Category Archives: Confederate Rest

The case against Madison racial reparations

We gave at the office! The history of reparations is mostly open sores and weeping blisters. France wanted reparations — deep and punishing — from the Kaiser’s Germany. Fueled Hitler’s rise to power. President Reagan approved paying $20,000 to Japanese-Americans … Continue reading

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Judge won’t cancel cancellation of history

After city overturned 113 years of precedent! Let’s close the loop on the canceled memorial cenotaph at the Confederate Rest section of Forest Hill Cemetery. A judge this week denied a lawsuit filed by attorney Todd Hunter seeking its restoration. We broke … Continue reading

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Lawsuit seeks return of Confederate Rest monument

Did not glorify the South’s Lost Cause.  A Madison attorney is contesting the City of Madison’s removal of the memorial stone at Confederate Rest cemetery on 04-10-2018 (and reaffirmed on 05-11-2018) as a “desecration.” It was one of the city’s … Continue reading

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Madison council rewrites history

Descendants of Confederate Rest dead would have a strong legal claim to contest removal of grave marker they paid for and was accepted by the City of Madison Forest Hill Cemetery is a National Historical site. Landmark Commission chairman Stuart … Continue reading

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Get the message? The world is full of victims! They’re everywhere!

Go Brewers! — Oh, is this Brewer bandwagon a fun ride! Guessing productivity suffered Monday in the upper Midwest but, here in Wisconsin, morale got a major boost. Beating the Cubs for the title? Priceless. Jesus Aguilar sent the right kind … Continue reading

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City of Madison poised to trash a grave stone

Where else has a gravestone been uprooted? (outside Jewish cemeteries in Nazi Germany, of course) Forget it, virtue signalers, it’s Madison — where an issue never dies, it only festers. The fate of the grave stone listing the 140 dead … Continue reading

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