Today's Editors' Choice
- Ken Blackwell: Historical Revisionism
- Michael Barone: What Identity Politics Hath Wrought
- David Harsanyi: Pro-Choicers Should Explain Why They Think Eugenics Is Acceptable
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Opinion in Brief
Ken Blackwell: "One wonders if even Abraham Lincoln is safe from the Left. He spent much of his career favoring colonization, that is, sending freed slaves back to Africa. Worse, as he famously wrote Horace Greeley, 'If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.' Why honor a man who really didn't want to free the slaves? Perhaps America's Founders also should be dumped into history's wastebasket. Many were slave owners. Their attitudes toward women and Native Americans were unenlightened. After just a couple of generations, U.S. leaders conducted brutal campaigns against the continent's original occupants and an aggressive war against America's neighbor, Mexico. More recently elected officials fail new tests centered around social liberalism too. Measured by the Left's standards, even President Barack Obama was dilatory in backing same-sex marriage. So why build any monuments to him? We need a statute of limitations on expecting historical figures to be perfect and prosecuting them for thought crimes."
