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NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Revisionist scholars in Europe are ignoring a wealth of archaeological evidence in seeking to discount and, ultimately, erase belief in the biblical Israel, noted archaeologist William Dever said at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Dever, professor emeritus of Near Eastern archaeology and anthropology at the University of Arizona, shared his research during the Manuel Family Lecture on Archaeology and the Bible in early February. The lecture is designed to present current archaeological research pointing to the reliability of Scripture. Dever described the revisionists’ propositions as: “There is no history in the Hebrew Bible. It’s all written too late...

Everyday I have to wonder what new low liberalism will reach with its political correctness hypocrisy. I have finally realized it first hand, witnessing the depths of disgrace these traitors will go to spread their vile message. My nephew Logan is in the 2nd grade and attends a public school. This November he and his class mates are learning about the Pilgrims and their voyage across the Atlantic. Each week they have spelling words they have to learn and spell, this week is a bit different than any other week. It would be expected, to learn words affiliated with the...

Did you know that several Republican leaders in Texas have been issuing apologies for slavery and bigotry on behalf of our party? They are and it includes our immediate former Republican Party of Texas Chairman Susan Weddington.Democrat liberals do this sort of thing all the time when pandering and race hustling to Jesse Jackson and his following for votes, but to see this sort of stuff from Republican leaders seems unbelievable.Since this story is so far fetched many have experienced disbelief in it at first. But rest assured, it happened and here is the evidence that could be assembled from...

This story illustrates how the domination of the university and literary culture by the political left protects Communist totalitarians and their apologists in today’s academy. -- David Horowitz.The book was called “an indictment of the historical profession.” It was hailed as an “explosive expose” that would “send shock waves” through American history departments. But four months after it was published, In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage hasn’t generated much of a reaction in academia. Far from igniting a firestorm of debate, John Earl Haynes’s and Harvey Klehr’s 316-page condemnation of “revisionist” historians of American communism has fallen victim to...

The wife of the publisher received a fund-raising letter last week from the Bill Clinton on behalf of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee seeking donations. In true Clinton fashion, he began, “When I left the White House, the economy was growing, wealth was being created and doors of opportunity for all Americans were being opened.” Bill apparently still has as much trouble with reality and the meaning of the verb, “to be,” as he does with his calendar. The record shows the economy was headed down the flusher more than six months before Clinton left the White House, but Alan...

Thunderous protest has persuaded CBS to cancel The Reagans, its miniseries about America's 40th president and his second wife. (The series will air instead on Showtime, which shares a corporate parent with CBS.) It isn't especially troubling that CBS would bow to angry protesters in canceling The Reagans, given that the miniseries itself, if at all typical of the genre, is likely a piece of hackwork. (Those who live by popular tastes, die by popular tastes.) But it is troubling that the public, or at least a highly influential segment of it, has apparently ruled any criticism of President Reagan...

<p>Fifty years ago this month in Moscow, Josef Stalin died. He and his Red Army had been our allies (not formally but informally) in defeating Nazism and Fascism. Winston Churchill thought well of "old Joe" for a time. During the war American propaganda referred to his armies as "Our Heroic Soviet Allies," and President Roosevelt joshed that he was "Uncle Joe." Then we had a falling out with the mustachioed Georgian.</p>

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- The sight struck Barb Adkins immediately and personally. "There were Confederate flags everywhere around here," she said. "I was totally offended because of what they did to my people," she said, referring to slavery supporters who used the still-controversial flag as a symbol of the South during the Civil War.Adkins, community affairs specialist for the city of Bloomington, is providing diversity training here for a group of about 40 students from Tri-Valley Middle School, Parkside Junior High School and the Boys and Girls Club of Bloomington-Normal.The students come from different communities and bring with them different backgrounds...