Commemorating the Confederacy? Not a good idea.

Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens ... bluntly declared that slavery was "the immediate cause of the late rupture and the present revolution." He said the United States had been founded on the false belief that all men are created equal. The Confederacy, in contrast, had been "founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural moral condition."

Reason is running this because the Governor of Virginia, recently declaring April to be Confederate History Month, somehow managed to completely forget about slavery. "Oh, that old thing!" More...