Good News, Arizona Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy has disbanded

Good news, the Arizona Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) disbanded in 2012. This Division had been in existence since the 1920s at least. There are still UDC chapters in Arizona, but not enough to continue keeping a Division going.

It isn't a big victory, but does show the gradual erosion of support for the Lost Cause.

"American Conservative" magazine has secession article.

American Conservative magazine has a secession article written by Kirkpatrick Sales, one of the Vermont secessionists. It is about nullification.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-rise-of-nullification/

It is a book review of "Most Likely to Secede," about Vermont by the authors. They have a favorable opinion of their own book. It is their usual craziness.

What is interesting is that they have gotten a venue in the American Conservative. Though my standing joke about American Conservative is that it really would be more accurate to call it Confederate Conservative with all the neo-Confederates that write for it, it is another magazine with a national audience providing a venue for the discussion of secession. Though it is often the same people who write for Chronicles magazine (www.chroniclesmagazine.org) it is also other reactionaries. So it is an expansion of the legitimacy of the idea of secession though perhaps not to a great extent.

Weld County in Colorado illustrates the fundamental problems with the idea of secession, Update, WND has article on secession in Colorado

Weld County Commissioners' call for secession illustrates the inherent follies involved in secession. Weld County is in Colorado. The Denver Post has an editorial on it.

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_23415132/secession-plan-is-waste-time

One thing that the editorial points out is that the call for secession is based on various political issues typical of politics and not some great fundamental question.

Also, as shown in the Weld County case, there will always be some people whose complaint is basically that they can't get their way and somehow this is a reason to breakup the polity because with a polity consisting of just themselves they can get their way.

In the voting on any issue the distribution of votes on a question or candidate is not going to be geographically homogeneous. If the expectation that any unit has to be politically homogeneous you are going to end up with something like The Republic of Chester Street Between 14 and 15th Avenue," until there is a vote and the street breaks up into the "Republic of 222 Chester Street," "Republic of 223 Chester Street," etc.

Decisions have to be made and when there isn't unanimous agreement, someone will have lost the vote and others will have won. That is democracy, there is a winning party and a losing party, candidates, legislative votes, etc. Even when there is a unanimous vote for A, there will be differences on how A should be implemented, or there will be different varieties of A, etc.

Being that we live in a Republic there are checks against majority tyranny as laid out in the Bill of Rights. Of course what these boundaries will be has and will likely always be a subject of debate. People generally are adamant about their rights when they are the minority and indifferent to these rights when they are the majority.

I think we can count on people like the Weld County commissioners to continue to make secession sound silly and the issue of complainers.

UPDATE:

WND is reporting on Weld County secession. http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/fed-up-with-leftists-rural-coloradans-talk-secession/?cat_orig=us

Sons of Confederate Veterans Chaplain-in-Chief Cecil A. Fayard, Jr. on "wicked America" and his hysteria over Gays and Lesbians and evolution and the fact that America doesn't follow his religious views.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) has an position called the Chaplain-in-Chief. The Chaplain-in-Chief writes a regular column called "Chaplain's Comments," for the SCV official publication Confederate Veteran (CV).

In many ways it is the most entertaining section in the CV. The writings in this section explode any idea that the SCV is merely a historical remembrance organization or historical society and show decisively that it is a right wing political and religious organization.

In the Sept./Oct. 2009 CV magazine Chaplain-in-Chief Cecil A. Fayard, Jr. has a column, "America Is In Trouble: Part I." It is a fire-and-brimstone type of speech. For example he writes, "In 1789, President George Washington issued a proclamation for a Day of Thanksgiving to God. Which God? Jehovah God?" I am not sure exactly what he means by this. Is Jehovah God different than the Trinity? Or is it because he doesn't want his readers to think that Washington issued a Day of Thanksgiving to Zeus or Thoth or Vishnu or Cthulhu.

In it Fayard claims that America is headed in the wrong direction and has been for a long time "and now we are reaping what we have sown." So he lists out numbered points on what he thinks is going wrong with America.

The first thing is "hostility to the Bible." He quotes several people in American history who stressed the importance of the Bible, but he doesn't actually list any examples of actual hostility to the Bible. It seems that the issue perhaps is indifference to the Bible from the quotations. If you don't view the Bible the same way and understand it the same way as Fayard, he then sees you as hostile to it.

The next thing that he sees leading America to ruin is the belief in evolution. He writes:

2. The lie of evolution has been sown. "When the Christian people of this country understand the ravages agnosticism cause by the substitution of the unsupported guesses for the Word of God, they will compel the atheists and agnostics to build their own schools instead for the spread of unbelief," (William Jennings Bryan).

