A local lawmaker in Galway County, Ireland is lobbying for the removal of a monument honoring a native son who fought for the Confederacy as similar tributes continue to come down across the pond in the old South and beyond.

The southern states were responsible for the vast majority of tax revenue used to keep the federal government operating. Most of that revenue was used to build infrastructure in the industrial north, certainly an iniquitous tax and the cause for war.

I wonder if anything would be done if the liberal losers carried sniper rifles up and down Pennsylvania Avenue. I doubt it. It’s just free speech, right?