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Millions are NOT offended by the Confederate Flag

8/26/2016

 
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CONFEDERATE GRAVES DESECRATED IN GEORGIA

A Brunswick Police report describes the theft of 70 flags from the graves of Confederate veterans at Oak Grove Cemetery as theft of property.

The report of the missing flags was made August 18 by Hal Crowe, commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Thomas Marsh Forman Camp #485.

The Confederate battle flag "is represented on the flags and may be the reason they were stolen and removed,'' the police report says.

The flags taken were small, printed replicas of the third official flag of the Confederate State of America. A single vertical red bar takes up about a third of the flag and the rest is a white field with a battle emblem in the corner. At a cost of $2 each, the total loss was about $140, the report says.

Asked what they would do next, the Foreman Camp said, "We'll probably be redoing this and see what happens."


VA TO BAN CONFEDERATE FLAG

Congress finally decided not to ban our Flag in national cemeteries. So the Department of Veterans Affairs has decided on its own to ban the display of the Confederate Flag in cemeteries overseen by the agency.

In a letter to Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) this month, the VA said it will no longer allow the Confederate flag to fly on any flagpole in national cemeteries. However, groups will still be permitted to adorn individual graves with small Confederate flags on two days of the year: Memorial Day and Confederate Memorial Day.

The VA said that after a yearlong review of its policies surrounding the flag's display in its cemeteries, it would change them in accordance with an amendment authored by Huffman that the House abandoned earlier this summer.

Huffman offered a similar amendment to an Interior Department spending bill that passed quietly by voice vote during late-night floor debate. But some GOP lawmakers, primarily from Southern states, learned about Huffman's amendment the next day after it had already passed and demanded it be stripped from the legislation.

Rather than stage a politically damaging vote showing their members in support of the Confederate flag, House GOP leaders opted to cancel consideration of the entire underlying spending bill.


Huffman then offered his amendment on the first spending bill to come up for a vote in the House this year. Speaker Ryan (R-Wis.) allowed a vote on Huffman's measure to go forward while the VA spending bill was being considered under a process allowing unlimited amendments.


While Huffman's amendment to a VA spending bill passed on a bipartisan vote, a majority of House Republicans voted against the measure. A total of 84 Republicans voted with all but one Democrat in favor of Huffman's proposal, while 158 opposed it. The provision was ultimately left out of the final bicameral compromise VA appropriations legislation that was approved by the Senate.

Its exclusion from the final bill led Huffman and other House Democrats to urge the VA to change the policy regarding Confederate flag displays on its own in the absence of an actual policy enacted by Congress.

So even though this battle was finally won in Congress it was ultimately lost to the bureaucracy.

 
 ARTIST SUES CALIFORNIA BECAUSE OF FLAG BAN
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A Californian artist is suing the State, claiming that its ban on government agencies selling or displaying items showing the Confederate flag is unconstitutional. Timothy Desmond was not able to show his War painting, which depicts a scene from the 1864 siege of Atlanta and includes several people carrying flags, at the Fresno County Fair last October.

Governor Jerry Brown made it illegal to sell or display merchandise emblazoned with the Confederate flag in California in September 2014. The ban does not apply to images of the flag found in books, digital media or state museums if displayed for educational or historical purposes.

In his complaint filed on 15 August, Desmond says: "In many applications, Section 8195 prohibits or censors, or threatens to prohibit or censor, the constitutionally protected speech of private individuals."

The artist, who describes himself as a "Civil War buff", submitted his painting last year but it was rejected for its subject, according to court papers. He wants to resubmit The Attack as well as other works depicting Civil War scenes for this year's fair. According to the legal documents, John Alkire, the chief executive officer of the 21st District Agricultural Association, which overseas the fair, was advised by the California Attorney General that to show Desmond's work would have been inappropriate.   



ATLANTA TO NAME PARK FOR CONFEDERATE HERO

A controversy in the city of Atlanta is brewing over the naming of a park in a "Black community." Some are shocked that the city plans to name the park after a former mayor and Confederate officer, Major Livingston Mims.

Mims served as Atlanta's mayor from 1901 to 1903. The park development will cost an estimated $40 million and will include a statue of Mims alongside 15 other statues of Black local and national leaders and a Georgia Native American chief. Among these statues will be likenesses of noted civil rights leader Julian Bond and famed educator and leader W.E.B. Dubois.

The Atlanta leadership of the NAACP states that "Including the Confederate Mims with these leaders would validate the principle of the 'lost cause' that has been promoted for 140 years by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, whose members include Georgia legislators, law enforcement officers and other politicians. The 'lost cause' postulates that the South lost the war but that the Confederate 'cause' (enslaving Africans and people of African descent), and decision to wage war against the United States, was just."

The planned project will use a combination of private donations and public tax dollars to honor a hero of the Confederacy and this does not sit well with some, including the Atlanta branch of the NAACP. According to a press release from the Atlanta NAACP, "There should be no building of any structure, park or green space that honors any person or organization  that represents the celebration of the oppression of any racial, religious or minority group."

Surprisingly, the naming of the park has the backing of former Atlanta mayor and civil rights icon Ambassador Andrew Young, who reportedly engaged in a heated discussion with Atlanta NAACP President Richard Rose about the park. The media is doinf back flips to get as many quotes out there from Rose but all published accounts of the twitter and facebook discussions between Young and Rose are dedacting Mayor Young's comments.



St. Univ. of NY (SUNY) offers workshop on "How to Stop White People"

The workshop was an official part of the residential assistant training program at the taxpayer-funded university.

The Binghamton Review, the university's conservative newspaper, exposed this nonsense and they deserve a round of applause for their efforts.

It's not exactly clear how they intend to stop all of the white folks, but the course smacks of blatant bigotry disguised as cultural awareness.

Get a load of the course description:

"The premise of this session is to help others take the next step in understanding diversity, privilege, and the society we function within."

I developed a micro-aggression just reading that nonsense.

"The terrifying implication here is not that students on campus think it is appropriate to call an event by that name, but that the university seems to endorse it as a proper part of a RA training," Binghamton Review journalist Howard Hecht wrote.

"For a university dedicated to providing an inclusive environment, calling an event '#StopWhitePeople2K16' seems counterproductive at best," Hecht continued. "The name is divisive."

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When others are giving up, Dixie Heritage is digging in! When others are retreating, Dixie Heritage is advancing. When most every publisher of heritage books and materials is either selling off its inventory to go out of business and/or selling off its inventory to retool itself as a publisher of more "mainstream" material - Dixie Heritage is starting its own publishing company!

Dixie Heritage Press is the new publishing arm of Dixie Heritage! As I type, two hardback volumes are rolling off the presses. A third is ready to go to press. Additional works, both hardback and paperback, are in various stages of development.

 
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GLORY IN GREY

Back in the 1990's I began looking for a book that would be the definitive GOTO volume on everything pertaining to Confederate generals. There were 425 of them, so it would have to be an exhaustive work that would provide a detailed biography of all of them. A literal encyclopedia of Confederate generals.

I spent 5 years looking for it. Then, after not finding it, I spent the next 5 years compiling it myself. The result was a 4-volume book series titled Glory in Grey. The Glory in Grey series contains a photograph and biography of all 425 Confederate generals.

There were 4 Generals about whom no biography of any kind had ever been written. And there were 8 generals whose photograph was not even in the National Archives. In my research I was able to track down even these and include them in Glory in Grey.

 
This research was global, even bringing me in contact with a retired Soviet 3-star General who was able to help me put together the last remaining threads. This particular general has hosted "American Civil War" reenactments in Russia for decades.

Since 2004 the 4-volume set has sold on Amazon for $80 plus shipping. Occassionally I have let them go at reenactments and at SCV or UDC functions for $50 per set. But right now, I am letting our Dixie Heritage Subscribers have them for just $30 per set. That's right, when you donate $30 or more to Dixie Heritage I will mail you a complete set, all 4 volumes of the original printing of Glory in Grey  - and I will even pay the postage!

The set cost $36 to print. So at $30 we are offering them BELOW printing cost. WHY? Because Dixie Heritage Press will be releasing an expanded set (about 200 additional pages) and we need the money from the sales of the original printing to finish with the new expanded printing.

The Dixie Heritage Press edition of Glory in Grey will be a two-volume set (with larger-sized books) with a very nice cloth binding and dust jacket. Volume I is rolling off the press right now along with a hardback copy of my 17-chapter book The Christian Testimony of General Robert E. Lee. We need to raise a few more dollars to print Volume II and complete the new and expanxded Dixie Heritage Press edition of Glory in Grey. 

 Take advantage of this offer.

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In the coming weeks we will be announcing the availability of upcoming titles available through Dixie Heritage Press. Stay Tuned!


IS VIRGINIA STILL A SOUTHERN STATE?

I have been wondering that for years. In fact, every time I am in the Old Dominion State something occurs to make me ask myself that question anew.

A little over a week ago I was driving across Virginia. As I did I stopped at the welcome center and again at two of the State's rest areas. Then a few days later I drove back across the State again, this time making a detour for two days in Colonial Williamsburg. On the return trip I hit the welcome center on the opposite end of the State and also hit a couple of different rest areas.

Those of you who live in Virginia, and possibly even those of you who have driven through the State recently, are familiar with the signage in the State's welcome centers and rest areas. The Department of Tourism imagery, etc. It is consistently displayed throughout the State's facilities.

Given the number of battlefields, reenactments, etc. throughout Virginia it is no wonder that "Civil War" soldiers are a prominent feature in Virginia's displays. But on this last trip I noticed something at the Welcome Center that struck me. So much so that I asked the attendant about it. Her answer was that she didn't know. So I made a point to look in all future stops at the signage and sure enough - the same.

What was so odd? All of the images of anything having to do with the "Civil War," be it a soldier, a flag, an army, etc. were ALL UNION. There was not a single depiction of a Confederate soldier, flag, or army in any of it.

Maybe one (or many) of the Virginians who subscribe to the Dixie Heritage Letter would like to comment?

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Ole Miss Continues Its March Toward "Relevancy"
by Al Benson

It seems that many of these colleges and universities in the South today don't really feel "relevant" anymore, or maybe the proper term might be "politically correct" or more properly yet "culturally Marxist." Somehow, it seems, their leadership and faculties must labor to convince  the cultural Marxists out there that they really, sincerely, want to play their game, but they have to do it in such a way that it will not alert those who still cherish Southern culture as to their true intent.

Therefore, they take the classical Fabian socialist approach that they might attain their intended destruction of Southern culture incrementally, all the while assuring those that might send their kids to be "educated" in their Ivory Towers that they really do treasure Southern culture and heritage, but, for the sake of being relevant in today's changing world, they must work at soft-peddling that heritage just a bit, lest some Black Panther or Muslim terrorist become "offended." For them the "sin" of offending someone is more heinous than the sin of adultery, which they really don't consider all that bad anymore.

