Vulcan Bike Week
Alabama In the previous article, we saw that the Birmingham City Council voted not to sign a contract with the promoters of the Honda Indy Grand Prix […]
Articles by Hunter Wallace
50 Years Forward: Birmingham City Council Rejects Funding Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama
Alabama Paul Kersey of SBPDL.com recently published his latest book on Amazon, The Tragic City: Birmingham, 1963-2013, which tells the true story of how the City […]
Supreme Court Considers “Gay Marriage”
District of Corruption The American system can already be declared a failure when nine judges in Washington are deliberating the definition of marriage: Note: Personally, […]
Historic Selma Struggles With Blight
Alabama When I last visited Selma in 2011, I was struck by the obvious decline of the city: the blighted homes, the abandoned shopping centers, […]
Congress Finally Reacts To Violence In Birmingham
Alabama Birmingham’s DWL community held a Memorial March last night in honor of the tragic and “senseless” shooting of Jarmaine Walton in Railroad Park: “BIRMINGHAM, […]
Trends With Benefits
Alabama NPR investigates Greensboro in Hale County (AL) where 1 in 4 working age adults are receiving a $1,000 disability check a month: “In rural […]
Negroes In Negroland (1868)
North Carolina Here’s the link to Hinton Rowan Helper’s less famous book, Negroes in Negroland (1868), which he wrote in the midst of Reconstruction in North Carolina. […]
Black Teens Murder Baby In Stroller In Brunswick, Georgia
Georgia H/T CofCC Even for the Black Undertow, this is a new low: “West earlier told reporters that the incident occurred at 9 a.m. Thursday […]
Montgomery Set To Surpass Murderham In Violent Crime
Alabama The City of Montgomery is on track to set a new record in 2013. For the first time in over a century, perhaps ever, […]
Health and Fitness Series: Milk, Cheese, and the Fatty American Diet
United States In light of Jack Ryan’s post below on the obesity epidemic in Mexico, I want to take a look at one of the […]
Montgomery Prays To Change (Black) Culture
Alabama “Now it is not an accident that one of the great marches of American history should terminate in Montgomery, Alabama. (Yes, sir) Just ten […]
Rand Paul’s Immigration Logic
VDARE Patrick Cleburne at VDARE speculates: “Or it could simply be that he has been bought, which is what I think.” Rand Paul was supporting […]
Being White In Philly
Pennsylvania H/T SBPDL The black mayor of Philadelphia is trying to get the “Human Relations Commission” to shutdown the First Amendment over an article called “Being […]
Rand Paul Embraces Amnesty Again
District of Corruption I didn’t think much of Rand Paul’s grandstanding over Obama’s use of drones on American soil (a classic example of a political […]
World Climate Zones
Dixie H/T Goblin An OD reader has noticed that Dixie has a fairly homogeneous climate under the Köppen–Geiger climate classification system:
Job Growth In Alabama Metros
Alabama David Sher, who runs The Comeback Town, has been making the argument for city-county consolidation in the Birmingham metro area on the basis that […]
Caught In The Black Undertow: Detroit—And America?
VDARE Check out William L. Houston’s excellent review of Charlie LeDuff’s Detroit: An American Autopsy at VDARE. Note: Naturally, Gov. Rick Snyder chose a black […]
Birmingham and Secession
Alabama Paul Kersey writes: “Black people will always follow white people wherever they may go, because the conditions found in a white community are preferable […]
Yes To Independence 7.0
Maryland H/T SNN A Marylander explains why he supports Southern independence: Note: The desire for Southern independence is really no more complicated than the chronic […]
Montgomery’s Crime Problem
Alabama Montgomery has a growing violent crime problem: “Due to the efforts of his church, shootings in the neighborhood have stopped, Nettles said, but violent […]
Louis Farrakhan To Visit Tuskegee
Alabama I learned this afternoon that Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam will be coming to Tuskegee for a three day visit next week. […]
Seceding From The Black Mecca
Georgia WND has published two stories in recent days on the fear that Atlanta in 2013 could be evolving into the “Detroit of the South”: “The […]
The Cahawba Solution
Alabama Cahawba, the first permanent state capital of Alabama, is a ghost town located about 12 miles southwest of Selma in Dallas County (AL). The […]
Joe Biden Visits Selma’s Magic Bridge
Alabama The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma has made the news again: “Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Director of the National Park Service […]
The Tragic City: Birmingham vs. Vestavia Hills
Alabama Paul Kersey has shared with us a revealing excerpt from Tanner Colby’s new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story […]
Glenn Beck: “America Certainly Is Dead”
Texas “Have men considered whither all this is tending, and what it certainly enough betokens? Cut every human relation which has anywhere grown uneasy sheer […]
Yes To Independence 6.0
South Carolina H/T SNN Good points. Why should Southern children be serving as cannon fodder in America’s endless imperial wars in Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, […]
Crime In Macon County (AL)
Alabama After returning home from a trip to Tuskegee in Macon County (AL), I found myself wondering whether there is any truth to the assumption […]
The Tragic City: Metro Birmingham Ranked 197 of 200 Metro Areas
Alabama After poking around some more on David Sher’s hilarious DWL website The Comeback Town, I noticed that Birmingham was recently ranked 197 out of 200 […]
The Tragic City: Crime In Jefferson County (AL)
Alabama David Sher of The Comeback Town has written a response to John Bennett’s article on post-1963 Birmingham which recently appeared in The American Thinker: “I can […]
Kunstler vs. North
New York Gary North: “My objection to Kunstler begins with the title of his website. I choose not to repeat it here. You can click […]
Yes To Dixie 3.0
Virginia and North Carolina At some point, I would like to do one of these videos for Alabama: Note: See the previous videos from South […]