One wonders if the leftist zealots frothing at the mouth for the destruction of all things with a connection to the Southern Confederacy of 1860-1865 can even recall the catalyst of their current rage.  Surely they recall that their current efforts stem from the murder of nine men and women by a racist lunatic.  This means little to the professional agitators and malcontents on social media, in academia, in the media, and in government, however, as those poor souls have served their purpose. Now, in their self-righteous zeal, the Orwellian thought police seek to expunge any and all reference to the Confederacy in furtherance of their long efforts to rewrite, edit, or ignore vast swaths of our American saga.  The purge is not limited to Confederate battle flags aloft Southern state houses – no, it has expanded to public parks, statues, military bases, and streets that bear the name of famous Confederates.  One Arkansas high school even plans to ban the...(Read Full Post)