Ole Miss has gone in this direction. In its infinite wisdom, their leadership has decided to completely trash its Southern heritage and cultural background (incrementally of course) while assuring potential enrollees that this is the last thing they want to do. It may be the last thing they want to get caught doing, but hardly the last thing they really want to do.

I've worked at two different colleges over the years, one in the East and the other in the Midwest and from what I could see from either one, they seemed to think their mission was to "fundamentally transform"  the students sent to them so that their parents would hardly recognize them when they returned home. I had one lady even tell me once, "Since our daughter came here I don't even know her anymore." And she wasn't happy with that. I told her "I could get fired for saying this to you but if you want your daughter back, taker her out of this school." I don't know if she ever did, but I felt it was sound advice. The "fundamental transformation" I have seen with many of these college kids is, in many cases, far from positive.

And at Ole Miss, this seems to be the plan also. They started out banning Confederate battle flags at ball games. That took awhile because, at first, the kids kept showing up with them at games anyway, but the school leadership persisted, and the kids, not realizing their heritage was under subtle attack, eventually started leaving the flags back at the dorm. Then they changed the school mascot. Col. Reb just had to go! He "offended" too many people, and who knows where all those people came from. Some may not have been Southerners who should have realized that, in the South, they don't do things quite the same as they do in Trenton, New Jersey. Some may have been brainwashed Southern kids, because, as we know if we've done the homework, the brainwashing in public schools literally starts on the first day in Kindergarten.

Now it turns out the school band will be prevented from playing Dixie, while the school still talks of how it preserves Southern traditions-which it seems they are seeking to stab in the back culturally, one by one. What they want is a school that is totally identified with what they call the "New South." And, as one man said years ago in a speech I heard "The New South is NO South." He was right.

I wonder-how many of those that send their kids to Ole Miss that are from the South realize what is going on-and if they realized it would they be in agreement with it? And if they couldn't agree with the hatchet job being done on their culture, would they consider putting their kids in some other school-if they could find another one that wasn't doing the same thing? Years ago author William Lind wrote an article in which he called America's colleges "little ivy-covered North Korea's" He was right too.

The problem becomes more and more difficult for parents who want their youngsters to get a college education without being totally brainwashed. They really have to search to find places this can be accomplished and the number of such places seems to be diminishing.

There are some Christian colleges where this is possible, but you have to be careful there too, because some Christian colleges have also drunk the leftist Kool Aid, and may or may not even realize it. Parents in the South who want their Southern traditions and culture preserved for their children and grandchildren have got to be really discerning as to where they send them to college and I don't envy them the homework they will have to do in making that decision in our culturally Marxist society today.

 
 
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H. K. ON CONFEDERATE CLEANSING

Fox news and other media would report of what they deemed Confederate Cleansing; because of the actions of the governing body at the University of Mississippi decision to ban the playing of Dixie at their football games, a tradition since 1948. Proclaiming they did so to make it more inclusive. Essentially blaming it on the Black folks; a reconstruction tactic, knowing full well that Southern Black folks have always been inclusive in the playing and singing of Dixie.
 
Duped again will be all Southerners, and decent Northerners who succumb to accepting this explanation that will lay  the blame on loyal Southern Blacks for what these same type of White Southern scalawags, and Northerners who love their boats, pensions, front seat tickets at sporting and other school events, kick backs awarded in financial venues, and not to forget the trinkets for the same type of boot blacks of 1865 - 1877 who put their X on the dotted line.
 
Thus, the truth; full filling one of the Northern Jewish owned organizations, so called the NAACP, promise in 1989, that their coffers would be replenished for doing what no Northern White man could because he tire of sending his children to schools of the South and them having to listen to those bands playing Dixie, and that he tire of sending his corporate workers South having to look at that Rebel flag; mount the attack on Southern symbols, cultural and social mores and have the Black folks of the South unknowingly do their bidding, and take the blame with no reward but hate and love for each other pushed asunder once again. 
 
I just hope that somebody sends me a ticket to a football game, and a tank of gas to make it to Oxford so that I will make the Honorable Anthony Hervy, a Black man that lost his life after distinguishing himself fighting for the Southern Cross and the honor of those babies of the Mississippi Greys who left the class rooms of Ole Miss. to protect the old men, women and children of Mississippi from the murderous onslaught of Grant; where I shall sing Dixie until I'm too hoarse to sing anymore, and shall began whistling it, humming it until the night is done. God bless you!

Your brother,
H. K. Edgerton
Co - Founder
Black Student Center at the University of Minnesota 


THESE VIDEOS HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE INTERNET

Earlier this week there was a video showing dozens of anti-Trump activists shouting obscenities and throwing debris as they surround Donald Trump supporters attempting to exit the Minneapolis Convention Center. Trump fundraiser attendees attempting to exit the building were forced through a gauntlet of punches, with one protester seen violently attacking an elderly man as another man and a woman caught the brunt of the brutal beating.

Another video showed attendees attempting to leave the event who were also spit on as they left the ­convention center.

Last week there was a video of a Trump supporter in Detroit. He was carrying a Confederate Flag and wearing a Make America Great Again tee-shirt. In the video he is attacked by a mob of protestors who begin to beat him and rip his flag. Mounted Police dismount and "rescue" the man from the mob only to handcuff him and take him behind a police barricade where he was assaulted by Police officers. Eventually, the man was released because he had not broken any laws. None of his attackers were taken into custody (or even given citations).

And then there was the video of Hillary inciting her supporters to violence against Trump supporters.

We had planned to provide links to all of these videos. But we can't. Why? They are GONE!


WHAT IS HILLARY HIDING?

Week before last I was in Pennsylvania. So was Hillary! She was speaking at a factory in the northern part of the State near where I was speaking. At my event were some workers from the factory. I asked them why they did not go to work to attend the Hillary event? They told me that the entire factory was given the day off with pay and told to STAY AWAY! The workers in the video of the event were all actors and actresses who were costumed as factory workers for news footage.


THE FEAR IS REAL

I do not know how many people I have spoken to in the last two weeks who say they will vote for Donald Trump but they are deathly afraid to wear a Trump tee-shirt, hat, or to put sign in their yard or a bumper sticker on their car. Why? They are afraid that they will be personally harmed or that their property will be vandalized.

Have Hillary, Obama, Liberals, and the Media (I know, a lot of overlap) finally accomplished what they had set out to do decades ago? Create an America where one half of the country literally lives in dread fear of the other half?

In any event, the America they are agitating us into is not the nation envisioned by our Patriot fathers!

Nor is it the country envisioned by our Southern fathers!

And this is why Dixie Heritage remains vigilant in the fight to not only preserve - but also to advance our heritage.
    

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SOUTHERN BAPTISTS FOR SOUTHERN HERITAGE

One of our readers submitted the following in our ongoing reply to the SBC:

There are millions of people in America who are not offended by the flying of the Confederate flag.


Displaying the Confederate flag is a harmless display of our past history. Some of the politically correct people see it as a symbol of slavery and a different way of life that caused the War Between the States. Others view it as a historic reminder of a terrible war, a divided country, but the Union prevailed and the country came together again.

The Southern Baptist Convention urged Christians to stop displaying the Confederate battle flag because it is a symbol of hatred, bigotry and racism that offends millions of people. We don't see it that way. What about the millions of people who are not offended by that flag?

This is another case of trying to create an issue when it actually is a nonissue for millions of people.
 
  
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Political Correctness - it is pretty selective.

8/19/2016

 
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We desperately need a new email vehicle that can accommodate our growing mailing list! 

Presently, we use Constant Contact. Very week it is something. This week, after investing 15 hours into developing this week's newsletter, I click send and it all simply disappears! Poof. Gone! This has happened before, in fact, it happens most weeks. But Constant Contact usually backs up every few minutes so i can retrieve an archive copy. This week that safeguard malfunctioned. 

I am operating on 17 hours of sleep for this entire week. So needless to say I am NOT going to even attempt to reconstruct the newsletter. Whats lost, is lost. 

My working style is to delete things as I go. When you have to do as many things as I do in a week it is the only way to keep things straight. So the only "backup" I had for some of the great submissions from our readers was the Constant Contact archive that malfunctioned. 

So if you submitted something and were hoping to see it and do not, please accept my apology! 

Again, if anyone has a vehicle that will dependably deliver over 5,000 emails at a time please let me know!

So here goes. 

First off, for all of you Jack Daniels drinkers - you will need to find a new drink! 
Popular sports talk show host Clay Travis says Jack Daniel's nixed a promotion deal with him because of tweets criticizing Vanderbilt University's decision to remove the word "Confederate" from the face of a residence hall.

Travis wrote a blog post blasting the decision to officially rename Confederate Memorial Hall, which the Nashville university announced Monday. In tweets promoting the post, he called the decision "unbelievable." 

In a post published Wednesday, Travis said Jack Daniel's had terminated a $3,000 deal to promote the Tennessee whiskey maker's new Jack Fire brand on Travis' Twitter and Facebook accounts because of his Tweets about the Vanderbilt decision. In an email Travis posted to his site, an unnamed Jack Daniel's representative said Travis' Twitter commentary "brings (the company) into public disrepute" and "offends the general community."

The representative also asked him not to attend an event at a Nashville bar where he was supposed to promote Jack Fire.

A spokesman for Jack Daniel's said the company declined to comment on the matter.

Travis mocked the company's decision in his Wednesday post, noting that founder Jack Daniel's family members fought for the Confederacy.

Confederate Memorial Hall, which Vanderbilt now calls Memorial Hall, was bankrolled by a donation from the Tennessee chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, who wanted the building's name to honor Confederate soldiers who died during the late War. 

Vanderbilt is spending $1.2 million to repay that donation and earn the right to remove the word "Confederate" from stonework on the building's facade.

The Tennessee chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy says it had no legal choice but to accept $1.2 million from Vanderbilt University in exchange for relinquishing the naming rights to the private school's Confederate Memorial Hall.
The UDC, in a Tuesday statement, said it "is disappointed that an institution such as Vanderbilt University would attempt to whitewash, sanitize and rewrite American history."


The group's attorney, Doug Jones, said that a successful 2003 lawsuit to block the dorm's renaming resulted in a ruling that Vanderbilt couldn't change the name of the residence hall without paying back a 1933 donation of $50,000 - adjusted for inflation and interest. Once Vanderbilt decided to pay, Jones said the group had "no legal option or alternative" than to accept the money.


FLORIDA CELEBRATION

The William Carney Camp Sons of Confederate Veterans marked the first anniversary of the Escambia County Confederate Memorial by having a flag changing ceremony Saturday, August 13.

The flag was replaced with the flag of the Army of Northern Virginia. This was also done to further educate the public on the vast diversity between Confederate flags. 

Plans are to change flags every three months and display a different historical flag from the flag pole in Canoe.

According to Kevin McKinley, seven local camp members were present and a number of supporters rode motorcycles in from various places.
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About an hour before Donald Trump was set to address a large crowd in Kissimmee, Florida on Thursday, Brandon Partin, a Trump supporter, draped a Confederate flag over the front rail just to the right of the stage.


