The following was sent to me by my dear friend Dr. Boyd Cathey. His message is in response to my recent blog post “Oh, just a little critique of the biggest film ever!” Ever the supportive mentor and Southern gentleman, he has given me permission to republish his wise words here. I salute you for …
“I’ve never heard anything about this event before. Ever!” said my big sister after reading my son Zeke’s book report back in May 2021. “What a fascinating paper!” That’s a pretty ringing endorsement considering that my oldest sis is both extremely well-read and quite the history buff. So, just what was the book my then …
Valerie Protopapas of New York is a prolific and unreconstructed defender of Southern history, the world authority on the great Confederate partisan John Singleton Mosby, and is former editor of The Southern Cavalry Review, the journal of The Stuart-Mosby Historical Society. In her compelling story-telling style, Protopapas offers up myth-busting facts on “The Gray Ghost,” …
My friend Carl Jones shared this today in a Facebook thread: “How many churches will play ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ tomorrow across the South, unaware that the song is un-Christian, rejects the salvation of Christ, and celebrates the murder of Southerners by the terrorist, John Brown?“ “’His terrible swift sword’ refers, not to …
“What has given the South her identity are those beliefs and qualities which she has absorbed from the Scriptures and from her own history of defeat and violation: a distrust of the abstract, a sense of human dependence on the grace of God, and a knowledge that evil is not simply a problem to be …
Jared is the founder and proprietor of Hoppean.org, a website “dedicated to the furtherance of the ideas of Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe and his ideological forebearers.” But Jared isn’t your typical adherent of libertarianism, which he says has become “a haven for grifters, egalitarians, socialists, degenerates, and the mentally incapacitated.” Rather, he’s a self-described paleolibertarian, who …
Michael Lankford is a former police detective, now school resource officer who was fired by a North Carolina police department where he had worked for 13 years. The cause? “Being accused of having membership in a Facebook group promoting the Confederacy.” Gasp! What’s even more ludicrous is the entity that outed Lankford for the crime …
By Carl Jones I was watching a British movie recently about some British soldiers during WW II who were trapped behind enemy lines and trying to get to Dunkirk. The movie, as I said, was made in Britain by a British production company, and throughout the movie the soldiers frequently used the word “ain’t.” This …
War is “by nature revolutionary in its impact upon a people. Its values are antithetical in the extreme to the values of kinship-based society with its consecration of tradition, conventionality, and age or seniority.”— Robert Nisbet Murican citizen, ever wondered how “we” got to the point of ICE agents on horseback being demeaned for actually …
“No day shall erase you from the memory of time.”— Virgil I spent a day in Atlanta last February when meeting up with friends en route to the Great Wolf Lodge about an hour south of the city. But where would be a good place to assemble our group of two mamas and six homeschooled …