I suppose the fossil record and radioisotope dating counts for nothing making these "unsupported guesses."

Fayard asserts that belief in evolution has led the nation to ungodliness and "Our great Southern leaders of the 1800s were men who believed in creation, not evolution." This is a common neo-Confederate argument against a position, rather than argue the merits of an idea, they will argue that it is un-southern. If Jefferson Davis didn't believe in a scientific theory is that evidence in itself that the theory is untrue?

The third thing is America has become immoral, "We have sown immorality," he writes and "We live in a very loose society, a wicked nation morally. All types of unspeakable and deplorable acts are being committed by deviant men and women."

He complains, "One school curriculum in America teaches acceptance of homosexuality in the first grade and mutual masturbation in junior high." Fayard doesn't comment on what "great Southern leaders of the 1800s" thought about these two topics.

He claims suicide has increased "200 times" since 30 years ago which is ridiculous and gives no authority for this wild claim. He also claims that violent crime has increased 500 percent in the last 30 years which shows he is just making wild claims. One of the biggest points of discussion in the field of criminology and sociology nowadays is the question as to what has caused crime to decrease so much over the last few decades. However, if you are going to wail that America is falling apart a few facts aren't going to get in your way.

The fourth complaint is about abortion.

The fifth complaint is that "We have sown ignorance concerning the true history of our nation and our Nation's God," and that the SCV is responsible "to teach the true history of our beloved Southland," which for the SCV would be teaching a history defending the Confederacy.

He continued his essay in the next issue of the CV in he claimed that America is headed to socialism. His solution to the disastrous end that he sees America headed toward is prayer and belief in his particular religious views. He says:

We continue in our day to pray for deliverance -- deliverance from unconsitutional government, from Socialism, from ungodliness and corruption in High Places. 

Fayard certainly has a right to have his beliefs. The point is that the SCV is a religious and political organization with an agenda, which incorporates history as a supporting element, and isn't merely a historical society with a purpose restricted to history and historical remembrance.

David Frum article, "Confederate Traitors Don't Deserve the Honors"

David Frum has an article, "Confederate Traitors Don't Deserve  the Honors." It is at the Daily Beast at this link:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/28/confederate-traitors-don-t-deserve-the-honors.html?obref=obinsite

It is an endorsement of a New York Times article suggesting that there shouldn't be military bases named after Confederates which you can read at this link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/opinion/sunday/misplaced-honor.html?_r=1&

This might be a trend for opinion leaders to directly and in the strongest terms reject the Confederacy.

"Star Trek" actor George Takei has posting against the Confederate flag.

Star Trek actor George Takei has a posting on his Facebook page against the Confederate flag. He played the character Sulu in the original Start Trek series. There have been over 45,000 likes as of this posting and over 7,000 comments. A lot of them are the usual neo-Confederate rationalizations for the Confederate flag.

You can read it here:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=673900022639454&set=a.223098324386295.105971.205344452828349&type=1&theater

The "Washington Post" has an article about Confederate memorials in Washington D.C.

The Washington Post has an article about Confederate memorials in Washington, D.C.  The title is: "Traces of the Confederacy in Washington, not all gone with the wind."

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-04-11/lifestyle/35230625_1_confederate-memorial-association-confederate-embassy-war-ii

Fortunately the Confederate Embassy is now defunct due to infighting of neo-Confederates. They promoted racist stuff. I have a file somewhere on them.

I am sure we can count on Kevin Levin to defend all Confederate memorials in the D.C. area.

Neo-Confederacy and the White Student Union at Towson University

Vice at www.vice.com has done a video documentary on the White Student Union (WSU) at Towson University.

The link is http://www.vice.com/vice-news/white-student-union

It is interesting to view this video to see the sophistication of a new generation of racists. Too many people think they are effective voices against racism, but they aren't.  They are merely are people who are able to denounce groups like the Ku Klux Klan which everyone dislikes anyways. They wouldn't be able to argue against the White Student Union at Towson University.

In the video you can see that at least one League of the South (www.dixienet.org)  member is involved which isn't surprising.

You should note all the Confederate imagery used by the group. Interestingly enough no one in the video seems to view this as the obvious evidence that the WSU has racial animus. The Confederacy did wage war to deny African Americans freedom and keep them in slavery and certainly identifying them and glorifying them is animus against African Americans.

