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On Thursday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ordered the removal from the Capitol Building of four portraits of former Democratic House speakers who had ties to the Confederacy. Robert Hunter of Virginia, James Orr of South Carolina, Howell Cobb and Charles Crisp of Georgia. The removal of the portraits is the latest meaningless gesture from the speaker and Democrats following the death of George Floyd. Pelosi sent a letter to House Clerk Cheryl Johnson ordering the removal of the four portraits in observance of Juneteenth, an unofficial holiday commemorating the Republican's emancipation of the last slaves in the Confederacy....

What do you get when you start piecing together the various statements of Barack Obama, the conditional patriotism of his wife Michelle, the troubling questions raised by his voluntary associations with anti-Americans and left wing radicals and his glass-jawed and perturbed reaction when questions are posed to him on these matters? A distressing portrait starts to emerge: What all these issues raise are troubling questions — perhaps premature — about the extent and sincerity of Obama’s patriotism. Does Obama believe the United States is fundamentally good or fundamentally flawed? At the debate in Philadelphia, Obama neither enlightened us nor dispelled...