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Hindsight Is Not Necessarily 20/20

By Ben Jones

“If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous ‘wisdom’of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.” Mark Twain “The study of the past with… »

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  • Political Correctness
  • Robert E. Lee

Front Porch Braggin’ Rights

By Ben Jones

My new neighbor Ozzie, who grew up in the Bronx, thinks that the South is a place “without much culture.”  Ozzie acts as if he is an expert on the subject, even though his Southern… »

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What They Don’t Want to Hear

By Ben Jones

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell “Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the… »

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  • Political Correctness
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The South Starts Here

By Ben Jones

You know, as a kid who grew up without electricity, a telephone or indoor plumbing, it continues to amaze me that I posted a picture of a sign in front of a gas station/store down… »

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Silent Sam and Me

By Ben Jones

In September of 1961, I left my job at a basket factory in Wilmington, North Carolina and hitch-hiked up to Chapel Hill to become a student there. I followed in the path of UNC’s very… »

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Southern to the Bone, or How to be Happily Unreconstructed in a World Gone Crazy

By Ben Jones
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