SOUTH FLORIDA TEEN FIGHTS FOR FLAG

A North Fort Myers High School teen claims the school once again wouldn't allow her to fly her confederate flag on her pickup truck.
 
"Heritage, not hate," that's Sky Hunter's message for flying a Confederate Flag on the back of her white pickup.
 
"I keep it to remember my ancestors. I can fly it, I can look at it everyday  just like we look at the American Flag. We look at it and remember what our country's been through," Hunter said.
 
Hunter, who's a senior at North Fort Myers High says that her decorated pickup was not welcomed by administrators on the first day of class.
 
"My principal stopped me and told me to take down my flag. I tried to take it off but I explained to him that my flag is not meant to come off and I couldn't get it off."
 
This isn't the first time Hunter has had to fight for her flag. Last fall, the school district kicked Hunter off school property for driving the same car to school. The district later apologized to her and her father for the misunderstanding.
 
"I was surprised. I did not think that I would have to be asked again for the second year in a row to take it off," Hunter said.
 
Hunter met with her principal on Thursday and was told that she would be allowed to park her truck with the Confederate Flag on school campus.
 
"I'm excited and knowing that my principal understands how the perception is on this situation is great," Hunter said.
 
Hunter adds that she did receive an apology from the principal and she hopes to work together with school administrators on a school code that allows Confederate Flags to be displayed.


JUST ONE VOTE SHY

A Dixie Heritage subscriber nearly won a spot Wednesday on a citizen council to promote diversity in Hillsborough County, Florida. 

David McAllister, Camp Commander of the Tampa area Sons of Confederate Veterans came one vote short of election to the county's Diversity Advisory Council. 

McAllister campaigned for an at-large seat and was the preferred choice of three Republican commissioners: Victor Crist, Stacy White and Ken Hagan.

The diversity council includes representatives from various ethnic groups as well as the LGBT community. Its job is to "facilitate communication between county government and its diverse populations, addressing matters related to diversity that are important to everyone."

McAllister speaks during public comment of nearly every county commission meeting, always in a red tie with the rebel stars and bars, often arguing for more county appreciation of Confederate history and the reinstatement of Southern Heritage Month, which ended in Tampa in 2007.

He was a vocal opponent of the removal of the Confederate Flag from the Hillsborough County Government Center lobby last year. 

McAllister had also previously co-chaired a committee to build in Hillsborough a War memorial but the panel was dissolved amid concerns about the design's prominent confederate themes.

He often also supports the causes of other groups at commission meetings in hopes that promoting them will eventually lead to Confederate recognition, too. For example, last month he backed an effort from Beckner to designate each June as LGBT Pride Awareness Month in anticipation it could lead to the return of Southern Heritage Month.

"I think that you have seen that I have been collegial and have been cooperative and I understand the mechanisms of the council," McAllister said Wednesday during his typical three-minute soliloquy before the meeting. "If you want to make this council work, you want me on it."

Had he been selected, McAllister wouldn't have been the only controversial member of the diversity council. 
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BLACK SOUTHERNER ON BLACK LIVES MATTER

On Monday, August 15, 2016. in my capacity as Chairman of the Board of Advisers of the Southern Legal Resource Center, I would be asked by the Chief Trial Counselor if I could define why the statement, "All Lives Matter" would and is now being deemed racist in colleges across the South, and furthermore that their students are being warned to not display or to speak those words on campus.

I replied that no decent folks that I know, be they Red, Yellow, Black, White or Brown, would agree with that. And, in fact, many would speak to the contrary, and tell you that the statement, "Black Lives Matter" would more fit that terminology if it got down to semantics.

Unfortunately in their desire to come together as one to advance social and cultural vertical mobility in the Black community, and not let it prevail that they as a people are like crabs in a barrel; when one crawls to the top to get out, other crabs will pull it back; they have become easy targets to be duped while turning their backs on truth.

Defending thugs, and allowing the same kind of folks who crawl into the South duping Black people into believing that they had some doctrine or way of life centered on their human interest, or values to move them towards social and vertical mobility is something that our Black ancestors swore to never let happen again; a Holy Vow that they made to Southern White folks; our family!

And now look what we have allowed in part by complacency, and adherence to the Silver Tongue Devil Poverty Pimps words to do; shame us, and when I say us, I'm now talking about all of us who call ourselves Southern; White folk guilt is as bad as any traitor to our Southern heritage and culture.

Our Southern babies are now forced to feel ashamed about being Southern, and hate our ancestors of the past who built this country, and saw their personal wealth stolen or destroyed, and to hate those who made an honorable stand against tyranny.

I would say; here we are once again at a defining moment in the history of this nation; the circumventing of the Constitution  by those who manipulate it for their own personal ventures, Southerners believe in the 1st Amendment, however, it don't apply to them. Southerners believe in the teachings in the Christian Bible, but not the Supreme Court. Southerners believe that no one should be above the law, but not the Department of Justice or the attorney General. Southerners believed the U.S. Congress when they resolved that the Confederate Battle flag was a Congressional Venerated Symbol; that is a lie. Southerners believed the US Congress when they resolved that the Confederate soldier was an American Veteran due all the amenities and respect thereof; that was a lie.

We are now playing back not only the reconstruction period in the South, but also all the causes that led us to the War for Southern Independence. 

God bless you!
Your brother,
H.K. Edgerton
                    



Political Correctness - it is pretty selective.

I wonder what the next target will be? 

Will offended souls start a bonfire of dollar bills because George Washington owned slaves?  

Let's up the ante - Grant is on the fifty dollar bill and he held his slaves well after the War was over.  

Come on now. If something is offensive then it is offensive - pitch those greenbacks into the flames if you feel so strongly about it. 

Perhaps millions of offended will stop drinking Coca Cola because a former Confederate soldier invested it?   

Just wait, one day someone will figure out that Old Glory flew from the mast of slave ships that docked in America - not the Confederate flag. 

I'll say one thing for political correctness - it is pretty selective.

John Wayne Dobson
Macon, Georgia

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Obsession With Bible Prophecy: The Devil Loves It 
By Pastor Chuck Baldwin 
 
Christians of all stripes and persuasions believe in the return of Christ, nuances of prophetic interpretation notwithstanding. Furthermore, personal interpretations of prophecy are NOT fundamental to our salvation or our service to God. One will find faithful and unfaithful believers at every point along the prophecy spectrum.

That said, after more than four decades of pastoring, it is my firm conviction that the obsession with Bible prophecy demonstrated by a host of professing Christians today is one of our country's BIGGEST problems. On the whole, obsession with prophecy either takes those obsessed completely out of the freedom fight or it actually puts them on the side of those who are trying to usurp our liberties.

For some (especially those who believe in a "pre-tribulation Rapture"), prophecy has mostly turned them into indifferent, apathetic facilitators of tyranny. They say things like "This is all predicted in the Bible, so there's nothing we can do about it" or "Jesus is coming soon, and I won't be around to see it, so I'm not worrying about it" or "Since this is all part of prophecy, we should not even try to resist, because to resist is to interfere with God" and similar nonsensical, asinine statements.
Others see all kinds of self-interpreted "signs" proving whatever they WANT to believe in order to convince people that their prophetic predilections are superior to everyone else's for the purpose of exalting their own hyperinflated, super-spiritual egos. In other words, these particular folks are living in their own self-created fantasy world that renders them absolutely worthless--or even detrimental--to the freedom fight.

Still others are so jaded in their prophetic infatuation with the modern state of Israel that they interpret everything through the dark lenses of misguided obfuscation to the point that they are unable to see events clearly and accurately, which makes them prone to the manipulations of Neocons and other enemies of freedom.
People have been interpreting Bible prophecy to suit their own fancies for over 2,000 years. The fact is, no one knows exactly how and when the events surrounding Christ's return will take place. NO ONE. I don't care how "smart" and "knowledgeable" they think they are on the subject. THEY DON'T KNOW.

But in the meantime, their inflated opinions of their own brilliance mostly serve to make them totally indifferent to the loss of liberty or even actively supportive of the forces that are trying to usurp our God-given liberties. Either way, freedom loses.
The first question the disciples asked our Lord after His resurrection from the dead concerned prophecy: "When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?" (Acts 1:6)

Look carefully at Christ's response to them: "It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power." (Acts 1:7)

Did you get that? "IT IS NOT FOR YOU TO KNOW."

Students of the scriptures have been studying "end time" prophecies since the completion of the canon of Scripture. And the interpretations have been, and still are, as varied as the people proffering them.

We could assemble the most brilliant apologists in the world for the various interpretations of Bible prophecy and let them present the reasons for their interpretations and each of them would be able to present a very coherent and convincing scriptural case for their position. And the fact is, the best any of them would be doing would be making a studied, educated GUESS at how it all MIGHT happen.

Come on! Get real, folks! Some of the smartest men of history have been making educated guesses regarding the return of Christ since the Apostle John finished writing the Book of The Revelation. Date setters have come and gone--along with the dates they set--for 2,000 years. And the educated guessers of today are no smarter than they were then.

Jesus wasn't kidding around when He told the disciples (and us), "IT IS NOT FOR YOU TO KNOW." The one thing that He did want us to know is that it is our duty to "Occupy till I come." (Luke 19:13) Therefore, until Christ comes (whenever that is), we are to "occupy" or "take care of business."

Regardless of one's private interpretation of prophecy, our duty as Christians is the same: we are to take care of business. We are to tend to our family business, our vocational business, our spiritual business, our community business, our national business, etc. Until He comes, we have a divine mandate to "take care of business."

Premillennial. Postmillennial. Amillennial. Pre-tribulation. Mid-tribulation. Post-tribulation. Complete Rapture. Partial Rapture. No Rapture. Dispensationalist. Preterist. When it comes to our duty to "take care of business," IT DOESN'T MATTER. We all have the same duty.

Unfortunately, the preoccupation and obsession with Bible prophecy has diverted people's attention away from the business at hand. So many, many Christians have become so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. And pastors and preachers are mostly to blame. They spiritualize everything to the point that they have rendered the scriptures of NO practical relevance whatsoever.

Talk to the average Christian about his or her duty to their country, and they immediately zone out into a trance and start regurgitating hackneyed clichés about how "God is in control" and we are not supposed to be concerned about it because it's not a "spiritual" issue or how they are going to be "raptured" to heaven and escape all of the bad stuff, etc. Furthermore, to the average pastor, duty to country amounts to nothing more than some nonsensical drivel about mindless submission to government. It seems to most pastors (well, American pastors anyway) government is GOD. Romans 13 is the only Scripture they know to cite--and they grossly misinterpret it to boot. To most pastors, the stories of Daniel, the three Hebrew children, the judges of Israel, David and Saul, Christ and the Pharisees, the early church and the Judaizers, etc., are of NO practical consequence to life today.

The fallacious interpretation of Romans 13 is turning once courageous, freedom-loving Christian men and women into sheepish slaves of the state. Without a doubt, Romans 13 is one of the most misinterpreted passages of Scripture in the Bible.

