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JUNE 2008
27 June 2008
Portland shop defends its Dixie flags
By Anna Griffin, The Oregonian
The Oregonian (Portland)
PORTLAND - Belmont Street neighbors support protesters who covered up flags with Martin Luther King Jr.'s image; owners call it vandalism.
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24 June 2008
NASCAR should ban Confederate flag at tracks
By Rob Daniels - Staff Writer
News-Record (Greensboro, NC)
Regardless of what a judge or jury will accept, ignore or toss out altogether, Grant's filing in New York has given CEO Brian France a wonderful opportunity take at least one corrective action: Ban the Confederate flag. Heck, he can even burn it at some dude's infield barbecue for all I care. A hearty meal of pork shoulder, stars and bars would hit the spot.
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18 June 2008
'Real racists'
By Abby Pollard
The Courier-Journal
In her Friday column about the Confederate flag, Betty Bayé rightly acknowledges that the First Amendment should neutralize any question of Americans' right to fly the stars and bars. But she then disdains young people who celebrate the Confederacy and its flag by suggesting that they (we) are helplessly brainwashed by stubbornly conservative surroundings and will never function in a brave new world, one supposedly free of racism (a dangerous fallacy in itself).
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16 June 2008
Controversial Confederate Flag Raising Ceremony
By Orlando Salinas
FoxNews.com
I thought I’d only see Caucasians attending a controversial Confederate flag raising ceremony, early on Saturday morning in Tampa, Florida. That’s what I get for thinking.
But there they were- a smattering of African Americans, mixing it up with Caucasian bikers wearing Confederate flag jean jackets and caps. But what really caught my eye was seeing some of those same African American folks also sporting the controversial symbol on their bodies too.
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15 June 2008
Sons, Daughters Stand Up For Beliefs On Flag Day
By Jamie Pilarczyk and Carlos Moncada
The Tampa Tribune
TAMPA - While the Sons of Confederate Veterans hoisted the battle banner on the morning of Flag Day, the newly formed Sons and Daughters of Harriet Tubman sat down to work that evening.
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15 June 2008
Why I'm not joining the Sons of Confederate Veterans
By John Martin
St. Petersburg Times
I could join the Sons of Confederate Veterans. But I won't.
As a giant battle flag of the Confederate States of America flew over Hillsborough County early this month, I thought about my Civil War story.
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15 June 2008
Confederate flag rises at I-75 and I-4, and it will rise again
By Andrew Meacham
St. Petersburg Times
TAMPA — Thirty men stood in a rectangle Saturday near Interstates 75 and 4, each clutching a piece of the Confederate flag. On the back of one man's leather vest, a skull grinned beneath the words: "Southern Discomfort." Below the skull, a patch: "Welcome to the U.S. Now work, pay taxes, and speak English."
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11 June 2008
Marion Lambert: "The flag is going up."
By Alex Pickett
tampa.creativeloafing.com
Sphere of influence: Before June 3, only a few neighbors and natural food stores knew the 60-year-old beekeeper and South Tampa resident. But after the Sons of Confederate Veterans member announced his intention to fly a huge Confederate flag at the junction of I-4 and I-75, it seems everyone has an opinion about him. He's attracted the support of fellow Confederate flag devotees and the ire of the Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners, the local NAACP chapter and some nearby business owners. The controversy has alreaady made national news. For better or worse, Lambert's flag, which is nearly the size of a semitruck, will influence how the rest of the state and nation view the Tampa Bay area.
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11 June 2008
Jim Webb as "Confederate"
By James Fallows
TheAtlantic.com
I am on record as liking and admiring Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia, and also hoping that he stays in the Senate rather than joins the Obama ticket as VP.
But I am underwhelmed by the latest "revelation" about him: that he has expressed sympathy and respect for Confederate soldiers, including many of his forbears. (FWIW: Such of my relatives as were then in America lived in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and fought on the Union side. Many were killed.)
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5 June 2008
Confederate Flag controversy keeps students from attending commencement
By Karla Hult, KARE 11 News
KARE 11 TV (Bloomington, MN)
They say they're just "good ol' boys" who, like the song goes, were "never meaning no harm." But three Bloomington Kennedy seniors were not allowed to attend their commencement Wednesday night after bringing a Confederate flag to school on Tuesday.
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4 June 2008
Florida group to fly world's largest Confederate flag
By David Edwards and Muriel Kane
TheRawStory.com
Fox News reports that a Florida group has asked Hillsborough County for permission to erect a 139-foot flagpole in order to fly a 30 by 50 foot Confederate flag. The Sons of Confederate Veterans in Tampa, which spent two years trying to get their request approved, had to have the flag made in China at a cost of $80,000 because no US company was equipped to make it.
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4 June 2008
Group's Giant Confederate Flag Flies In The Face Of Good Taste
Editorial
The Tampa Tribune
It's understandable that members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans don't want their loved ones or heritage to be forgotten. Who does? But the group's decision to fly a mammoth Confederate flag near the junction of interstates 4 and 75 is an in-your-face gambit that will only prove divisive.
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4 June 2008
Huge Confederate flag is raised early along I-75 and I-4
By Jan Wesner and Andrew Meacham, Times Staff Writers
St. Petersburg Times
TAMPA — Men driving pickups honked and flashed a thumbs-up sign. One yelled "Hell, yeah!" Another pumped his fist in the air.
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3 June 2008
More than one thousand attend Beauvoir's reopening
By Kat Bergeron
Sun Herald
BILOXI --With more than one thousand people in attendance, cannon salutes and Southern-style speeches, Beauvoir, the 1852 national historic landmark, reopened for the first time since Hurricane Katrina severely damaged the structure.
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3 June 2008
Why Fly the Confederate Flag?
By Greg Gutfeld
FOXNews.com
But why should a group pick the most problematic emblem of their past to represent their heritage? Pick something we all love about the South. Why not the world's largest wad of chewing tobacco? A "Hee Haw" waterslide? A pickup truck made of pork?
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3 June 2008
Reconciliation: New Tradition
Obama's potential debate visit stirs race discussion
By Tim Summers
Daily Mississippian
The upcoming presidential debate at the University of Mississippi will bring into consideration a comparison of racial relations in the university's past as the community prepares for the possibility of welcoming the nation's first black presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama.
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2 June 2008
Huge Confederate Flag to Fly Over Tampa
By David Schoetz
ABC News
The i's are dotted, t's are crossed and a 139-foot flagpole is ready to fly the Stars and Bars over one of the busiest highway interchanges in Florida.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans in Tampa plan soon to raise what they claim is the world's largest Confederate flag on a private triangle of land tucked near where Interstates 75 and 4 meet. The flag measures 50 feet by 30 feet.
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MAY 2008
26 May 2008
The Truth About The Confederate Battle Flag
www.chuckbaldwinlive.com
Pastor John Weaver is a native of Georgia, and a graduate from Bob Jones University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theology and attended graduate school. He has been in Christian ministry for over 30 years. Pastor Weaver has traveled across America preaching and lecturing in churches, colleges and conferences. John Weaver is an expositor of God's whole Word. His preaching style is in the tradition of those early American pastors whose pulpits were the cradle of America's Christian Liberty.
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25 May 2008
Beaufort County wants to stem migrant influx
By Kristin Collins, Staff Writer
The News & Observer (NC)
Beaufort County, known for sweeping views of the Pamlico and Pungo rivers, is working toward a new distinction. Leaders say they want to make their rural Eastern North Carolina county the toughest place in the country for illegal immigrants.
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22 May 2008
Report: Obama mentored by Communist Party figure
WorldNetDaily.com
Barack Obama had extensive ties with extreme anti-American elements, including agents of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, in Hawaii and Chicago, according to two new reports released yesterday in Washington, D.C., by two experienced internal security investigators.
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14 May 2008
Group Asking School Board To Ban Confederate Flag County-Wide
Your4State.com
ALLEGANY COUNTY, MD - A group of black leaders is going before the Allegany County School Board to request an all-out ban of the Confederate flag.
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14 May 2008
Allegany board asked to ban hate symbols
Maryland Wire - wjz.com
CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) Some Allegany County residents are hoping to ban the Confederate flag from school grounds.
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14 May 2008
Group asks for ban on racially offensive symbols in schools
Cumberland Times-News (Cumberland, MD)
CUMBERLAND - A group of area residents formed in response to recent racial tensions in the Allegany County school system asked the Board of Education on Tuesday to ban the wearing and display of the Confederate flag on school property.
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14 May 2008
Time to douse the flag controversy?
The Catoosa County News (Ringgold, GA)
Dear editor,
As a citizen of Ringgold, I am highly chagrined that the Sons of the Confederates have chosen to reignite the Confederate flag issue once again.
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1 May 2008
Worker Battles Employer Over Confederate Flag
WJXT Jacksonville (News4Jax.com)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- One man's pride in and loyalty to his Confederate flag has landed him in a free-speech fight with his employer, who doesn't want it displayed on company property.
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APRIL 2008
28 April 2008
130 years after death, soldier honored with Iron Cross
By Karen Bair
The Herald-Life (Rock Hill, SC)
McCONNELLS -- Confederate States of America Pvt. John Jackson Ashe took a near-fatal miniball in his shoulder near the end of the Civil War, and some family members say he lost his arm.
