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Killing and Indifference
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (910+ words) by editor | Apr 9, 2026 | Archive, Obiter Dicta, Southern Partisan Is personal freedom a reality or a myth? Does the government execute the will of the governed or the will of those who finance its officials? Does the Bill of Rights restrain…...
Echoes of Shiloh: Myth, Media, and the Civil War Landscape
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (736+ words) by editor | Apr 8, 2026 | Archive, Homepage, Southern Partisan "There were men from every nation laid on those bloody plains, Fathers, sons, and brothers were numbered with the slain" " "Shiloh's Hill," M. G. Smith, Company C, 2nd Texas Infantry In a pattern that would repeat…...
Did You Really Think Trump Would Lower Prices?
2+ day, 23+ min ago (641+ words) by editor | Apr 7, 2026 | Archive, Obiter Dicta, Southern Partisan Donald Trump's assault on our democratic institutions did not stop voters from giving him a second term. The top reason they cited for reelecting him was the economy, notably their unhappiness over…...
News From Around the South, 3/30 to 4/6
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (601+ words) by editor | Apr 6, 2026 | Archive, CSA, Southern Partisan A bill backed by neo-Confederates that aimed to protect historic monuments from removal was shot down in a narrow House vote Wednesday when a handful of Republicans voted no or abstained from voting....
The Iran Hawks Are Losing Their Judgment
4+ day, 24+ min ago (274+ words) by editor | Apr 5, 2026 | Archive, Obiter Dicta, Southern Partisan I am an Iran hardliner. But I'm struggling to understand how other hardliners can be so credulous about President Donald Trump's leadership of this war. It's as if you were stranded by…...
Alabama man appeals 1991 murder conviction, citing evidence of trial attorney's ties to KKK
1+ week, 1+ day ago (917+ words) by editor | Apr 1, 2026 | Archive, Homepage, Southern Partisan A former Alabama death row inmate is seeking a new trial after finding evidence that his trial attorney was affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan. Robin "Rocky" Myers, whose death sentence'was commuted'to life…...
News From Around the South, 3/23 to 3/30
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1202+ words) by editor | Mar 30, 2026 | Archive, CSA, Southern Partisan Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials stumbled across a cache of Ku Klux Klan materials while cleaning out a closet to move to the department's new headquarters. Inside a small blue suitcase, they…...
War and Morality | Southern Partisan Online
2+ week, 13+ hour ago (972+ words) by editor | Mar 25, 2026 | Archive, Obiter Dicta, Southern Partisan War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. It kills innocent adults and little girls. It often ruins the post-war…...
Disability rights group tells history of State Hospital through "people, not patients
2+ week, 14+ hour ago (1091+ words) by editor | Mar 25, 2026 | Archive, Homepage, Southern Partisan COLUMBIA, S. C. " To outsiders, the then-called South Carolina Lunatic Asylum in the 1800s was an idyllic, tranquil place to live, with garden paths and therapeutic activities. "No one would have supposed that they were crazy,…...
News Around the South, 3/16 to 3/23
2+ week, 2+ day ago (650+ words) by editor | Mar 23, 2026 | Archive, CSA, Southern Partisan There are only 38 affordable and available rental homes " three fewer than last year'for every 100 of North Carolina's 350, 000extremely low-income households, according to a recent report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition. That translates…...