Interestingly the leader says you "get nowhere waiving a Swastika banner" in terms of advancing his agenda but instead has a Confederate flag banner on the wall behind him which he feels won't impact his agenda or show that he has racial animus.

This is the Lost Cause blind spot of the American public. It is a manifestation of the banal white nationalism of many. (www.templeofdemocracy.com/breaking.htm).

Those who advance the Lost Cause or give it a free pass are enablers.

"National Review" rejects assertion that the Republican Party is the party of Jefferson Davis, but former U.S. Senator Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) said it was

National Review on their website takes exception to the assertion that the Republican Party is the party of Jefferson Davis. You can read the blog here:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/349834/matthews-gop-party-jefferson-davis-andrew-johnson

However, former U.S. Senator Trent Lott, (R-Mississippi), Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, explained in an interview in Southern Partisan magazine that the Republican Party was the party of Jefferson Davis. The interviewer wanted him to explain an assertion which he had made at a national convention of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

This is an extract from page 44 from the Fall 1984 Southern Partisan interview with Trent Lott:

Partisan: At the convention of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Biloxi, Mississippi you made the statement that "the spirit of Jefferson Davis lives in the 1984 Republican Platform." What did you mean by that?

Lott: I think that a lot of the fundamental principals that Jefferson Davis believed in are very important today to people all across the country, and they apply to the Republican Party. .... After the War between the States, a lot of Southerners identified with the Democrat Party because of the radical Republicans we had at the time, particularly in the Senate. The South was wedded to that party for years and years and years. But we have seen the Republican Party become more conservative and more oriented toward traditional family values, the religious values that we hold dear in the South. And the Democratic party has been going in the other direction. As a result of that, more and more of The South's sons, Jefferson Davis' descendants, direct or indirect, are becoming involved in the Republican Party. The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there --- from tax policy, to foriegn policy: from individual rights, to neighborhood security --- are things that Jefferson Davis believed in.

Trent Lott wasn't the only Republican U.S. Senator that appeared in the Southern Partisan. There was at least a half dozen.

Article about a United Daughters of the Confederacy project to have a "Mammy" monument in Washington, D.C.

Interesting article at The Atlantic magazine website about a project to have a monument to slave women who were "mammys" in Antebellum times. It actually passed the U.S. Senate.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/the-mammy-washington-almost-had/276431/

David Frum reviews and recommends James McPherson's book "Battle Cry of Freedom" in column at the "Daily Beast"

David Frum reviews and recommends James McPherson's book "Battle Cry of Freedom" in a column at the "Daily Beast." It is a good book, I read it in 1990 or 91. If you are looking for a book to introduce yourself to the Civil War this is one of the best if not the best. 

The review is at this link:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/23/david-s-bookclub-battle-cry-of-freedom.html

The second edition is shorter than the first edition. I read the first edition and you might find it on the used book markets.

Frum discusses the Confederacy's refusal to exchange prisoners of war that were African American.

Lee refused. "[N]egroes belonging to our citizens are not considered subjects of exchange and were not included in my proposition." 

This refusal ended the negotiations, for (as Grant wrote), the United States "is bound to secure to all persons received into her armies the rights due as soldiers." 

From time to time, we hear denials of the centrality of slavery to the Civil War. That's apologetics, not history. Slavery was always, always there: the war's fundamental cause, the war's shaping reality.

"New York Times" editorial against U.S. Military bases being named after Confederates

The New York Times has an editorial against U.S. military bases being named after Confederates. You can read it at this link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/opinion/sunday/misplaced-honor.html?_r=0

A quote from the article:

Now African-Americans make up about a fifth of the military. The idea that today we ask any of these soldiers to serve at a place named for a defender of a racist slavocracy is deplorable;

The editorial is of course correct. It is outrageous that we name bases after Confederates. 

However, Kevin Levin at Civil War Memory is not happy with this editorial. 

http://cwmemory.com/2013/05/25/misplaced-memory-on-memorial-day-weekend/

His blog is a sort of flailing in logic. A sort of grasping for straws. 

However, this blog and some others are showing his banal white nationalism. (www.templeofdemocracy.com/breaking.htm). As public remembrance the Civil War truly starts moving into a mentality of the post-Civil Rights Era and leaves the pre-Civil Rights Era, the era of Paul Buck's "Road to Reunion" we will see in the reactions of Levine and others like him their true colors as they react against this change. 

Juvenile Racism of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans

The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) has an official Facebook page.