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28 April 2008
Petition seeks to remove Denton Confederate statue
Debbie Denmon reports
Texas Cable News
DENTON - While to some the statue of a Confederate soldier that stands before the Denton County Courthouse represents a piece of history, others say they believe it just represents hypocrisy. That stand has incited two University of North Texas students to start a petition for the removal of the historical landmark, a statue of a Confederate soldier holding his gun to represent the South in the Civil War.
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28 April 2008
Confederate symbols continue to inspire heritage, hate debate
The Montgomery Advertiser
Revered by many and reviled by others, symbols of the Confederacy bring about different responses, depending on whom you talk to.
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28 April 2008
Proud of Confederacy
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
I read with much interest a recent letter "Racism in Benton." After reading and re-reading, I am still unable to see what you are calling racist. Is it the Confederate flag that offends you? Or is it Larry the Cable Guy that offends you?
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28 April 2008
Confederate flag banned at Williamson school
WREG-TV (Memphis, TN)
THOMPSON'S STATION, Tenn. (AP) - Students at Independence High School in Williamson County have been banned from wearing or carrying Confederate flags or other symbols that could lead to racial tension.
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25 April 2008
Lack of Confederate Battle Flag brings lawsuit: Depot flag decision will go to superior court
The Catoosa County News (Ringgold, GA)
Members of the Col. Joseph T. McConnell Camp Sons of Confederate Veterans and representatives of the Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans were on hand at the Catoosa County Courthouse Friday, April 25, as the Southern Legal Resource Center filed suit against the Ringgold City Council.
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25 April 2008
Confederate Flag Battle
Channel 9 News (Chattanooga)
The confederate flag brings many thoughts to many people, but the decision by the city of Ringgold NOT to fly it three years ago, has now brought a lawsuit.
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24 April 2008
SLRC Sues Ringgold to Restore Confederate Flag
Channel 9 News
Attorneys for the Southern Legal Resource Center will fill suit Friday in Catoosa County Superior Court to compel the City of Ringgold to restore the Confederate Battle Flag it removed from a memorial display in 2005.
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23 April 2008
That dog won't hunt, and that flag can't fly
By James Ragland
The Dallas Morning News (SC)
Remember that big flap over the Confederate flag at Burleson High School? Well, actually it was two girls' purses that sported the image of the Confederate battle flag.
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23 April 2008
New business, old wounds and a bitter taste over race
By Columnist
The Herald (SC)
Maurice's is a place known for flying the Confederate flag atop its headquarters after that same flag that hurts so many blacks was removed from atop the Statehouse years ago. Wal-Mart and other retailers refused to sell its products. And now the restaurant is coming to Rock Hill where Margaret Joan Roseborough has fought what that flag represents all her life.
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22 April 2008
Maurice's BBQ coming to Rock Hill
By Adam O'Daniel
The Herald (SC)
Maurice Bessinger, South Carolina’s most well-known yet polarizing barbecue baron, is opening one of his Maurice’s BBQ restaurants in Rock Hill.
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22 April 2008
A 'confederacy of dunces'
By Scott Thomas Anderson
Amador Ledger Dispatch (CA)
Before I send some of the Ledger Dispatch readers into a tirade - prompting birdshot to be loaded into scatter guns and truck tires burning out on their naked-women mud flaps - let me just say that, as a California boy, I love the American South.
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22 April 2008
Davis bicentennial
By William M. Hayes
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
If the letter writer did not understand the meaning of all the Confederate battle flags being displayed in Benton during Tater Day, why didn't he ask some of those displaying the flag? He may have found out that 2008 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederate States of America.
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21 April 2008
The International Symbol of Political Independence
By Thomas DiLorenzo
LewRockwell.com
I'm in Prague this week lecturing at the Prague University of Economics and attending (last weekend) the Prague Conference on Political Economy. My host (Professor Josef Sima) picked me up at the airport and as soon as we got into the city one of the first sights that caught my eye was a large black pickup truck with a Confederate battle flag covering the entire back window. It is most likely a remnant of the successful, peaceful secession of Slovakia from Czechoslovakia in 1993, creating the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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21 April 2008
Bicentennial plans in Vicksburg
By Charlie Mitchell
SonsofConfederateVeterans.blogspot.com
The Warren County Vicksburg Historical Society is planning two days of events to honor the bicentennial of Jefferson Davis' birth. Your assistance in making your members aware of these events will be appreciated.
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12 April 2008
Mayors declare 'Civil War History Month' in Shreveport, Bossier City
By John Andrew Prime
The Shreveport Times
Partly echoing a traditional declaration, Shreveport Mayor Cedric Glover and Bossier City Mayor Lorenz Walker have issued a joint proclamation naming April as Civil War History Month in their respective cities.
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12 April 2008
Sherman’s March
By Clyde Wilson
LewRockwell.com
The History Channel’s recent presentation of "Sherman’s March" has been rightly drawing a lot of criticism from those of us who care about such things. In theory, historical events should become clearer as time passes and the controversies they involved grow less heated. But that is not the case in regard to the War to Prevent Southern Independence – because the myth of a benevolent and righteous crusade against evil and its martyred saint is the essential base of American state worship. The myth also seems to be a deeply felt emotional necessity for the self-love of millions of Americans.
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10 April 2008
Confederate Patriot Runs for Office in north Georgia!
WebsiteToolbox.com
Now here is someone all Southron nationalists and patriots should be supporting - Tim Ragland. He's a Sons of Confederate Veterans camp commander, gun shop owner, and chairman of the local history association.
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10 April 2008
'Disaster Tour' of Beauvoir grounds now open
By Kat Bergeron
SunHerald.com (MS)
BILOXI --Beauvoir opened this week without public announcement, but 40 people appeared the first day to see for themselves how the historic beachfront estate of Jefferson Davis is recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
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7 April 2008
What If Public Schools Were Abolished?
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Mises.org
In American culture, public schools are praised in public and criticized in private, which is roughly the opposite of how we tend to treat large-scale enterprises like Wal-Mart. In public, everyone says that Wal-Mart is awful, filled with shoddy foreign products and exploiting workers. But in private, we buy the well-priced, quality goods, and long lines of people hope to be hired.
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4 April 2008
The Confederate Problem
By Jon Henke
TheAtlantic.com
It seems that April is Confederate Heritage month. Why one would want to celebrate a heritage of violent rebellion against a democratically elected government in order to perpetuate a system of chattel slavery is a bit hard for me to say.
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3 April 2008
At least 1 teen in Confederate monument defacing to admit charges
By Deiree Hunter
al.com
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A lawyer for one of three white teens accused of defacing a Confederate monument at the state Capitol says his client will admit to the vandalism, which he says was done as a statement against slavery.
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3 April 2008
The Ron Paul Moment Has Only Begun
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
LewRockwell.com
Whatever your expectations for Ron Paul’s book The Revolution: A Manifesto, I can say with confidence that they have been exceeded. By a mile.
Ron Paul has produced the kind of book that changes the person who reads it. It is one of the most persuasively argued and beautifully written defenses of the free society I have ever encountered. No president, no presidential candidate, indeed no American politician has ever written anything like this. But that is such faint praise, and such an unjust understatement, that I almost regret uttering it.
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3 April 2008
Georgia bill pushes guns in churches
WorldNetDaily
WASHINGTON – The Georgia Christian Coalition is getting behind a state bill to expand gun-carry laws into company parking lots and churches. State Rep. Tim Bearden is sponsoring the bill with the support of the National Rifle Association. It is being opposed by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce as a violation of private property rights.
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2 April 2008
Philly 'gay'-fest protester's free-speech case revived
Christian evangelist was arrested, charged with hate crimes, faced decades in prison
By Bob Unruh
WorldNetDaily
A Christian evangelist's lawsuit against Philadelphia over police actions to restrict his free speech and religious expression has been reinstated by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which expressed in its opinion yesterday a grave concern about an "imbalance" in the jury instructions provided by the judge.
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1 April 2008
Stop Digging: Heritage, not hate
By Jordan Dubois
CarolinianOnline.com
If only it were as simple as that title proclaims. But in the debate over the use of the Confederate flag, nothing is simple and there is no win-win situation.
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1 April 2008
Student Sues Wisconsin School After Getting a Zero for Religious Drawing
Associated Press
FOXNews.com
MADISON, Wis. — A Tomah High School student has filed a federal lawsuit alleging his art teacher censored his drawing because it featured a cross and a biblical reference.
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MARCH 2008
31 March 2008
Defiant South Carolina Wins Real ID Extension
By Ryan Singel
Wired.com
Despite telling the feds he would not comply with their rules, South Carolina's Republican governor successfully prevented the feds from punishing his states' residents as Homeland Security had promised to do.
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28 March 2008
Columnist has no right to interpret meaning of Confederate flag
By Clifton Palmer McLendon
Walker County Messenger
The United States flag flew over many ships that brought African captives to the New World since the 1770s — no Confederate flag ever did. The United States flag oversaw the forcible removal of the Cherokees and other tribes from their ancestral lands — no Confederate flag ever did. The United States flag flew over the troops that massacred Native Americans — no Confederate flag ever did. The United States flag flew over the concentration camps where native-born Americans were interned for the heinous crime of being born of foreign ancestry — no Confederate flag ever did.
