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News From Around the South, 4/27 to 5/4
2+ hour, 39+ min ago (734+ words) by RIS Secure | May 4, 2026 | Archive, CSA, Southern Partisan COLUMBIA " The Statehouse's'planned monument'to Civil War hero Robert Smalls'has a location. It has a design. What Smalls' monument, the first on the grounds honoring an individual Black person, needs next is funding....
The Trump Surveillance State
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (561+ words) by RIS Secure | Apr 30, 2026 | Archive, Obiter Dicta, Southern Partisan The Fourth Amendment protects all persons from warrantless government searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers and effects. It requires that warrants be supported by probable cause of crime and…...
Augmented reality brings Revolutionary War to life at Army Museum
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (620+ words) by RIS Secure | Apr 29, 2026 | Archive, Homepage, Southern Partisan Selecting hot spots on the screen will bring you to the center of a crowd listening to a preacher fomenting revolution or transport you to Thomas Jefferson's talking head, animated through generative…...
MAGA Is Anti-Christian Now
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (342+ words) by RIS Secure | Apr 28, 2026 | Archive, Obiter Dicta, Southern Partisan Still, as someone who came up in the conservative movement, I find it a bit dizzying to watch people who used to venerate religious leaders of all stripes now smack-talk the…...
News From Around the South, 4/20 to 4/27
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (1117+ words) by Editor2026 | Apr 27, 2026 | Archive, CSA, Southern Partisan The city of Frederick, Md. , had a much smaller footprint in the 1770s than it does today but played a significant role in the American Revolutionary War. In addition to being the home of founding fathers,…...
A Secret Act of Judicial Tyranny
1+ week, 4+ day ago (602+ words) by Editor2026 | Apr 23, 2026 | Archive, Obiter Dicta, Southern Partisan In a famous Supreme Court one-liner, reminding the legal community of the finality of the court's rulings, the late Justice William J. Brennan Jr. is reputed to have said that the Constitution means whatever…...
National Park Service Awards $8. 5 Million in Land and Water Conservation Fund Grants to Preserve Historic Battlefield Lands
1+ week, 5+ day ago (427+ words) by Editor2026 | Apr 22, 2026 | Archive, Homepage, Southern Partisan The grants support state, tribal, local and nonprofit partners working to'acquire'and permanently protect threatened battlefield lands associated with the Revolutionary War, War of'1812'and Civil War. "These awards expand the local stewardship efforts of…...
The Kindness of Strangers
1+ week, 6+ day ago (378+ words) by RIS Secure | Apr 21, 2026 | Archive, Obiter Dicta, Southern Partisan I've been playing in the public arenas of politics and commentary, of columns and television and campaigns, for long enough not to pretend that it was all warm and fuzzy back…...
News from Around the South, 4/13 to 4/20
1+ week, 6+ day ago (921+ words) by RIS Secure | Apr 21, 2026 | Archive, CSA, Southern Partisan HOPKINS " The birds that usually sing at Congaree National Park had accompaniment Saturday from jazz musicians, saxophonists, singers and woodwinds. First preserved in 1976 as'Congaree Swamp National Monument, the 26, 000-acre park at the…...
Dangers of Disease in American Revolutionary War
2+ week, 4+ day ago (405+ words) by RIS Secure | Apr 16, 2026 | Archive, Homepage, Southern Partisan As America celebrates 250 years of independence, here is a look back at the price the Revolutionary War service members paid for freedom. Besides being killed by the enemy, the thing most feared…...