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LATEST BLOGS

​JAMES RUTLEDGE ROESCH: We Can Replace Them
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The Democrats plan to replace us, but we can push back.
CLYDE WILSON: My, How The World Has Changed

A septuagenarian remembers the way things used to be.
VALERIE PROTOPAPAS: Mental Indigestion
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What happened to common sense?

The Book Bench: Contributor Reviews

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MICHAEL MARTIN

Review: Lincoln on Race and Slavery
Henry Louis Gates, Jr, editor

ROBERT PETERS

Review: The Classical Origins of Southern Literature
by Dr. James Everett Kibler, Jr

PAUL GOTTFRIED

Review: Quench the Smoldering Wick
by Gordon Peter Wilson
MICHAEL MARTIN: Defending History in Charleston
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Altering history to appease snowflakes only creates more division.
​JAMES RUTLEDGE ROESCH: Declaration of Dispossession
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Roesch examines how Neocons have subverted our Founding Fathers' intentions.
​ILANA MERCER: The Caravans Cometh

Allow me to sound the alarm. The tipping point is coming.

Featured blog series: The Trump Presidency Mid Passage


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BOYD CATHEY: The Other Resistance - Never Trumpers
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Can Trump overcome the Neocons in the Swamp?
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CLYDE WILSON: 
Trump Agonistes
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Public enthusiasm for Trump remains. The question is: Is it any longer justifiable?
PAUL GOTTFRIED: Samuel T Francis in the Age of Trump
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Leviathan and Its Enemies foreshadowed the rise of Trump and the Deplorables.
​CAROLINA CONTRARIAN: Roseanne and the Death of Hollywood
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The Golden Swamp still doesn't get it.
​CHRISTOPHER J. CARTER: Lee and His Enemies
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Trump's mention of Robert E. Lee brought out those people.
​CLYDE WILSON: The War Between the States: Who Were the Nazis?
​THOMAS FLEMING: What is To Be Done?

​Conservative strategies simply don’t work.  They never have, they never will. So what is to be done?
​Shared from The Fleming Foundation website

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