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27 March 2008
Obama contends belief in Jesus Christ not necessary for salvation
OneNewsNow.com
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Senator Barack Obama has told an audience that although he believes Christ died for his sins, those who reject that teaching can also be children of God.
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27 March 2008
'Ten Commandments Judge' defends Texas jury's use of Bible
OneNewsNow.com
Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is arguing in a legal brief that a Texas jury's use of the Bible did not taint deliberations in a death penalty case.
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27 March 2008
Judge sentences Hispanic men to learn English
The three will have to pass test in a year — or serve two years if they fail
MSNBC
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - A judge known for creative sentencing has ordered three Spanish-speaking men to learn English or go to jail.
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21 March 2008
A Brief for Whitey
By Patrick J. Buchanan
HumanEvents.com
How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people?
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21 March 2008
BOE, black community discuss mediation sessions in wake of recent racial issues
By Kevin Spradlin
Cumberland Times-News
CUMBERLAND - Members of the area's black community met Wednesday with Bill AuMiller, superintendent of the Allegany County school system, to discuss the possibility of holding a series of mediation sessions to address recent racial tensions among students at Fort Hill High School.
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21 March 2008
Problem may be a lack of education on both sides
By George Purvis
Cumberland Times-News
I, for one, do not believe the entire problem is just the white kids, I am sure plenty of the black kids got to shout out a few taunts and insults, and perhaps they even started insulting the kids displaying the Confederate Flag. As I read the article the idea of blacks insulting the white kids becomes more prominent as we read the comments of the black adults.
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21 March 2008
Time to stop all this historical cleansing
By Jay Cross
Cumberland Times-News
I consider anyone that “considers” any part of American history as a symbol of hatred un-American and a racist.
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18 March 2008
Propaganda is the fuel of hatred
By Brad Weaver
Walker County Messenger
You know, I almost could sympathize with where Jeannie Babb Taylor is coming from, until I noticed the assumption that my heritage is nothing more than hatred. Yet, in her article, she said “It is natural that we want to honor and defend our Confederate ancestors — who probably never even owned slaves, and fought valiantly for what they believed was right.”
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15 March 2008
TV Clip of H. K. Edgerton in Ringgold, Georgia, March 13, 2008
NewsChannel9 (Chattanooga, TN)
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14 March 2008
'Miles to go,' but a 'good first step'
By Kevin Spradlin
Cumberland Times-News
CUMBERLAND - Bill AuMiller said he felt "miles of progress" were made Thursday afternoon during a meeting with parents of students who have been involved in recent racially motivated incidents or displays of the Confederate flag.
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14 March 2008
Ron Paul Suggested it !
We're doing it!
"FREEDOM RALLY"
UNITED we will stand...and so will the America we love.
APRIL 15, 2008 MASS RALLY IN DC
TO TAKE BACK AMERICA
Join us in Washington:
APRIL 15th,2008
11 AM on the west lawn of the Capitol
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13 March 2008
Taylor is “certainly no history major”
By Dr. Arnold M. Huskins
Walker County Messenger
As a retired U.S. veteran and Civil War re-enactor, I was saddened by Jeannie Babb Taylor’s comments regarding the Confederate flag. She may be a columnist, but she is certainly no history major.
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13 March 2008
Civil War battlefields threatened by 'sprawl'
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Winston-Salem Journal
WASHINGTON - The site of the single bloodiest day in American history is under siege - threatened by a 120-foot cell-phone tower, says a preservation group.
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12 March 2008
Civil rights activist stages peaceful protest in support of Confederate Battle Flag
By Elizabeth Crumbly
Catoosa County News
Ringgold had an unusual visitor Wednesday, March 12. H.K. Edgerton, of Asheville, N.C. staged a peaceful protest against the Ringgold City Council’s decision to remove the Confederate battle flag from above the Depot downtown in 2005.
Edgerton, who bills himself as the immediate past president of the NAACP chapter in Asheville, stood on the steps of the Depot waving a Confederate battle flag mounted on a bamboo pole and waving at passersby.
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12 March 2008
Black Man Proud Of Confederate Flag
By John Pless
NewsChannel 9
Many heads turned in Ringgold Wednesday when they saw an African-American man dressed in a Confederate soldier's uniform, carrying a Confederate flag.
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11 March 2008
North American Military Agreement Signed by US and Canada
By Jim Kouri
NewsWithViews.com
In a political move that received little if any attention by the American news media, the United States and Canada entered into a military agreement on February 14, 2008, allowing the armed forces from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a domestic civil emergency, even one that does not involve a cross-border crisis, according to a police commander involved in homeland security planning and implementation.
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11 March 2008
Are Homeschooling Parents on Their Way to Prison in Cal.?
By Dr. Laurie Roth
NewsWithViews.com
The un-American and unbelievable appeals court decision in California, recently criminalizing home schooling parents if they don’t enroll their child into a public school, makes the memories of communism look bland. This is now on its way to the California Supreme court.
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7 March 2008
The Southern Gentleman
By Ben-Peter Terpstra
IntellectualConservative.com
Once upon a time, but not too long ago, Henry Allen of the Washington Post Magazine observed that: “New England likes to think it has a civilization based on character. The South thinks it has a character based on civilization. A big difference.”
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5 March 2008
Jeannie Babb Taylor: Confederate flag represents both heritage and hate
By Jeannie Babb Taylor
Walker County Messenger (LaFayette, GA)
In recent weeks, news outlets have carried the story of a battle between the city of Ringgold and “Southern rights” groups. I use quotes because these groups seem to be concerned about the rights of only some Southerners — namely those who are white and cling to the notion that “the South’s gonna do it again.” Their concern for the rights of black Southerners is particularly underwhelming.
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FEBRUARY 2008
28 February 2008
Confederate Flag Tag
WJHG TV
There are one-hundred-nine specialty car tags in the state of Florida, but now one panhandle lawmaker is pushing for the addition of one more. But Floridians have mixed reactions.
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27 February 2008
Southerner spreads powerful Black History Month message
By Issac J. Bailey
MyrtleBeachOnline.com
We dumb down the American conversation with attempts to remove every potential offense from the public square. That's why I enjoyed Shelley's home, which was unabashedly full of Southern pride. He has also spent several thousand dollars helping dark-skin people around the world through the humanitarian nonprofit Project Amazonas, which provides health care to the needy in places such as Peru. And he put an Egyptian girl through college. Now he's trying to find the proper place for a slave gravestone. It was discarded during development of a former Georgetown plantation.
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25 February 2008
Thousands turn out to see Confederate victory
By April Bailey
Aiken Standard
Several thousand history buffs gathered on Sunday to watch the re-enactment of what was considered one of the most significant Confederate victories during the Civil War, the Battle of Aiken.
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25 February 2008
Do we celebrate Jeff Davis’ 200th?
A Student of History
It hasn’t been easy getting people excited about celebrating the 200th birthday of that tall, gaunt, bearded, Kentucky-bred president who was born in a log cabin and went on to lead his people through a bloody civil war. No, not Abraham Lincoln. Last week, President Bush himself helped kick off a two-year celebration of the Great Emancipator’s Feb. 12, 2009, bicentennial that will include dozens of events in Kentucky, Illinois, Washington and beyond.It’s the Jefferson Davis 200th that has turned out to be something of a lost cause.
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25 February 2008
Jeff Davis Turns 200; Home States of KY, MS, Say No Party
Cyberhillbilly.blogspot.com
If he were around to celebrate his birthday this year, Jefferson Davis would be 200. But if you’re expecting Kentucky to posthumously give the former President of the Confederacy a party, you’re in for a rude awakening.
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25 February 2008
Shiloh Military Park to expand Corinth unit
SunHerald.com - South Mississippi's newspaper online
CORINTH --The Siege and Battle of Corinth Commission and Shiloh National Military Park are working on an agreement for the National Park Service to begin managing 800 acres of Civil War battlefield property even before a formal transfer is completed.
Officials want park rangers to begin maintenance at the properties right away.
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25 February 2008
Confederate soldier identified as body in grave
By Tiffany Thompson, Staff Writer
The Stanly News and Press (Albemarle, NC)
Sunday, February 24, 2008 — After nearly 143 years, a new event can be added to the timeline of Sgt. Ivey Ritchie.
The Confederate soldier of the 14th North Carolina Infantry was identified as the inhabitant of grave No. 4824 at Poplar Grove National Cemetery in Dinwiddie County, Va. on Feb. 13 during a mock trial at the historic Dinwiddie Courthouse.
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24 February 2008
Remember Jeff Davis? Many Say Forget It
CivilWarTalk.com
It hasn't been easy getting people excited about celebrating the 200th birthday of that tall, gaunt, bearded, Kentucky-bred president who was born in a log cabin and went on to lead his people through a bloody civil war.
No, not Abraham Lincoln. Last week, President Bush himself helped kick off a two-year celebration of the Great Emancipator's Feb. 12, 2009, bicentennial that will include dozens of events in Kentucky, Illinois, Washington and beyond.
