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President Trump created the 1776 Commission by executive order last year as part of an effort to counter the leftist narrative taking over our public schools. Unsurprisingly, the commission’s first report has been met with nothing but hostility. Spurred in part by the New York Times’s ahistorical 1619 Project, the 1776 Report seeks to correct some of the central claims made by the 1619 Project’s authors and provide an answer to the Left’s overly negative interpretation of American history. Contrary to what the 1619 Project might suggest, the American Revolution was not fought to preserve the institution of slavery, the...

A plan to give amnesty to potentially millions of illegal aliens who have been shielded from deportation by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program would be triggered by secured funding for a wall along the United States-Mexico border, Breitbart News has learned. The legislation, crafted by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), obtained by Breitbart News gives at least 1.8 million DACA illegal aliens amnesty on the contingency that $25 billion is appropriated for President Trump’s border wall. The Ryan/Goodlatte bill mandates that $25 billion be appropriated for a border wall to stop illegal...

<p>India's prime minister recently announced the restoration of diplomatic ties and air links with Pakistan, part of an ambitious effort to end the dangerous state of enmity between the nuclear-armed neighbors. A month ago relations had sunk so low that India's foreign minister called Pakistan "a fitter case" than Iraq for pre-emptive action. So there could not be better news than a thaw between India and Pakistan. The only hitch is that India wants a stop to what it calls "cross-border terrorism" in Kashmir, meaning militant activity by people trained in Pakistan, before agreeing to talks.</p>