ETA: Hand to goddess, Cole’s post below was not there when I hit publish! I’ve been holding this in draft since last week, waiting for a quiet moment… ***** Only partly because I fear we’re due for another round of self-congratulatory ‘This time we should just let those Southern bigots secede’ commentary, here’s William Dalrymple …
Fables Of The Reconstruction
Battle Flag Acquisition Strategies
Early this morning, I was doing some research on the endurance of corporate culture, studying how sometimes the spirit of a smaller, acquired firm can permeate the larger, acquiring organization. It’s not unusual for a big behemoth to acquire a scrappy smaller company solely for the purpose of infusing the moribund giant with fresh blood, …
Columbia SC Rallys to Take Down the Confederate Flag
Commentor EuralJ went to a rally in Columbia on Saturday, and sent along these photos: The women holding signs in front of the flag are my wife and daughter. I included the Tillman protest picture because a lot of people want that one to go as well – they only difference between Tillman and Roof …
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Still Too Early To Know, Probably
Again, we just simply do not know what motivated Wednesday’s act of wanton slaughter and speculation as to what those twisted reasons were isn’t going to be helpful at this time, and…wait I’m getting something in my earpiece now… Dylann Roof has confessed to authorities to shooting and killing nine people this week at a historically …
A Legacy Of Hatred
Meet our suspect in last night’s terrorist attack in Charleston, Dylann Roof of Columbia, SC. Suspect in #Charleston shooting identified as 21 yr old Dylann Roof. If you know his whereabouts, call 1-800-CALL-FBI pic.twitter.com/EmFL5gLMCL — Berkeley County SC (@BerkeleySCGov) June 18, 2015 A guy with white-rule Rhodesian and apartheid-era South African flags on his jacket, …
Rick Perry 2016: He’s Way More Butch Than Lindsey Graham!
"Time is a flat circle: Rick Perry is upon us again.” http://t.co/qtM52xi6I2 — Forrest Wilder (@Forrest4Trees) June 4, 2015 Lindsey, as it happens, is the one other gen-u-wine military veteran among this cycle’s GOP candidates. But the only reason Rick Perry is getting more media attention than Lincoln Chafee right now is that Texas is …
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Gray Matters
Rich Lowry, in WIN THE MORNING Magazine, with the candlestick, on #BlackLivesMatter. Let’s be honest: Some black lives really don’t matter. If you are a young black man shot in the head by another young black man, almost certainly no one will know your name. Al Sharpton won’t come rushing to your family’s side with …