I challenge you to press your pastor with this question: "Were America's Founding Fathers scripturally justified in rebelling against the British Crown?" Come on! I dare you to press your pastor for an answer to that question. You might be shocked at just how many pastors actually believe our Founding Fathers sinned by rebelling against the government of Great Britain.

Yet in pulpits all over America, pastors lead their churches in celebrating Independence Day on or around each July 4th. They wave the flag, sing patriotic songs, and get up and talk about how thankful they are to live in a free nation. But wait a minute! This country they are celebrating is a nation birthed in rebellion. If these pastors believe our founders were unjustified before God in fighting that war for independence, how dare they turn around and celebrate the victory of an act that they claim to find sinful? Talk about hypocrisy!

It is little wonder why Christians are among the highest percentage of people in the country who don't vote; why Christians are among the biggest cheerleaders for America's incessant wars of aggression overseas; why Christians are among the largest percentage of viewers of the mainstream propaganda media (especially FOX News); and why Christians (at least Christians in the United States) are among the most gullible and easily duped people by Neocons and Zionists on the planet. (Can anyone say G. W. Bush, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and Ted Cruz?)

And guess what the most consistent common denominator is for all of the above? You guessed it: Bible prophecy. It is no hyperbole to suggest that the more people obsess over Bible prophecy, the more the devil likes it. Why? Because for the most part the obsession and preoccupation with Bible prophecy takes a majority of Christians completely out of the freedom fight. On the whole, churches stopped being the "salt of the earth" decades ago. If you want a freedom fighter in the foxhole with you, you will largely need to look somewhere besides the average pastor and church.

I would dare say that the subject of prophecy takes up the greater percentage of all of the sermons, Bible conferences, books, videos, seminars, television and radio broadcasts, etc., in modern Christendom. And what has it done for us? What has it done for the church? What has it done for America? What has it done for the suffering saints across the globe? What has it done for a lost and dying world that desperately needs spiritual direction, leadership, and purpose in this life?

 NOTHING. Not a dad-blasted thing (as my father used to say). All it has done is rendered the church completely ineffective, indifferent, and impotent. Oh, yes, and conceited, arrogant, and proud.

Study prophecy all you want, but if doing so puts you on the wrong side of liberty, it only fulfills the purposes of Satan, not God.

 
 
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SOUTHERN BAPTISTS FOR SOUTHERN HERITAGE

The scholars at the Abbeville Institute have written an excellent reply to the Southern Baptist Convention and other denominational bodies in their recent journal:

It appears that the abstractions of the Enlightenment have over the last five-hundred years been read into Scripture and into the theologies of most of the Christian confessions as eisegesis and read back out as exegesis, thereby becoming the metaphysical touchstone of modern and post-modern Christianity.

This certainly seems to be the case of the most recent statements by Pope Francis that the Church should not only apologize to gays whom it has offended but also to the poor, to women and children whose labor has been exploited and for having blessed many weapons.  It is unclear how the Church has offended these people.  Are the offenses based on real or imagined sins of omission or commission? One must assume that the latter includes those weapons blessed for the efforts to defend Christendom at Tours, at Lepanto and at Vienna.

The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) took up the "moral mantle" for the alleged sins of leaders and congregations antecedent to it and exhorted the members to examine themselves and if any such sin, i.e. racism, intolerance and anger, is found then they should admit, confess, seek forgiveness and reconciliation.   It is not clear from whom the PCA acquired the authority for this resolution nor how the PCA in enlightened Post-Modernity came to know the hearts of their Christian ancestors, nor is it clear exactly who has the authority to forgive such manifestations of sin.  It does, however, appear from the various posts by millennial Presbyterians that they "feel good" about their resolution.

Now, Southern Baptists, acting in their sovereign capacity in convention assembled, passed a resolution which at its core demands that Baptists discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of solidarity of the whole Body of Christ, including their African-American brothers and sisters.  The resolution begins with a title containing "sensitivity" and "unity."  The body of "whereas's" and "resolved's" also contains post-modern watchwords which read as if they were extracted from a Marxist lexicon: "racism," "prejudice," "injustice," "non-Anglo," "sensitivity" and "transforming."   The resolution alleges that the Confederate Battle Flag is "perceived by many as a symbol of hatred, bigotry and racism, offending millions of people."    This core statement is predicated on the core post-modern notion that "perception is reality."  There is no empirical evidence that millions of people are offended by the Confederate Battle Flag, nor is any logical reasoning given as to why one should take notice of an offence based on mere perception.  How, then, does an offence based on perception constitute a sin worthy of collective confession and collective absolution; and who is giving absolution since there is no evidence offered that God has been offended by the Confederate Battle Flag?

In an ironic twist, this same Baptist body has gone one record in the context of "separation of church and state" to support the building of mosques across America.  So the Confederate Battle Flag, with the Cross of St. Andrew at its center and under which during the course of the War thousands of men came to Christ in revivals and worship services, is now an offence; but mosques which are at best Trojan horses representing Islam which has been the enemy of Jesus Christ, of His Church and of any culture influence by the Church, is given cover under a historically inaccurate understanding of the "establishment clause" in the first amendment.  Jefferson's line to the Danbury Baptists aside, the "separation of church and state" was ensconced into constitutional law in Everson v. the Board of Education when Justice Hugo Black, a former Klansman, incorporated the states into the 1st amendment, denying to them their sovereign capacity in matters of religion.  This decision became the foundation for subsequent decisions which systematically secularized public spaces in the United States: no prayer, no Bible reading, no nativity scenes, no Christian values in jury decisions, etc.  Baptists, it seems, have now become the advocates of secularization and Islamification.

Since this entire resolution with all of its "whereas's" and "resolved's" is predicated on perception and unsubstantiated numbers of people allegedly offended by the mere appearance of the Confederate Battle Flag any attempt at refutation with facts and historical evidence is futile; however, some observations are in order.

There is a specie of men who wish to be on the "correct side of history," the correct side thereof determined by the prevailing Zeitgeist.  These same men also quest for respectability, i.e. to be accepted and welcomed by those who have already embraced and cultivated the Zeitgeist.  There seems to be among such men a sense of humiliation and the commensurate shame, rightly or wrongly held, for which they want to do penance though some act which would put them in the good graces of the judges of their time, judges who adjudicate not only the innocence or guilt of their own time but who arrogate to themselves the moral capacity to judge the innocence or guilt of all times, an arrogation engendered and circumscribed by presentism and progressivism.

Those who practice post-modern or millennial Christianity have a superficial but ideological understanding of the past. Quite often they find a real or imagined sin in the past, usually one associated with the past of their own culture, and apologize for it and ask forgiveness of some offended class of the present. There has, of course, been no real transaction of forgiveness or contrition, but the allegedly offended party feels empowered because the shamed offenders have bent their knee to them; and those who embody faux contrition feel morally superior to their cultural past and morally superior to those among the more "unwashed" Christians who were too ignorant to join in or who reject the Zeitgeist.

Since the Southern Baptist Convention is calling on Baptist to discontinue the display of the Confederate Battle Flag,  then it should act consequentially and strike the word "Southern" from the name of the convention, for the South is four-hundred years old and athwart that four-hundred years stands the enormity of the War to Prevent Southern Independence, a total war against not only political and military structures but against civilians, black and white, and their institutions, including  churches, immorally, unconstitutionally and unnecessarily unleash and carried out, not really ending until the end of Reconstruction in 1877.  The Confederate Battle Flag, though merely a flag of war during the conflict from 1861 through 1865, has become the icon not only of that struggle but in light of that struggle for that which was and continues to be good and true in Southern life.  To demand that the Confederate Battle Flag be furled based on "perceived offenses" and on some abstract notion of "Christian unity" is to demand for those same superficial pretenses that the South itself be put away.
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Buster Keaton stars as Johnny Gray, a blundering train conductor who inadvertently saves the Confederate Army during the WBTS. It mixed a then-unique blend of Keaton's trademark slapstick with action and drama, not to mention one of the most ambitious stunts of the silent era.
 
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ARE YOU A TERRORIST? The Government thinks so.

8/12/2016

 
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Confederate soldiers are also U.S. veterans.
 
The government recognized Confederate veterans as equivalent to Union vets via the Congressional Act of 1900, signed June 6, 1903, the Congressional Act of 1906, by the 17th Congress in February 1929 and U.S. Public Law 85-425, Section 410, of May 1958. 
 
These famous Americans were also descendants of Confederate States of America veterans: 
  • Marine Gen. John A Lejeune's father was Confederate States Army Capt. Ovide Lejeune.
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  • Marine Lt. Gen. Lewis "Chesty" Puller's grandfather was CSA Maj. John Puller, killed in 1953.

  • Army Lt. Gen. George S. Patton III's grandfather was CSA Col. George Patton, killed in 1864. 

  • The father of Army Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., killed in Okinawa in 1945 as commander of the U.S. 10th Army, was CSA Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner. 

  • U.S. Air Corps Brigadier Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest III was shot down and killed over Germany in 1942; his great grandfather was CSA Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.

  • President Theodore Roosevelt's uncle was CSA Chief Foreign Agent, Capt. James D. Bullock, Confederate States Navy.  

  • President Woodrow Wilson's father, Rev. J.R. Wilson, was CSA chaplain. 

  • President Harry S. Truman, who was a Sons of Confederate Veterans member, is a descendant of William Young, a trooper in the Missouri Partisan Rangers. 

  • CSA generals Joe Wheeler, Fitzhugh Lee, Thomas Rosser, Mathew C. Butler and Col. William Oates all served our nation after the war as generals in the Spanish-America War in 1898. 
 
More than 70 million Americans, many of whom served honorably in our U.S. armed forces, are descended from these men. 
 
It is our duty to honor all of our veterans - their monuments, their symbols and their memories - as well as their flags.
 
NORTH CAROLINA HAS DONE SO

When the Confederate flag was removed from the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse last year, it ignited a trend of removing them all across the South. But have you noticed that the one place where we are not reporting Heritage violations is North Carolina? 
 
Dr. Monica Gisolfi is a history professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.  She says that other states and localities have chosen to remove monuments from public spaces and transfer them into museums, where "educators" can "contextualize" the pieces.  But, "We in North Carolina are not allowed to do that because the state legislature, just as South Carolina last year was deciding to take down its Confederate flag, our state legislature went and passed legislation barring the removal basically of any Confederate monument.  So we can't even say, in Wilmington, get to have a decision about whether or not these monuments belong in civic spaces." 

Asked for his comment, Governor Pat McCrory says, "The bill is intended to ensure that state monuments tell the complete story of North Carolina."   

TEXAS SCV IS DOING SO - AGAIN

Texas currently has 178 "publicly sponsored symbols honoring the Confederacy...including monuments, schools and roads dedicated to Confederate icons."

