Only in the District of Columbia and Maryland officially recognize Inauguration Day as a holiday. But all 50 States recognized one of several holidays on Monday.
While other states were celebrating Martin Luther King Day we say "God Bless Texas" where they celebrated Confederate Heroes Day.
Thanks to the State's scalawag Governor and Legislature this was the first year that Arkansans were not celebrating General Robert E. Lee Day on Monday.
The City Government of Biloxi, Mississippi tried to make everyone happy this year by combining Robert E. Lee and MLK holidays into "Great Americans Day." The result was that both liberals and conservatives, black and white, southerners and yankees, etc. held vocal protests. In trying to make everyone happy, the City just managed to tick everyone off.
And Google issued an apology on Monday because for a brief time their search engine recognized the Robert E. Lee and Confederate Heroes Day holidays without making any mention of the MLK holiday. Immediately upon discover of their "error" they "corrected" by removing the recognition of Confederate holidays.
We reported previously that in Lexington, Virginia there would be competing Lee-Jackson and MLK "diversity" parades. But what is interesting is which parade the residents and citizens of Lexington decorated for.
Reports are that the locals took part enthusiastically in the celebration of their Heritage. The competing MLK "diversity" parade was scarcely attended - its "marchers" having been bussed in from somewhere else.
We at Dixie Heritage observed Monday as Robert E. Lee Day.
And we are counting the seconds!
Today, at exactly 12 noon, Donald J. Trump will become the 45th President of the United States.
At least that is our prayer!
At our time of publication (usually on Thursday nights with a timed release by email on Facebook for 6 am on Friday) the event has not yet taken place. So we have to tease the issue with a photo-shopped picture.
"Mainstream Media" sources photo-shop pictures and edit videos
ALL THE TIME. The difference between Dixie Heritage and the other media outlets is that w
e TELL YOU when we do it.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THURSDAY'S PRE-INAUGURAL
President-Elect Donald Trump landing in the nation's capitol on Thursday afternoon.
During the early evening concert, Actor John Voight gave a very short but memorable speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. We Southerners will forgive him his kind reference to Abraham Lincoln.
The President-Elect came from behind the bullet-proof glass and gave one public speech (it was only about 6 minutes) on Thursday.
Hundreds of thousands piled into the Capitol Mall to hear the speech. You would be hard-pressed to find crowd shots on the internet (the "mainstream media" does not want to publish them). Thankfully, the UK's Daily Mail published a crowd shot:
We invite our readers in Washington to eMail us their reports and observations of the Inauguration festivities.
CONFEDERATE FENDER-BENDER
First of all, the video below has very foul language. So click at your own risk. If you have children nearby please mute the volume.
Secondly, the same video is appearing on other websites as having occurred during Monday's MLK celebration. The video we are sharing was uploaded to youtube in June 2015 - so this is NOT new news. It is OLD news.
We are only presenting it because various outlets are reporting it as new news and we want to set the record straight.
How or why do we know this is OLD news? Because unlike CNN and ABC and MSNBC, etc. we actually FACT CHECK stories before we print them. Our fact checking is how we determined that this was OLD news.
That said, too much of what we are getting in the "mainstream" media is outright FAKE news.
Just this morning our local ABC affiliate reported that Melania Trump will be our nation's first foreign born First Lady. I guess they were absent on the day their 6th grade history teacher taught them about John Adams - whose wife was the actual first foreign born First Lady.
Let me say that when my wife and I saw Mrs. Trump this evening on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial we both commented to each other that she may well be the most pleasant looking and graceful First Lady in our nation's long history.
We at Dixie Heritage remain committed to becoming a reliable source of real news of interest to Southerners.
The Statues Stay - For Now
Charlottesville, Virginia's meeting on Tuesday to determine the fate of the city's public monuments to Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson ended with the the Council voting 2-2 on a motion to move the city's statue of Lee from Lee Park to McIntire Park, per a recommendation from a community commission the Council convened last year.
Signer and Council member Kathy Galvin opposed the measure, citing potential ethical dilemmas, legal challenges, financial hurdles and public outrage. Councilor Bob Fenwick chose to abstain, prompting several shouts of "shame" and "coward" from some upset with the vote's outcome.
Fenwick criticized the statues and said he would not vote to retain the statues in the park. But he added that he believes there are many opposed to moving the statues or who feel indifferent to them and said the city needs to prioritize other efforts. He specifically mentioned funding for a public park field house , jail diversion programs and increased contributions to community agencies that provide public assistance.
City staff estimated that moving either statue could cost approximately $350,000.
Attorneys for the city have noted that legal challenges could result from a decision to move the statues, which the state considers to be war memorials.
