I’ve travelled all over the former Confederacy and I’ve witnessed an interesting phenomenon the further south you get. Up north you hear references to the Civil War. Once you get about 20 miles out from Washington, DC it becomes the War Between The States. Cross below Virginia and it becomes the War for Southern Independence. I’ve travelled the byways … Continue reading
A few months ago I started to write a post decrying the Obama is Hitler signs at Tea Party rallies. I never finished it as things cooled off and it seemed like the Hitler analogy was just a passing trend, like Crocs. That is until news came in today of a billboard put up by the North Iowa … Continue reading
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A nation feeling its oats, let’s call it America, is whipped into a frenzy to start a war based on false information reported in the press. Based on these false reports, this nation decides that it is going to invade a country to liberate its people from … Continue reading
One of the nation’s most famous former Klansmen, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, will lie in repose in the United States Senate chambers today. Among Byrd’s achievements were filibustering the 1964 Civil Rights Act and voting against the Supreme Court nomination of Thurgood Marshall. He was also known for having over 30 taxpayer funded public works named for … Continue reading