It's that other tall, log cabin-born Kentuckian, Jefferson Davis, whose 200th has turned out to be something of a lost cause.
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22 February 2008
When Black History Month meets Confederate History Month
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Since today’s AJC is chockfull of stories about the Confederate flag and the paper trail of slavery, we thought we’d help develop the day’s theme.
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19 February 2008
Civil rights group should defend Confederates too
ByJimmy L. Shirley Jr.
Frost Illustrated (Fort Wayne)
I agree that the Confederate flag is not racist. Just because certain racist groups use it does not wrap up its only meaning. Those same groups also use the federal flag of the United States-the so-called "American flag."
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19 February 2008
Battle coming to Aiken once again
By Suzanne R. Stone - Staff writer
Aiken Standard
It's almost time for North and South to meet on the battlefield once again. The 2008 Battle of Aiken re-enactment is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at the field off Powell Pond Road, Highway 19.
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18 February 2008
Film explores Pa.'s Confederate rebels without a cause
By Mike Seate
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
What's surprising is, if a person really wants to see Confederate flags on display, they need travel no farther South than Western Pennsylvania, a place where the stars and bars are as common as Steelers jerseys on a Sunday afternoon.
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17 February 2008
Letters
Neo-Confederates malign Lincoln
By Allen Dennis
Montgomery Advertiser
Every now and then a neo-Confederate emerges to blast Abraham Lincoln. This 64-year-old native and lifelong Southerner rises to defend him.
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15 February 2008
Local Group Threatens Lawsuit To Return Confederate Flag
NewsChannel 9 (Chattanooga, TN)
Will Carr reporting
Heritage or hate? That's the controversy that continues to swirl around the confederate flag. And now one Georgia organization is threatening to sue. They want the Ringgold City Council to hang the confederate flag at the historic Ringgold Depot by the middle of next week.
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15 February 2008
200th birthday of Jeff Davis marked at birthplace of Confederacy
NewsChannel 9 (Chattanooga, TN)
By Phillip Rawls
Southern AP News
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Jefferson Davis, his great-great-grandson recreated his swearing-in ceremony Friday and urged people to remember Davis as more than the president of the Confederate States and a slave owner.
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15 February 2008
Top psychiatrist concludes liberals are nuts!
World Net Daily
WASHINGTON – Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.
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14 February 2008
Confederate flag raising legal issues for Ringgold
By Randall Franks
The Catoosa County News (Ringgold, GA)
Ringgold City Council is facing potential legal action based on its 2005 decision to remove the Confederate Battle Flag from the Ringgold Depot Civil War Memorial.
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14 February 2008
Students get realistic look at Civil War
By Randall Franks
Crossville Chronicle (Crossville, TN)
Fifth-grade students at Pleasant Hill Elementary school recently had a visit from the Sons of Confederate Veterans of Gainesboro, TN and the Order of Confederate Rose of Crossville. The groups came to the school to show the students examples of what the soldiers and their wives of the Civil War-era wore. The also showed some of the weapons and utensils they used.
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13 February 2008
Book offers new facts on J.E.B Stuart
Staff Report
The Mount Airy News
ARARAT, Va. - Many people know about J.E.B. Stuart's military career during the Civil War, but the Patrick County native also possessed a deeply religious side that is explored in a new book.
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12 February 2008
Ringgold council denies permit for confederate rally
By Randall Franks
The Catoosa County News (Ringgold, GA)
Ringgold City Council decided 4-1 against a request from the New Confederate Partisans to host a rally downtown at Citizen’s Park.
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12 February 2008
Wallace: Civil War had lasting effects
The Leaf Chronicle (Clarksville, TN)
It is common knowledge that any structure needs a good foundation in order to last over time.
This applies even to the structure of ideas and comprehension. Dr. Betty Jo Wallace of Big Rock was on hand on February 8 at the Stewart County Public Library to help attendees develop a firm foundation when considering the effect that the Civil War had on Stewart County residents, past and present.
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10 February 2008
Groups want to bring more recognition to some of Civil War's first battlefields
By Tara Tuckwiller
The Charleston Gazette (Charleston,WV)
BELINGTON - Four gravestones stand sentry at the head of a sunken mass grave. A whitewashed rail fence surrounds it and a Confederate flag flutters over it. It's as if time stopped here in 1861, right after these dead Confederates lost one of the very first land battles of the Civil War.
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9 February 2008
In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man
By Gary Hubbell
Aspen Times Weekly (Aspen, CO)
There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.
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9 February 2008
Disputed flag taken down quickly
By Andrew Ostroski
The Daily Times (Salisbury, MD)
ROXANA -- The controversy surrounding a Confederate flag in an area fire department ended almost as quickly as it began, with department officials electing Friday to remove the flag from its perch.
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8 February 2008
Confederate Flag At Polling Place Bothers Voter
NBC10.com
ROXANA, Del. -- A county elections department official in Delaware said at least one voter complained about a Confederate flag seen hanging at a polling place during Delaware's primary on Super Tuesday.
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7 February 2008
Trial Date of Teens in Confederate Monument Vandalism
WSFA TV Montgomery, AL
An April trial date has been set for three teenagers charged in juvenile court with vandalizing a 109-year-old Confederate monument at the state Capitol.
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7 February 2008
A Forgotten Story for Black History Month
By Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.
Huntington News (Huntington WV)
June 3, 2008, is the Bi-Centennial Birthday of Jefferson Davis and the Sons of Confederate Veterans, www.scv.org, have proclaimed this year "The Year of Davis." Davis was also honored in Georgia with a bicentennial birthday proclamation, signed by Gov. Sonny Perdue with historical groups Sons of Confederate Veterans, United Daughters of the Confederacy and Children of the Confederacy, joining State Senator Jeff Mullis and Georgia Civil War Commission Chairman John Culpepper for the signing.
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7 February 2008
Cannons roar as reenactors stage Battle of Rivers Bridge
By Larkin Hiott, T&D Correspondent
The Times and Democrat
EHRHARDT--Cannon fire echoed through the Bamberg County countryside near Ehrhardt this weekend during reenactments of the Battle of Rivers Bridge.
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7 February 2008
My Turn: Time to lose Southern stereotype
By Mark Osborne
Burlington Free Press (Burlington, VT)
I am a Southerner living in Hinesburg. I hail originally from Sumter, S.C. I am retired U.S. Navy and the author of a book released in July called "Rebel Speedway." I wanted to tell you how offended I was by your article in its entirety ("Bubba, sissy, the reporters are here," Jan. 24).
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6 February 2008
A little historical correctness
The Anniston Star (AL)
A new monument now stands on the grounds of the Lawrence County courthouse. It’s the second one put there to honor Alabama soldiers who served in the Civil War. The first, placed by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, honors those who fought for the Confederacy. The new one honors those who fought for the Union.
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6 February 2008
"Euros Accepted" signs pop up in New York City
Yahoo News
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the latest example that the U.S. dollar just ain't what it used to be, some shops in New York City have begun accepting euros and other foreign currency as payment for merchandise.
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5 February 2008
Confederate flag not racist symbol to everyone
By Jeffrey Murrah
Times Union (Albany, NY)
It grieves me that John McCarthy sees the Confederate flag in such a negative light (letter, Jan. 28). Just last year, in Austin, Texas, at the 100th Anniversary of the Terry's Texas Ranger Monument, homage was paid to those Northerners and Southerners, blacks, whites and Hispanics, who fought together in that cavalry regiment.
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4 February 2008
Was Jefferson Davis Right?
A Southern Missive
With the publication of my children’s book, Jim Limber Davis: A Black Orphan in the Confederate White House, I realized at my signings how little people knew about the President of the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis, a man honored by the schools, streets, schools, and other things named after him, is a man that America has yet to know. The look on people’s faces when I tell them that Davis adopted a free child of color is priceless.
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4 February 2008
A love letter to my conservative friends
By Joseph Farah
World Net Daily
Dear beloved conservatives: I have good news and bad news for you as you gather this week in the nation's capital for the 35th time for the nation's largest annual political meeting.
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3 February 2008
'Gone with the Wind'
By Glen McAdoo
Lahontan Valley News and Fallon Eagle Standard
In a column several weeks ago, I made what some thought was a serious error by stating the obvious: The Confederate States of America lost the Civil War.
Read more... and repply to this ignorant liberal.
2 February 2008
Local group remembers Civil War's hardships
By Scott Fitzgerald
The Southern
MARION - A majority of people in Southern Illinois were sympathetic to the Confederacy when the Civil War erupted in the 1861.
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1 February 2008
Has a Brunswick County Controversial Display Gone Too Far?
Reported by Kim Gebbia
WECT TV (Wilmington, NC)
BRUNSWICK COUNTY -- A controversial display has neighbors in Brunswick County and history buffs in Wilmington divided. Is it a joke or one taken too far?
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JANUARY 2008
30 January 2008
How will Confederate soldier’s tombstone read?
By Jim Lisk, Editor
The Stanly News and Press (Albemarle, NC)
During the early morning hours of April 9, 1865, Confederate forces from North Carolina charged Union cannon positions at Appomattox in an attempt to open an escape route for Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Northern Army of Virginia.