Shortly after the initial vote to move the statues, the meeting descended into a vitriolic back-and-forth between the councilors and the attendees who advocated removing the statues.
The topic of the statues could come before the Council again if at least three councilors agree to put it on a future agenda.
FOLSUM BLUES
We all remember the song, made famous by Johnny Cash. This week, a teacher in the California town's Middle School was suspended pending an investigation of "racism" for bringing a Confederate Battle Flag to his classroom.
VIRGINIA SENATOR ATTACKS SOUTHERN HERITAGE
In Wednesday's Senate Confirmation Hearings, Trump's pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia) was asked about his support and remarks over the Confederate Flag while he was a State official in Georgia.
"You fought hard to keep the Confederate flag," said Sen.
Tim Kaine, (D-Virginia).
Kaine referred to the Republican's time in the Georgia Legislature, including a resolution to make April Confederate History Heritage Month and his support of a resolution calling for schools to commemorate Confederate heritage and history.
English country home of General Lee's family goes on sale for £2.2MILLION
An English country home once belonging to General Lee's family has gone on the market for £2.2million.
Coton Hall in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, is the ancestral home of the Lee family.
The picturesque property is on the market with estate agents Savills for £2.25m.
The house was extended in about 1860 when a new wing and Italianate tower were added but the house has survived remarkably well with original fireplaces and cornices.
The Lee family - originally named de la Lee and probably of Norman descent - owned a sizable chunk of Shropshire for about 500 years. They lived at Coton Hall from the 1300s and the last member of the family to actively live there was Harry Lee, who died in 1821.
Sadly not much remains of the Coton Hall the American Lees would recognise.
The current property is 5,000 acres.
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WBTS ARIZONA - MAKE YOUR TRAVEL PLANS
We usually envision blue and gray armies battling it out east of Arizona when we think of The War between the North and South. Way far away from the Grand Canyon and desert Southwest. Over yonder, east of Texas.
After all, Arizona wasn't even a state in the 1860s; it was part the New Mexico Territory and wouldn't become a state for more than 50 years after the war.
So were there ties to The War, and were any battles fought here? The short answer is yes. a b
attle took place at Picacho Pass," says Robert Young, Picacho Peak State Park manager. "There were three different battles, two that took place in New Mexico and the one here."
The battle took place at the area around Picacho Peak - the picturesque stretch of land about 50 miles north of Tucson punctuated by craggy volcanic rock outcrops and lush desert along what is now Interstate-10 that served as a popular route for miners and missionaries heading west to California after it became a state in 1850.
Attempting to create a coast-to-coast presence for the South, Confederate troops marched west through New Mexico and in February 1862, led by Capt. Sherod Hunter, set up a camp at Tucson. Meanwhile, Union troops led by Lt. James Barrett claimed Fort Yuma on the California-Arizona border and planned to engage the Confederates at Tucson.
Two different scouting parties - made up of 13 Union troops and 13 Confederates - collided two months later April 15 at Picacho Pass. Fierce fighting and gun shots rang out for nearly an hour with Barrett and two other Union soldiers killed and three Confederates captured.
Both groups retreated before the Union troops from California would return a month later and take Tucson without incident.
The event at Picacho Pass was "the westernmost battle of the Civil War," Young says.
Today, the State Park pays respect to the battle with on-site monuments. There will be a re-enactment in March of the Arizona skirmish and the two New Mexico battles of Glorieta and Val Verde. About 250 re-enactors in period costume and equipment are expected to participate, Young says.
Make plans now to attend!
FROM ONE OF MY FAVORITE SUBSCRIBERS
Carl Edwards in rural P
ennsylvania
submitted the following this week:
If Monica Crowley has to withdraw from her potential position in the administration for plagiarism, why do we have a national holiday for fellow plagiarist, Martin Luther King? Boston University has marked his doctoral thesis file as such. He may also have lifted some of his "I have a dream" speech from Archibald Carey Jr.'s speech at the 1952 Republican National Convention. Even his name was merely appropriated by his father. His given name is Michael.
I too have a dream, that someday Martin Luther King Jr. will be judged, not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character, which was abysmal!
Portions of last statement should be attributed to King, Jr. & Carey Jr.
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IN FLORIDA WE HONOR OUR ANCESTORS
Retired circuit judge David Langford spoke during a ceremony honoring the Confederate soldiers who are buried at the Mt. Pisgah Methodist Cemetery south of Fort Meade, Florida on January 14, 2017. The event was held with the help of Captain Hendry Camp 1284.
A Cross of Honor, designed by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, was placed at the graves of the soldiers to honor their service and as a reminder of their heritage.