The link is:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sons-of-Confederate-Veterans-Official/149308815083112?fref=ts

On the Official SCV Facebook page there is a picture with Lincoln carrying a boombox on his shoulder next to his ear and listening to it. You can see the picture and the comments for the picture at this link while it still lasts.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=414660708547920&set=a.174153455931981.46693.149308815083112&type=1&relevant_count=1

These pictures aren't posted by contributors but by the Official SCV Facebook page itself. In the following link There are other juvenile pictures posted by the SCV on their Facebook page. Lincoln and Sherman are shown devils in hell in the picture at the following link:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=201023003245026&set=a.174153455931981.46693.149308815083112&type=1&relevant_count=1

The Sons of Confederate Veterans thinks is it clever and derogatory to portray Lincoln as an African American and commentators at the SCV Facebook page picture pick up the message of the photo.

Mike Edmonds comments, "I dont care what Bill Clinton says, Abe was our first black president."

By the way Clinton didn't say it, someone else did.

Matt Fischer comments, "yeah the hand behind his back is hidin the fried chicken."

Reubin Mauldin comments, "The first Snoop Dog ..."

Don Hulsey comments, "hes got a crackpipe in the other hand."

Butch Jackson comments, "Tru Dat !!!"

The editor of the Official SCV can remove inappropriate comments but hasn't removed these comments and has let these comments stay since April and May 2012.

I think this tells you what type of people make up the Sons of Confederate Veterans and their real attitudes when they are not before the media.

If you want to see these photos go right away, the SCV will likely pull them since it contradicts their public message that it is "Heritage not Hate."

Sons of Confederate Veterans Chief of Heritage Defense condemns Charles Darwin and modern cosmology.

Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Chief of Heritage Defense Gene Hogan in the May/June 2013 issue of Confederate Veteran, official publication of the SCV condemns Charles Darwin on page 11. In the article evolution, cosmology, Lincoln, the right of secession is all mixed together.

He opens his article explaining that he was invited to give a speech and in preparation for his speech he developed an idea which he is going to share in his "Forward the Colors" column as Chief of Heritage Defense which he does as follows:

It's been said a person's creation belief system will determine their world view. If you believe that the universe just, by chance, popped into existence and that, eventually single-cell organisms emerged from the primordial ooze, grew more complex, became vertebrates, began to walk upright ... here we are, billions of years after the process began, then a corresponding world view will follow, one of randomness ... purposelessness ... hopelessness. 

On the other hand, if you believe in the Genesis account, that an Eternal God spoke this universe into existence, formed us, the highest of His creations, in His image and in due time came to dwell as one us, died at our hands, rose again and stands ready to redeem us, it will profoundly affect your world view ... it will be much different than that of the adherent to the previous theory. 

After an erroneous recounting of the formation of the individual states in American history, he gets back to his topic of modern science leading people astray. Opposition to secession was due to a philosophy of Political Darwinism. Constitutional scholars who say that it is a "living breathing document," are influenced by evolutionary theory.

He points out that Lincoln and Darwin where born on the same day and "These boys would become men who would choose wrong idea, and those ideas would take them down the wrong path."

Hogan calls on his readers to resist "Reconstruction of the Mind," modernity, by being like their Confederate ancestors.

It is a free country. If you want to believe the earth is flat, because the Bible refers to the four corners of the world, you can. Also, I don't want to argue about his conceptualization of evolutionary or cosmological theories. I don't know why believing in evolution or modern cosmology would lead to "randomness," "purposelessness," or "hopelessness."  Or why one theory would necessary preclude the other.  I will leave this to Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy http://www.slate.com/authors.phil_plait.html to debate.

This article is of interest in that it shows that the SCV has become a religious right organization and right with a capital R.

League of the South and the International Afrikaner Society

The announcement for the 20th Annual League of the South (LOS) National Conference has as their speakers Mr. Hannes Louw, President of International Afrikaner Society (IAS) and Mr. Thomas J. Ferreira, former mayor of Boksburg, South Africa. The following is a link to the conference announcement.

http://dixienet.org/rights/2012/league_of_south_2013_conference.php

There is a link to a LOS page on Louw.

http://dixienet.org/rights/2013/conference_speaker_Hannes_Louw.php

This is the facebook page for the International Afriikaner Society. https://www.facebook.com/AfrikanerSociety

According to the LOS page on Louw he is working to find a new homeland for Afrikaners. According to the LoS.

Louw had a keen interest in Conservative politics from an early age, and became increasingly concerned with the plight of the Afrikaner in South Africa and the Afrikaner Diaspora. Believing that current Afrikaner party politics holds little promise he answered the call to utilize his experience, skills and international network to transform and unify Afrikaners, and work with other groups to establish a new Homeland for the Afrikaner people.

