On Wednesday, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham warned that the frenzied purging of Confederate flags will likely lead to Democrats and Republicans joining together to toss all traces of Southern heritage down the memory hole.
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina argued that while the removal of the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds was South Carolina’s decision, “a nation that forgets its history, loses its soul” on Wednesday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.” Fiorina agreed with Ingraham
Ben Jones, the actor who appeared as “Cooter” for seven seasons on the CBS TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, is fighting back after Warner Bros. announced it would be removing the Confederate flag from General Lee, the show’s iconic 1969
On June 24, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) order the Confederate flag to be removed from the state capitol grounds in Montgomery.
Online retail giant Amazon’s Monday decision to ban the sale of merchandise depicting the Confederate flag has many Americans scratching their heads, as a quick review of Amazon’s site reveals the company still sells Nazi flags.
While the latest media-driven culture-war frenzy leaves America doubled over in agony about the Confederate battle flag, the path of tolerance and historical memory is much easier in the Brazilian town of Santa Barbara D’Oeste, where regular events bring together descendants of some ten thousand Confederates, seven generations removed, for what the BBC describes as “a sort of family reunion.”
On Wednesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol took on the rest of his “Morning Joe” panelists for his attacks on the left for their efforts to abolish the Confederate flag from public places and to pressure
As lawmakers squabble and major retailers pull the Confederate flag from store shelves and websites, Warner Bros. has essentially announced the death of a cultural icon.
There is great power in symbols, especially in an era when so many people have been taught to emote rather than thinking. The quick surge of emotion people feel upon viewing a potent symbol can be bottled and used in politics. It’s excessively charitable to call the current flag battle a “debate,” because it mostly consists of one side screaming that anyone who hesitates to dump that flag into the wood chipper of historical oblivion is either a racist, or an accessory to racism in the first degree. There isn’t much in the way of measured reason involved here.
On June 23, Sacramento Flag Works ceased sales of the the Confederate flag because Dylann Roof allegedly shot and killed nine people at Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church last Wednesday.
The left seeks to bulldoze history and free speech in pursuit of utopia. Offensiveness, justified or not, justifies the sledgehammer.
The Confederate flag was once cheered by thousands of freed slaves. It happened in 1863, when the CSS Alabama caught a Union ship off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. The spectacle was so thrilling to the locals, particularly the Malay and
NASCAR announced that they support the position of South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and will not permit the use of the Confederate flag in any official capacity at any of their sanctioned events.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has joined calls to remove a statue of Kentucky-native Jefferson Davis from the state capitol building.
After praising South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) for supporting the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Capitol, GOP gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin called for the removal of a statue of Jefferson Davis from the Kentucky Capitol.
Communism is chic: Amazon’s senior vice president Jay Carney proudly features Soviet Union war propaganda in his lavish home, after all. “Have you enlisted in the army?” a poster featured by The Washingtonian Magazine photo splash asks.
An employee at a Confederate memorabilia store in Summerville, South Carolina became very angry when CNN’s cameras tried to film the store in a segment on the Confederate flag broadcast on Tuesday’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.” The man, who did not identify
MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews accused RNC Chairman Reince Priebus of only “pretending he cared about black rights” by standing with SC Governor Nikki Haley (R) during her speech calling for the Confederate flag’s removal from South Carolina’s Capitol grounds. Matthews
From KHOU.com: Dixie Flag Company, based on the east side of San Antonio, is currently selling the Confederate flag and it has no intention of pulling the stars and bars off its shelves. In the historic flag section of this
On June 23, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) said he is moving to stop the issuance of license plates that bear the image of the Confederate flag. The flag is printed on license plates that “[recognize] the Sons of Confederate
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s decision to call for the removal of the Confederate flag from license plates comes a day after South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds. Earlier Tuesday, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced that following last week’s Supreme Court ruling declaring states can limit specialty license plate designs, he is calling for an end to allowing the “unnecessarily divisive and hurtful” symbol from appearing on Virginia license plates.
One of the emails O’Keefe highlighted showed Bush once used the word “presidente” instead of “president.” Bush’s choice of wording may be ironic in light of his stance on immigration – with many Republicans arguing that he isn’t tough enough on that issue.
Hillary Clinton called the Confederate flag a symbol of the nation’s racist past that should have “no place” in the country’s present or future.
In an interview with Fox News’ David Webb posted on Tuesday, Karl Rove praised South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) for reversing her position on the Confederate flag and calling for its removal.
CNN Commentator and pro-Hillary Super PAC Co-Chair Paul Begala said that Hillary Clinton “absolutely” has to answer for her association with Arkansas’ Confederate-inspired flag on Tuesday’s “New Day.” Begala was asked, “the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign comes out says, as she
