Nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989) led the Soviet program to develop what he believed to be the worlds most powerful weapon; the atomic bomb. Prior to his death he made a drastic revision concerning his beliefs on the supreme weapon of the world. The nuclear bomb was not the most powerful weapon, but […]
It is absolutely maddening to stand and face the relentless and savage reconstruction taking place presently in the South; yet stand we must as it is our sacred duty. In the 1860’s Yankees destroyed communities, desecrated churches, banned Bibles, burned schools, raped, murdered and plundered wherever the opportunity allowed. Their government, under the authority […]
J. Ogden Murray clearly sets forth his purpose in his Preface to the text, The Confederate Soldier, The Ideal Soldier of the World. I can only add my historical observations of the past one hundred and eight years since its publication. Murray correctly states that the War 1861 – 1865, was “cruel, unjust and illegal…waged with fanatical malice”. […]
In reviewing the phenomenon of the removal of Confederate statues, it strikes me that this is a great opportunity to review some fundamental questions about things Confederate and indeed about the nature of our federal system of government. To those celebrating the removal of soldiers’ statues, I would pose three questions. […]
A.J. Requier Fold up the gorgeous silken sun, By bleeding martyrs blest, And heap the laurels it has won, Above its place of rest. No trumpet’s note harshly blast— No drum funeral roll— No trailing sabres drape the bier That frees a dauntless soul! It lived with Lee, and decked his brow From […]
By H. Rondel Rumburg “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind” ~ Hosea 8:7 One segment of the population does not like the monuments and symbols of another so they must be allowed to destroy those monuments, eradicate them from history, and create a hostile environment for any […]
By Ron Rumburg There is still afoot, roaming about the South, the Northern Tiger with an insatiable appetite for destroying accuracy in history and correcting so-called Southern wrongs by demeaning and taunting the people with an unbiblical view of sin and forgiveness. There is an overbearing attempt to cower Southern Christian men into […]
A “gentleman” is a genteel man. In other words he is noble in the Christian sense of the word. he is a man of character. Character is actually what a man is and not what a man is perceived to be or perceives himself to be, which is reputation. Douglas Southall Freeman distilled Robert […]
By H. Rondel Rumburg The Cult of Victimization and its sense of self-pity sunk its roots deeply in the post-war of northern aggression period. The origin of this cult is the satanic insistence on the preeminence of the will of the creature over the will of God. The slogan of this cult is “the free […]
The latest Crusade of the Progressives and other Politically Correct to remove all Confederate monuments from the face of the earth reminds me of a recent article by one Patricia Sullivan from the Washington Post concerning the Confederate statue in Alexandria, Virginia, and the Alexandria City Council’s unanimous vote to relocate it. The article […]