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  • Editorial Condemns Monument to Confederate Soldiers

    11/17/2005 9:35:42 PM PST · by Rebeleye · 12 replies · 981+ views
    The Decatur (Alabama) Daily ^ | 16 November 2005 | Editorial
    The idea to honor only Confederate soldiers is a bad idea...
  • Guns, God and the American Flag - (Yankees & Southerners)

    02/24/2005 4:02:20 PM PST · by CHARLITE · 154 replies · 4,086+ views
    BACONS REBELLION.COM ^ | OCTOBER 6, 2003 | JAMES ATTICUS BOWDEN
    Howard Dean and Yankee Democrats don't have a clue what it means to be a Southerner. It's not about Confederate flags. It's about honor, family, self reliance and American patriotism. Who are these Confederate voters that Vermonter Howard Dean wants to represent? Is Jefferson Davis on the ballot again? I thought he was dead, along with the Confederate States of America. Hey, I’m a Southerner, why didn’t I get the memo? Duh, Dean was just being "hisself", a Yankee liberal, describing voters as he sees people – divided by race, class and gender. What a hoot. Liberals imagine identity politics...
  • April 14, 1865 President Lincoln Shot

    04/14/2005 6:40:53 PM PDT · by kellynla · 555 replies · 11,578+ views
    History Channel.com ^ | 4/14/2005 | staff
    At Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally wounds President Abraham Lincoln. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox, effectively ending the American Civil War. Booth, who remained in the North during the war despite his Confederate sympathies, initially plotted to capture President Lincoln and take him to Richmond, the Confederate capital. However, on March 20, 1865, the day of the planned kidnapping, the president failed to appear at the spot where Booth and his six fellow conspirators lay in wait. Two...