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The Confederate flag was once cheered by thousands of freed slaves. It happened in 1863, when the CSS Alabama caught a Union ship off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. The spectacle was so thrilling to the locals, particularly the Malay and

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has joined calls to remove a statue of Kentucky-native Jefferson Davis from the state capitol building.

After praising South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) for supporting the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Capitol, GOP gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin called for the removal of a statue of Jefferson Davis from the Kentucky Capitol.

Communism is chic: Amazon’s senior vice president Jay Carney proudly features Soviet Union war propaganda in his lavish home, after all. “Have you enlisted in the army?” a poster featured by The Washingtonian Magazine photo splash asks.

MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews accused RNC Chairman Reince Priebus of only “pretending he cared about black rights” by standing with SC Governor Nikki Haley (R) during her speech calling for the Confederate flag’s removal from South Carolina’s Capitol grounds. Matthews

From KHOU.com: Dixie Flag Company, based on the east side of San Antonio, is currently selling the Confederate flag and it has no intention of pulling the stars and bars off its shelves. In the historic flag section of this

On June 23, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) said he is moving to stop the issuance of license plates that bear the image of the Confederate flag. The flag is printed on license plates that “[recognize] the Sons of Confederate

One of the emails O’Keefe highlighted showed Bush once used the word “presidente” instead of “president.” Bush’s choice of wording may be ironic in light of his stance on immigration – with many Republicans arguing that he isn’t tough enough on that issue.

Hillary Clinton called the Confederate flag a symbol of the nation’s racist past that should have “no place” in the country’s present or future.

In an interview with Fox News’ David Webb posted on Tuesday, Karl Rove praised South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) for reversing her position on the Confederate flag and calling for its removal.

CNN Commentator and pro-Hillary Super PAC Co-Chair Paul Begala said that Hillary Clinton “absolutely” has to answer for her association with Arkansas’ Confederate-inspired flag on Tuesday’s “New Day.” Begala was asked, “the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign comes out says, as she

Tuesday on CNN’s “Wolf,” Wal Mart CEO Doug McMillon admitted he was surprised Wal Mart sold Confederate flag merchandise. Discussing his decision to pull the merchandise, McMillon said, “We just don’t want to sell products that make anyone feel uncomfortable and we

On his Tuesday show, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh offered his theory on what is motivating the sudden push to remove the Confederate flag from society, to which he did not say it was because of the backlash created

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated that he would take the Confederate flag down in a speech in Virginia on Tuesday. Trump said of the flag, “I think they should put it in the museum, let it go, respect whatever

Kentucky Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul argued that the Confederate flag should be “in a museum” and is “inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery” on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Kuhner Report” on Boston’s WRKO. Rand said

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” former Republican National Committee chairman Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) was peppered with questions on whether or not he supported some states flying the Confederate flag. Several times Barbour said it was a state rights issue and

Wal-Mart said Monday it is removing any items from its store shelves and website that feature the Confederate flag.

Hillary Clinton has managed to avoid any questions about the Confederate flag, even as her Republican rivals have faced a media onslaught since the murder of nine black congregants by a racist white gunman in a Charleston church last week. Vintage

New Orleans Saints tight end Benjamin Watson took to Facebook to comment on the Confederate flag at the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse, calling for a careful approach in the removal of the banner.

Nine dollars per minute. Fifty-three thousand American dollars per day. This is what it will take to defeat “that damn Confederate flag.” Is that worth it to the taxpayers of South Carolina?

NRO: Valor and skill deployed in the service of evil do not deserve honor. If your ancestors fought for the Confederacy, I do not respect their “service” or their “sacrifice.”

Talk radio host Glenn Beck argued wondered why anyone would fly the Confederate flag because “It’s a flag of another country” on Monday. He began by declaring, “The Confederate flag makes no sense to me whatsoever.” Beck added that while

“CNN Tonight” anchor Don Lemon began his show on Monday night by displaying a Confederate flag and a placard with the n-word uncensored over a chyron asking “does this offend you?” Lemon said, “this is what America is talking about

Haley left a door ajar that the left intends to prop wide open, from now until Election Day and beyond. Emboldened by South Carolina’s quick shift—on an issue that was tangential to the horrific atrocity in Charleston—the left is eager to mount a continued campaign against the Confederacy and its symbols.

From the Huffington Post: WASHINGTON — Many Republican presidential contenders say the question of whether to keep the Confederate flag flying outside South Carolina’s Statehouse is a matter for South Carolinians to work out among themselves. Democratic candidates like Hillary

“The issue is not the flag so much as it is how people think,” said the only African American GOP presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson, to the Wall Street Journal. “What’s in their heart? You can get rid of every Confederate flag in the world but if you’re still being motivated by the wrong emotion it’s not going to solve any problem.”

“Today we are here in a moment of unity in our state, without ill will, to say it’s time to move the flag from the Capitol grounds,” Gov. Haley said at a Monday press conference to cheers.

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) declared “it’s time” for the state to remove the Confederate flag from its capitol while asking that “the focus still remain on the nine victims of this horrible tragedy” in a statement on Monday. Haley

A growing number of politicians have weighed in on the propriety of South Carolina flying the Confederate flag on its Statehouse grounds following a racially motivated shooting that claimed the lives of nine people in Charleston last week.

The dead are not yet buried in Charleston, yet the South Carolina legislature is to meet in special session Tuesday to debate the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the Capitol grounds, reportedly at the behest of Gov. Nikki Haley. Whether the flag belongs there or not–and I would argue that it does not–the flag had nothing to do with the nine murders in a church last week. To tear it down in such haste is to dishonor the dead–and to accept a collective guilt that knows no end.

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” national President and CEO of the NAACP Cornell William Brooks reacted to the fatal shooting of 9 parishioners inside Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC and said the Confederate flag is a symbol of the

Members of a historic black church worshipped at their sanctuary Sunday for the first time since a gunman opened fire at a Bible study, killing nine people, and uniformed police officers stood among the congregation as a measure of added security.

During Saturday’s episode of “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC, former South Carolina State Representative Bakari Sellers responded to President Barack Obama saying that the Confederate flag should be in a museum in response to pictures of the Charleston shooter Dylann Roof posing

On June 20 former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney called for South Carolina to remove the Confederate flag from their state Capitol grounds in Columbia.

From The Atlantic: Last night, Dylann Roof walked into a Charleston church, sat for an hour, and then killed nine people. Roof’s crime cannot be divorced from the ideology of white supremacy which long animated his state nor from its

On Thursday, the Supreme Court’s streak of incoherent decisions remained intact, as the Court ruled that the state of Texas could ban Confederate flag symbols from license plates but that the town of Gilbert, Arizona, could not place time restrictions on billboards based on content. This is, to say the least, nonsensical. But we expect nothing less than nonsense from the Supreme Court these days.