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29 January 2008
The SCV Year of Jefferson Davis Resolution
Submitted by Charles Kelly Barrow
Hardtack and Hard Times - Blog Archive
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the Sons of Confederate Veterans in General Convention assembled in Mobile, Alabama, does hereby declare the year 2008 shall be known and declared as the “YEAR OF DAVIS”...
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29 January 2008
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day clashing of symbols
By Monroe Anderson
Times Union (Albany, NY)
COLUMBIA, S.C.-The massive commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day here turned out to be an outing where symbols clashed.
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28 January 2008
Confederate flag an insult to King's dream
By John McCarthy
Times Union (Albany, NY)
Soon after that discussion, with disgust, we noted that racism continues to rear its ugly head today in America. Someone thought it appropriate, on the day we set aside to honor King and his legacy, to hang the Confederate battle flag out on Route 40 just outside the town of Melrose.
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27 January 2008
Haunted by the lynch mobs
By Leonard Doyle
The New Zealand Herald
The flag and other symbols of racism stir up considerable animosity in Columbia but there is also a healthy accommodation between black and whites. There is an agreement to share the political space.
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26 January 2008
A.H. Stephens Park to celebrate birthday of Confederate VP
The News Reporter (Washington, GA)
Alexander H. Stephens Park and Historic Site, Crawfordville, will celebrate the 195th birthday of Alexander H. Stephens, vice-president of the Confederacy, on Saturday, February 2
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26 January 2008
Confederate descendants say heritage is under assault
By Trent Knuckles
Corbin News Journal
Claiming their heritage is under assault, and vowing to fight never ending attempts to tear down symbols of the Confederacy, the Private E.F. Arthur Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), Camp #1783 Lee-Jackson Secession Dinner was a spirited and sometimes raucous push-back against what over 100 attendees see as a creeping tide of political correctness.
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25 January 2008
AP: Fans Flames of Race Hatred With Focus on MLKing/Robert E. Lee Day
By Warner Todd Huston
Stop The ACLU Blog Archive
The day after we celebrated the national holiday of the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Associated Press published a story seemingly meant to stir race hatred by bringing up the fact that in the state of Arkansas the memorial recognition of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's birthday is on the same day as that of King's observance there. Trying to fan the flames of racism by bringing up a Confederate general, the AP even seems to complain that Martin Luther King Drive in Little Rock, Arkansas is a shorter street than Robert E. Lee Avenue! How petty of the AP, eh? It's all not very I-have-a-dreamish of the AP to so pointlessly fan these race flames, is it?
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25 January 2008
Social Recession
Posted by JD Crowe
al.com
An economic recession is something we can overcome. The South's problems come from social recessions, and all it takes is a well-placed rebel flag, like the one raised by the Sons of Confederate Veterans on I-10 outside of Mobile, to set us back a few years.
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24 January 2008
Confederate Flag Controversy
By Derica Williams
MyFox Gulf Coast
MOBILE, Ala. -- Whether it's daylight or the dead of night, the local Sons of Confederate Veterans want you to see the rebel flag from miles away. Ben George, Former Sons of Confederate Veterans Commander told FOX10 News, "It's done out of pride for our heritage and Rob Lee's 200th birthday last year and a little frustration about how our heritage is being treated."
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23 January 2008
This is NOT the South Carolina flag, Mr. Huckabee!
The Tuscaloosa News
BEE BRANCH | The ugly and divisive subject of the "Rebel" flag was bound to come up in the Republican primary in South Carolina, where one files on the grounds of the state Capitol. And sure enough it did, with Mike Huckabee taking gratuitous shots at his fellow GOP candidates, especially John McCain, who has said he sees no point in continuing to fly the flag on public property.
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23 January 2008
Bearing the Southern Cross
The Michigan Daily
To many Americans, the Southern Cross - as the battle flag of the Confederacy is often called - is bound within its original context, the Civil War. It represents little more than racist convictions as a banner under which white Southerners fought for the right to enslave black people. But to many Southerners, the flag has much to do with states' rights and heritage and nothing to do with racism.
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23 January 2008
Flag out of context in the reborn South
al.com
THE LOCAL Sons of Confederate Veterans seem to be living in the South described by William Faulkner, the place where the past isn't dead, it isn't even past. At a time of growth, prosperity and beneficial change in Mobile, the heritage group has decided to wave a divisive symbol of the Old South in the faces of visitors.
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23 January 2008
Getting Stupid in South Carolina
By Kathleen Parker
townhall.com
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- They just can't help it. As soon as politicians and pundits cross the South Carolina line, their IQs plummet 20 points. I reckon the candidates figure if they say really dumb stuff, them lowbrow, redneck yahoos will vote them right into that great big ol' house up in Washington.
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22 January 2008
The race issue rises again
Symbols of S. Carolina's bitter past abound as Democratic contenders hail Martin Luther King
By Tim Harper
Toronto Star
COLUMBIA, S.C.–On a day when a black man, a woman and a Southerner seeking the U.S. presidency stood on the steps of the capitol in the Deep South, the progress they represented was mocked by the Confederate flag defiantly waving right back at them.
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22 January 2008
Robert E. Lee, Confederate heritage honored at event
By Jenn Rowell
Montgomery Advertiser
For the Sons of Confederate Veterans and others, Robert E. Lee is a part of their heritage. On Monday, they gathered in front of the Confederate monument at the Capitol to ensure that it is not forgotten.
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21 January 2008
Why is MLK sanctified?
By Mike Tuggle
LeagueoftheSouth.net
I’v received three little nastygrams this morning about my earlier little tweak at the MLK whoopteedo, in addition to some entries in the reader comment section. Almost all the emails express the same shrill level of indignation that I would point out MLK’s actual history on “the very day set aside to honor him,” as one of the less incendiary emails put it. Yeah. Ain’t I a stinker?
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21 January 2008
Confederate Flag Debate During King Day At The Dome
By Michael Buczyner
WAGT-TV NBC Augusta
Monday's cold weather didn't stop thousands from attending King Day at the Dome in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Across the street, supporters of the [Confederate] flag voiced their opinion.
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21 January 2008
Sons of Confederate Veterans celebrate Robert E. Lee's birthday
By Kate Brumback
al.com
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — About 30 members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans gathered at the Confederate Monument on the grounds of the state Capitol Monday to celebrate the birthday of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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21 January 2008
Rally-goers brave cold for King Day at the Dome
By Logan Smith
WIS TV
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Presidential candidates have made a lot of stops in the Midlands recently, but it's rare to see three candidates at the same event, supporting the same cause.
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21 January 2008
Hillary commemorates MLK Day
By Mark Murray
First Read - MSNBC.com
COLUMBIA, SC -- At an event commemorating MLK Day, held on the steps of a statehouse in front of which the Confederate Flag still flies, Clinton spoke about King's legacy and the need to continue the struggle to fulfill his dream. She kept the focus on work and action.
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20 January 2008
Stonewall Jackson House Celebrates His 184th Birthday
rockbridgeweekly.com
On Monday, January 21, 2008 the Stonewall Jackson House will commemorate the 184th anniversary of the birth of Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, the famous Confederate general. Free tours, given on the hour and the half hour, will be offered from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The last tour of the House begins at 4:30 p.m. Birthday cake and hot spiced cider will be served next door at the Davidson-Tucker House.
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20 January 2008
Huckabee’s Confederate Flag Fraud
By Tim Manning
www.ChroniclesMagazine.org
Veterans of South Carolina politics have been waiting and wondering what the last minute stunt would be leading up to Saturday’s First-in-the-South bellwether Republican primary. I predicted it would be a Confederate flag stunt and begged the Ron Paul campaign to make his positions on the War Between the States better known, early on.
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20 January 2008
Remember to honor Gen. Lee
By Allan Koester
Tuscaloosa News
Dear Editor: On March 1, 1901, by Act 617, the Alabama Legislature established the Robert E. Lee Birthday as a state holiday. This year will be the 201st anniversary of Gen. Lee's birthday.
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20 January 2008
Paul Greenberg: Lee and the lingering south
By Paul Greenberg
sacbee.com
"What is the South?" they always ask. It's a question never answered, not completely, but invariably asked. Usually by some Northerner with a taste for literature. Or by sociology students in search of a thesis. Or by a college roommate at Harvard.
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19 January 2008
Group to fly rebel flag over Interstate 10
By Roy Hoffman
al.com
The local Sons of Confederate Veterans plan to install a 12-foot-by-18-foot Confederate Battle Flag on an 80-foot pole built close to the eastbound side of Interstate 10 in south Mobile County.
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19 January 2008
Confederate Flag Ad Praises Huckabee
By Jim Kuhnhenn
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A group that promotes protection of the Confederate flag is airing radio ads during conservative talk shows in South Carolina that praise Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and criticize John McCain and Mitt Romney for voicing objections to the flag.
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19 January 2008
Flag flap dominates campaign in Deep South
By Leonard Doyle
The Independent (UK)
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Whichever Republican candidate emerges as the front-runner when tiny South Carolina votes today, the outcome could have more to do with a flap over the old Confederate flag than any weighty issue of policy.