Compatriot Leon Arthur pierced the ground with a cavalry sword at the Mt. Pisgah Methodist Cemetery on Saturday morning in honor of the 14 Confederate soldiers buried beneath there.
"The sword that you see me put in the ground symbolizes the weapon used on the field of battle," he said, "thrust in the ground to honor their final resting place."
A Confederate hat was placed on top, which Arthur said would shield soldiers from the sun as they marched into battle.
Some of the soldiers' names have gone down in history, but others are still missing and may never be remembered.
Although Arthur said he has performed the Iron Cross ceremony throughout Florida, he said this was the first time it was held in Fort Meade.
"Integrity, honor and courage seems to be fading character traits in this time that we live in," he said. "The heritage of our ancestors live in each and everyone of us."
Toward the end of the ceremony, the names of the 14 soldiers buried at the cemetery were read aloud followed by the ding of a bell after each one.
Arthur said people need to remember that these men are American veterans who defended their south land.
"This is our culture," he said. "You can't ignore history for what it is."
INTERESTING RELIGIOUS NEWS
Word has come that one of three remaining members of the Shakers religious sect has died. The group believes in celibacy, which has caused its numbers to decline.
But at the time of the WBTS there were several thousand members in the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln gave them a blanket exemption as conscientious objectors, one of the first times that occurred. But the Shakers were still active in the war. In one community in Kentucky, members estimated they fed, clothed and provided medical services to more than 50,000 Union and Confederate soldiers.
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Is Donald Trump the New Joe McCarthy?
by Al Benson Jr.
Thanks to our faulty understanding of (and lack of knowledge) history in this country, the name Joseph McCarthy brings up all kinds of negative bugaboos about the late senator, mostly undeserved but all promoted by the Far Left and those that finance the Far Left.
McCarthy had a genuine concern about the numerous Communists within our own government and military that were working to destabilize the country and he found, as he went along, that there were many within our own government that wanted these Communists in place to do exactly what they were doing.
When McCarthy tried to expose all this, especially in the army, they blackballed him and eventually, when they could stop his exposures no other way, they got him censured. In other words, when McCarthy was seeking to expose the treason in his own government to the American people, the traitors in his own government opposed and eventually managed to shut down his efforts.
After all, the American people didn't need to realize they were being sold out and certain people in high places in government were going to make sure they didn't.
For those that might be interested in a little background on this I would recommend the book McCarthy written by Roy Cohn and published by Lancer Books in New York way back in 1968. Believe it or not, it is still available on Amazon and worth the read to see some of what is going on right now in regard to Donald Trump and how the Ruling Elite are trying to stop his efforts. Read and begin to connect the dots.
There is a concerted effort afoot right now to deny Trump the presidency he won legitimately, and those responsible are both Leftists and their willing cohorts in government-and please don't try to tell me the Leftists have no friends in government. After over 40 years of political research, I know better. One of their biggest boosters in government at this point is the man who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington-a man hopefully soon to be gone.
The spiritual descendants of those that got McCarthy censured are alive and well in Washington and are working to deny Trump the presidency because they know he will not play their game-unless they can so co-opt his administration by infiltration that he will have no choice.
The descendants of those people that spread vicious lies about McCarthy are busy now doing the same thing about Trump. McCarthy had to be discredited before the public and so does Trump. The Leftists and their good buddies in government and in the "news" media are all working mightily to make sure that happens-any way they can, any way they have to.
Even the intelligence community in this country seems to be against him. According to an article on
http://www.teaparty.org for January 13th; "His (Trump's) plan was to tell no one about a recent intelligence briefing he had. The information got out anyway, proving the leak was not on his end, but within our intelligence communities." Trump said: "I think it's pretty sad when intelligence reports get leaked out to the press. First of all, it's illegal. These are classified and certified meetings and reports." So the intelligence community is leaking Trump's meetings with them to the "fake news" media who are, in turn, putting out there what they think will make Trump look bad.
It was interesting, regarding that 35 page dossier on all of Trump's "indiscretions" that was put out. The fake news media eventually had to admit that it was, indeed, a fake. World Net Daily
http://www.wnd.com published an article on 1/12 partly about a firm called Fusion GPS, that had hired Christopher Steele, the man who supposedly authored the dossier. The World Net Daily article stated that: "Steele, 52, was identified Wednesday by the Wall Street Journal as the author of the memo. The Times cited a source saying the money to hire him came from a wealthy Republican Donor who wanted to compile a dossier about Trump's past scandals and weaknesses." Didn't make any difference if it was false or not as long as it worked to influence the public against him. The headline for the World Net Daily article was Firm Behind Trump Dossier Worked for Planned Parenthood. Does that really surprise anyone?
