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     The conventional mythology propagated in politically-correct textbooks claims that the first European settlers of North America intruded upon a pristine wilderness and brutalized a peaceful native population. But anyone who has studied the actual history of the early colonial period knows this to be a gross misrepresentation. Perhaps nowhere was this absurd notion less true than in New France, a vast region roughly equivalent to eastern Canada.      When the French planted their first firm settlement on the St. Lawrence River at Quebec in 1608, they could not have known that the century to come would be...

My postwar plan. Saddam International Airport has been renamed. Perhaps in an effort to stay ahead of the news, reporters were calling it Baghdad International Airport even before it was renamed. Or perhaps they were doing that simply to compensate for the fact they always abbreviate Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport so as to leave out the any reference to the Gipper. Perhaps they consider it an equal-time thing, as in "we won't mention their tyrants — or ours." Regardless, seizing BIA — as the tag will soon say on our checked luggage — is fantastic news. The C-130s will...