President Joe Biden referred to Terry McAuliffe — the Democratic gubernatorial candidate who lost to Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin in 2021 — as “the real governor” of Virginia on Tuesday.
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2024 @ 10:51 am
By: Daily Wire
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas clashed on Thursday with a lawyer who argued in favor of Colorado removing former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, an insurrection clause dating back to the Civil War.
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2024 @ 8:10 am
By: Daily Wire
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Two left-leaning organizations sent a letter to North Carolina’s State Board of Elections last week urging the state officials to block former president Donald J. Trump from being able to run for president
Published: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 5:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lee and Jackson windows replaced to honor protesters
Published: Monday, September 25th, 2023 @ 9:24 am
By: John Steed
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Look, we get it. A lot of things that happened in the past are not at all cool today.
Published: Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 @ 9:18 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Washington Post’s resident “conservative blogger” Jennifer Rubin claimed in a Tuesday article that the MAGA slogan — “Make America Great Again” — was no different than the post-Civil War South’s battle cry: “The South will rise again.”
Published: Sunday, September 25th, 2022 @ 11:17 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday released a heavily redacted copy of an affidavit underlying a FBI search warrant executed against former President Donald Trump earlier this month.
Published: Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 @ 2:31 am
By: Daily Wire
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John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia, might be America’s most interesting personality, and is surely one of its wisest and noblest characters.
Published: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 @ 11:42 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Maybe you remember the classic 1975 film, Network, where the anchor Howard Beale, throws open a window and shouts, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."
Published: Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 @ 5:38 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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I first met Russell Welch at a cheap motel on the outskirts of Mena, Arkansas, in the summer of 1994.
Published: Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 @ 11:16 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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In the wake of the death of George Floyd, who died in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota last month, there has been a massive spike in statues to historical figures who have been dubbed “offensive” by the left being torn down.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2020 @ 10:47 pm
By: LifeZette
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The term "birthright citizenship" refers to the idea that you can become a citizen of a country simply by being born there.
Published: Friday, November 23rd, 2018 @ 10:59 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Lately, a lot of emotion has been spent over Confederate monuments in the Tar Heel state.
Published: Tuesday, September 25th, 2018 @ 8:36 am
By: Diane Rufino
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On the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill stood the noble statue of "Silent Sam," the Confederate soldier who stood vigilant watch over the campus. It stood on McCorkle place, the University's upper quad, facing Franklin Street.
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2018 @ 11:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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In a post on the Medium.com website, on Tuesday Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper called for the removal or relocation of monuments honoring Confederates from state property
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2017 @ 12:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As we honor veterans today, it's also fitting to celebrate North Carolina's commitment to the military and veterans who have served so bravely.
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 @ 4:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I make no apologies here: I am a Southerner as a condition of birth and by lineage - both parents were Southerners.
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2015 @ 11:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Maybe we need to read history before we start changing it.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 6:50 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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I read a book about the estimated 50,000 Black soldiers who wore the CSA uniform and fought in numerous battles.
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2015 @ 4:02 am
By: Ted McDonald
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The last commander of Fort Fisher before its surrender to occupying Union forces, James Reilly's postwar years reveals the bond that many former Confederate and Union soldiers exhibited during the 1880s and 1890s.
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2013 @ 12:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Joseph Eggleston Johnston was born near Farmville, Virginia on February 3, 1807.
Published: Sunday, December 8th, 2013 @ 1:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Born in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 28, 1818, Wade Hampton III was heir to one of the largest fortunes in the South. Wade Hampton III was a proficient businessman and legislator, who had misgivings about the slavery system.
Published: Saturday, December 7th, 2013 @ 2:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Those of you who live outside The Fayetteville Observer's circulation area, you probably haven't become acquainted with Myron Pitts. For those of you in the Triangle - think of Myron as a poor man's version of Barry Saunders.
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 3:18 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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On October 17, 1862 the Confederate Navy Department signed a contract with the shipbuilding firm of Thomas Howard and Elijah Ellis of New Bern to construct an ironclad gunboat on the Neuse River: the CSS Neuse.
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2013 @ 12:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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But I have serious problems in his (Abraham Lincoln) legal and Constitutional justifications for the Civil War.
Published: Monday, November 19th, 2012 @ 3:46 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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For more than a year, historians and history buffs have been recognizing the 150th anniversary of various battles and other significant events in the Civil War.
Published: Friday, August 31st, 2012 @ 3:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hood demonstrated that 150 years ago this week during the Second Battle of Bull Run. Called Second Manassas by the Confederates, the August 28-30 battle pitted the Union's Army of Virginia, led by Major General John Pope, against General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
Published: Monday, August 27th, 2012 @ 1:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today is the sesquicentennial of the first day of the Battle of Seven Pines. It was a key moment in the brief history of the Confederate States of America, the long history of the United States of America, and the very long history of unintended consequences.
Published: Friday, June 1st, 2012 @ 11:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Within these gathered groups of information from Diane Rufino, we are provided a timeline to American Civil War, and the Resolutions of Secession from South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2011 @ 11:27 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The Declaration of Independence wasn't intended as a one-time "Get Out of Jail Free" card !!
Published: Sunday, September 11th, 2011 @ 7:25 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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What does the word "Secession" mean?
Published: Saturday, September 10th, 2011 @ 10:26 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Williamsburg, Virginia may have been the Commonwealth of Virginia's second capital, but in the colonial period of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the nation of the United States of America.
Published: Monday, December 7th, 2009 @ 12:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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