Real Sons Of Confederate Veterans Compare Notes
How old do you have to be to have had a father who fought in the Civil War? James Brown and H.V. Booth know the answer. They're among 32 surviving Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Reunion Opens With Reverence For Old South
A line of Confederate soldier re-enactors stood in uniform and a single bagpipe skirled through the Anderson Civic Center. A huge Confederate flag faced the assemblage and many flags of the South’s past hung in the room where hundreds had gathered to honor their heritage.

Facebook Deletes Official Alex Jones Page Over Gadsden Flag
Social networking giant has embarked on a move to ban Tea Party material as part of wider cybersecurity agenda for web censorship and political oppression.

Feds Ignore Due Process, First Amendment, Shut Down Thousands Of Blogs
Once again, the Obama administration has violated the Bill of Rights. Earlier this month, the feds took down a free Wordpress blogging platform and disabled more than 73,000 blogs.

Breitbart To NAACP President: 'Go To Hell'
His comments came in response to a resolution adopted by the 101st annual convention of the NAACP earlier this week, condemning the "racism" of the tea-party movement and claiming it could return the nation to the pre-civil-rights era.

Glenn Beck's Lincoln Contradictions
Beck has been absolutely abysmal when discussing the subject of Lincoln, the War to Prevent Southern Independence, and its legacy.

The Untold Story
As the Sesquicentennial unfolds, we will be indoctrinated with stories of how blacks deserted the South and flocked to the Union army to fight for their freedom. Nothing will be said about the majority millions who stayed behind in loyalty, friendship and patriotic devotion to their southern homeland.

The Dominance Of Southern Culture
"The south has produced the world's best literature. It dominates world culture. Southern culture is the most powerful and expressive in the world." ~ Timothy Tyson

Few Salute South Carolina's Confederate Compromise
A decade after striking the compromise that removed the Confederate battle flag from the State House dome, S.C. political leaders said they have no interest in revisiting the debate despite lingering objections.

Intelligence And Poverty (-Stricken Lawyers)
I see from a Facebook post that the poverty-stricken lawyers in their multi-story Airstream in the Cradle of the Confederacy have the Museum of the Confederacy in their, um, figurative gun sights.

Confederate Flags Create Controversy At Hanover Tomato Festival
The confederate flag can often stir emotions. For some it stirs pride and for others - outrage.

Thinking Southern And Disspelling Popular Myths
The only thing now new to Americans is not socialism or facism but it is their newly found willingness to admit that socialism is transitioning into American “Communism.”

Why POTUS Loves To Visit Asheville, NC: It's All About Liberals!
There is some North Carolina history you might not be aware of, a state run by Democrats and their good-old-boy politicians.

Slavery In Rhode Island - Who Would Ever Have Guessed?
Few people living today in Rhode Island realize that the slave trade was once a vital component of the Ocean State’s economy.

SNC Third Southern National Congress Update
We’re looking for our own Three Hundred, modern-day heroes with the courage and fortitude to meet the challenges of the times.

Brothers-In-Law Generals Wore Confederate Gray
All were Confederate generals during the Civil War.

Nation’s Historians Speak Out Against Proposed Gettysburg Casino
If approved, the proposed gambling hall will be located just one-half mile from America’s most hallowed battleground.

Group Claims Discrimination In Plans To Celebrate Confederate Statue
The group Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy on Tuesday evening is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the statue’s unveiling, but representatives from the group said city officials made planning the event difficult.

South Carolina Wants To Leave Confederate Flag Issue Alone
A decade after striking the compromise that removed the Confederate battle flag from the State House dome, South Carolina political leaders said they have no interest in revisiting the debate despite lingering objections to its display.

Battlefield Group Zeroes In On Next Targets
Creating a new Battle of Franklin park hasn't been simple or cheap. Yet the seemingly disparate pieces of Franklin's next major battlefield park appear to be slowly fitting together.

Happy Secession Day
Each colony was considered to be a free and independent state, or nation, in and of itself. There was no such thing as "the United States of America" in the minds of the founders. The independent colonies were simply united for a particular cause: seceding from the British empire.

