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The Raleigh News & Observer is reporting that the North Carolina Museum of History, in cooperation with the Southern Poverty Law Center, is planning to replace its exhibit entitled "North Carolina and the Civil War" with a new exhibit focusing on "civil rights." From the article: http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1400026p-1434332c.html "A vision began to emerge of multimedia displays large enough to fill the 3,600 square feet of space now devoted to a Civil War exhibit. Organizers now plan to sponsor a teachers' institute on civil rights this summer and another daylong event Oct. 12 featuring a speaker from the Southern Poverty Law Center...

Gov. Roy Barnes wears a crown, gnaws at the state Capitol and climbs Atlanta skyscrapers in a new campaign video released by GOP gubernatorial hopeful Sonny Perdue on Tuesday. Oh, and this Barnes is a giant rat. The 10-minute video will be sent to 2,000 Perdue supporters and takes some surprising jabs at Barnes, even though Perdue hasn't won his party's nomination and is not yet running against Barnes. Besides being portrayed as a giant rodent wearing a "King Roy" necklace, Barnes is shown stuffing himself with wine and fruit at the governor's mansion and lovingly hugging the state Capitol...

The recent publication of Professor Tom DiLorenzo’s book, The Real Lincoln, has caused great unhappiness in the House of Lincoln and for good reason. Lincoln is commonly taken as the true "founder" of the U.S. imperial state and its matching ideology. Efforts to trace a path between Lincoln and the actual "founders" (to use that word) only yield a web of rationalization, wilful misreadings of the record, and wrongheaded assumptions about late 18th-century American political practice, values, and ideas. Even as the South undergoes a Third (and final?) Reconstruction, many Northern historians and other literati are deeply shocked to learn...

Bernard Smith's picture was in the Monday issue of The Gaffney Ledger on two different pages and for different reasons. On the front page he was shown at the S.C. Welcome Center in Blacksburg urging travelers not to stop or shop in South Carolina. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is using #147;border patrols#148; in its effort to force state lawmakers to remove the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds in Columbia. Smith is president of the Cherokee County chapter of the NAACP and fully supports the boycott, which is his right. We also believe he...

The NAACP is wasting too much time and energy on its boycott of South Carolina, according to a group that insists the NAACP is "out of touch" with blacks. The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, the founder and president of a group called B.O.N.D. (Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny), says the NAACP is "squandering" its leadership role by continuing "this ridiculous sham of a boycott." The NAACP boycott of South Carolina dates back two years, when the group protested the flying of the Confederate battle flag over the Statehouse. Last year, the S.C. legislature agreed to relocate the flag to ...

A state Senate committee quietly killed a proposal to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway after a black Civil War veteran a plan that sparked a flood of protest. "It's pretty disgusting," said Rep. Hans Dunshee, who sponsored the bill to rename the highway after William P. Stewart, a Union soldier who later settled in Washington. "This is a statement about what Washington state thinks is important." A small stone marker near the Canadian border dedicates the highway in honor of Davis, president of the Confederacy. The United Daughters of the Confederacy placed it there in 1939, part of an effort ...

Liberals and left-wing Democrats are learning a new lesson. It's sinking in slowly, but it is sinking in. Without Republican or RNC leadership, thinking people are changing America. The New York Times is now widely recognized as the home of ninth class journalism suited to the mentally infirm. The liberal media, television, magazines, newspapers and publishing houses are suffering financially. K-mart, Rosie O'Donnell and other liberals and leftist organizations are suffering from informal boycotts by the politically aware. The liberals hold up Disney as a failure of grass roots boycotts by Patriots. Yet, Disney lost more money that Enron in ...

Recently, someone that I think is a student contacted me. He informed me that he was studying the topic of secession and asked me a question in regard to that subject. He wanted to know - can a state secede from the Union without the agreement of the other members, or "parties to the compact," as he expressed it. His terminology was interesting, as most folks don't refer to the Constitution as a compact anymore, and haven't since the conclusion of the military aspect of the War of Northern Aggression. Most people in earlier days, especially in the South, did, ...

COLUMBIA - The NAACP plans to begin "border patrols" today to discourage visitors from spending money in South Carolina, part of an ongoing protest over the Confederate flag flying on Statehouse grounds. The civil rights organization plans to picket the eight welcome centers along the state's borders with North Carolina and Georgia. Volunteers also will hand out leaflets urging travelers to keep their money in their pockets. "We're prepared at all of the centers. We won't be surprised if they're at North Augusta," Marion Edmonds, spokesman for the South Carolina Parks, Recreation & Tourism Department, said Friday. The department's employees ...

Once again, a spokesman from something called the "Declaration Foundation," David Quackenbush, has chosen personal insult and ad hominem arguments in response to my comments on Lincoln. He begins his Feb. 22 piece, "Apparent Inaccuracies," not by criticizing anything that I actually said, but saying that I argue "as if," in his opinion, I value free trade more than the abolition of slavery. He thereby underhandedly accuses me of sympathizing with slavery. This is a complete distortion of my position, and a straw man argument. It is apparently the policy of the Declaration Foundation that anyone who criticizes Lincoln is ...

