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Since 2007, John Culpepper had been anticipating this moment: the unveiling of a statue to the common Confederate soldier in his hometown of Chickamauga, Georgia. In November of last year, three days before Donald Trump won the presidency, it became a reality. Culpepper founded the local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the self-described historic honor society that's been keeping the Confederate legacy alive for more than a century. Culpepper greeted visitors with smiles and handshakes as they filed into rows of white folding chairs behind the towering, shrouded statue. Most of them were his neighbors from Chickamauga, a...

Big Guy’s greatly anticipated Brandenburg Gate II performance was a bit of a letdown. Reality Bites While not exactly dismissive or derisive, it did come across as a bit derivative. Sort of a mash-up of the original “Ick bin ein Berliner” and the “I have a dream” speech. From JFK we get that Big Guy is a citizen of the World, from MLK, we get that he still harbors his college-aged self’s dream of a nuclear free world: (SNIP) College-aged Barry Soetoro, saving the world, one dooby at a time It would have been one of his best reads, too,...