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18 January 2008
Mike Huckabee's Flag Flap
By Michael Scherer
Time
So it is a bit shocking, if not a little concerning, to see Huckabee so flagrantly playing the "states' rights" card in the closing days before the South Carolina primary. It happened Thursday, at an appearance in Myrtle Beach, where unprompted by anyone, Huckabee brought up the Confederate Flag and started using the language of southern politicians who battled against the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.
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17 January 2008
CNN's King falsely suggested McCain opposed flying of Confederate flag during 2000 SC primary
Media Matters
CNN national correspondent John King falsely suggested that Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain "oppos[ed] the flying of the Confederate flag above the South Carolina State House" while seeking his party's nomination in 2000. In fact, during that race, he referred to the flag as "a symbol of heritage." McCain called for the flag's removal only after he had withdrawn from the race.
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17 January 2008
Huckabee Says Flying Confederate Flag a State Issue
By Perry Bacon Jr.
The Washington Post
FLORENCE, S.C. -- Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is taking a different tone from his rival, Arizona Sen. John McCain on a controversial issue: the display of the Confederate flag.
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17 January 2008
Huckabee's Flag Waving
Posted by Joy Lin
CBSNews.com
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- "South Carolinians know true conservatism when they see it," said Mike Huckabee to voters at his brief touchdown at a Myrtle Beach jet hangar.
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16 January 2008
Major flagging of NAACP planned at SC State House
Monday, 21 January 2008
The Confederate Chronicle (Dixie)
COLUMBIA, SC
Calling All Red Shirts.
I can think of no better way of honoring the legacy and memory of Lee and Jackson than by proudly flying our banners in the face of our adversaries. This is an important flagging for our cause and the SC League of the South could use our help.
This will be the fifth year that the South Carolina League of the South has flagged the NAACP on MLK Day, Monday, 21 January at the State House. We need all of our people to show up and help us protest this hate group. As added incentive this year, we understand that Hillary and Husan Obama will be there. Come help us welcome them to Dixie.
You do not need to bring anything (we will have plenty of signs, flags, etc. for everyone). Try to get to the north side of the State House on Gervais Street by 10:00 AM. Due to it being a holiday, there will be free parking at a public parking garage about a block from the capitol a short distance up Assembly Street.
Put on your red shirts or Confederate shirts and come flag with us.
Contact csamac@hughes.net
16 January 2008
McCain Stands by Rebel Flag Stance
Guardian Unlimited (UK)
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - John McCain on Wednesday sharply defended his opposition eight years ago to the flying of the Confederate battle flag over the South Carolina state capitol in Columbia, brushing aside protests that dogged him at campaign events and suggesting most people in the state don't want the issue reopened.
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16 January 2008
McCain Stands By Rebel Flag Stance
TodaysTHV.com
Republican presidential candidate John McCain says he still opposes flying the Confederate flag atop the state capitol in South Carolina.
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16 January 2008
Teens charged in monument vandalism will be tried as juveniles
By Kenneth Mullinax
Montgomery Advertiser
Three Montgomery 17-year-olds arrested by state troopers for the vandalism of the Capitol's Confederate memorial monument will be tried as juveniles, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office.
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16 January 2008
Sons of Confederate Vets set annual meeting
By Ken Sury
Waco Tribune Herald (TX)
The Waco Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, will be holding its annual Lee-Jackson dinner meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 19 at the Brazos Family Steakhouse, 1620 Martin Luther King Drive.
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16 January 2008
Confederate Heroes Day Celebrated
Tyler Morning Telegraph (TX)
The public is invited to a memorial service to be held at the Confederate monument on the Gregg County Courthouse lawn, Longview, on Saturday, Jan. 19 at noon.
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15 January 2008
Clyburn: Time to End MLK Dustup
By Bruce Smith
The Associated Press
Clinton, Obama and rival John Edwards are scheduled to be in South Carolina on Monday — the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday — for a Congressional Black Caucus-CNN sponsored debate in Myrtle Beach. But first the three are expected to attend the annual, NAACP-led march on the South Carolina Statehouse to protest the display of the Confederate flag there. The banner was removed from the Statehouse dome in 2000 and now flutters on the grounds of the building next to one of the busiest streets in Columbia.
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15 January 2008
Race, Politics, Dr. King and the Primaries in South Carolina
DemocracyNow.org
On the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s birthday, we take a look at how Dr. King’s life and legacy have factored into this year’s Democratic presidential race. And we examine the upcoming Democratic primary in South Carolina, the first state to hold a primary or caucus with a sizable black population. South Carolina has a long history as a battleground in the civil rights struggle.
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15 January 2008
Should plaque be put up about racist S.C. governor?
A proposed addition to the State House statue would accurately portray Ben Tillman as one of the leading white supremacists of his time
By John Monk
The State
As thousands pour onto the State House lawn next week for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day march, a part of the state's history will stand silent.
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14 January 2008
NAACP official wants flag removed
By Adam Macinnis
Charlotte Observer
YORK, S.C. --The president of the Western York County NAACP chapter wants a flag that pays homage to the Confederate flag removed from in front of a downtown business.
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14 January 2008
Public 'threatened' by private-firearms ownership
WorldNetDaily.com
Since "unrestricted" private ownership of guns clearly threatens the public safety, the 2nd Amendment can be interpreted to allow a variety of gun restrictions, according to the Bush administration.
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13 January 2008
Lee's Birthday At The Old Capitol Building
Raliegh, North Carolina
Saturday, January 19th
13 January 2008
Confederate Flag Dedication
Mobile, Alabama
THREE CHEERS FOR DIXIE
There will be a Confederate Flag dedication on I-10 in Mobile County on January 19, 2008 at 1:00 PM. The Flag Pole is sponsored by the Lee-Moses-Dixon Vindicator SCV Camp with help from the Dabney H. Maury SCV Camp and much work from Howard Hill and Claude Tuberville. This flag pole will be lighted at night. It is visible for a mile in either direction.
To get to the location of the dedication please get off I-10 at Exit 10 go South on McDonald Road to Hwy 90 W and turn right, go 2 miles West to St Elmo, Alabama, pass two gas stations and turn right on March Rd. Go North on March Road to Boe Road. Turn Left on Boe Road and go about 2 miles. Turn Right at the Road marked with small battle flags. This is 10330 Boe Road. Park out front if it is a wet day, the road to the flag pole is new.
YA'LL COME IF YOU CAN - THREE CHEERS FOR DIXIE
Ben George
bob4bama@knology.net
Commander 048
Mobile, Alabama
Home of the Flag Hacker Hotel and Convention Center
13 January 2008
Lee-Jackson Day Ceremony at Confederate Monument in Georgetown
Georgetown, Delaware
The Delaware Grays, Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 2068 in Seaford invites interested people to attend their Lee-Jackson Birthday Ceremonies taking place at 1pm on Saturday, January 19th at the Confederate Soldiers Monument in Georgetown, Delaware at the Nutter B. Marvel Museum.
The ceremony honors two of America's greatest military heroes - Robert E. Lee, born January 19, 1807 and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson born January 21, 1824. There will be speeches commemorating the lives of these two men, the Delaware Grays color guard and light refreshments following.
The "Delaware Grays", SCV Camp #2068, based in Seaford, Delaware, is a non-profit, non-political, non-racial, patriotic community organization whose members are descendents of Confederate veterans who served honorably during the War Between the States. Interested persons can find out more by visiting www.DESCV.org. The non-profit Nutter B. Marvel Museum is located at 510 South Bedford Street, off Rt. 113 and just down from the inspection lane in Georgetown, Delaware. The museum includes a collection of historic buildings and horse drawn carriages as well as thousands of historical photographs, newspaper clippings, books and other memorabilia about Georgetown, Sussex County, and Delaware.
11 January 2008
Beauvoir curator finds 100-year-old artifact on eBay
By Kat Bergeron
The Sun Herald (Mississippi)
BILOXI --A century-old flag immortalized in a postcard is back home at Beauvoir, the museum estate of Jefferson Davis that once served as an early-20th-century "Old Soldiers Home."
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11 January 2008
Getting the vote of black Democrats
By David Person
Huntsville Times
A federal document obtained and released by Judicial Watch reveals that there were dozens of armed incursions by Mexican soldiers and police into the United States during Fiscal Year 2007.
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10 January 2008
Will Confederate Flag Ambush GOP In South Carolina?
By Tim Manning
VDARE.com
No telling if Fox News will even ask about the Confederate flag in tonight’s GOP presidential candidates debate in South Carolina. (Yes, Ron Paul will be there). And if they do, they’re likely to ask the wrong thing: what do the candidates think of the Confederate flag that now flies, an awkward compromise, out in front of the South Carolina State House?
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10 January 2008
Confederate Flag Controversy in York
WBTV.com
Some consider the South Carolina Confederate flag a symbol of pride but other perceive it as a symbol of hate.
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10 January 2008
Mexican soldiers found invading United States
Government report documents dozens of armed campaigns in Texas, Arizona
WorldNetDaily.com
A federal document obtained and released by Judicial Watch reveals that there were dozens of armed incursions by Mexican soldiers and police into the United States during Fiscal Year 2007.
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9 January 2008
The Nat Turner rebellion and our history: What is the truth?
