Is George Allen Catering to Antisemitism?
[Cross=posted at RaisingKaine] George Allen has a fascinating family history--one that his carefully contrived persona as a rural white working-class Virginian seems deliberately designed to obscure....
View ArticleAre We Living in a Resurrected Reincarnated Confederacy
As someone who has a unique perspective on the United States and it's politics, having visited more than 40 nations, spending 16 years overseas, having studied as a political anthropologist, the...
View ArticleRepublican blogger proposes a celebration of slavery
A few days ago at my blog--The Richmond Democrat--I proposed that the time had at last come to honor Virginia's Unionists--Virginians who had stayed loyal to the United States during the American Civil...
View ArticleConfederate ghosts in the South's attic
Also posted at Facing South: A New Voice for a Changing SouthWhen Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell declared April as the state's Confederate History Month, Republican operatives likely thought it was a safe...
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Open Thread: Proto, Crypto, Neo & Other Confederates
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's brief foray into reviving the fundamental myth of the Civil War by eliminating slavery from his Confederate History Month proclamation ended in one of those...
View ArticleThe Conservative Tradition of Attacking Teachers and Education
Cross posted from Real Economics and CorrenteWire.So, Republicans and Tea-baggers today, after giving tens of billions in tax cuts to millionaires and corporations, are demanding steep cuts in state...
View ArticleThe Truth About the Confederacy
Cross-posted from CorrenteWire.The 150th anniversary of the Fort Sumter bombardment that formally began the Civil War is tomorrow, and wrong-wingers throughout the South and the rest of America are...
View ArticleThe Tea Party's Neoconfederacy Fights the Civil War (Again)
It seems like only yesterday that Bush’s blow-dried and homophobic Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton, burnished her scholarly credentials and pronounced that the South was “defending state...
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Are Tea Partiers Just Re-Branded Neo-Confederates
Almost everyone, myself included, talks about the Tea Party as if it is some kind of separate entity from the Republican Party. From its Fox “News” sponsored launch onward people have been trying to...
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Black Confederates? No evidence? No problem!
Remember that Virginia fourth grade textbook that claimed that thousands of African-Americans fought as soldiers for the Confederacy? And the critics raved! (from WaPo): A supposed photo of the...
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Sad Republicans upset over Obama mural give me a pain
Unreal: Obama mural inside polling place in Philly. No wonder they are kicking out GOP officials. Photo http://t.co/...— @Timodc via web I will feel sorry for the GOPers who have to look at an Obama...
View ArticleKoch Brothers Oppose Debt Ceiling Brinksmanship
The money boys are talking and it's not good for the tea party Republican House members. Wall Street and the Chamber of Commerce want the debt ceiling raised and no more brinksmanship. But the Tea...
View ArticleJudging Lincoln: Thoughts on His Birthday
Abraham Lincoln’s 204th birthday is upon us. Although the sixteenth President has never receded from our public consciousness, Steven Spielberg’s recent movie Lincoln has brought him to the front of...
View ArticleRefuting Nullification, Part One
Originally posted at Talk to Action.The emerging influence of Thomas J. Woods and other neo-Confederate ideologues within the Catholic Right was the focus of the first post in this series. They are...
View ArticleRefuting Nullification, Part Two
Originally posted at Talk to Action.In this series we have been discussing the emerging influence of Thomas J. Woods and other Catholic Right neo-Confederates, who are advocating that states nullify...
View ArticleThomas E. Woods, Jr. And the Right to Oppress
Originally posted at Talk to Action.In the last several posts we have examined an element of the Catholic Right comprised of neo-Confederate apologists who openly advocate both the state nullification...
View ArticleOh noes! Rand Paul loses his Southern Avenger!
No, not THAT Southern Avenger. This one: Jack Hunter. From CNN:Hunter had made a number of provocative comments about race and was also a member of the pro-Southern independence group League of the...
View ArticleTreason, Sedition, and the Defense of Democracy's High Ground
Search back in my comments the past few years, and you will find that I have often argued that today's Republican Party and conservative movement represents a resurrection of the thinking of the...
View ArticleSymbol Truth: Union kepi trumps 'Stars & Bars'
Given the increasing appearance of posts like Clear Eyes' from today and MinistryofTruth's from Oct. 10, I've about had it with the bloviating, neo-Confederate racist jackass wastes of oxygen who are...
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Don't be surprised to hear positive mentions of Jefferson Davis from Thad...
In Mississippi, the tea party-driven Republican civil war has direct ties to the real Civil War in the primary contest for the seat of six-term Sen. Thad Cochran. His challenger is a neo-Confederate....
View ArticleThe South Won.
This terrific article was shared today by a Facebook friend from Oklahoma. It makes a number of points with respect to understanding Tea Party rhetoric and strategy.I recommend it...
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Southern Delusions and the Burning of Atlanta
I remember six years ago, the exhilaration and excitement evoked by the election of Barack Obama. Do you? And do you also remember how unwelcome were the few observers and commentators who tried to...
View ArticleMy Letter to Editor refuting conservative economics - printed!
One week ago, BeninSC posted a diary noting that the Republicans are "a party of Orwellian deception" and urging us to...shine the biggest light on the superiority of Democratic morality. Of doing unto...
View ArticleOn Meeting a Neo-Confederate in Richmond Today
Hello fellow Kossacks, it's @JCWilmore. It's been almost a year since last I posted, but I had a rather jarring experience today related to the events in Charleston, South Carolina last night, and I...
View ArticleRacist mortmain keeps Jeff Davis statue in place at UT
Mortmain traditionally translated as "dead hand" was the practice of allowing perpetual ownership of property by certain religious institutions. It came into disfavor, generating various acts of...
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The hate next door: Unexpected faces of the Neo-Confederacy
It is far too easy - and all too human - to make sweeping judgements about people based solely on limited experience and unlimited assumptions. But it is important to work past that genetically...
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Neo-Confederacy's "hidden hand" financier to rally battle flag wavers in...
Millionaire neo-Confederate movement financier and Republican power broker, Richard Hines North Carolina's grass-fed neo-Confederate movement appears to be struggling of late to find a way to continue...
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Uncle Lucius' grace note: Truth and reconciliation in the face of the...
A popular Austin TX band, Uncle Lucius, kicked off a Southeastern U.S. tour recently. In Charlotte, North Carolina (a state whose growing neo-Confederate frenzy I have covered here, here, and here), at...
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Muslim-free flag-nutters' rally fizzles at UNC Chapel Hill
UNC Chapel Hill's 'Silent Sam' confederate monument has seen increasing vandalism attacks in recent months. The university has no similar monument to the many otherwise similar young Tarheels who laid...
View ArticleThe NYT partly enables the public acceptance of white supremacists
Public allowance for the legitimacy of white supremacists gets a little help from weasel-wordsmithing New York Times authors, editors, and headline writers:Car Hits Crowd After White Nationalist Rally...
View ArticleJim Bakker and Charles M. Blow agree: Trump is pushing America toward a new...
From sublime to the openly ridiculous, we have an apparent agreement between New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow and far-right PTL Club Televangelist Jim Bakker — he who is famous for serving five...
View ArticleCan't make this crap up
Note the use of the Confederate Stars and Bars in the guy’s logo. No real surprise that Trump supporters are also neo-confederates. My reply was the obvious one:I would rather have immigrants who want...
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