The South Carolina House of Representatives has passed a bill which makes it a criminal act to enforce Obamacare in the Palmetto State. It now goes to the State Senate for approval. If passed there the bill sets up a potentially explosive confrontation with the US Federal Government over the rights of South Carolinians....
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In recent months we have studied rather extensively the Caribbean roots of the Lower South and the plantation system which came to have such a cultural and economic impact on the Southern people. As informative as the facts are, it is nice to hear a story told particularly well. Southern professor and writer Ulrich Bonnell...
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Ideological and theological disputes within the Episcopal church have led to the conservative diocese of South Carolina splitting off from the main church, which has ordained gay and lesbian bishops and supports homosexual marriage. Daniel Burke writes for RNS: The Diocese of South Carolina announced on Wednesday (Oct. 17) that it has disaffiliated from the...
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The follow pictures show two Confederate graves from the Holley family in western South Carolina. I’m sorry the quality isn’t better. These pictures were taken with an old cell phone. Note: The images can be enlarged.
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A scene from the front yard. Also see: Summer in Dixie
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A man in Goose Creek, SC has filed a police report stating that Confederate flags were stolen from in front of his home and his mother’s home next door on Tuesday. Greg Hambrick has the story for Goose Creek Patch: The controversy over the Confederate flag continues in South Carolina, and in one Goose Creek...
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Like the lands around and throughout the Caribbean, Carolina was not spared the horror of slave revolts during the colonial era. Dr Walter Edgar discusses the racial unease and finally outright violence which broke out in rebellion and slaughter, the great fear of Southerners in the era of African slavery, on pages 74-77 of...
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The following alert comes from the Tenth Amendment Center: The senate finance committee is considering a bill, S. 1184, to amend state law, effectively nullifying sections of the NDAA authorizing indefinite detention. The bill prohibits the agencies of the state and its subdivisions, including their officers and employees, acting in official capacity from...
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Few people today can imagine the degree to which South Carolina suffered under direct US military occupation following the Union’s conquest of the State in 1865. Alfred B Williams’ book Hampton and His Red Shirts: South Carolina’s Deliverance tells the story in frank terms which could surely never be published by any ‘respectable’ firm today because...
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In 1876 former Confederate General Wade Hampton led a grass-roots revolution in South Carolina against the Reconstruction government and ultimately prevailed against overwhelming odds. Known as ‘The Saviour of South Carolina’ for saving the State from barbarism, Hampton is one of the South’s greatest heroes. The video below was posted on our YouTube channel...
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We have another example of Southern heritage being pushed aside by the forces of ‘progress’: Sons of Confederate Veterans Rivers Bridge Camp 842 Commander Peter Boineau says the South Carolina Department of Transportation’s plans to improve the John C. Calhoun Drive and Russell Street intersection are disconcerting. The $1 million project would run a...
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Some kind of Yankee gang calling itself SHARK attempts to fly their own drone aircraft over private property used as a hunting club. Person or persons unknown shoot the drone to pieces after which it crashes. Note the reference to slavery in the video description, combine that with the accent of the person narrating...
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