
In 1871, the Texas legislature banned carrying guns outside the home–a move largely directed at controlling blacks during the Reconstruction era. That ban was altered in 1995, when Texas adopted the concealed carry of handguns, yet a prohibition against openly carrying handguns in public remained on the books. It took the Republican-controlled 2015 Texas legislature and Governor Greg Abbott (R) to abolish that final prohibition, thereby making it legal to carry handguns openly in public in the Lone Star State–and achieving liberty for all.
by AWR Hawkins3 Jan 2016, 7:24 AM PST0

On December 17, the New Orleans city council voted 6 to 1 to remove “prominent Confederate statues” in the city.
by AWR Hawkins17 Dec 2015, 8:42 PM PST0

Just before Thanksgiving, a Texas school board voted to erase more American history.
by Merrill Hope26 Nov 2015, 3:36 PM PST0

On Monday, University of Mississippi Police Department officers took down the state flag, yielding to those who argued that the standard’s Confederate battle flag in one corner made it unfit to display. The flag was furled and saved in the university’s archives.
by William Bigelow26 Oct 2015, 10:00 AM PST0

America continues to shed its sad racial history as public support grows against display of the Confederate battle-flag (specifically, the battle-flag of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia). Tragically it took nine June 2015 racist murders in Charleston, South Carolina, home of the Confederacy, to really awaken Americans to the need to move on.
by Edward H. Bonekemper15 Oct 2015, 8:43 AM PST0

On September 11, The Huffington Post reflected on how southern Democrats used gun control—and their resulting superior firepower—as a de facto means of suppressing post-Civil War blacks, thereby maintaining a society where “average citizens” lived in the shadow of their “betters,” in clear violation of the 14th Amendment.
by AWR Hawkins12 Sep 2015, 7:43 AM PST0

Julianne Moore’s life off-screen is quickly becoming a tale of everything the actress abhors. From Sarah Palin, to guns, to Civil War history relating to the Confederacy, Moore can’t keep from stating her opposition to certain people, places, and things.
by AWR Hawkins24 Aug 2015, 9:57 PM PST0

Julian Castro, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), stirred up some controversy at a San Antonio high school named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In recent weeks, he called for a name change. Not everyone agrees with the former San Antonio mayor.
by Merrill Hope29 Jul 2015, 8:07 PM PST0

Leftist agitator and Muslim propagandist Musa al-Gharbi is calling progressives to strike while the iron is hot, re-appropriating, abolishing, or otherwise re-identifying Confederate monuments, street names, and public schools while the anti-Confederate flag momentum still holds sway.
by AWR Hawkins16 Jul 2015, 6:22 PM PST0

On June 24, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) ordered the Confederate battle flag removed from the state Capitol grounds in Montgomery. On July 13, the Huntsville, Alabama, chapter of the NAACP said the Confederate battle flag worn by every Alabama state trooper and emblazoned on every trooper’s vehicle needs to go away, as well.
by AWR Hawkins14 Jul 2015, 10:37 AM PST0

Ironically, Forrest is buried Health Sciences Park which, until 2013, was called the Nathan Bedford Forrest Park. It is where all attention is now focused as the city pursues action that the Heritage Act may forbid.
by AWR Hawkins13 Jul 2015, 1:23 PM PST0

Amid moves around the country to banish Confederate flags from public view and remove statues of Confederate leaders from prominent places, an online petition to rename Virginia’s Jefferson Davis Highway has been launched.
by AWR Hawkins13 Jul 2015, 12:22 PM PST0

A local civil rights activist lodged state and federal complaints against a North Texas high school over its Confederacy focused team mascot, the Rebel. In response, hundreds of parents, students and other supporters showed up on Sunday afternoon for an impromptu rally to defend the mascot from criticism that it is a divisive symbol of the Confederacy.
by Merrill Hope13 Jul 2015, 8:32 AM PST0

On July the 7, the Nashville Metro Council voted to ask the Tennessee Department of Transportation “to plant vegetation to block the view” of a statue of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
by AWR Hawkins13 Jul 2015, 8:20 AM PST0

On July 9, the New Orleans City Council undertook the “legal process” of declaring Confederate statues “nuisances” within the city, so that those statues can then be removed.
by AWR Hawkins12 Jul 2015, 11:01 AM PST0

On July 7 the Memphis City Council voted unanimously to exhume the body of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest from its 110 year resting place and move it to another location.
by AWR Hawkins11 Jul 2015, 11:19 AM PST0

Early Thursday morning, the State House of South Carolina voted to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the State Capitol. Gov. Nikki Haley has pledged to sign the bill immediately, and the flag may come down as soon as today.
by Breitbart News10 Jul 2015, 2:50 PM PST0

Behold the smeared, clownish face of politics in America today.
by Charles Hurt29 Jun 2015, 7:46 AM PST0

(Note: This speech was given by Ron Maxwell, on Sunday, June 7, 2009, at the annual commemoration of the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery.)
by Ron Maxwell25 Jun 2015, 7:04 AM PST0

California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) is calling on the San Diego Unified School District to change the name of Robert E. Lee Elementary School because of its namesake’s ties to the Confederacy.
by Michelle Moons25 Jun 2015, 6:17 AM PST0

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has joined calls to remove a statue of Kentucky-native Jefferson Davis from the state capitol building.
by AWR Hawkins23 Jun 2015, 6:49 PM PST0

An 83-year-old monument to the Confederate soldiers who came to the defense of Charleston during the Civil War was defaced by “Black Lives Matter” protesters sometime late on Saturday evening.
by Warner Todd Huston21 Jun 2015, 9:03 PM PST0

The statue of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy, is under attack at the University of Texas campus in Austin. The statue was first defaced with writing that said “Davis must fall” and “Emancipate UT.” The Student Government also voted in March that the statue must come down. The administration at the University of Texas has not acted on the Student Government vote.
by Lana Shadwick12 May 2015, 5:08 AM PST0

President Abraham Lincoln died 150 years ago today, succumbing to a bullet wound delivered by the famous stage actor turned assassin, John Wilkes Booth. The 16th President of the United States was shot in the back of the head while watching the play “The American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C.
by Jarrett Stepman15 Apr 2015, 11:15 AM PST0

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Houston housewife who has quietly collected rare Civil War images for 50 years has sold more than 500 early photographs to the Library of Congress.
by Breitbart News29 Mar 2015, 10:36 AM PST0