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Welcome to 2005, `Year of the Big Revisionist’. The Ides of March, 2005 was the first day consumers could purchase one of the world’s most widely read Bibles, the New International Version–fully "revised". Archaic language in the Holy Book must have been getting to the tragically hip. So much so that a team of 15 American and British scholars were sent to parse and modernize it. Would it be too politically correct to say what the scholars really did? They watered the offensive Bible down and whitewashed its words under the time-wasting guise of only wanting to modernize it. The...

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The recent flurry of letters from neo-Confederates asserting that slavery had no role in the Civil War is troubling, as they seem doggedly determined to force counterfactual information on the public. The trend towards "true Southern history," minimizing the slavery issue by insisting that all of America was racist, and that slaves fought for the Confederacy is a spurious and disingenuous argument. Using half-truths and outright misinformation, they try to avoid what any serious historian of the Civil War recognizes as a major issue of the war. Having studied the Civil War since my early teens and teaching it on...

China puts Korean spat on the mapBy David Scofield The controversy over whether the ancient, ethnically Korean kingdom of Koguryo was historically Korean or historically part of China simmers, and it divides historians, politicians and patriots on both sides in Northeast Asia. The kingdom stretched well into present-day Manchuria in the north and encompassed most of what is North Korea in the south. And, to roil the waters, some academics suggest that China's recent cartographic interest in the Koguryo region has a precedent in Beijing's relatively late public claim that Taiwan is and always has been an inalienable part...

I read the New York Times last week and apparently a fellow named "Iran-Contra" died recently. But that's all I'll say about the people who have consistently been on the wrong side of history and whose publisher is a little weenie who can't read because he has "dyslexia." The three key ingredients to Ronald Reagan's sunny personality were: (1) his unalterable faith in God; (2) for nearly 30 years, he didn't fly; and (3) he read Human Events religiously but never read the New York Times. Even in his death liberals are still trying to turn our champion into a...

I happened recently upon a boxed gift set of the beloved Beatrix Potter tales-which I promptly purchased and brought home to my wife." Imagine the fun we'll have-reading this to our Great grandson next year !" Later, I looked through the books, and saw certain things had changed ....... Mr. Owl woke up to a terrible clatter. Blinking in the sun,he peered out from his pantry window. "Whooo? Whoooo? Whooo'se making all that noise?",he grumbled. "Oh,hi, Mr. Owl !",cried Squirrel Nutkin. " It's just me and Chadwick Chipmunk ." Squirrel Nutkin put his paw around Chadwick ( who was...

In late September of 2003, a now familiar scene played out at a School Board meeting in Richmond, Virginia. A board member, who is apparently a black activist, was attempting to obliterate one aspect of Southern history for another part of Southern history. Specifically, board member Carol Wolf wanted to change the name of Stuart Elementary School (named for J.E.B. Stuart, the dashing Confederate cavalry general) to Hill-Tucker Elementary (after Oliver W. Hill and Samuel W. Tucker, two prominent Richmond civil-rights lawyers). Surprisingly, this effort went down to a resounding defeat. Across the South there has been a systematic effort...

TAMPA - No one lives on the island anymore. The tiny, mangrove-covered speck of land near the Little Manatee River in Ruskin once bustled with bodies and saw blades, as workers bled pines for turpentine and hacked them for timber.Many of these workers, local experts think, were black convicts sent by the state to labor without pay in the hellish turpentine camps of the early 20th century.For as long as many locals can remember, the island has served chiefly as a landmark for boaters navigating local bays, its history and official name, Negro Island, largely forgotten.But like equally obscure swamps,...

When the Islamic Taliban destroyed the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan despite world-wide pleas not to do so, I thought, “They are trying to erase the history of the Buddhists.” Now there is a concerted effort underway to destroy the history of the Jews. Destruction of historical and archaeological sites, as well as the spreading of misinformation about religious, ethnic and/or national groups comprises a new form of crime against humanity. While our biology makes us human, it is our history that makes us a society and thus humanity. Without a record of our past, we have nothing to draw upon...

<p>Something strange is abreast with Knickknack, the critically acclaimed 1989 short that precedes Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo at theaters nationwide.</p> <p>The short follows the hapless attempts of a lonely snow-globe snowman to escape his domain and join a plastic Miami beach bunny. The movie was released on a G-rated 1996 video collection called Tiny Toy Stories. But in that version, the Miami beauty and a mermaid who appears at the end of the short were more well-endowed than they are today.</p>

<p>Gov. Gray Davis will release a state budget revision today that would push more than $10 billion of the deficit into the future, raise taxes for smokers, shoppers and high earners, and all but guarantee a tripling of the vehicle license fee, sources said Tuesday.</p>

November 21, 2002 -- Of all the lies told during the PBS series recently aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting, Islam - Empire of Faith, the greatest is the one told tonight....(snip) A socialist, which is the same as a communist or a fascist or a progressive or a liberal -- all of those flags flap in the same wind -- divides to conquer. During the last century, they set labor against management, black against white, rich against poor, and male against female, to name a few examples....(snip) For Complete Article, Please Click Here.

Over the years, the bourgeois press has tried to downplay the brilliance of people’s war as carried on by the Chinese People’s Volunteers in Korea. Various imperialist mouthpieces have made racist portrayals of the so-called hordes of Chinese stupidly making wave upon human wave of useless frontal attacks against a firmly entrenched enemy, accumulating losses that were unnecessary. But the real story — which has been noted by honest journalists — is that the Chinese People’s Volunteers developed a unique and effective style of fighting that took advantage of the various strengths and weaknesses of their own army and that...

Scientist Says Ostrich Study Confirms Bird "Hands" Unlike Those Of Dinosaurs CHAPEL HILL -- To make an omelet, you need to break some eggs. Not nearly so well known is that breaking eggs also can lead to new information about the evolution of birds and dinosaurs, a topic of hot debate among leading biologists. Drs. Alan Feduccia and Julie Nowicki of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have done just that. They opened a series of live ostrich eggs at various stages of development and found what they believe is proof that birds could not have descended...

Business club to vote on flag Member: Banner's negative image hurts economy GULFPORT - The Gulfport Business Club will vote Aug. 20 on whether to ask the Harrison County Board of Supervisors to remove the Rebel flag from the public Eight Flags beach display.The club's executive committee unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday calling for the county to fly only eight American flags or to replace the Rebel flag with "a historically accurate flag." The club's entire membership of about 150 will vote on the resolution in two weeks at its regular meeting."The (executive committee) saw no reason to invite divisiveness...