50 Years Forward: Selma Ranked Worst City For Business in Alabama
Alabama Fifty years after the Civil Rights Movement, Selma and Birmingham have been ranked among the worst cities for business in Alabama: “With every best […]
Articles by Hunter Wallace
Rand Paul on Immigration
District of Corruption Here’s the latest from Rand Paul on immigration: “Anyway, it would be worth a shot, Paul said in a Fox News appearance […]
50 Years Forward: DBE Contractor Linked To Sign That Killed Luke Bresette
Alabama A few days ago, SBPDL.com speculated that Luke Bresette – the 10-year-old White boy from Kansas who died when a flight display sign collapsed […]
50 Years Forward: In Birmingham, 5 Years for Homicide
Alabama In light of the 50 Years Forward commemoration of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, OD and SBPDL are putting Birmingham, Alabama – where scenes […]
50 Years Forward: Birmingham SCLC Prays To “Stop The Violence”
Alabama A few weeks ago, we saw that Montgomery was praying to change black culture and was poised to overtake Birmingham in 2013 for the […]
Montgomery’s White Resistance To Integration
Alabama This excerpt on the demise of segregation in Montgomery is from J. Mills Thornton III’s Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil […]
50 Years Forward: Birmingham Dumps Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama
Alabama It’s official. The Birmingham City Council, which leapt at the opportunity to support the scam that was Vulcan Bike Week, won’t be supporting the […]
Stockton Bankruptcy
California Here’s the latest domino to fall in “the collapse”: Note: Detroit, Jefferson County (AL), Prichard (AL), Vallejo, San Bernardino, Harrisburg, Iceland, Greece, Cyprus … […]
Alabama Moves To Restore (Limited) Segregation
Alabama As someone who grew up in this area, I can say that the Alabama Accountability Act will have a far greater impact on the lives […]
RIP, Lawrence Auster
Pennsylvania I’m sure everyone has heard the news that Lawrence Auster of View From The Right lost his battle with cancer on Good Friday. There […]
Gate City Shooting
Alabama In a recurrent point of interest in “The Comeback Town,” I can’t improve on this description of the latest shooting in Birmingham’s Gate City community, which […]
Black Alabama Lawmaker’s Email: ‘Slave-Holding, Murdering, Adulterous, Baby-Raping, Snaggle-Toothed Kin Folk’
Alabama A White conservative from Jefferson County sends out a polite mass email asking Alabama state lawmakers to oppose gun control … a black state […]
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 […]
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 […]