I don't pretend to know the politics of South Africa and there has been a lot of criticism of the South African ruling party by many, mostly over the issue of corruption. A lot of this criticism comes from Black Africans. It is a country with a lot of problems. 

However, there seems to be some agenda among some right wing white Afrikaners that there is an upcoming genocide. 

What I think is interesting is that the League of the South is having these speakers here. Why does the League of the South feel that these individuals have something relevant to say to them? The Council of Conservative Citizens www.cofcc.org has an agenda of alarm over South Africa and white genocide and maybe the LOS is planning on adopting this agenda. The LOS also has a program to teach all its members how to use effectively guns. Maybe they are evolving into some armed group expecting an apocalypse of some sort.  

Texas Frontier Heritage & Cultural Center and Grady McWhiney and the League of the South

Grady McWhiney was one of the founding members of the board of directors of the League of the South. He is also an author of books and articles advancing ideas about a Celtic South and Celtics in general that scholars of Celtic studies find laughable.

This is the New York Times obituary for Grady McWhiney discussing his membership in the League of the South (www.dixienet.org) and (www.facebook.com/leagueofthesouth).

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/us/30mcwhiney.html?_r=0

This is the biography of Grady McWhiney at the McWhiney History Education Group.
http://www.mcwhiney.org/founder.html

You will notice in the online McWhiney History Education Group biography web page of McWhiney that his involvement in the League of the South is entirely omitted. Also, his Celtic South writings are held up as some form of academic accomplishment rather than the ludicrous writings that they were.

This is a concluding section of a letter by Berthoff to the American History Forum criticizing a Confederate Celtic article that had been published in it. After tearing the article apart Berthoff writes:

But why harp on what anyone with the least interest in such matters will recognize as a hopeless muddle? Unfortunately, three of our leading journals have now placed their editorial imprimatur on it. Even newspapers feature writers have been more skeptical (Houston Chronicle, November 30, 1980, sec. 2, p. 10). But, then, perhaps the display of proverbial indolence in research and impetuosity in publication by two Southern historians is itself a demonstration of their thesis. 

The following article in Scottish Affairs published by Edinburgh University explains how Celtic scholars found McWiney and others to be laughable and also details how this idea of the Celtic South is neo-Confederate ideology.

http://templeofdemocracy.com/ScottishAffairs.htm

So in this specific way the McWhiney History Education Group works to perpetuate neo-Confederate ideology. It isn't necessary for an institution to support all the elements of neo-Confederate ideology. If one institution supports one element and another institution supports yet another element of neo-Confederate ideology, the sum of these efforts is a possibly effective support of a continuing neo-Confederate ideology.

I recently got a letter from the McWhiney History Education Group and so I looked up the website www.tfhcc.com and sent them the following email on 5/12/2013:

Dear Texas Frontier Heritage & Cultural Center:

Grady McWhiney was a founding director of the League of the South which was white supremacist from the beginning. He is also one of the leading writers who started the neo-Confederate mythology of the Celtic South. 

The idea of naming any education or historical group after him is absurd. It would be like having a Lysenko Institute of Genetics, or a Velikovsky Institute of Astronomy. 

Plus he was a damn racist who helped found and gave credibility to an organization whose goals were to undo the modern civil rights movement. 

Your adopting his name for any institute, program, group, etc. really is a comment on the problems perhaps with Texas Frontier studies and the people who compose this effort. 

As for your claim that the McWhiney History Education Group will “stem the rising tide of historical illiteracy,” I would say better to be uniformed than misinformed. 

Your organizations tolerance for McWhiney’s white supremacist activities says something severely negative about yourself. 

Sincerely Yours, 

Edward H. Sebesta

The officers of the McWhiney History Education Group and others who are supporting an institution named after a white supremacist are:

Governing Board

President/CEO: Donald S. Frazier

Robert F. Pace
Josh Winegarner
Stephen L. Hardin
Stephen Dodd
Dallas Cothrum
Rose M. Burks

Local Advisory Board

Chair: George Nichols

Vice-Chair: Judy Wyse

Secretary: Kathy Phillipp

Katie Alford
Ariel Boggess
Eric Dodd
Carolyn Edmison
Debra Hulse
Anita Young Lane
Jeff Luther
Tommy McAlister
Raymond McDaniel
Rhonda Moore
David Perry
Tom Perini
Paul Thames
Dorothy Thompson
David Wyse

I fully expect Kevin M. Levine to come to their defense.

