Media critics have been dumping on the new Civil War movie Gods and Generals, based on the novel by Jeff Shaara, in proportion to how jubilantly they've welcomed the HBO series Six Feet Under. The former is depicted as being in stilted Victorian language and a"shameless apologia for the Confederacy as a divinely inspired crusade... Read More

Ted Turner, executive producer of "Gods and Generals," which premiered in Washington this week, "didn't set out to make an antiwar movie," the Washington Post concluded in its coverage of the event, "but history is funny that way." Not as funny as the Post, which managed to miss the entire point of the movie—that, as... Read More

The Confederate flag and most other white Southern symbols have been stripped down from almost all public monuments in the South and whatever other parts of the country might once have sported them, but white-haters still can't let it go. The most recent installment of white-hatred comes from Vanderbilt University, where a black professor is... Read More

You don't hear much these days about the war against theConfederate Flag, especially since the flag's enemies got their behinds kicked when they tried to remove a Confederate emblem from theMississippi state flag through a state referendum last year. Nevertheless, don't imagine the enemies of the flag and the heritage it represents are gone; like... Read More