Candidate for governor calls for removal of Stone Mountain carving
One of the gubernatorial candidates is calling for the removal of Confederate statues and monuments from around the state, including Stone Mountain's Civil War carving. The Democratic party...
View ArticleAbrams calls for removal of Confederate faces off Stone Mountain
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams called for the removal of the giant carving that depicts three Confederate war leaders on the face of state-owned Stone Mountain, saying it “remains a...
View ArticleStacey Abrams calls for removal of Confederate faces off Stone Mountain
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams called for the removal of the giant carving that depicts three Confederate war leaders on the face of state-owned Stone Mountain, saying it "remains a...
View ArticleStacey Abrams: State should not fund 'monument to domestic...
DALTON – Democrat Stacey Abrams found herself on the campaign trail this week answering for an earlier call to remove the carving of three Confederate leaders from state-owned Stone Mountain near...
View ArticleStone Mountain and other monuments to the Confederacy should be wiped clean...
In last week's memorial service for George Floyd, the Rev. Al Sharpton noted that the recent demonstrations against abusive policing were caused not just by Floyd's death after a white officer kneeled...
View ArticleWashington and Lee (VA) faculty vote to change the university's name
“O Beautiful Flower of Carmel, most fruitful vine, splendor of heaven, holy and singular, who brought forth the Son of God, still ever remaining a pure virgin, assist us in our necessity! O Star of the...
View ArticleThe Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, by The Band
The late 60s saw a number of great artists looking back into the American past to find a new musical direction. Bob Dylan started the trend releasing John Wesley Harding, the album that produced All...
View ArticleHistorical Ignorance and Confederate Generals
The Confederacy has been the excuse for some of today's rioting, property destruction and grossly uninformed statements. Among the latter is the testimony before the House Armed Services Committee by...
View ArticleJudge starts new injunction barring Lee statue removal in Richmond [VA]
A Virginia judge has dissolved one injunction but imposed another preventing Virginia’s governor from removing an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The new 90-day injunction bars the...
View ArticleAfter Lee, It's Lincoln's Turn
First, they came for the Confederates. And that purge is far from over. But the cultural-Marxist revolution has moved far beyond Davis, Lee and Jackson. Out west, it is Abraham Lincoln's turn.
View ArticleAfter Lee, It's Lincoln's Turn
First, they came for the Confederates. And that purge is far from over. Jefferson Davis Highway in Arlington, named for the president of the Confederacy, has been re-christened Richmond Highway. An...
View ArticleVirginia removes Robert E. Lee statue from U.S. Capitol
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Governor Northam announced that Virginia’s statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was removed from the U.S. Capitol overnight. A representative from the governor’s office...
View ArticleRobert E. Lee statue removed from US Capitol
A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed overnight from its perch in the US Capitol where it has stood next to George Washington for 111 years and will be replaced by one honoring a civil...
View ArticleVirginia cuts Confederate Gen. Robert Lee statue into pieces
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A crowd erupted in cheers and song Wednesday as work crews hoisted an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee off the pedestal where it has towered over Virginia’s...
View ArticleStatement by Donald J. Trump on Robert E. Lee statue removal
Just watched as a massive crane took down the magnificent and very famous statue of “Robert E. Lee On His Horse” in Richmond, Virginia. It has long been recognized as a beautiful piece of bronze...
View ArticleWith Robert E. Lee's Statue Gone, Virginia Reveals Some New Plans For...
One of the largest Confederate monuments came down Wednesday in Richmond, Va. Now, the state is announcing new plans for the base that used to hold the massive statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee....
View ArticleLee statue base reassembled after failed time capsule search
RICHMOND, Va. -- Workers returned Friday to the site in Richmond where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee stood for more than a century, but won't resume their search for a 134-year-old time...
View ArticleAt 9/11 memorial event, Biden rants incoherently about boxing Trump, Florida,...
At 9/11 memorial event, Biden rants incoherently about boxing Trump, Florida, and Robert E. Lee pic.twitter.com/ukJSuKZzOy— Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) September 12, 2021
View ArticleCommemorating the 20th Anniversary of 9/11
Washington -- How did the weekend that commemorated the 20th anniversary of 9/11 -- America's Pearl Harbor for the 21st century -- go for you? There were huge American flags draping the skyscrapers of...
View ArticleVirginia Supreme Court asked to reconsider removal of Richmond's Lee statue
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was cut up and hauled away from Richmond's Monument Avenue three weeks ago, but plaintiffs who failed to block the removal want...
View ArticleThe Road To Hell Is Paved With Time-Wasting Race-Focused Task Forces
An initiative to rename roads in Northern Virginia is the kind of wasteful, worthless bureaucratic radicalism that Glenn Youngkin and the Republicans campaigned against in the commonwealth.The irony...
View ArticleNortham announces final steps in clearing, ceding area where Lee monument stood
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) announced on Sunday that the final steps to remove what's left of the memorial to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond would commence on Monday and be...
View ArticleContents of time capsule removed from Robert E. Lee statue pedestal revealed
RICHMOND, Va. — A rust-colored 1875 almanac, a cloth envelope and a silver coin were found Wednesday in a time capsule that lay hidden beneath a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in...
View ArticleCrews find second long-sought-after time capsule under Robert E. Lee statue
Earlier this month, crews dismantling the pedestal found a time capsule embedded in a granite block that some thought might have been the one placed in 1887. But after state conservators spent hours...
View Article1865 magazine clipping, Bible removed from second time capsule found at...
(CNN)A second time capsule recently found buried beneath the pedestal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia, was opened Tuesday. Items inside included an 1865 edition of Harper's Weekly...
View Article