Celebrate Juneteenth as an Anti-Confederate holiday

Juneteenth is on June 19th every year. It originally started out as a holiday to celebrate the abolition of slavery in Texas. However, it has become a national holiday of emancipation.

This year do something to celebrate Juneteenth as an anti-Confederate holiday.

1. You might read a an article or book about the struggle against slavery during the Civil War or the struggle for racial equality during the Civil War. You might read about the African American troops who fought against the Confederacy. I recommend Dudley Cornish's "The Sable Arm." It is a classic book. You might just buy a book about these topics on Juneteenth.

Mention the book or article your read or buy by tweeting on it or mentioning it on your facebook page or elsewhere on the Internet.

2. You might do a blog posting relevant to Juneteenth and the Civil War and the struggle against the Confederacy. Or write up something as a Facebook posting.

3. If you are in D.C. visit the African American Civil War Memorial.

4. If the local municipality or state you are in celebrates the Confederacy write a letter to your elected representatives asking them not to celebrate the Confederacy. It might be a monument, a flag, a symbol, a holiday about or incorporating the Confederacy. Post your letter online or tweet about it.

There must be many things you might do to have an anti-Confederate observance of the day. Let me know what ideas you might have and I will consider post them.

Dubious Medical advice at Lew Rockwell webpage

It always amazes me what is passed off as sound medical advice at www.lewrockwell.com. Very frequently there are various articles putting forth various medical claims that are laughable.

However, this article caught my attention, "Might Electron Deficiency Be An Underlying Factor in Most Chronic Disease."

http://lewrockwell.com/mercola/mercola281.html

The lead in to it from the lewrockwell.com page is "Are you Suffering from Excessive Electricity?" Someone is confusing "Excessive" with "Deficiency."

It is hilarious reading.

What attracted me to read a little of the article, was that you don't hear much anymore about electricity in dubious medical devices and treatments. It is like something out of the 30s or 40s.

If Lew Rockwell thinks that this article is credible, he really lacks intellectual capacity or judgement.

I don't see the ad that can frequently be seen on the website offering to sell plans for a machine that generates electricity without any fuel or electrical input. In short a perpetual motion machine. What is interesting is the sales pitch, listening to it you really learn something about the audience for www.lewrockwell.com.

If you tend to think anyone in charge of anything is likely to be part of a conspiracy, whether the school crossing guard, president of your aunt's bridge club, or something you thought you saw in the woods, then www.lewrockwell.com is for you.

It is astounding that so many university professors affiliate with Lew Rockwell when his website propounds these dubious medical theories. They must utterly be without a sense of embarrassment.

Confederate Veteran author advocates white supremacy to avoid being like Latin America

Latin America is referred to in Confederate Veteran articles as a racial demographic to be avoided.

This is an extract from an article is from the Confederate Veteran, Vol. 11 No. 9, September 1903, pp. 407. Introduction to article which clearly explains the meaning of the “Faithful” slave stories. The Confederate Veteran was the official publication of the United Confederate Veterans, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederated Southern Memorial Associations, and the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Our forefathers of the forties and fifties and sixties believed that if slavery were abolished, unless the black race were deported from the American States, there would result in the Southern States just such a condition of things as had resulted in San Domingo, in the other West Indies Islands, and in the so-called republics of Central and South America—namely, a hybridization of races, a lowering of the ethical standard, and a degradation, if not loss, of civilization.

The article is about African slavery. You can read it here.

http://www.confederatepastpresent.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=139:qconfederate-veteranq-article-titled-qfaithful-old-slaves-degenerate-progenyq-includes-commentary-about-latin-americans&catid=37:the-nadir-of-race-relations&back=yes

Article on Neo-Confederate Thomas E. Wood

Thomas E. Woods was a contributor to Southern Partisan, and to the Southern Patriot, the official publication of the League of the South. His full neo-Confederate career you can read about at www.templeofdemocracy.com/ThomasEWoods.htm.

One of his Southern Partisan article condemns the 18th century Enlightenment as an attack on the south. That puts a Capital R in reactionary.

Wood's webpage avoids his neo-Confederate past. http://www.tomwoods.com/articles/

This blog posting was brought to my attention this morning:

http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/thomas-e-woods-jr-and-the-neo-confederate-catholic-right/

It is a liberal Catholic website.  People are beginning to figure it out Wood's neo-Confederate ideology from his policy positions, though it doesn't seem this blogger or others know of his neo-Confederate origins.