McLaren Case Dies For Lack Of Funding
After two and a half years of preparation and preliminary sparring, the case of Paul McClaren, a Sons of Confederate Veterans member who was fired from his job for displaying a state-issued Mississippi SCV license tag on his vehicle, has had to be abandoned due to lack of funding to cover going forward, the SLRC revealed.

Southern Legal Resource Center Update - 6-23-2010
The idea of a possible Confederate memorial at Harvard was floated by some alumni and sympathetic faculty as early as 1988, but was shelved after being vigorously opposed by the Harvard Black Students’ Association, Harvard’s daily newspaper, the Crimson, and ultimately the then-President of the University. Interestingly, Harvard’s two principal Ivy League rivals, Yale and Princeton, have on-campus memorials to their Confederate dead.

In Government Schools Soviet Flags Are In While Confederate Flags Are Out
It seems that a student has been commanded to remove a Confederate flag from his truck while it is in the school parking lot. This is typical for government schools all around the country. They slather themselves in political correctness by trying to banish what the educrats don’t like.

Taking The Tenth: The Last Hope
Washington is out of control. It does as it likes, without restraint. It spends American money and American lives to fight remote wars for which it cannot provide a plausible reason.

How H.K. Edgerton Spent Memorial Day
On Monday, Memorial Day, May 31, I would once again don the uniform of the Southern soldier and attend the Asheville-Buncombe Memorial Day Ceremony at Veterans stadium in the City of Asheville, North Carolina.

New Boston Schools Rethink Policy After Confederate Flag Flap
School board members promised to review their policy on self-expression following a controversy featuring the unlikely pairing of the flags of the Confederacy and the former Soviet Union.

Visitors To Gather For Confederate Decoration Day
Sons of Confederate Veterans members will gather Saturday to observe Confederate Decoration Day, the second time the ceremony's been held since local members revived the tradition last year. They hope to see it continue as an annual event.

Pride And Dignity: In Defense Of The Confederate Flag
The Confederate flag represents most essentially the ingrained American fear of centralized government, perhaps because the ancestors of most Americans fled the oppressive monarchies in Europe. This is one reason why Americans generally value freedom above all other values.

Who Is Reverend Herman White?
According to the CWM site, Reverend White has a heart full of "a lot of racist and historically inaccurate crap." Why such a hateful comment?

FCC Asked To Monitor "Hate Speech," "Misinformation" Online
Over thirty organizations want the Federal Communications Commission to open up a probe on "hate speech" and "misinformation" in media. "Hate has developed as a profit-model for syndicated radio and cable television programs masquerading as 'news'," they wrote to the FCC earlier this month.

The Feds Don't Like Home Schoolers (Because They Think For Themselves)
‘You can’t make socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent’.”

The Freedom Of Association
Simply put, we no longer trust the idea of freedom. We can't even imagine how it would work. What a distance we have travelled from the Age of Reason to our own times.

Honoring The Irishmen Who Died Serving The CSA
There's one group of Americans who did not die serving the United States of America who we also honor on Memorial Day. Memorial Day is also for those Americans who died fighting for the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, although it took a good few years for everyone agree on that.

Confederate Flag Plays In South Carolina Politics
Less than half of the candidates running for South Carolina governor say they would consider moving the Confederate flag that flies in front of the South Carolina Statehouse; none of the candidates say they would.

The Struggle For Memory
For many decades after the War ended, the Southern people followed the admonition of General Lee and other Confederate leaders to obey the law and conduct themselves as loyal Americans.

The Trouble With The '64 Civil Rights Act
On June 4, 2004, Congress hailed the 40th anniversary of the 1964 Act. Only the heroic Ron Paul dissented. Here are his comments.

Civil Rights And Total War
William Sherman's march to the sea, writes Victor Davis Hanson approvingly, was a war of "terror" intended to destroy an aristocratic Southern culture he hated because of its impudence in resisting the central government's authority.

States Rights
The principle for which the Confederate States contended was "States Rights" and the "Cause" was Southern Independence. In the spring of 1865 Confederate forces were forced to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources and States Rights was given a crushing blow and stigmatized by association with slavery.

America's Changeable Civil War
A century and a half after the first state seceded from the Union, a lively debate over what caused the Civil War continues.