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 […]
Economy
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Red America Rising
Red America In The Wall Street Journal, Joel Kotkin expands on his argument of an emerging divide between an economically ascendant but politically declining Red America […]
Southern Poverty Pimps
Dixie Michael Lind has a new anti-Southern article out in Salon: “Contemporary American politics cannot be understood apart from the North-South divide in the U.S., […]
Buchanan on Free Trade Deals
VDARE Do you remember the free trade agreement with South Korea that Obama signed in his first term and which he promised would create American […]
Live Thread: BRA’s State of the Union 2013
District of Corruption In his 2013 State of the Union Address, Obama announced that he is working on the “Trans-Pacific Partnership” free trade agreement and […]
How The South Will Rise Again
Dixie In Forbes, demographer Joel Kotkin sees the Sunbelt South becoming even more dominant in economic power as the “new breed of carpetbaggers” flee the […]
SNN Podcast: The Rise of the New South
South Carolina Here’s the link to the SNN podcast with Palmetto Patriot about my review of James C. Cobb’s The South and America Since World […]
Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry
Dixie The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry is Volume 11 of a 24 part series sponsored by the Center for the Study of […]
Mississippi: The Color of EBT
Mississippi Here’s another excerpt from Chuck Thompson’s Better Off Without ‘Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession which is part of a roundtable discussion on […]
Republic of Dixie: Livestock and Crops
Dixie In terms of chicken broilers, chicken eggs, rice, and cotton among other things, the South disproportionately contributes to American agriculture. Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, and […]
Catalonia’s Precedent for Texas
Spain In spite of the media spin, the bottom line coming out of Catalonia’s elections is that the four separatist parties won a clear majority […]
Catalonia Goes To The Polls
Spain The Spanish state of Catalonia is holding elections on Sunday which are expected to return a strong pro-independence majority in the Catalan regional parliament: […]
Slavery Myths: Life Expectancy
American South Here’s the average life expectancy at birth for American slaves in 1850 compared to the life expectancy of various “free” populations around the […]
Slavery Myths: Refuting Hinton Helper
American South Here’s an excellent excerpt from Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery which eviscerates the economic argument for the abolition of […]
The Modernization of Slavery
CSA, 1890 AD Andrew Hamilton has another excellent article on the Confederacy at Counter-Currents. While I mostly agree with his conclusions, I want to use […]
Slavery: Demolishing The Yankee Stereotypes
Confederate States of America My copy of Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery arrived this morning. […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Mighty Experiment
Great Britain Seymour Drescher’s The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation is an attempt to understand the abolition of slavery in the […]
Caribbean Project: Free Labor Jamaica vs. Slave Labor Cuba
British West Indies In Caribbean Project: Review: Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century, we saw how the abolition of slavery in Haiti (1794) […]
Linder on Slavery
VNN Forum Alex Linder writes: “It’s one thing to make intellectual arguments for slavery, that’s worth doing for a number of reasons, but it is […]
The Province of Freedom: Free Labor vs. Slave Labor in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone As Stephen Drescher observes in The Mighty Experiment, the total failure of free society in Sierra Leone, a free labor colony in West […]
Caribbean Project: Adam Smith, Free Labor, Slavery
British West Indies This is getting good. If the free labor system was so superior to slavery, as Adam Smith argued in The Wealth of […]
Outsourcing Is America At Its Best
Forbes I knew this guy sounded familiar … scanning my bookshelf, I spotted his name on a copy of The Ayn Rand Lexicon. “Mitt Romney […]
The Cost of the Union: Obamacare: Healthcare for Blacks and Hispanics
District of Corruption The Obama administration is not even trying to hide the fact that it is taxing White households to spend money on healthcare […]
Amurrica Series: Obama Creating African-American Education Office
District of Corruption I hear it will tentatively be titled … The Mentally Retarded Education Department. “WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is creating a […]
Straight Outta Compton
California Maybe they will rap about bankruptcy now? “COMPTON (CBS) — The city of Compton is reportedly facing bankruptcy following an announcement at a City […]
Romney’s Chance to Embrace Outsourcing
National Review Here’s the latest from the VIPs (Valuable Intellectual Properties) over at National Review: “There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that Milton Friedman was […]
Recession Anxiety
BRA’s Economy BRA’s Recovery looks increasingly poised to keel over and take the plunge into a double dip recession.