by editor | Sep 18, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The harlequin bug arrived in Texas in 1864, coinciding with increased Federal operations in the state. Earning nicknames such as the “Lincolnite” or “Sherman-bug,” its sudden appearance and proclivities appeared to make it the perfect weapon.[1] It feeds on the juices...
by editor | Sep 17, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Last week, The New York Times featured an article titled: “How the Last Eight Years Made Young Women More Liberal.” According to every poll, since 2016 there has been an unprecedented political/social gender gap between young American women and men. Here...
by editor | Sep 16, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
SOUTH CAROLINA: Lowcountry Fossil Hunter is Sharing Ancient Finds in a Modern Way GOOSE CREEK — Waist-deep in a Charleston-area river, a pair of goggles atop his head and inflatable tubes floating around him, fossil and treasure hunter Matthew Mitchell held up a...
by editor | Sep 12, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
In 1966, two famous Russian literary dissidents, Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, were tried and convicted on charges of disseminating propaganda against the Soviet state. The two were authors and humorists who published satire abroad that mocked Soviet leaders for...
by editor | Sep 11, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Spearheaded by a group of pastors, a scholarship for descendants of a racial cleansing in Forsyth County in 1912 aims to right a multigenerational wrong. CUMMING, Ga. — When Durwood Snead moved to Forsyth County, Georgia, in 1989, he was struck by the lack of...
by editor | Sep 10, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
There’s been a mini-flap about former President Donald Trump’s recently reprehensible conduct at Arlington National Cemetery. First of all, what the hell did you expect? Secondly, when is Trump gonna stop with that cheesy “thumbs up” hand sign?...