The Latest News about The War on Statues

Campus Reform correspondent and Hofstra University student Richard Caldwell petitioned to keep a Thomas Jefferson statue on campus after a liberal group attempted to have it removed. “Last March around this exact same time, there was a big issue about this. And we made the counter petition. I made the counter-protest, and we had meetings with the administrators and after ...

Vandals went after the wrong monument Thursday night and instead burned a World War 2 general’s statue in North Carolina. Major General William C. Lee’s statue was burned around 10 p.m. Thursday after “someone poured flammable liquid over the white marble statue” and set it ablaze, according to a Facebook post from the William C. Lee Airborne Museum in Dunn, ...

Vandals covered a statue in Florida depicting the iconic photograph commemorating the end of World War II in red paint Tuesday, spraying #MeToo across the memorial. Sarasota’s statue of the “The Kiss” remembers one of the most famous photographs of the 20th century. The picture photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt shows war veteran George Mendonsa kissing Greta Zimmer Friedman in Times Square on ...

At a time when the rest of the country is seeking to destroy commemorations of the Civil War, one small community in rural Maryland is attempting to conserve them. City council members in Taneytown, Maryland, excluding a single objector, have chosen to support the construction of a new Civil War memorial in hopes it will increase tourism revenue for their ...

Since we’re removing historical relics of Oppression, racism, and slavery when will they call for the abolition of the Democrat party? Political Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2019. See more Branco toons HERE Get his latest book, “Make America Laugh Again: Vol. 2 HERE

The progressive-led war on statues took another victim Monday night as a gathering of snowflakes toppled the Silent Sam statue at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill. Just before 9:30 Monday evening, about 250 people that had gathered near the statue watched it fall. The statue was toppled purposefully by members of the group who believe it, and all ...

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a memorial erected in 1925 to honor 49 local heroes that had made the ultimate sacrifice during World War I must now be torn down. The Fourth Circuit Appeals Court’s major disagreement with the Bladensburg, Maryland WWI Veterans Memorial seemed to be that it was a cross and … really tall? “The Latin ...

In yet another step down that long, dark path that if followed to its logical conclusion, will result in mass book burnings in America, a Mississippi school district has yanked an enduring work of literature. Harper Lee’s 1960 classic To Kill a Mockingbird was eliminated from 8th grade English lesson plans because someone might get offended due to the use ...

Bill Clinton was famous for his ability to deflect criticism of his policies and actions by righteously and loudly proclaiming that the heated words from his opponent would not feed a hungry child. In that vein, I’d like to attempt to use his tried-and-true practice and remind those on the destructive left that they waste money and time tearing down ...

The deranged left’s campaign to erase all of American history that offends their overly-sensitive petty minds has now begun the crossover from Confederate statues to other figures deemed to be too offensive to tolerate. Vandals defaced a New York statue of Christopher Columbus with a substance that looked like blood this week and now Black Lives Matter activists and other ...

Liberal Democrats are concentrating on imagined hate and symbolism but once they have torn down the statues of Confederate soldiers, including the idiocy of punishing living persons for having the same name as a Confederate soldier, or for condemning a horse because it has the same name as a Confederate soldier’s horse, what’s next? With liberals, there is always a ...

Let’s face it, pretty much everything the Left does they do to divide the country not unite it. With the crazies running wild again, this time trying to tear down and erase our history, many of them are saying it is to heal and unite the country. Well, as usual, the Left has it all wrong and they are pushing ...

Globetrotting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has made it clear that he is in the camp with the fanatics now that he is mulling the removal of a statue of Christopher Columbus. The latest leftist craze of forcing the tearing down of Confederate monuments throughout the U.S. was always self-limiting to the zealots and anarchists, simply because there ...

Submerged in the craziness that is the War on Statues, Alexandria City, Virginia has decided that they need to rename a highway. Where did the city government leaders turn for good alternatives? The internet. And you know how that went. Virginia is renaming Jefferson Davis Highway and asking the internet for suggestions https://t.co/Ut09mVA2Pt pic.twitter.com/USXud2zIqR — Jalopnik (@Jalopnik) August 20, 2017 ...

Basketball legend Charles Barkley laid out why he thinks the war on statues is a complete waste of time. In a sit-down interview with WBRC Fox 6’s Sports Director Rick Karle, Barkley said, “I’m not gonna’ waste my time tryin’ to worry about these statues they got all over the country.” Rather than screaming at Nazi’s and attacking statues, he ...