In the East Texas town of Orange, the SCV is putting the finishing touches on the Confederate Memorial of the Wind, a sprawling structure featuring "13 large Greek columns and 26-32 Confederate flags." It will be the largest pro-Confederacy monument the state has produced in more than a century and it will sit at the intersection of the heavily-traveled Interstate 10 and Orange's Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard.

WHILE THE HOUSTON SCHOOL DISTRICT IS NOT

The Houston school board voted 5-4 Thursday to rename four campuses named after Confederate loyalists and postponed decisions on four others amid community concerns.

Trustees agreed to kickstart the process of renaming Henry Grady, Richard Dowling and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson middle schools and Robert E. Lee High School.

Now, a committee at each school, including a teacher, student, parent and alumni, will be charged with proposing a new name. The policy calls for the superintendent then to make recommendations to the board for a vote - to take place in May, according to the meeting agenda.

Board president Rhonda Skillern-Jones had included eight schools on the list for renaming, but trustees agreed to remove four - Lanier and Johnston middle schools and Davis and Reagan high schools - to allow for more discussion. Trustees who represent those four schools made motions to exclude them.

Newly elected trustee Jolanda Jones, who represents Lanier, posted Wednesday on Twitter that she supported changing the school's name. However, on Thursday she proposed removing the campus from the immediate renaming list, saying she wanted to host a meeting at the school.

Trustee Harvin Moore tried to postpone the renaming item "indefinitely," but it failed on a 4-5 vote. Those who supported postponement - and then voted against the name changes - were Moore, Anna Eastman, Mike Lunceford and Greg Meyers.

All five minority trustees voted for the name changes.

Moore and Eastman said they were concerned that the renaming proposal and several other items were placed hastily on the board agenda by the president. "I don't think my vote represents pro-celebration of the Confederacy at all," Eastman said.  She continued, "We are in a time where our focus needs to be 100 percent on finding a new superintendent and making sure that our 89 under-performing schools have everything they need. And these discussions are important, but they have a time and place to happen."

Before the vote, James Douglas, president of the NAACP of Houston, urged trustees to eliminate Confederate loyalists from school names.

The cost to change these school names will be at least $1.2 million, probably twice that. 

VIRGINIA MUSEUM REFUSES FLAG

A year ago, Danville City Council decided to remove a Confederate flag from a monument on city property.
 
But now flag supporters are asking the question: where did that flag go?
 
One of the conditions stated by Danville City Council last year, was to have the flag displayed in the museum when it was taken down. It hasn't happened yet.
 
"And it was to their blood and their sacrifice in the war and I think they did the wrong thing by taking it down," Sons of the Confederate Veterans member Bill Soyars said.
 
"It's been a year now and the flag is still not back in the museum," Soyars said.
 
Leaders at the Danville Museum of Fine Arts in History say they do not have the exact flag that came down in August of 2015.
 
The former director of the museum would not accept the flag as a gift, so now Wayne Byrd of the Heritage Preservation Association has it.
 
"We want to have authentic period artifacts," Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History Visitor Services Coordinator C.B. Maddox Jr. said. "So, to display modern reproductions in a way cheapens the museum experience."
 
Museum leaders say the museum, "is about the history of the civil war," and "the 3,000 square feet of displays inside are sufficient."
 
Museum leaders are encouraging "further discussion" but for now, the flag pole is empty and it's flag with the Heritage Preservation Association.


Farmer Forced to Dump Raw Milk & Break Eggs 
 
While Americans in the nearby city of Detroit face life in third world conditions, unable to even afford running water, the state of Michigan decided to direct its resources towards cracking down on a small food co-op for providing milk, butter, cream and eggs to people who bought shares in the organic dairy. The Michigan Department of Agriculture must be so proud of their deeds, after they forced Joe and Brenda Golimbieski, the owners of Hill High Dairy and Jenny Samuelson, the owner of My Family Co-op, to dump out 248 gallons of milk, to break 100 dozen eggs, and to destroy an undisclosed amount of fresh cream, butter and cheese. 
 
According to the owners of the dairy, the MDA threatened to arrest the co-op owner, Jenny Samuelson, for "selling food without a license." However, the farm is a co-op, where people must buy shares. The MDA, however, said that the co-op contracts were invalid, and therefore, instead of being shared, the food was being sold. Because co-op members had paid for their shares, technically the MDA stole food that belonged not just to the Golimbieski family, but to every single member of that co-op. 
 
 
Teaching Kids Christianity Violates Human Rights 
 
Just another example of why the United States needs to not only defund the United Nations, but remove ourselves from it and the organization from our soil. In a recent paper put out by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the CRC said that demanding that children engage in daily acts of Christian worship at school may go against their, "freedom of thought, conscience and religion." 
 
The Telegraph reports: Britain must stop forcing children to attend Christian school assemblies because it undermines their human rights, a United Nations committee has said in a controversial new report. The authors called on ministers to repeal a law demanding a daily act of Christian worship at schools because it may contradict a child's "freedom of thought, conscience and religion". The report was produced by an 18-person group of "independent experts" of "high moral character" including representatives from Bahrain, Russia and Egypt. 
 
Oliver Cromwell  is rolling over in his grave. He defended Protestant Britain from King Charles' tyranny and treason.
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​Last week's Dixie Heritage Letter really the attention of our readers. Including THREE eMails from our friend H.K. Edgertown. 


From a Pastor in Kentucky:

Regarding the Revolutionary War flag being racist, there are those of us - myself included - who have warned that this "cultural cleansing" is not just connected to the Confederate Battle Flag.  If we do not draw a line in the sand at it, all of our historic culture will be eliminated.  Fail to defend the Confederate battle flag and be prepared to lose all your historic, honorable past - socially, politically, and religiously.
 
If we do not stop them now, we will not stop them in the future.  First, Confederate symbols and heroes.  Then, American symbols and heroes.  And our distinctively American culture will be erased.  We must raise our voices, sharply and loudly, and state that we want our country back!
 
John M. Brown
Flatwoods, Kentucky
 
 
From an SCV leader:
 
Now, they are going after the "Don't Tread On Me Flag." At first I thought they were coming the anti-terrorist angle but, from I understand, ONE person was OFFENDED because a former slave owner designed it.
 
I am waiting on them to go after Coca Cola because a former Confederate came up with that formula.
 
John Wayne Dobson
Macon, Georgia
 
 
From H.K.: 
 
THE POPPYCOCK AT PAMPLIN PARK CONTINUES. LIVE THE LIFE OF A WAR BETWEEN THE STATES SOLDIER WHILE DENYING THE. CONFEDERATE SOLDIER HIS COLORS IS A DEFINING POINT OF THE CONTINUING BIAS OF THIS CRAP INSTITUTION THAT SHOULD BE PUT OUT OF LEE'S VIRGINIA. THE GOVERNING BODY AT PAMPLIN PARK IS A DISGRACE, SOUTHERN BABIES SHOULD NOT GO THERE.
                                                     
HK EDGERTON
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF ADVISORS EMERITUS 
Southern Legal Resource Center


A reader in Bessemer, Alabama sent this picture of a church in his neighborhood:
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He writes: 

TRY TO IMAGINE THE UP-ROAR,MEDIA NAME-CALLING, PROTESTS, RIOTS, LOOTING, JESSE JACKSON VISITS....if THIS HAD BEEN A WHITE CHURCH?!?


More from H.K. on General Forrest: 

After the courageous Ms. Emily McDonald led a fight successfully to keep the name of the Honorable General Nathan Bedford Forrest on Forrest Hall at East Tennessee State University almost a decade ago, the Board of Regents climbed into bed with the shame that Niki Haley has gendered across the South by voting to remove the Generals name.

One needs to be reminded that as Grant was burning 42 cities in the great State of Mississippi, his men carrying out their orders to rape, murder, and plunder; General Forrest along with the forty plus Black Confederates under his command were saving the great State of Tennessee from the same.

Grant's reward is to have his Presidential Library placed on the campus of Mississippi State University. General Forrest's reward is to have his grave stone removed, and now the removal of his name from Forrest Hall.

As I made my way on Tuesday morning, August 8, 2016 with the Southern Cross in hand, I would be stopped by several young people,  who not only expressed their thanks for my efforts to showcase the true meaning of the Southern Cross and the cause of those who served under it, but also asked of me, what did I think of Michael Jordan donating one million dollars to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and who was I going to vote for in the Presidential race?

I told them that I could understand Mr. Jordan's overtures, because I think that he truly believed he was following the advice of Mr. Donald Sterling to help his Black community. However, I think for that purpose his money could have been spent in a better venue, because the NAACP has become nothing more than an organization headed up by self serving poverty pimps spreading hate and tainted propaganda that does no good for anyone but themselves.

I reminded them that a White man who was an NAACP Chapter President during the time that a White woman was chided for pretending to be Black and serving as a Chapter President, remarked that she had hurt the organizations image, because the primary goal of the NAACP was to raise money. Dylan Roof succeeded in stopping that dialogue.

Ask that question of the many card holders who have gone to them for help, and they will tell you just as the men of the Black Historic District on Peach Tree Street  in Atlanta told me during the so called Million Children March;"the NAACP has not done anything to help us; showboating to increase their coffers, and very little substance to help the people they claim to serve". Mr. Jordan could have donated the money to the Sons of Confederate Veterans Legal Defense Fund and helped the Southern people of all colors.

In regards to who I would vote for President, I told them that when I was a small child ; I heard my father preach a sermon about a Jewish man who entered a Temple, and kicked over the table of the Money Changers. I would vote for such a person who reminds me of that man.

I would hug them all, and continue on my way while listening to the sounds of the car horns blowing, the rebel yell, and the calling out of my name.  

God bless the Barber family, and the most sincere condolences to the Honorable Dewey Barber, owner of Dixie OutFitters whose mother passed away this week. 

And God bless you!
Your brother,
HK


One more from H.K.: 

I just find myself clawing and scratching and just fighting as hard as I can, and most of all praying. I remember the words of my mother; the Southern people deserve better than the program hate that folks who don't come from here have placed upon us.

She believed that well intentioned Southern Black folks have no idea how they have been used against the very people who cared the most about them. She always said that her mother like my father, the Rev. Roland Rogers Edgerton's mother knew what they were saying; "if those folks who come here from the North would just leave us alone; we will be alright."

I want to relay that message to the duped, and to those who can find no forgiveness for those among us who were never prepared for freedom, and were used unknowingly used as they climbed into bed with those who brought an illegal war and 12 years of terror afterwards to all the Southern land. and continue to do so. Didn't mean to preach to you this morning, Just my way of saying thanks for all the help you have given to me to help right a historic wrong.
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I have become use to fighting with depleted funds, balding tires, skeptics, and a great deal of love from those who cheer for me after having done so. God bless you and your wonderful family!
                                                          
Your brother,                                                                 
HK 
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72 Types Of Americans That Are Considered "Potential Terrorists" in Official Government Documents

Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian or a gun owner?  

Are you opposed to abortion, globalism, Communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations or the New World Order?  

