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The stunning comments from Democrat Sen. Barack Obama that the United States needs a "civilian national security force" that would be as powerful, strong and well-funded as the half-trillion dollar United States Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force have mysteriously disappeared from published transcripts of the speech. In the comments, Obama confirmed the U.S. "cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set." Campaign officials have declined to return any of a series of WND telephone calls over several days requesting a comment on the situation. Nor have they posted a transcript...

American students often get the impression from history classes that the British got here first, settling Jamestown, Va., in 1607. They hear about how white Northerners freed the black slaves, how Asians came in the mid-1800s to build Western railroads. The lessons have left out a lot. Forty-two years before Jamestown, Spaniards and American Indians lived in St. Augustine, Fla. At least several thousand Latinos and nearly 200,000 black soldiers fought in the Civil War. And Asian-Americans had been living in California and Louisiana since the 1700s. Now, more of these and other lesser-known facts about American minorities are getting...

Not too many years ago, I witnessed a small band of angry protesters stalking down a Manhattan street chanting, "Columbus! Did Not! Discover! America!" I remember how quickly Columbus became a symbol of all that was wrong with the West: racism, imperialism, colonialism — and don't forget smallpox and cholera. But now the old sea dog can come in from the cold, though an unlikelier candidate for a multicultural poster child could hardly be found. In a press release issued late last month titled "Islamic Influence Runs Deep in American Culture," Phyllis McIntosh of the State Department's Washington File burbles...

Theory of a founding father's African ancestry Friday, July 23, 2004                                              By LAWRENCE AARONAS MUCH as I thought I knew about Alexander Hamilton, the first treasury secretary, nobody ever told me he was black. Yes. You heard it here first, folks.And you'll think about it from now on every time you take out a $10 bill.Hamilton biographer Ron Chernow is the latest one to explore the theory.I was totally blown away by that information when a friend casually mentioned Hamilton's link to two significant anniversaries - the 250th anniversary of Columbia University, originally Kings College where he was schooled, and...

By Trudy Tynan Associated Press Writer DEERFIELD, Mass. - No one argues that they reflect one side's view _ etched in stone _ of a 300-year-old war fought when this western Massachusetts community was the frontier. Proud descendants of Deerfield's white settlers erected historical markers by the dozens here back in the days when the battleground with Indian tribes had shifted west to the Black Hills of South Dakota. But now, some say, the markers have become a modern embarrassment in this museum village that for centuries has been consumed with preserving history. So, in an exhibit, unabashedly called "Covering...

Were Arabs really part of the American Indian tribes? That's what a new series of textbooks says The Left Hijacks Indian HistoryBy David YeagleyFrontPageMagazine.com | April 28, 2004A liberal advocacy group in Washington recently committed intellectual genocide on American Indians. Authors of the group presumed to fabricate Indian history, as if real Indian history doesn’t matter. Authors simply created an Indian story to suit the purposes of the advocacy group, and published it in a school text manual as fact.    Sounds incredible, but the Middle East Policy Council published a 540-page book called Arab World Studies Notebook, a teacher’s guide...

Miller: Agents of empire, The Lewis and Clark expedition Posted: March 22, 2004 - 10:27am EST by: Robert J. Miller / Associate Professor / Lewis & Clark Law School Meriwether Lewis and William Clark rank high in the pantheon of American folk heroes. Even today, at the 200-year commemoration of their expedition, Lewis and Clark are viewed as brave adventurers who went where no one had gone before and explored and conquered the wilderness for the betterment of America. There is another way, however, to view Lewis and Clark, which is closer to the truth. Lewis and Clark were...

Well, here it is the second Black History Month, and I'll bet you haven't heard one thing about George S. Schuyler (1895-1977). What's that, you say, there's only ONE Black History Month? Where have you been?Nowadays, New Year's Day signals the beginning of Black History Month I (or is it Martin Luther King Month?), and last summer in New York, for several weeks, some Harlem institutions held celebrations that certainly made it sound like we were in BHM. About 12 years ago, pc director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) said that every month should be Black History Month, and...

<p>The two sides of Father Junipero Serra took center stage last week at Del Paso Manor Elementary School in the Arden area, where 30 kids performed a musical titled "California Missions - and More!" A pint-sized Father Serra declared, "I'm just a humble Franciscan friar doing the best service I can," then sang cheerfully, "grain is rising, so civilizin."</p>

WASHINGTON'S birthday, Feb. 22, is on a Sunday this year. The official national day of recognition for the father of our country ought to be the nearest Monday, Feb. 23. Instead, the holiday will be noted one week from today on the 16th, and many, if not most, references to it will be to "Presidents' Day." The national holiday, as decreed by Congress ages ago, is still officially Washington's Birthday, as it should be. We have a Presidential range in our White Mountains but the tallest of its peaks is not called Mt. Presidents. The tallest mountain in the northeastern...

Berkeley Daily Planet, Renaming Vote Stirs School, Matthew Artz (02-03-04) Thomas Jefferson’s legacy in Berkeley may rest on the vote of school children born after William Jefferson Clinton took office. But not if Jefferson Elementary School Principal Betty Delaney can stop it. According to Jefferson PTA President Linda Safarik-Tong, Delaney told the PTA that concerns from parents and teachers have led her to seek permission from the Berkeley Unified School District to waive a requirement that students as young as five vote on the controversial drive to strike the name of the author of the Declaration of Independence from the...