In the Fall of 2013, the founder and director of the Institute on the Constitution Michael Peroutka made some outrageous claims regarding Martin Luther King, Jr. First, on the Steve Deace Show, Peroutka said King did not call for civil rights for blacks in his “I Have a Dream” speech. At the time, I demonstrated [Read More...]
Institute on the Constitution Doubles Down on Exploitation of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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National Religious Broadcasters Network Again Broadcasts Controversial Institute on the Constitution Course
In 2012, the National Religious Broadcasters Network aired the Institute on the Constitution’s 12 part course on the Constitution. The NRB took some heat over that choice, including the threat of a boycott from a group of pastors in the Cincinnati Ohio area. The same group of pastors threatened a boycott of publisher Thomas Nelson [Read More...]
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – 2015
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963 (turn up the volume). Sadly, civil rights revisionists such as the Institute on the Constitution assert that civil rights laws should not have been passed. Thank God they were passed and as Dr. King said, “we cannot turn [Read More...]
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League of the South Plans April Celebration of Lincoln’s Assassination
As I reported recently, the League of the South president Michael Hill announced their plan to celebrate the life of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. Plans are apparently coming together for an April celebration in Maryland. According to Hunter Wallace: We’ve been getting a lot of publicity from the media for announcing that we are going [Read More...]
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Maryland Investigating Robocalls Made in Support of Michael Peroutka’s Campaign for County Council
Who made the potentially illegal robocalls? Watch this investigative report by WUSA: Another interesting aspect of this report is Michael Peroutka’s spokesperson: Peter Waldron. “Councilman Peroutka’s policy is not to comment on ongoing investigations,” said Peroutka spokesman Peter Waldron in an email to WUSA9. Could this be the same Peter Waldron that worked for Michele [Read More...]
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Institute on the Constitution Posts Spurious Thomas Jefferson Quote
The Institute on the Constitution just can’t seem to get quotes right. On their Facebook page, the neo-Confederate organization periodically features quotes they claim come from the founders. However, the quote are often spurious. The most recent one attributed to Thomas Jefferson was posted earlier this month: How fitting for the times we are [Read More...]
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The Institute on the Constitution Posts Another Incorrect Quote Attribution – This Time They Get Thomas Paine Wrong
The Institute on the Constitution claims to be an educational outreach of Michael Peroutka’s law firm. Miseducational outreach would be a better term. They claim to teach about the founders but they often are sloppy and attribute things to the founders they didn’t say. Once, they claimed Jefferson said something he didn’t say and then they botched [Read More...]
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Ten Years of Blogging: League of the South President Says Being a White Supremacist is Just Fine
I write about neo-Confederate groups which I describe as organizations which have members who wish the south would have won the Civil War. Most also can be described as white supremacist or segregationist groups. Their numbers are small but they may play a role in radicalizing peripheral members of their movement (including disturbed ones like [Read More...]
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You Find the League of the South in the Strangest Places: CNN and the Institute on the Constitution
The League of the South appears to be leading the media defense of the Confederate flag. Tonight I watched the South Carolina LoS chairman Pat Hines try to defend the Confederate flag on CNN (I’ll get video when I can). "We think it's a memorial to our ancestors who fought to stop an invasion." Pat [Read More...]
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Todd Starnes: School Board Members Who Voted to Remove Rebel Mascot and Dixie Anthem Are Dim-witted Lefties
Add Fox News Todd Starnes to the short list (including David French and Bryan Fischer) to the list of prominent conservatives who are defending symbols of the Confederacy. In a column today, Starnes made fun of the Fort Smith, Arkansas school board for phasing out their Rebel mascot and removing Dixie as the school fight [Read More...]
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Michael Peroutka Somehow Missed the Racism in the League of the South
Michael Peroutka, a former board member of white supremacist group League of the South and current member of the Anne Arundel County Council, said Monday night that he can’t recall racism among his former League colleagues. This is not the first time he has claimed this. In yesterday’s Capital Gazette (video), Peroutka is quoted at […]
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