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Transgender Teens
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (458+ words) by editor | Dec 23, 2025 | Archive, Obiter Dicta, Southern Partisan According to data from the CDC analyzed by the Williams Institute at UCLA, some 3.3% of American high school students ages 13-17 self-identify as transgender. Earlier studies, sometimes asking the question differently, have reported…...
News From Around the South, 12/15 to 12/22
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (610+ words) by editor | Dec 22, 2025 | Archive, CSA, Southern Partisan A Charleston historian has uncovered brand new information about the first recorded appearance of South Carolina's signature crescent flag. But he had to go to England to find it. Nic Butler, a historian…...
Tucker Carlson and the Freedom of Speech
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (345+ words) by editor | Dec 18, 2025 | Archive, Obiter Dicta, Southern Partisan Here is the back story. Madison's task as the drafter of the Bill of Rights was to codify Jefferson's lofty language and the values articulated by it into the positive law of…...
Boston celebrates its tea party history today. One in Charleston, S.C., came first
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (750+ words) by editor | Dec 17, 2025 | Archive, Homepage, Southern Partisan On this day 252 years ago, angry colonists in Massachusetts boarded a British ship in the Boston Harbor to protest what were seen as unfair circumstances regarding tea imports. Dressed as Mohawk Indians, the…...
A Human Swastika
1+ week, 1+ day ago (293+ words) by editor | Dec 16, 2025 | Archive, Obiter Dicta, Southern Partisan Happy Hanukkah. It starts on Sunday. Rabbi Yigal Rosenberg of Chabad of Santa Clara told local reporters he did not know whether the swastika was intended as some kind of joke or…...
News From Around the South, 12/8 to 12/15
1+ week, 2+ day ago (871+ words) by editor | Dec 15, 2025 | Archive, CSA, Southern Partisan MOUNT PLEASANT " For over 40 years, a 19-line poem has intrigued treasure hunters. The prose, and a corresponding painting, is one of 12 riddles compiled in "The Secret: A treasure," a book by Byron Preiss....
The President's Immigration Policy Is 'Beyond Inhumane"
1+ week, 5+ day ago (306+ words) by editor | Dec 11, 2025 | Archive, Obiter Dicta, Southern Partisan Absorbing the news about the brutal treatment of detainees, to say nothing of the outright murder of "suspected" drug runners in the Caribbean, I think back to a conversation I had in…...
Civil War wrecks vanish, then drone finds buried ‘anomalies’ on land, SC data shows
1+ week, 5+ day ago (222+ words) by editor | Dec 11, 2025 | Archive, Homepage, Southern Partisan Shipwrecks frequently get lost, but a search for four missing Civil War blockade runners off South Carolina has come to the unusual conclusion that at least three are now buried on land. The…...
Summers Is Not the Biggest Reveal From the Epstein Emails
2+ week, 1+ day ago (589+ words) by editor | Dec 9, 2025 | Archive, Obiter Dicta, Southern Partisan Summers" behavior in his interactions with Epstein was appalling, but his response to the disclosure has been within normal bounds. Within hours of the emails" release, he released a statement acknowledging guilt....
News From Around the South, 12/1 to 12/8
2+ week, 2+ day ago (136+ words) by editor | Dec 8, 2025 | Archive, CSA, Southern Partisan FLORIDA: Bill establishing Black History Museum Board clears Senate hurdle With'Florida's Museum of Black History'soon taking shape in St. Johns County, state lawmakers are moving closer to setting up a board to run…...