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The National Archives has added a 'harmful language alert' label on the nation's founding documents including the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence as part of a new 'anti-racism' policies put in place by a task force.... ...Earlier this year, the task force produced a 100-page report blasting its own headquarters' Rotunda for 'structural racism' over paintings it displays which are said to depict the United States' white founding fathers in too positive a light. According to the authors, the Rotunda's famed murals depicting scenes such as the sighting of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution are insufficiently tempered with...

...The latest example of Trump's shadow presidency came Wednesday, when The Washington Post reported that Trump had spoken with several of the family members of those killed by a suicide bomber in the final days of American military involvement in Afghanistan.... ..."Trump has criticized the way the Afghanistan withdrawal was handled...Trump has been briefed recently by former officials, including former CIA director and secretary of state Mike Pompeo...Trump even sent out a statement -- via his Save America PAC... ,,,It's hard to overstate what a break that sort of behavior is from the way past presidents have comported themselves...

The abject stupidity of the triggered left knows no bounds. According to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), the National Archives in Washington, DC has added a disclaimer to their website saying that some of our historical documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution may contain “harmful content.” Boebert tweeted: “The National Archives have now put a disclaimer on their website that our historical documents may include Harmful Content. They even slapped this warning on the Constitution. We tried to tell you the Left wanted to get rid of it!” Lest you think we are making this up,...

One need not be a fan of Woodrow Wilson to be appalled at the ease with which Princeton University sees fit to erase any association it has with the 28th President of the United States because of a few bullies who have nothing constructive to do with their lives. Wilson, of course, was President of Princeton from 1902 to 1910. This is no different than the effort to remove Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill. To give you an idea of how deep moral equivalency is imbedded in our university students, I recently attended a Halloween Party where I spoke...

Minutes after Naomi Watts, movie star, arrived at the CIA’s secret Virginia training center called The Farm, she was thrown to the ground in a way that left bruises. When she cried out in pain, her instructor glared and informed her, “Don’t say 'ow’ again unless you need to go to the hospital.” During the days that followed, she was “stripped of everything that cloaked her in specialness,” said director Doug Liman. The actress chose the rough treatment, Liman said. He chose Watts to play Valerie Plame Wilson, the spy who was outed in one of the most controversial episodes...

MALAYSIA Viet refugee memorial to be torn down Malaysia will tear down a memorial commemorating Vietnamese refugees who died fleeing communist rule after a protest from Hanoi, a report said today. The memorial was built in March by a group of former Vietnamese refugees on the northeastern island of Bidong in Terengganu state, the Star daily in Kuala Lumpur reported. They were among thousands of Vietnamese who arrived in fishing boats on Bidong in the 1970s after the Vietnam War. Thousands of others died while trying to make the voyage from Vietnam across the South China Sea to Bidong and...

HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Viewpoints, Outlook April 17, 2004, 10:39PM Texans cling to comic book historyBy ANDRS TIJERINA Historians have not yet reached a consensus on the strategic impact of the Battle of San Jacinto of April 21, 1836. Some Texas historians argue that it was a decisive battle of continental proportions. Mexican historians argue that the Mexican army entered Texas at will after the battle until the U.S. Army invaded Mexico in 1846. Many modern historians concede that the Republic of Texas could not stand alone and had to plead for annexation to the United States in order to avoid...