by editor | Jun 26, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
We’re now well into the annual hurricane season. Here in the Lowcountry, it’s always a question of when — not if — the next storm will come through. Even before Charleston’s first permanent European settlers arrived in 1670, tropical storms played a role in our...
by editor | Jun 25, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
WASHINGTON — The first debate between now-President Joe Biden and then-President Donald Trump was held in Cleveland on Sept. 29, 2020. According to a FiveThirtyEight survey, nearly 60% of those who watched all or some of that debate rated Biden’s performance as...
by editor | Jun 25, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
SOUTH CAROLINA: How a Revolutionary War battle in SC helped name two Navy ships, a festival and a book When Revolutionary War troops fought the Battle of Cowpens in 1781, the name only made sense: The area, now near Spartanburg, was dotted with literal cow pens. In...
by editor | Jun 20, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
What if the government is a myth? What if it doesn’t produce what we pay it for? What if it fails to safeguard our lives, liberties and property from its own agents? What if nothing changes after these failures and after elections? What if we’re stuck with...
by editor | Jun 19, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Juneteenth National Independence Day was launched to celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S.—but not all citizens will enjoy a day off to mark the occasion. America’s newest federal holiday, named after a contraction of the date “June Nineteenth,”...