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The Civil War I Grew Up With Mar. 16, 2023
WASHINGTON — With all the talk about the discovery of mass burial graves in faraway Ukraine, t... Read More
Robert E. Lee Doesn't Deserve a Statue, But Thomas Jefferson Does Oct. 22, 2021
In New York City, a statue of Thomas Jefferson has graced the City Council chamber for 100 years. Th... Read More
Beware the Street Name Police Aug. 15, 2021
Old Town is an historic corner of Alexandria, Virginia, rich with historic homes inhabited by many o... Read More
What to Do About Nancy Pelosi's Pa? May. 13, 2021
Washington — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's place at the head of the mob intent on correcting th... Read More
Can Democracy Hold Us Together? Dec. 22, 2020
If America were a company and not a country, we would have long ago dissolved the corporation, split... Read More
Trump Will Never Surrender, Just Like Jefferson Davis Nov. 11, 2020
WASHINGTON — Autumn sun lights the city after President Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden, except... Read More
Statues Face a Hard Look Jul. 15, 2020
WASHINGTON — Statues are all the rage as the house of American history came under fire from st... Read More
The Capitol's Confederate Past Still Present Jun. 17, 2020
WASHINGTON — Eleven Confederate statues still stand tall in the Capitol. Let the ghost of the ... Read More
Dissing the Dead in Dallas May. 28, 2019
During the walk-up to Memorial Day, with its evocations of respect for fallen warriors, hypercharged... Read More
Of Guilt and the Late Confederacy Aug. 14, 2018
Anti-Confederate liberals (of various races) can't get over the fact that pro-common-sense liberals,... Read More
Their America, and Ours. Nov. 03, 2017
"Meet you at Peace Cross." In northwest D.C. in the 1950s, that was an often-heard comment among hig... Read More
Thank You for Oppressing Us! Sep. 12, 2017
The Dallas city government's push to remove visible reminders of the Confederacy (e.g., a splendid e... Read More
Confederate Monuments: The Problem With Politically Correct History Aug. 31, 2017
Malcolm X, as a member of the Nation of Islam, preached anti-Semitism and called the white man "devi... Read More
When Parody Becomes Reality, You Know There's a Problem Aug. 29, 2017
I recently wrote about the controversy over removing Confederate era statues from public places, and... Read More
Why Stop at Reassessing Confederate Monuments? What About the Kennedy Brothers? Aug. 24, 2017
As we rewrite history and remove Confederate monuments deemed "offensive" when viewed through the pr... Read More
The Knockdown, Drag-Out Society Aug. 22, 2017
Civilized disagreement — that's one thing. But flagrant insult, direct or strongly implied, as... Read More
What Identity Politics Hath Wrought Aug. 18, 2017
There's a whiff of Weimar in the air. During the years of the Weimar Republic (1919-33), Germany was... Read More
Unfit to Lead Aug. 18, 2017
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifi... Read More
Country to Confederacy: Be Gone With the Wind Aug. 18, 2017
It's time to declare the Confederacy dead and gone with the wind. The Virginia tragedy is the knell... Read More
Is the Party of Lincoln Now the Party of Lee? Aug. 18, 2017
This year will mark my 30th anniversary as a syndicated columnist. During these years, I have writte... Read More