Do you believe in conspiracy theories, do you believe that we are living in the "end times" or do you ever visit alternative news websites (such as this one)?  

If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are a "potential terrorist" according to official U.S. government documents.  

At one time, the term "terrorist" was used very narrowly.  The government applied that label to people like Osama bin Laden and other Islamic jihadists.  But now the Obama administration is removing all references to Islam from terror training materials, and instead the term "terrorist" is being applied to large groups of American citizens.  

And if you are a "terrorist", that means that you have no rights and the government can treat you just like it treats the terrorists that are being held at Guantanamo Bay.  

So if you belong to a group of people that is now being referred to as "potential terrorists", please don't take it as a joke.  The first step to persecuting any group of people is to demonize them.  And right now large groups of peaceful, law-abiding citizens are being ruthlessly demonized.  

Below is a list of 72 types of Americans that are considered to be "extremists" and "potential terrorists" in official U.S. government documents. As you can see, this list covers most of the country:

1. Those that talk about "individual liberties"

2. Those that advocate for states' rights

3. Those that want "to make the world a better place"

4. "The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule"

5. Those that are interested in "defeating the Communists"

6. Those that believe "that the interests of one's own nation are separate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations"

7. Anyone that holds a "political ideology that considers the state to be unnecessary, harmful,or undesirable"

8. Anyone that possesses an "intolerance toward other religions"

9. Those that "take action to fight against the exploitation of the environment and/or animals"

10. "Anti-Gay"

11. "Anti-Immigrant"

12. "Anti-Muslim"

13. "The Patriot Movement"

14. "Opposition to equal rights for gays and lesbians"

15. Members of the Family Research Council

16. Members of the American Family Association

17. Those that believe that Mexico, Canada and the United States "are secretly planning to merge into a European Union-like entity that will be known as the 'North American Union'"

18. Members of the American Border Patrol/American Patrol

19. Members of the Federation for American Immigration Reform

20. Members of the Tennessee Freedom Coalition

21. Members of the Christian Action Network

22. Anyone that is "opposed to the New World Order"

23. Anyone that is engaged in "conspiracy theorizing"

24. Anyone that is opposed to Agenda 21

25. Anyone that is concerned about FEMA camps

26. Anyone that "fears impending gun control or weapons confiscations"

27. The militia movement

28. The sovereign citizen movement

29. Those that "don't think they should have to pay taxes"

30. Anyone that "complains about bias"

31. Anyone that "believes in government conspiracies to the point of paranoia"

32. Anyone that "is frustrated with mainstream ideologies"

33. Anyone that "visits extremist websites/blogs"

34. Anyone that "establishes website/blog to display extremist views"

35. Anyone that "attends rallies for extremist causes"

36. Anyone that "exhibits extreme religious intolerance"

37. Anyone that "is personally connected with a grievance"

38. Anyone that "suddenly acquires weapons"

39. Anyone that "organizes protests inspired by extremist ideology"

40. "Militia or unorganized militia"

41. "General right-wing extremist"

42. Citizens that have "bumper stickers" that are patriotic or anti-U.N.

43. Those that refer to an "Army of God"

44. Those that are "fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)"

45. Those that are "anti-global"

46. Those that are "suspicious of centralized federal authority"

47. Those that are "reverent of individual liberty"

48. Those that "believe in conspiracy theories"

49. Those that have "a belief that one's personal and/or national 'way of life' is under attack"

50. Those that possess "a belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism"

51. Those that would "impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)"

52. Those that would "insert religion into the political sphere"

53. Anyone that would "seek to politicize religion"

54. Those that have "supported political movements for autonomy"

55. Anyone that is "anti-abortion"

56. Anyone that is "anti-Catholic"

57. Anyone that is "anti-nuclear"

58. "Rightwing extremists"

59. "Returning veterans"

60. Those concerned about "illegal immigration"

61. Those that "believe in the right to bear arms"

62. Anyone that is engaged in "ammunition stockpiling"

63. Anyone that exhibits "fear of Communist regimes"

64. "Anti-abortion activists"

65. Those that are against illegal immigration

66. Those that talk about "the New World Order" in a "derogatory" manner

67. Those that have a negative view of the United Nations

68. Those that are opposed "to the collection of federal income taxes"

69. Those that supported former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr

70. Those that display the Gadsden Flag ("Don't Tread On Me")

71.Those that believe in "end times" prophecies

72. Evangelical Christians

The groups of people in the list above are considered "problems" that need to be dealt with.  In some of the documents, members of the military are specifically warned not to have anything to do with such groups.

We are moving into a very dangerous time in American history.  You can now be considered a "potential terrorist" just because of your religious or political beliefs.  

Free speech is becoming a thing of the past, and we are rapidly becoming an Orwellian society that is the exact opposite of what our founding fathers intended.

Please pray for the United States of America.  We definitely need it. 

 
 
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Filmed in of all places, Oregon, Buster Keaton's 1926 silent film, "The General," is considered one of the greatest movies of all time. 
 
Buster Keaton stars as Johnny Gray, a blundering train conductor who inadvertently saves the Confederate Army during the WBTS. It mixed a then-unique blend of Keaton's trademark slapstick with action and drama, not to mention one of the most ambitious stunts of the silent era.
 
This week we are celebrating the 90th anniversary of this great film. 

 
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SOUTHERN BAPTISTS FOR SOUTHERN HERITAGE

This week's video is a MUST WATCH. For over 50 years Dr. Julius Howell, served as the President of a Southern Baptist College, as a Southern Baptist Pastor, and as a national leader in the Southern Baptist Convention. At the SAME time, General Howell was the Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans, and an advocate for State's Right's in the United States Congress. 

In this week's video, we play a recording of General Howell speaking about what it was to be a Southerner, a Baptist, and a Confederate soldier and prisoner of war. After a brief introduction, by myself, the lion's share of this video is the recording of General Howell.

It was great men like General Howell who have made the Southern Baptist Convention what it is today. Clic below to watch the video:
ARE SMOOTHIES KILLING YOUR DIET?

Smoothies are a fun and quick food fix for breakfast. But when it comes to the health benefits behind the trend, the blended drinks might not be as filling or as healthful as some people think. 
 
Nutritionist Sarah B. Krieger, of St. Petersburg, Florida stirred the controversy after her presentation to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Her hypothesis: pulverizing fruit reduces fiber and lets sugar from fruit speed into the blood stream. She asserted that quick release of sugar spikes the blood sugar, speeds through your system and you get hungry sooner. This sets the stage for snacking! 
 
If you break down the health differences between drinking the ingredients that have been blended together as a smoothie, versus consuming them separately. New York-based dietitian Maya Feller explained, "When you get a dump of sugar into the blood stream it spikes the blood sugar. Then you get a drop." The fiber in fruit slows digestion and acts as a time release, gradually distributing fuel into the body. When fruit is blended into a smoothie, that release occurs sooner than it would with whole food. "You could say that fiber is like a mesh-netting ... it slows the sugar absorption down, so that it's not going to rush in," Feller said. 
 
As a test, a person ate the raw ingredients of a smoothie, including 4 and a half ounces of mango, 4 and a half ounces of pineapple, 2 ounces of bananas, 3 ounces of vanilla yogurt and 6 ounces of apple juice. It took about 15 minutes to chew the ingredients and the feeling was like having a real meal. Blood sugar levels every 15 minutes for two hours. It took less than five minutes to drink the same ingredients followed by the same blood sugar tracking. There was a blood sugar to spike to 129 milligrams per deciliter within the first half an hour. After an hour and fifteen minutes, it dropped a lot lower, even below the 80 mg/dl before it was consumed. This was followed by feelings of hungry and lightheadedness because the body was "really trying to get itself back up to normal with a high and then a low." When the fruit was simply eaten the blood sugar never got above 112 mg/dl. Moreover, there were no feelings of hunger or lightheadedness. This means that after drinking a 300 calorie smoothie in five minutes, hunger returned and snacking began adding more calories to the daily intake than less. That is simply smoothie diet sabotage.
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THIS WEEKEND IN ILLINOIS

Blackberry Farm will commemorate the 152nd anniversary of the WBTS with a weekend-long event from 9:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.  and again on Sunday, at 100 S. Barnes Road in Aurora.  

The event will be highlighted by a full-scale re-enactment featuring simulated battles between Union and Confederate soldiers at 5 p.m. Saturday. Throughout the weekend, guest speakers and interpreters will stage numerous demonstrations of 1800s-era war life.

"These stories we bring to life go beyond the battles; they're about real people caught up in an unimaginable war -- soldiers, civilians -- all with a story to tell," said Blackberry Farm Manager Sandie Gilmer.

Examples include demonstrations of medical procedures as they were performed in the battlefields, how wool and fabric were dyed for soldiers' uniforms, and crafts such as corn husk dolls.

A full schedule of events and map is available at www.foxvalleyparkdistrict.org.

All of Blackberry's regular amenities will also be available, including the train, pony rides, carousel and hay wagon rides, and the Adventure Playground.

Everything is included with daily admission of $5 for adults and $4.50 for seniors and children, free for kids younger than 2.
 
 
THIS WEEKEND IN PENNSYLVANIA

Saturday at noon is The Jefferson Davis Day Picnic !!  We plan to be a voice for limited government, state nullification, individual liberty & resistance to tyranny in general.  

We hope to have former Constitution Party National Chairman, Jim Clymer, 2012 Vice Presidential candidate.  

We will have Dr. Ed DeVries, Dixie Heritage Director, Baptist pastor, author, (28 books), seminary president, as our keynote speaker. 
 
Good southern / gospel music will delight you.  Some folks in period dress is another addition to the atmosphere. 

We will have the last man to carry a firearm along the route of Pickett's charge since 1864!  

Free food all day starting at 12 noon.   

You might be a red-neck if you miss it.  But, you will never prove it to those who will be there!


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Feds Declare American Revolutionary War Flag to be Racist

8/5/2016

 
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The War Between the States ended Saturday in a torrent of mortar fire, perspiration and bug juice.

The Confederates won, by the way, 2-1. The exhausted, insect-gnawed victors celebrated with high fives and first crack at the showers.

So concluded "Live the life of a Civil War Soldier," an overnight immersion experience held at Pamplin Historical Park about 25 miles south of Richmond, Virginia.

Organized by the Young Marines, a national service organization, teenagers attending the camp chose sides almost evenly between the Union and the Confederates, "because otherwise, you know, no war."

"My mom would kill me if I was on the other side," confesses Confederate Joseph Lunsford, 16, of Kentucky, whose forebears wore the gray.

Solomon Forbes, 17, from West Palm Beach, Florida also mustered into the Confederate Army, the lone black Young Marine to fight for the South. "There's really no difference," he shrugs. "I made a heads-or-tails choice."

At this 16-hour overnight event, slavery was not mentioned. And because of the "controversy," the Confederate Flag was never unfurled.

The stress is on tactical maneuvers and period arsenal, as well as the harsh circumstances of 19th-century military life, lessons easy to absorb in 102.6-degree heat and curdling humidity.

Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah! A Confederate drill sergeant is teaching campers the Yankee holler.  "That sounds like kitty cats are attacking. I need noise," barks the sergeant. "There is a direct relationship between life expectancy and noise." The "Rebel yell" proves an even greater challenge.

Meanwhile, the Confederates are dropping like, well, fallen soldiers.

The South loses two soldiers early, not to rifle or cannon fire but to undercooked hamburgers consumed the previous night near Durham, North Carolina. Such casualties are historically accurate. Well, not the burgers. But twice as many WBTS soldiers died from disease as from artillery fire, vermin being present in swamp water, cornmeal, salt pork, basically everything. "Soldiers regularly suffered from amoebic dysentery with cramps so bad they were begging to be shot," an instructor told the participants, holding up a plate of grub. "This here's dysentery in a bowl. Bon appetite!"

The campers dined on hardtack, cornbread, apples and stew, the last fitting only in that it serves as an apt description of the stagnant air. Droves of mosquitoes, midges and multiple varieties of biting flies were always on the attack.

The teenagers, who hail from 16 states, are participating in the Young Marines' two-week Great American History Adventure. They've already visited Fort Sumter in Charleston, Appomattox Court House, Petersburg, and many sites significant to the Revolutionary War.

The campers mostly know about the war from history classes. "This was the great American war," says Marshall McIvor, 17, from Camas, Washington. He chose to be a Confederate, "since I come from a place with a more liberal outlook. I wanted to see the other side."

The park staff said that the Young Marines were polite, disciplined and orderly. They wore requisitioned wool jackets, kepis, canteens and haversacks whenever so ordered, along with shorts and sneakers. In other words, period authenticity halting around the waist.

The camper soldiers posted sentries after dinner to secure the park gates against possible invasion by a new breed of enemy combatant - Pokémon Go players, who were drifting onto the battlefield.

War, as Sherman noted, is hell. Also, it turns out, buggy.

 
BIKERS PETITUIONED TO DROP FLAGS
 
An online petition is asking bikers to stop flying Confederate Flags.

"Dr. Angela Courage and Joseph Daniels, concerned citizens of Fayetteville, AR, strongly petition that The Bikes, Blues & BBQ organization publically discourage and condemn the flying and display of the Confederate Flag during the week long community events.," the petition reads.

Tommy Sisemore, executive director of BBB, has issued the following statement to the Press:

"We have recently been made aware of petitions asking for us to both condemn and accept the display of the Confederate flag at our annual motorcycle rally. Bikes, Blues, and BBQ is a not for profit motorcycle rally that benefits women, children, and the underserved members of the Northwest Arkansas community. Since the first Bikes, Blues, and BBQ we have donated $1.3 million to charity. Bikes, Blues, and BBQ has always taken pride in being a family friendly event, inclusive of all members of the community. Bikes, Blues, and BBQ in no way condones or accepts racism, intolerance or hate speech. We also respect individuals' rights to free speech and expression."


The petition had more than 340 signatures as of Thursday morning.

This year's Bikes, Blues & BBQ rally is scheduled for September 21 - September 24.

 
 
SCV SUES MAYOR

The Sons of Confederate Veterans in Louisiana claim a City Mayor trampled on their rights by barring them from displaying the Confederate Battle Flag while marching in a Christmas parade last year.

The group's Louisiana division has sued the city of Natchitoches and Mayor Lee Posey on Thursday, asking a Federal Court to declare the Mayor's policy unconstitutional.

Thomas Taylor, the division's former Commander, says its flag-carrying members marched and rode floats in the parade for nearly two decades without causing any disruptions.

Mayor Posey didn't immediately return a call for comment today.
 
 
PEACEFUL FLAG RALLY IN TUPELO
 
WLOX reported that dozens belonging to the United Patriot Society gathered in Tupelo over the weekend to show their support for the Confederate Flag to remain on the Mississippi state flag.

The rally was peaceful; consisting of various speakers, waving flags, and music.
The society says the flag is a symbol of their southern pride; not hatred.

"It's just what I believe in, what I stand for. My southern heritage, the way I grow up, the way I'm raised to live my life right and believe in God," said one supporter.

"Thirteen stars are for the 13 confederate states. The white borders is the protection of God, and the red is the blood of Christ," another supporter noted. 

Counter protesters were also present, but the Mayor says the event remained peaceful between both groups.
 
 
UNITARIAN PETITION RESULTS IN FLAG BAN
 
The Addison County Fair and Field Days will no longer allow the sale of Confederate flag merchandise. The change in policy was announced Monday after a petition drive by the Middlebury chapter of the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society gathered more than 600 signatures in one week.

Members of the Society had written to the fair's directors the previous week and were invited to a board meeting Monday. At the meeting, congregants Piper Harrell and Theresa Gleason presented the petition and explained why they'd launched it. According to Harrell, board members were very receptive.

Members of the board did not return calls for comment. This year's fair starts Tuesday and runs through Aug. 13.

The Addison County fair dates back to the mid-1800s and is the state's largest agricultural fair. The weeklong event includes a demolition derby, pony- and ox-pulling competitions, and a popular petting zoo. For years one of the booths at the fair has sold only Confederate flag merchandise.
 
 
CASPER, MEET BURT, THE FRIENDLY CONFEDERATE GHOST

A historic home that once housed Confederate Army General Robert Lee has gone on the market for $3.75million.

Glenfiddich House, originally called Harrison Hall, was built in 1780 and became famous in Leesburg, Virginia, for its unique history and links to the WBTS.

Today the one-acre estate, which boasts a new four-bedroom home, office, an 1800s spring house built and 1850s smokehouse. And the property comes with something else; its own Confederate soldier ghost.

Melanie Miles, who is selling her home, says she has seen the officer on numerous occasions - always appearing in full military regalia. 

'He looked right at me,' she said.

She believes it is the spirit of Col. Erasmus Burt, a soldier who died at the house while it was being used as a military hospital after the Battle of Ball's Bluff in 1861, according to a War-era diary discovered in the house.

However, she insists that potential buyers have nothing to worry about.


Burt is a friendly ghost. 

The ghost is just part of the history of the estate which was used as a hospitality center and later a military hospital for wounded Confederate soldiers during the Civil War.  

Its most famous visitor General Robert E. Lee who was treated at Harrison Hall on September 4, 1862, for a broken hand and sprained wrist after his horse, Traveler, shied away from a courier. Later that day he held a war council with the likes of Generals Lewis Armistead, Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, and James 'Jeb' Stuart.

 There they planned the invasion of Maryland which resulted in the Battle of Antietam.

The famous painting below is of that meeting:
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GEORGE ZIMMERMAN ASSAULTED 

Police are investigating after George Zimmerman said he was punched at a Florida restaurant on Sunday.
Deputies from the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said Zimmerman called 911 about the incident at Gators Riverside Grille in Sanford, Florida, claiming he was accused of bragging about killing Trayvon Martin, according to WKMG.

According to a witness statement, Zimmerman approached another table to compliment someone on their tattoos. That was when a large man reportedly named "Eddie" came up to him, and hit Zimmerman in the face, according to police. 

Cops are now looking for the man, who's wanted for battery. He reportedly rode off on a Harley Davidson motorcycle.

Zimmerman called 911, and when the dispatcher asked who started the argument, Zimmerman said in the call, "He recognized me" and "he told me he was going to kill me. He told me he'd [expletive] shoot me and he punched me in the face."

In the 911 call, Zimmerman said, "He said he's going to kill me...You need to send like three or four cops."

Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer, was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter in July 2013. He shot and killed Trayvon Martin in February 2012.

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Ann Coulter's syndicated column of Wednesday is a MUST READ:
 
ANN COULTER
THE WRATH OF KHAN
August 3, 2016
Khizr Khan, the Muslim "Gold Star Father" who harangued Americans at the Democratic National Convention, with a mute, hijab-wearing wife at his side, is just another in a long string of human shields liberals send out to defend their heinous policies. The "Jersey Girls" were the classic example, first described in that magnificent book Godless: The Church of Liberalism.

In order to shut down a debate they're losing, Democrats find victims to make their arguments for them, pre-empting counter-argument by droning on about the suffering of their victim-spokesperson. Alternative opinions must be preceded by proof that the speaker has "sacrificed" more than someone who lost a child, a husband, or whatever.

Khan's argument, delivered angrily and in a thick Pakistani accent at the DNC, is that "our" Constitution requires us to continue the nonstop importation of Muslims.

If the U.S. Constitution required us to admit more than 100,000 Muslims a year -- as we do -- we'd already be living in Pakistan, and Khan wouldn't have had to move to get that nice feeling of home. So the "argument" part of Khan's point is gibberish.

Luckily, Khan had Part Two: His son died in Iraq, whereas Donald Trump does not have a son who died in Iraq, so he can't say anything.

Yes, a candidate for president of the United States is supposed to be prohibited from discussing a dangerous immigration program because Khan's son was one of fourteen (14!) Muslim servicemen killed by other Muslims in our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's why we're obligated to import yet more Muslims - including, undoubtedly, some just like the ones who killed his son. Q.E.D.!

If you think that doesn't make any sense, keep your yap shut, unless you lost a child in Iraq, too.

There were virtually no Muslims in America before Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration act. Today, we admit more immigrants from Muslim countries than from Great Britain.

Are Americans allowed to have an opinion on whether that's a good idea?

So far, it's worked out great!

In addition to the sudden appearance of honor killings, clitorectomies, hijabs and massive government frauds, Muslim immigrants have given us: The most devastating terrorist attack in world history, followed by terrorist attacks at Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon, a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Times Square, Vaughan Foods in Oklahoma, San Bernardino and an Orlando nightclub, among other places.

We've admitted 2 million Muslims just since 9/11 - that's more than had been admitted before 9/11. If we don't make it 3 million, we're monsters? May we ask how many Muslims Khan's mystery Constitution requires -- or is that out of bounds unless we had a child who died in Iraq?

Apparently, sending out a victim to make their argument was the only option left for the "Make America Muslim!" crowd.

After Trump somehow got the crazy idea that a presidential candidate was allowed to discuss government policies and proposed a temporary ban on Muslim immigration -- which, by the way, is perfectly constitutional -- the entire media and political class erupted in a sputtering rage.

Conscience of a Nation, Speaker Paul Ryan proclaimed: "That's not who we are." Jeb! Bush made the subtle and clever argument that Trump was "unhinged." Marco Rubio called any pause in Muslim immigration "offensive." ABC News' Jonathan Karl called Trump's plan "outrageous" -- which was way better than MSNBC, where Trump was compared to white supremacists and Nazis.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Trump had "disqualifie(d)" himself from "serving as president" for suggesting any slowdown in Muslim immigration. Vice President Joe Biden -- tribune of blue-collar Americans everywhere! -- said that if Trump were the nominee, Hillary would "win in a walk."

