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Mexico Aims to Reshape the US Firearm Industry by Suing Gun Makers: The Supreme Court Will Decide Whether That Threat to the Second Amendment Is Legally Viable

by editor | Mar 5, 2025 | Archive, Southern Partisan

President Donald Trump, who imposed punitive tariffs on Mexico this week, complains that our southern neighbor is not doing enough to stop illegal drugs from crossing the border. Mexico has a similar complaint about the United States and guns, as reflected in a case...

This Group of Veterans is Finding Peace in an Unlikely Place: a Camden Revolutionary War Battlefield

by editor | Mar 5, 2025 | Archive, Southern Partisan

CAMDEN — A below-freezing wind chill, weeks of rain and manual labor might seem like a lot of work to recover an ounce of lead from the ground. But for the team of veterans digging up this Camden Revolutionary War era battlefield, it’s bigger than that. “For veterans,...

News From Around the South, 2/24 to 3/3

by editor | Mar 3, 2025 | Archive, Southern Partisan

TEXAS: State Celebrates Texas Independence Day It was on March 2, 1836, when historians believe the original and five copies of the Texas Declaration of Independence were written and signed by 59 men at Washington-on-the-Brazos. Texans now know the day as Texas...

Open For Corruption

by editor | Feb 28, 2025 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Is America open for corruption now? Unabashedly? Nakedly? Are we tossing aside not just our hard-won victories over infectious diseases but also the more than hundred-year battle against fraud, bribery and graft? Honest, clean government doesn’t follow...

Thomas Jefferson Claimed He Introduced Bill to Free Enslaved Blacks 100 Years Before Civil War. Was He Lying?

by editor | Feb 26, 2025 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Imagine a world where the Civil War never happened. Slavery would have ended a century earlier than it did, sparing the country decades of division and a bloodbath that cost thousands of Americans their lives and created an ideological chasm that persists to this day....

America Joins the Jackals

by editor | Feb 25, 2025 | Archive, Southern Partisan

As I watched election returns on the evening of Nov. 5, 2024, I was struck by the sense that Americans had missed the memo. Across the nation, in blue states as well as red, county after county showed a marked rightward shift. It was so seemingly normal. What do you...