[goldstategop]

Funny but true. Liberals want you to judge them on their rhetoric, not their failures.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[SteveMcKing]

Americans of Italian descent like the writer of this column would have never had their answer to Saint Patrick's Day.
 

Bite me. Go back to Italy, Ireland, Mars or where ever the hell you're from.

ITALIANS changed their own names in coming here- not "historians".

And the great majority of green-clad drunks who you see on St. Patrick's Day aren't even Irish. The ones who truly loved their country stayed there.

The rest of them knew "suck" when they saw it, and never looked back on that decrepit old country.

[Verginius Rufus]

The route to India via the Red Sea had been known since antiquity, but the route via the Cape of Good Hope was discovered by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, only 4 years before Columbus' first voyage. Columbus did see both the South American and North American mainlands, but not on his first voyage.

If either Columbus or Vespucci wanted to talk to philosophers, they probably would have found contemporary Italian philosophers more interesting than Marcus Aurelius (who has been compared to Eeyore).