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Confederate Monuments

The Remnant, Part II

By James Rutledge Roesch

Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us…All these were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of their times. There be of them, that have left a name behind… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • James Rutledge Roesch
  • Political Correctness
  • Racism
  • Reconstruction

Cancel Culture Will Decimate Us–If We Let It

By Boyd Cathey

Often as I work at my computer I keep on the Sirius FM Classical Music Service, “Symphony Hall,” with an occasional switch-over to a Bluegrass channel. Both, I believe, reflect at their finest superior elements… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Confederate Monuments
  • Confederate Symbols
  • Political Correctness

Pietas in the Era of Revolution

By John Devanny

Pietas, the most Roman of virtues, referred to the duty owed to one’s country, parents, kin, and ancestors.  It is from pietas that patriotism, not nationalism, springs forth.  It is a virtue once esteemed by… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • John Devanny
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern Tradition

Landscape

By Randall Ivey

The sun, a single red eye, burnt what was left of the earth, holding everything beneath it in a heavy, never-dimming glare.  It never left the sky, not even in those hours once reserved for… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Political Correctness
  • Randall Ivey

Can Liberty Survive the Marxist Purge?

By Stewart O. Jones

While mobs continue tearing down monuments and shaming elected officials into removing statues of historical significance — from Christopher Columbus to Gen. Robert E. Lee and even Thomas Jefferson and George Washington — Clemson University… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Cultural Marxism
  • Political Correctness
  • Stewart Jones
  • Thomas Jefferson

Waving the White Flag Won’t Save the UDC

By J.L. Bennett

“Very late in the war, when defeat seemed inevitable, Northern generals were complaining that the Confederate soldier refused to give in and admit defeat, that Southern women remained indomitable in spirit….” – Dr. Clyde Wilson,… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Confederate Symbols
  • Joyce Bennett
  • Political Correctness

“Let the Rioters do their Worst; I won’t Stand in Their way!”

By Boyd Cathey

Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina comes across as a nice man, well-mannered, calm, the kind of man you would want as a neighbor and, yes, as a friend. He seems unthreatening in how he… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Confederate Monuments
  • Confederate Symbols
  • Political Correctness
  • Roy Cooper

The Shame of Bentonville

By Neil Kumar

Bentonville is the lovely little town in Northwest Arkansas that I have spent nearly my entire life in. At the heart of Bentonville, in the center of our town square, there has rested a Confederate… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Neil Kumar
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern Symbols

Virginia Liars, Locusts, and Native Sons

By Paul H. Yarbrough

Like locusts eating out the sustenance of farmers and agrarians, the once-proud land called Virginia is in philosophical and spiritual rot. The disease that is the deep state, progressivism, liberalism, Antifa, Blacks Lives Matter (because… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Paul Yarbrough
  • Political Correctness

Old Virginia Weeps

By Paul Gottfried

Last week Governor Ralph Northam announced his plan to remove the iconic statue of Robert E. Lee from Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia. This step will be the beginning of an ambitious leftist Taliban undertaking… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Paul Gottfried
  • Southern Tradition
  • Thomas Jefferson

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