In their Feb. 19 WorldNetDaily article, "All Smoke, No Gun," Richard Ferrier and David Quackenbush hysterically and irrationally recommend that readers ignore my book, "The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War," (Forum/Random House, March 2002) without ever having seen the book themselves. Based on a column by Ilana Mercer ("Lincoln's legacy of corruption"), they throw a literary fit by referring to Mercer's column as a "rant" and insulting her as being a "comprehensively ignorant parrot." They refer to me, whom they have never met and whose book they have not read as ...

Supporters and protesters of Lake City's controversial Confederate flag-bearing logo squared off Saturday during a peaceful demonstration at the annual Battle of Olustee parade. The demonstration came just a day after the president of the Columbia County NAACP chapter was arrested for posting signs about the protest. About 125 protesters carrying bright yellow National Association for the Advancement of Colored People signs lined one side of U.S. 90 downtown and chanted "Logo must go - the whole world is watching." Across the street, members of the League of the South waved Confederate flags and cheered loudly as re-enactors in Confederate ...

Confederate display part of 'Flags Across Florida' project WHITE SPRINGS - With volleys of Civil War musketry, a chorus of "Amazing Grace" and a cacophony of Rebel yells, proudly politically incorrect Southerners raised the Confederate battle flag Friday beside Florida's major tourist route. "We want to remind visitors that Florida was the third state to secede," said John Adams of Deltona, state commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. "If the city governments and state are going to cave in and move markers, take the flag down, our membership wanted to make sure that our heritage is preserved," he said. ...

Let me tread lightly but unequivocally here: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has lost its mind. If organizations can suffer the same pathologies as people, I'd say some hormone treatment and a nice little anti-depressant might be in order. This hot flash just in: The NAACP, undistracted by such serious African-American problems as, for example, a 70 percent out-of-wedlock birth rate, is still obsessing about the Confederate flag in South Carolina. As a resident of the state the past 14 years, as well as a lifelong visitor, I feel justified in remarking on the latest ...

A Confederate flag remaining in the Lake City logo is causing the National Advancement for the Association of Colored People to hold a demonstration during the Battle of Olustee Festival parade Saturday, but this year things are different, the organization says. This year, the Columbia County Branch of the NAACP has the backing of the state conference of the organization as well as the national board of directors. The NAACP's goal is to influence the city council to remove the Confederate flag from the city logo which is displayed on city vehicles and stationary. "The mayor and city council should ...

The NAACP says the economic border patrols are still on, but officials in Atlantic Beach, a predominantly black town north of Myrtle Beach, say they can't support the patrols, at least for one weekend this year. Atlantic Beach, one of the few remaining historically black-owned beaches in the United States, can't go along with the border patrols because the patrols threaten its financial stability, town officials say. "The NAACP is going to do what it has to do, and Atlantic Beach is going to do what it has to do," Mayor Irene Armstrong said. "Atlantic Beach will never sit at ...

Nicolette Fortenbury said she was trying to kill herself when she huddled in a shed behind her Dumont home and set fire to a Confederate flag. But she suddenly had second thoughts, and extinguished the flag before it was half-burned. Fortenbury attended mandatory counseling after the Sept. 26, 2000, incident and appeared ready to get on with her life. But five months later, a Bergen County grand jury indicted her on arson charges. On Thursday, a jury voiced its opinion of the case, returning a not guilty verdict after just 15 minutes of deliberations. They also acquitted her of two ...

It's like an afterthought on the state's new license plates. You could almost mistake it for an apostrophe at the end of the word "Alabama." But the phrase is still on the plates, just as a 1951 state law says it must be: "Heart of Dixie." The state law also requires a heart to appear on the plates, and "Heart of Dixie" is written in miniature script inside the heart on the new tags. State officials say the plates don't intentionally downplay the statement. Others say it's a clear step, intentional or not, away from Alabama's lingering reputation of racism. ...

<p>In Sweet Home Alabama, due this fall, Reese Witherspoon tries to hide her small-town past to join ranks with New York's social elite. To that end, she must lose her twang, avoid her hick family and dump her redneck husband. She is, after all, from Alabama. Welcome to the Big Screen South, where Hollywood prefers its towns rural, its accents thick and its ideals wedged somewhere between the Civil War and the civil rights movement.</p>

As February is both "Black History Month" and the anniversary of President Lincoln’s birthday, we know we will be hearing a lot about slavery as well as the War Between the States. Unfortunately, most of what we hear will be from television and other main stream media as well as the entertainment field - the most unreliable sources. They will present the conventional, easy-to-understand, version of events because many people today cannot deal with an issue that has more than one variable. We also know from previous Februarys that simplified depictions of slavery will focus primarily on the South. Last ...