I find it interesting that anytime the Civil War period is mentioned in America these days,poular culture demands that we join hands immediately,denounce slavery,sing kumbaya and move on to more pleasant subjects.The problem with this Socialist-inspired revisionist history approach is that it ignores major historically influential factors that contributed to the war.The subject of States rights and Lincoln's propensity for trampling the 10th amendment and threatening Va. with military action if they didn't submit to federal authority.Let's not forget Mr. Lincoln's tacit approval of the concept of sending freed slaves back to Africa(Liberia)following the war.History should be approached and studied objectively instead of politicized or...

I wanted to share my perspective on the whole emphasis on"social justice" by Catholic institutions.I left U.S. Army Spec-Ops after a 10yr.career as a medical NCO,to pursue a bachelor's degree in nursing and raise my son.I chose to attend a local Catholic university that had an outstanding reputation for their school of nursing.To make a long story short I did receive my degree with honors,easily passed my boards and was amazed and how hard the faculty tried to indoctrinate younger students to support regimes that supported "social justice" such as Daniel Ortega's Sandanista regime in Nicaragua.I had personal experience in that area and when I mentioned the Sandanistas' genocidal campaign against the Miskito indians the instructor said...

I detect a degree of frustration in your recent columns Dr. Krauthammer that echoes my own sentiments about the boundless incompetence of this administration,cabinet and president.I am mystified at the amazing naivete of these coastal libtard "elites" concerning a movement that is,by its own admission,zealously dedicated to murdering Jews and Christians that are opposed to the radical evil that is Islamic fundamentalism. The "progressives" are either complicit traitors,arrogant weak willed dreamers or impotent spineless cowards that are unwilling and/or unable to protect their own country.It sickens and disgusts me that adult males are incapable of mustering the behavior known as "self-defense" that even lower species can generate when...