By our readers
The Anniston Star
What is lacking in the education is that Nat Turner did not just lead a "slave rebellion," as you report. These supposedly "righteous" slaves murdered some 50-plus men, women and children. And not just children, mind you, but innocent infants in their cribs. Turner's first victims were his own master and his household. A man and family who treated him with every kindness, per Turner's own confession.
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9 January 2008
The meaning of a monument
By Ken Hearin Sr.
Montgomery Advertiser
The meaning of a monument to some is hallowed and held dear to the heart. To others it is a thorn in their side. This is always the case on all monuments. There are at least two sides to all monuments which are arguments or adversary causes.
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9 January 2008
A Different Kind of Masterpiece: Stone Mountain, Georgia Confederate Carving
Blog spot
The largest low relief sculpture in the world, the Confederate Memorial Carving, depicts three Confederate heroes of the Civil War, President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.
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9 January 2008
Hunley shows 'Southern ingenuity,' says preservation expert
By Melinda Skutnick
Mooresville Tribune (Mooresville, NC)
An educational discussion about the “Southern ingenuity” of the first submarine to sink an enemy ship brought local members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to the Mooresville Public Library Monday night.
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8 January 2008
The Confederate Flag Issue
By Tim Manning
Southern Heritage News & Views Hot Spot
For seven or eight years, beginning in the mid-90s, the Confederate flag was the singularly overarching driving political issue that permeated everything that touched South Carolina politics. Any time anyone maneuvered in our state, from within or without, the underlying question was: How is this person trying to use what he or she is doing to maneuver around the Confederate flag issue?
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6 January 2008
Alabama Secession Day Mini Seminar
Montgomery, Alabama
To be held on 12 January 2008 at the Alabama State Capitol from 9:30 AM til 4:30 PM - dinner break at 12:30-1:30 PM. For more information contact Pat Godwin at oldsouthrebel@zebra.net
6 January 2008
Lee/Jackson Banquet - Semple SCV Camp
Montgomery, Alabama
To be held on 17 January 2008 at the Montgomery Country Club. Bill Rambo guest speaker. Contact Alan Parker at atparker@charter.net
6 January 2008
Lee/Jackson Banquet - Inzer Camp 308
Pell City, Alabama
To be held on 19 January 2008. Guest Speaker: Past Alabama Division UDC President Connie Ansley. For more information contact Ben Hestley at bhestley@centurytel.net.
6 January 2008
Lee - Jackson Day - 19 January 2008
Lexington, Virginia
Honoring the Lives and Godly Character of Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson in their final home and resting place. For more information go to http://www.geocities.com/leejacksonday
6 January 2008
General Lee and General Jackson Birthday Ceremony
Baltimore, Maryland
To be held on 19 January 2008. All Confederate reenactors, period civilians, heritage organizations, and spectators are invited to join us for the annual ceremony to honor General Robert E. Lee and General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson on the anniversary of their births. The ceremony is sponsored by the Colonel Harry W. Gilmor Camp # 1388, Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Maryland Division United Daughters of the Confederacy. The ceremony will be held at 11:00 a.m. at the Lee/Jackson double equestrian monument at Art Museum and Wyman Park Drive, Baltimore, Maryland. Refreshments for all participants and spectators following the ceremony. For information or map call Elliott Cummings 410-296-9235 or e mail basilduke@comcast.net
6 January 2008
Lee/Jackson Banquet - Brig. Gen. Benjamin G. Humphreys Camp # 1625
Leland, Mississippi
The Brig. Gen. Benjamin G. Humphreys Camp # 1625 will hold its 12th Annual Lee - Jackson Birthday Banquet on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at the Deer Creek Town and Racquet Club in Leland, MS. Social Hour will begin at 6:00 pm with a prime rib dinner starting at 7:00 pm. Cost will be $ 25.00 for adults and $ 12.50 for children 12 and under.
Reservations may be made by sending your check payable to "SCV" to Dan A. McCaskill; 205 Cypress Street; Leland, MS 38756. Reservations must be in hand no later than January 24th.
Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. William Parrish, History Professor Emeritus at MS State University. Dr. Parrish will be speaking on Pres. Jefferson Davis.
If you have any questions, call Dan McCaskill at 662-822-1096 or send email to: danmccas@tecinfo.com
6 January 2008
Lee/Jackson Banquet - Pvt. Samuel A. Hughey Camp 1452
DeSoto County, Mississippi
The Pvt. Samuel A. Hughey Camp 1452, DeSoto County, will hold its annual Lee-Jackson January 26, 2008. Our speaker is to be the REV. CECIL FAYARD. You will not want to miss hearing him.
Our menu for the dinner is “All-You-Can-Eat” BBQ and SPAGHETTI, Baked Beans, Potato Salad, Cole Slaw, Bread with Brownie Ala Mode for desert.
The cost is only $15.00 Per Person.
Reservations may be made by sending your check no later than January 18 to COMPATRIOT ALLEN LATIMER, 5205 HORN LAKE RD, HORN LAKE, MS 38637. The dinner will be held at GLENN'S CHAPEL CHURCH, 8235 HWY. 301 AT BALDWIN ROAD. Anyone having with questions may call Allen at 662/393-4448 or John Echols at 662/393-2803.
6 January 2008
Lee/Jackson Banquet - Longstreet/Zollicoffer Camp of the SCV
Knoxville, Tennessee
The Longstreet/Zollicoffer Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans will host their 15th annual celebration of the birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson at the Foundry Restaurant located at the north end of World’s Fair Park in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday January 19. The guest speaker at this year’s Dinner will be Thomas Cartwright. Cartwright will speak on “Stonewall” Jackson.
Cartwright is Executive Director Carter House Franklin, Tennessee, a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and is widely sought as a speaker on the Battle of Franklin and others topics relating to the War for Southern Independence.
Doors open at 6 p.m. for a social hour. The buffet-style dinner is at 7 p.m. Cost is $29 per adult, $15 per child 12 and under. Several door prizes, including a framed print, will be awarded. Advance reservations with full payment are required, and must be received no later than January 16 as the Attendance at the event is usually 300+ and it is suggested that reservations be made early as seating is limited.
Mail reservation requests with payments to Lee/Jackson Day Dinner, c/o SCV Camp 87, P.O. Box 943, Knoxville, Tenn. 37901. Make checks payable to Lee/Jackson Dinner.
For additional information, call Ron Jones at 865-947-3394 or John Hitt at 865-689-4592
5 January 2008
The NAACP Tries to Stay Relevant by Reigniting Confederate Flag Fight
Charleston City Paper
First SC NAACP President Lonnie Randolph accuses Rudy Giuliani of being too cozy with the South’s most famous symbol (an accusation absurd enough to make your head spin) and now this. Like the Republican Party and abortion or the Southern Poverty Law Center and the virtually non-existent Ku Klux Klan - the NAACP secretly never really wants the Confederate flag to go away, as it gives them both a reason to exist and to rile up the rank-and-file. From the Charlotte Observer
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5 January 2008
Longstreet ceremony set Sunday on anniversary of general's death
By Edie Rogers
The Gainesville Times (GA)
Some 104 years after his funeral, Civil War re-enactors and others will gather Sunday at the grave site of Gen. James Longstreet. The 13th annual memorial service for Longstreet will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at his grave site in Alta Vista Cemetery. The Civil War general was buried on Jan. 6, 1904, just two days before his 83rd birthday, according to the Longstreet Society's Web site.
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5 January 2008
Event to commemorate ‘Boy Martyr’ hanging
By Brandon Tubbs
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Re-enactors and Confederate groups will gather at Mount Holly Cemetery today and at MacArthur Museum on Jan. 12 to mark the 144 th anniversary of the hanging of a 17-year-old boy by Union forces occupying Little Rock.
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5 January 2008
Lee's Birthday At The Old Capitol Building
Please plan to attend General Lee's annual Birthday Celebration at 2PM on Saturday, January 19th. The speaker this year is Harry Upchurch, and he will deliver his remarks in the upper Legislative Chamber in the Old Capitol Building on Capitol Square in downtown Raleigh. The General's birthday is a legal holiday in North Carolina, and it is one of the three days a year that the Confederate Flag flies over the 1840 State Capitol building. Period attire is encouraged.
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5 January 2008
Southern states could gain House seats
By Ben Evans
al.com
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fast-growing Southern states could gain nine new congressional seats after the 2010 census, largely at the expense of their neighbors to the north, judging from the latest government data.
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5 January 2008
Stripped bare: 'Gay' school plot unveiled
By Bob Unruh
WorldNetDaily.com
The Gay Straight Alliance recently forwarded an e-mail to its California chapters with information on how to make sure homosexuality is taught in the state's schools and warned that having students and parents simply "tolerate" homosexuality is not enough.
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4 January 2008
NAACP to unleash secret weapons against Confederate Battleflag
By Mike Tuggle
leagueofthesouth.net
It never ceases to amaze me how the NAACP manages to pose as the eternal victim while brandishing so much political clout. But here they are, taunting whites by slamming the most famous symbol of Southern heritage:
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4 January 2008
Jackson assistant fire chief demoted over video
By Arnold Lindsay
The Clarion-Ledger
Assistant Jackson Fire Chief Todd Chandler has been demoted to captain and reassigned following an investigation into a 13-year-old video showing a white firefighter mocking black firefighters.