Then it turned out Trump's Muslim ban was a huge hit with actual voters. Hillary, who promises to quadruple the number of Syrian "refugees" we bring in, is quite far from winning "in a walk."

So the media and political class had no choice: They had to produce a victim to make their argument, in order to block any response. For their next trick, Democrats plan to produce a little girl whose parents were recently murdered to present their tax plan. (Better make sure they weren't killed by an illegal alien!)

Does anyone know what Khan thinks of gays? How about miniskirts? Alcohol? Because I gather we're going to have to turn all our policies over to him, too. What have you sacrificed, Barney Frank?

Muslim troops accounted for 0.2 percent of all U.S. troop deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Southerners accounted for 38 percent of those killed in Iraq and 47 percent in Afghanistan.

What has South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley "sacrificed" compared to the families of these men? How about Nikki put their flag back up?

The Confederate flag won't lead to thousands of dead and maimed Americans, as Muslim immigration does. The only danger posed by the Confederate flag is that media elites will hold the South in even greater contempt than they already do, assuming that's possible.

But as long as they brought it up, if only people who lost children in our wars may discuss public policy, then only they should vote, not only on how many more Muslim immigrants this country needs, but on all government policies. What has Chuck Todd sacrificed? Have any current members of The New York Times editorial board ever lost a son in war? (Fighting on the American side.)

The inevitable conclusion to the hysteria over Khan is that only those who have worn the uniform and heard shots fired in anger can vote in our elections. Hello, media? Hey -- where'd everybody go?
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READER ATTENDS TWO POLITICAL RALLIES IN FLORIDA
 
She reports that Trump had a packed house! Hillary, her rally looked like a morgue with the "crowd" pushed in behind her to make it appear crowded on camera. But every now and then the camera would pull back and you could see a wider shot that revealed the small venue she was at was half empty.
 
She writes, "I'm not buying that Hillary is leading Donald. There is no enthusiasm for her."

Watch the entire Jacksonville, Florida rally below:

A CALL TO ACTION FROM NAVY VETERAN
 
This week we have received an eMail from one of our readers asking us to get the word out that The Navy is set to name a ship after the late homosexual rights icon and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk.
 
A July 14, 2016 notification, signed by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, indicated he intended to name a planned Military Sealift Command fleet oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206).
 
Harvey Milk was the first homosexual activist elected to public office in the United States and was assassinated in 1978. That record plus the fact that Milk, who bragged about being a pedophile, served in the Navy at a time it was illegal for homosexuals to do so, apparently justifies naming a Navy ship in his honor.
 
Harvey Milk was a sexual predator who preyed upon teen boys. According to The Mayor of Castro Street, Milk's very favorable biography by Randy Shilts, in 1963, when Milk was 33, he took in "Jack" Galen McKinley, a 16-year-old runaway in New York City "who was looking for some kind of father figure," to live with him as a lover.
 
While Jack was still a minor, Milk moved him to San Francisco. However, when Jack matured beyond Milk's taste for young guys, Milk dropped him.
 
Jack McKinney was highly disturbed and frequently suicidal after being rejected by Milk. The Mayor of Castro Street records Milk's shocking coldness when told of his former boy lover's suicide threat. "Tell him not to make a mess," Milk said. Eventually Jack died in a fall from the eighth floor of a building, in an apparent suicide.
 
Contact your members of Congress now, urging them to get involved in stopping plans to name a United States military ship after known sexual predator and pedophile Harvey Milk.
 
 
SOUTHERN BAPTISTS FOR SOUTHERN HERITAGE
 
As we have been saying for several weeks, our response to the Southern Baptist Convention's attacks against our heritage will be "ongoing."
 
We are working on an awesome video #5 in the Southern Baptists for Southern Heritage series. Lord willing, it will go online in a few days and be promoted in next week's Dixie Heritage Letter.
 
Here is perhaps one of the best responses we have received regarding the SBC resolution against our heritage:
 
  • I am so proud of my Christian son and his desire to raise two children to be Christian Southerners.  I have fought for over 40 years for our Southern Heritage; I have taught my son to do the same; now he is teaching his children (he has three but last one is too young to understand age 18 months).  When I see what I have accomplished with my life, I do not consider myself to be a failure. 
  • God Bless Our Righteous Southern Cause,
  • Gary

Here is a response from another reader:

  • TO SBC
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  • THIS WHOLE CONTROVERSY MAKES ME TRULY SICK!!!! WHY ARE WE NOT ALLOWED TO HONOR OUR BRAVE ANCESTORS?   
  • FOUR OF MY GREAT-GRANDFATHERS FOUGHT FOR AND/OR DIED FOR THE CONFEDERACY.  I AM A LOYAL MEMBER OF THE U.D.C.(AS WELLAS THE D.A.R.)    
  • ONE OF MY FIRST COUSINS IS BURIED AT THE ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY WHICH LAND USED TO BELONG TO ROBERT E. LEE PRIOR TO THAT DREADFUL WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.   
  • ONE CANNOT ACCURATELY RE-WRITE HISTORY.     
  • SURELY WE ARE ENTITLED TO HONOR OUR ANCESTORS!   
  •  
  • RHITA M.

 
 
 
FROM FLORIDA HERITAGE OFFICER:
 
Gentlemen,
 
For historic accuracy the site in Tampa Florida which is nationally known has been flying 30 X 50 flags for 7 plus years. We are not in competition with any group or state and hope that more of these huge flags adorn our Southland.
 
Mike Herring
Past Commander
Gen. Jubal A. Early
Camp 556  Tampa


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Loretta Lynch: "Confederate Flag Tattoos Must All Be Removed IMMEDIATELY"

The Department of Justice has found a new way to determine who is racist and who isn't.
 
If the DOJ is going to start using Confederate Flag tattoos to determine if someone is racist or not, then there is suddenly going to be a lot more racist people.
 
Despite what these "social justice warriors" think, the flag is not a racist symbol. It is literally a historical object. It is a part of the history of this country. So it sounds like they are trying to get rid of all history? 

But wouldn't it be interesting if they tried to ban something else from history, like the black panther salute? I really wonder how people would react to that?


FEDS SAY REVOLUTIONARY WAR FLAGS RACIST

In the latest of seemingly unnecessary things that the government has its paws in, the Equal Employment Opportunity Office (EEOC) will decide if wearing the Gadsden flag creates a hostile work environment, punishable as racial harassment.

The Gadsden flag comes from the Revolutionary War era. It is a yellow flag with the words "Dont tread on me" emblazoned on it, and a rattlesnake coiled up the middle. 

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Most recently, it has become a banner of limited government advocates and the Tea Party.

As Fox News reports, "the EEOC said it received a complaint in January 2014 from an African-American federal employee about a coworker wearing a hat bearing the flag."

The issue of harassment stems from the creator of the flag, Christopher Gadsden, who was a slave trader.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Office has already deemed the wearing of Confederate Flags workplace harassment, The Washington Post explains, adding, "unsurprisingly, this is extending to other political speech as well."

The case notes that "it is clear that the Gadsden Flag originated in the Revolutionary War in a non-racial context...[h]owever, whatever the historic origins and meaning of the symbol, it also has since been sometimes interpreted to convey racially-tinged messages in some contexts."

The Feds have admitted, regarding the Gadsden flag that,""it is clear that the Gadsden Flag originated in the Revolutionary War in a non-racial context.." The same is equally true of the Confederate Flag. And the Feds know that too! 


This is important because the Feds have just admitted that this has NEVER been about racism. It has been about erasing the history of our nation. Racism is just the vehicle of convenience that they are riding right now to get us there. 

The other goal is to turn a Christian nation into a pluralistic non-Christian nation. The code-word for that is DIVERSITY. 

So first it was Confederate symbols. Then it was the Founding Fathers. Now it is the symbols of the Revolution. 

If you can not bring an American Revolutionary Flag to work, or have a Confederate Flag on the truck that you drive to work, what if an employee came to work with a Trump/Pence bumper sticker? Or has a "Stop Illegal Immigration" sign on his cubical wall? Will these things too be considered racial harassment?

Should the flag be ruled harassment, "all employers - private and public - where employees wear the flag could be held liable for workplace harassment if they receive complaints," Fox News notes.


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NEXT WEEKEND IN ILLINOIS

Blackberry Farm will commemorate the 152nd anniversary of the WBTS with a weekend-long event from 9:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 14, at 100 S. Barnes Road, Aurora.  

The event will be highlighted by a full-scale re-enactment featuring simulated battles between Union and Confederate soldiers at 5 p.m. Saturday. Throughout the weekend, guest speakers and interpreters will stage numerous demonstrations of 1800s-era war life.

"These stories we bring to life go beyond the battles; they're about real people caught up in an unimaginable war -- soldiers, civilians -- all with a story to tell," said Blackberry Farm Manager Sandie Gilmer.

Examples include demonstrations of medical procedures as they were performed in the battlefields, how wool and fabric were dyed for soldiers' uniforms, and crafts such as corn husk dolls.

A full schedule of events and map is available at www.foxvalleyparkdistrict.org.

All of Blackberry's regular amenities will also be available, including the train, pony rides, carousel and hay wagon rides, and the Adventure Playground.

Everything is included with daily admission of $5 for adults and $4.50 for seniors and children, free for kids younger than 2.
 
 
NEXT WEEKEND IN PENNSYLVANIA

Saturday August 13th.  The Jefferson Davis Day Picnic !!  We plan to be a voice for limited government, state nullification, individual liberty & resistance to tyranny in general.  

We hope to have former Constitution Party National Chairman, Jim Clymer, 2012 Vice Presidential candidate.  

We will have Dr. Ed DeVries, Dixie Heritage Director, Baptist pastor, author, (28 books), seminary president, as our keynote speaker. 
 
Good southern / gospel music will delight you.  Some folks in period dress is another addition to the atmosphere. 

We will have the last man to carry a firearm along the route of Pickett's charge since 1864!  

Free food all day starting at 12 noon.   

You might be a red-neck if you miss it.  But, you will never prove it to those who will be there!
                                                          

Coaching Youth Baseball - The Right Way

My new book is now available in both paperback and hardback. In a few weeks it will sell for $28 on Amazon.

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I'd like to make a copy available to anyone who gives $5 or more to Dixie Heritage this week. 

Earlier this week the Head Coach of the nation's #1 ranked NCAA softball program told me that he had just finished his review copy and he thought it was one of the best books on coaching for the non-professional coach that he has ever read. 

I have written the book for those of you who have volunteered to coach a youth baseball team, but wonder how will you teach the fundamental skills, run effective practices, and harness the energy of your young team? 

From establishing realistic goals, to practice plans, to drills, strategies, coaching tips, how to make it fun - it's all here. 

Develop your kid's fielding, catching, throwing, pitching, and hitting skills with Coaching Youth Baseball the Right Way's age specific (ages 4-12) practice plans and drills that young players can actually use. 

 Coaching Youth Baseball the Right Way has everything you need to successfully coach T-ball or any age division of youth baseball through age 15.

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Chaplain Ed

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