Deliver Me From Evil
On The Fence is a continuing story. Imagine if you were somehow plucked out of your life in 2012 and dropped into all the craziness of the present day you would be totally disoriented. By the same...
View ArticleI'd Rather be Woke
The Southern Narrative of as to why the Civil War was fought: “To Protect States Rights,” is not completely false. Southerners wanted the states to have the right to impose slavery upon a certain race...
View ArticleConfederate general’s remains eulogized by Civil War actors who take fake...
If only conservative white Southerners cared as much about living Black people as they do about the remains of Civil War soldiers who battled over keeping people enslaved. In fact, many of these folks...
View ArticleDeSantis Awards Giant History Rewriting Contract to Fox
A Historical ContractGovernor Ron DeSantis of Florida announced that his government has awarded Fox News a "sole source" contract, routed jointly through Florida’s Education Department and Department...
View ArticleCould blue (or red) states decide to secede from the federal government?
In the wake of Democrats’ surprisingly impressive performance in the 2022 midterms, it might be easy for some of us to forget just how starkly divided this nation actually remains, even as we continue...
View ArticleReport: At least 'a third' of Project Veritas' employees have asked that...
It has been a wild couple of years for the dirtbags over at Project Veritas, the right-wing organization best known for manipulating undercover footage to create the impression that liberal agents are...
View ArticleRep. Greene calls for 'national divorce' of blue and red states, forgets she...
Since being allowed back onto Twitter by insecure billionaire Elon Musk, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been demonstrating exactly why she was banned in the first place. Rep. Greene’s career is one...
View ArticleProject Veritas' founder is out, shares 47-minute rant about being forced to...
On Monday, right-wing dirtbag James O’Keefe announced he was resigning from his position leading Project Veritas. This move comes after weeks of obvious internal power struggles going on between staff,...
View ArticleAmerica Was Founded Of Whites, By Whites, And For Whites; And Those White...
When Trumpists tell you that they want to “make America great again” they mean for white people...x.@BryanCranston explains to Chris Wallace why “MAGA” is a racist remark. (So well done, worth a...
View ArticleManchurian Armament
As a progressive democrat, I generally try to avoid any set of ideas that smacks of conspiracy theory. That caveat being stated, I have followed gun control legislation and its failures, as have many...
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