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3 January 2008
NAACP hopes primary will renew fight to remove Confederate flag
By Katrina A. Goggins
islandpacket.com
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Leaders of the South Carolina NAACP will re-ignite their effort to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds this month and hope the presence of two Democratic presidential front-runners adds weight to the annual rally.
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3 January 2008
Both political parties biased, prejudiced
By Thomas McClain
The Times and Democrat, Orangeburg, SC
Both the Republican and Democratic candidates have shown by their words and actions that prejudice exists against Southern Americans and their heritage.
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2 January 2008
A Few Facts About Our President On His Birthday
Submitted by Robert Hutcheson
arkansastoothpick.com
Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born, like Abraham Lincoln, in Kentucky. His family seems to have been of modest circumstances, and soon moved to the newly opened southern frontier in Mississippi. Possessing great intelligence and imagination, Davis was educated at a number of institutions, including Transylvania University before entering West Point, from which he was graduated. Robert E. Lee was a fellow cadet.
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2 January 2008
Vandals Hit Historic Dyersburg Cemetery
Posted by Kelly Hessedal
WREG-TV Memphis
DYERSBURG, TN - A historic cemetery is in shambles tonight after vandals go on a rampage.
It all happened over the New Year's holiday at Dyersburg's historic downtown cemetery. More than 100 monuments were damaged. Some were tipped over, others shattered. Some of them date back to the Civil War. According to city cemetery director, George McCaig, the damage is estimated to be as much as $30,000.
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2 January 2008
NAACP hopes primary will renew fight to remove Confederate flag
By Katrina A. Goggins
The Times and Democrat (Orangeburg, SC)
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Leaders of the South Carolina NAACP will re-ignite their effort to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds this month and hope the presence of two Democratic presidential front-runners adds weight to the annual rally.
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2 January 2008
Still dead ...
Blog by David O. Dodd
Arkansas Blog(TN)
News release on jump. Expect coverage aplenty of the forget-hell crowd's annual obsession in Sunday's DOG. Other may choose to spend the morning in devotion to the preservation of the Union, the end of the slavery, the just punishment of traitors, and recalling heroes such as Ulysses Grant (pictured above) who made it all possible.
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2 January 2008
NAACP: 2 Democratic Candidates to Attend MLK Rally
WLTX TV
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People says the rally will focus on removing the Confederate flag from a monument on the Statehouse grounds.
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2 January 2008
Vandals damage more than 100 monuments at historic cemetery
Dyersburg State Gazette(TN)
More than 100 headstones were toppled and dozens more monuments broken apart in the city's historic downtown cemetery in an act officials describe of wanton vandalism.
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2 January 2008
PETA Rains Down on Red-Neck Opossum Drop
TheGreatSeparation.com (Newsfront)
Opossum Festivities Buffaloed - For the past twelve years a very small town in the Appalachians named Brasstown, NC, has had a special tradition for bringing in the new year when the clock strikes midnight. Kind of like the dropping of that big glass ball in New York, but in Brasstown they drop a live Opossum in a clear plastic cage from the roof of the town's gas station. Or at least they did until PETA read about it in a New York Times article.
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Visit the official "Opposum Drop" website...
2 January 2008
WWII Guest speaker during monthly meeting
EmeraldCoast.com (FL)
CRESTVIEW - The William Lundy Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, in their salute to veterans will have a guest speaker during their monthly meeting on Jan. 14 at 6:30 p.m. at Sonny's in Crestview. The guest speaker is Reid Gilland.
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DECEMBER 2007
31 December 2007
Ron Paul Awakens the Spirit of Ameirca
By Alan Stang
NewsWithViews.com
I am still recovering from the response to my piece about the possible assassination of Dr. Ron Paul. In more than forty years of struggle in the battle for America, I have never seen anything like it. Days after publication, I am still trying to answer the email. It is coming from everywhere, in a swelling wave, and I literally mean everywhere, around the world. There are messages from across this country, of course, but also from Canada, from Sweden, from the Philippines, Australia and elsewhere.
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28 December 2007
Sacred Harp movie "Awake, My Soul"
AwakeMySoul.com website
'Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp' is the first feature documentary about Sacred Harp singing, a haunting form of a cappella, shape note hymn singing with deep roots in the American south. Shape note singing has survived over 200 years tucked away from notice in the rural deep south, where in old country churches, singers break open 'The Sacred Harp', a 160 year old shape note hymnal which has preserved these fiercely beautiful songs which are some of the oldest in America. The film offers a glimpse into the lives of this 'Lost Tonal Tribe' whose history is a story of both rebellion and tradition. The filmmakers, Matt and Erica Hinton spent 7 years documenting this yet largely unknown art form.
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26 December 2007
NRA Lawsuit: New Orleans Gun Owners' Rights
Violated During Katrina Firearm Seizures
By Randall Franks
FOXNews.com
NEW ORLEANS - The National Rifle Association has hired private investigators to find hundreds of people whose firearms were seized by city police in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, according to court papers filed this week.
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26 December 2007
Local SCV Camp helps to bring old cemeteries to life
By Randall Franks
Catoosa County News
The Sons of Confederate Veterans Col. Joseph McConnell Camp 1859 stepped up to assist in helping improve the cemetery beginning in May.
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26 December 2007
Media conceal black interracial crimes
By Walter E. Williams, Ph.D.
WorldNetDaily.com (Macon, GA)
Stop thinking "protection" for minorities and gays. These laws are crafted so that, superficially, they look like one thing, while really being designed as a first step to bring about another goal, that is, giving government bureaucrats the power to determine what qualifies as a First Amendment right.
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26 December 2007
Understanding "Hate Crime" Laws
There's more to them than meets the eye
Issues & Views (Macon, GA)
Stop thinking "protection" for minorities and gays. These laws are crafted so that, superficially, they look like one thing, while really being designed as a first step to bring about another goal, that is, giving government bureaucrats the power to determine what qualifies as a First Amendment right.
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26 December 2007
Descendant fulfills Rebel soldier's wish
His revised Civil War classic published
By Leon Alligood
The Tennessean (Nashville, TN)
Ruth Hill Fulton McAllister never met her great-grandfather, Sam R. Watkins. But more than 100 years after his death, the Columbia woman has completed her ancestor's life work. McAllister is the editor of a new version of Co. Aytch, the frank Civil War memoir that is considered a classic in the genre and was quoted several times in Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War.
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24 December 2007
Are The Globalists Out to Get Ron Paul?
By Alan Stang
NewsWithViews.com
Warning! As you know, I always give you my best jokes in these pieces. This one will contain no humor. Will the conspiracy for world government assassinate Dr. Paul? That is the stark question now before us. Since the Paul campaign started to take off, I have been hearing agonized comments to that effect from his supporters. So far, I have said nothing, hoping they would subside, but now comes an authentic reporter citing “reliable sources” from inside.
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23 December 2007
Murphy's once proud Democratic Party struggling to rebuild in Ga.
By Shannon McCaffrey - Associated Press Writer
The Telegraph (Macon, GA)
Brooks credited Murphy with not blocking efforts to remove the Confederate battle symbol from the state flag even though doing so might have helped him in his own west Georgia district.
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23 December 2007
Lee - Jackson Day
January 19, 2008 - Lexington, Virginia
Honoring the Lives and Godly Character of Generals
Robert E. Lee
and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson in their final home and resting place.
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23 December 2007
Newsmakers: Villagers put Klan flag incident behind them
By Sheri McWhirter
smcwhirter@record-eagle.com
Traverse City Record-Eagle
RAPID CITY -- There won't be anymore Confederate flags adorned with racist messages flapping over public events in Rapid City, everyone agrees.
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22 December 2007
Did age or vandals fell Confederate markers?
Dozens toppled at Maplewood
By David Newton
The Durham News
Desecration or deterioration? Which has left several dozen Confederate markers leaning and toppled in Maplewood Cemetery?
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22 December 2007
Hoka Hey! It is a good time to secede!
Posted by Mike Tuggle
UPI
A Lakota delegation notified the State Department that they’ve withdrawn from the United States, renounced treaties and are now an independent nation. American Indian Movement founder Russell Means also began notifying foreign embassies worldwide, and plans to deliver the declaration to the United Nations.
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22 December 2007
Trying to put the flag issue to rest
By Albert C. Watson
The Times and Democrat (Orangeburg, SC)
I can't believe it. The Confederate flag issue has hit the editorial page again. You must be tired of reading page after page on this issue. I will try to end it for everybody!
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22 December 2007
Abbeville marks its 175th anniversary
By Jennifer Colton
The Index Journal
ABBEVILLE - In quiet dignity, the city of Abbeville passed a milestone Thursday as it marked 175 years since it was incorporated into South Carolina.
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22 December 2007
Family restores ancestors gravestone
By Don Aines
Herald-Mail.com
Born near the end of the Revolutionary War, Overton Harne likely saw the rockets' red glare over Fort McHenry in 1814, and the retreat of Confederate forces from Gettysburg 49 years late | 
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