Outside the Beltway

It’s time to stop honoring the symbols of a nation of racist traitors.

Hatred and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Symbols shape our views of the past.

In addition to the race in New Jersey, the statewide races in Virginia are also being looked to as a barometer of American politics in the first year of the Trump Administration.

President Trump’s comments about Andrew Jackson and the Civil War reveal something about how he thinks, and it’s not good.

Hillary Clinton’s extreme carelessness with classified information probably won’t cost her the election, but it should.

Hilary Clinton crushed Bernie Sanders in Mississippi, but was surprised by Bernie Sanders in Michigan. Nonetheless she still remains in control of the race.

Five months after Charleston, Mississippi is still struggling to rid itself of symbols of the Confederacy.

Finally.

The Confederate Flag needs to be removed from official places of honor, but do we really need to worry about reruns of The Dukes of Hazzard?

The people who continue to claim that the Confederate Flag is about anything other than hatred, racism, and a nation that celebrated slavery are lying to you and to themselves.

If Jim Webb runs for President, he will be the only candidate in either party who is on record defending the Confederate Battle Flag. And he’s thinking of running as a Democrat.

An important tenet of the internet is “don’t read the comments.” Well, I have violated that rule of late–which means more musings on the symbols of the CSA.

As Governor Haley pushes the South Carolina legislature to take the Confederate Flag down, the movement moves beyond the Palmetto State.

With notable exceptions, most of the Republican candidates for President are refusing to take a stand on the propriety of South Carolina flying the Confederate Flag. That’s called cowardice.

The murders in Charleston have revived a debate that should have been over a long time ago.

The Supreme Court ruled that states don’t have to grant license plates that display the Confederate flag. Their decision has the potential to seriously harm the First Amendment.

150 years later, Abraham Lincoln continues to inspire us.

The Supreme Court is set to decide if the state can deny a license plate with the Confederate flag design because it is “offensive.”

The GOP is dominant in the Southern United States, but it’s unlikely to last as long as Democratic dominance of the region did.