I hope, at this point, that Trump realizes all the forces arrayed against his presidency and how low they will stoop to make sure he doesn't make it to the White House-again, any way they have to.
The question then arises-should these people be able to thwart the will of the millions that voted for Trump, what will the reaction of those millions be-when they realize they have been shafted yet one more time by their own government's unelected rulers? Many of them have watched the government stiff them and their families for decades now and Trump seemed to be a way to end all that. What happens then if he is denied the ability to do that? You had better believe that lots of these folks are really ticked at what government has been doing to them for most of their lifetimes. Will they just sit idly by and watch it happen all over again if the Ruling Establishment thrusts a fake Hillary or a fake Jeb Bush on them as their supposed "president?"
There was a time when I would have said "yet, they will-they've been getting stiffed for decades now and they have put up with it, so why not again?" Now I am not so sure. History does have a way of getting messy, and I am about half convinced that our history here, in the short term, is going to get real messy. McCarthy and Trump (connect the dots) have been treated the same way-only this time the American people just may not take it anymore. We will see what happens come January 20th.
THE ANGRY MAN
For all the interest group pandering that shapes modern American politics, the group that may well have decided the election has come down to the demographic of "The Angry Man."
The Angry Man is difficult to stereotype. He comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from sophisticated urbanite to rural redneck, Deep South to Yankee North, Left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.
No matter where he's from, Angry Men share many common traits; they aren't asking for anything from anyone other than the promise to be able to make their own way on a level playing field. In many cases, they are independent businessmen and employ several people. They pay more than their share of taxes and they work hard. Damn hard, for what they have and intend to keep.
He's used to picking up the tab, whether it's the Christmas party for the employees at his company, three sets of braces, college educations or a beautiful wedding or two. Not because he was forced to, but because it's the right thing to do.
The Angry Man believes the Constitution should be interpreted as it was written. It is not as a "living document" open to the whims and vagaries of appointed judges and political winds.
The Angry Man owns firearms, and he's willing to pick up a gun and use it in defense of his home, his country and his family. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone if necessary to achieve those goals gives him only momentary pause.
The Angry Man is not, and never will be, a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina. He got his people together and got the hell out. Then, he went back in to rescue those who needed help or were too stupid to help themselves in the first place. He was selfless in this, just as often a civilian as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter. Victimhood syndrome buzzwords; "disenfranchised," "marginalized" "safe spaces" and "voiceless" don't resonate with The Angry Man. "Press 'one' for English" is a curse-word to him.
His last name, his race and his religion don't matter. His ancestry might be Italian, English, African, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, Russian, Hispanic or any of a hundred others. What does matter, is that he considers himself in every way to be an American. He is proud of this country and thinks that if you aren't, you are whole-heartedly encouraged to find one that suits you and move there.
The Angry Man is usually a man's man. The kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, go hunting, play golf, maintain his own vehicles and build things. He coaches kid's baseball, soccer and football and doesn't ask for a penny. He's the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, design a factory or work the land. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant, so that you can keep the lights on while never knowing everything it took to do that. The Angry Man is the backbone of this country.
He's not racist, but is truly disappointed and annoyed when people exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their ethnicity. He's willing to give everybody a fair chance if they're willing to work hard and play by the rules. He expects other people to do the same. Above all, he has integrity in everything he does.
The Angry Man votes, and he loathes the dysfunction now rampant in government. It's the victim groups being pandered to and the "poor me" attitude that they represent. The inability of politicians to give a straight answer to an honest question. The tax dollars that are given to people who simply don't want to do anything for themselves. The fact that, because of very real consequences, he must stay within a budget but for some obscure reason the government he finances doesn't. Mostly, it's the blatantly arrogant attitude displayed implying that we are too stupid to run our own lives and only people in government are smart enough to do that.
The Angry Man has now reached his limit. The "Game of Liberals" is over. When a social justice agitator goes on TV, leading some rally for Black Lives Matter, safe spaces or any other such nonsense, he may bite his tongue but, he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement. The day is coming.
But when government officials are repeatedly caught red-handed breaking the law and getting off scot-free, The Angry Man balls-up his fists and readies himself for the inevitable coming fight. He knows that this fight will be a live or die situation, so he prepares fully. Make no mistake, this is a fight in which he is not going to lose because he is unwilling to lose and he will never give up until he has achieved total victory.
Obama calls him a Clinger
Hillary calls him Deplorable
Bill calls him Redneck
BLM calls him a Racist
Feminists call him Sexist
ISIS calls him an Infidel
Donald Trump calls him an American
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