Tag Archives: Christopher Columbus

The Truth About Christopher Columbus

Posted on October 15, 2026 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

“Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.” If you were educated like me, this is probably the phrase you most remember Christopher Columbus by.

Posted in Faith, Islam & Sharia; Terrorism, Religious Liberty | Tagged Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, America, Carib, Christopher Columbus, King Ferdinand, Muslim, Natives, Pope Pius II, Queen Isabella, Spain, Taino | Comments Off

Falsely Teaching Our Children That America is Evil

Posted on August 16, 2022 by David E Smith

For 42 years American school children have been subject to a barrage of misinformation about our American history. This has helped cause many of them to hate America. And virtually every day we read about the results.

Posted in Education | Tagged "A People's History", "Debunking Howard Zinn", Christopher Columbus, Critical Race Theory, Daniel Flynn, Emory University, Gary Bauer, Howard Zinn, Marxist, Mary Grabar, Oklahoma, Ronald Reagan, Ryan Walters | Comments Off

Wheaton, Illinois School District’s Wokest Board Member

Posted on November 16, 2021 by David E Smith

At the most recent School District 200 Board Meeting in Wheaton, Illinois, new school board member and cunning rhetorician, Mary Yeboah, Director of Graduate Student Life at Wheaton College, posed six questions to the board, beginning with a prefatory statement that let the woke cat out of the bag:

I would like to ask six rhetorical questions regarding the proposed October 10th, 2022 and October 9th, 2023 no-school all-grades Columbus Day/Indigenous People’s Day in relation to district purposes outlined in the mission of School District 200, Vision 2022, and the portrait of a graduate work. To be very clear,

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Posted in Education, Sexuality | Tagged Black Lives Matter, Christopher Columbus, Critical Race Theory, Harvey Milk, John F. Kennedy, Maia Kobabe, Martin Luther King Day, Mary Yeboah, SD 200, Ted Kennedy, Tyrone Howard, Victor Davis Hanson, Wheaton College | Comments Off

Tear Down this Statue, But Don’t Look Over There

Posted on July 6, 2021 by David E Smith

I recently read a very interesting, and brave, editorial from Bill Donohue of the Catholic League. It appeared on AFA’s national news service - One News Now. He points out the contradiction in the efforts to remove statues all across America because of how the culture now views the words or actions of certain individuals which can often cloud how they are remembered today for their larger contributions.

Posted in Sexuality | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, ACT-UP, Barack Obama, Bill Donohue, Brenda Howard, Catholic League, Christopher Columbus, Communist Party, George Washington, Gilbert Baker, Harry Hay, Harry Truman, Harvey Milk, Larry Kramer, Martin Luther King, Mattachine Society, NAMBLA, One News Now, Pride month, Theodore Roosevelt | Comments Off

Saul Alinsky and the BLM Movement

Posted on July 25, 2020 by David E Smith

While Saul Alinsky can be connected directly to both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, I’m not aware that such a clear connection exists between the founders of the BLM movement and Alinsky, who died in 1972. But there is no doubt that they share his philosophy of cultural revolution.

In his insightful, 2009 mini-book, Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model, David Horowitz quoted an SDS radical who wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”

As Horowitz explained, “In other words the cause – whether inner city blacks or women …

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter, Christopher Columbus, David Horowitz, Diamond and Silk, Don Lemon, Hillary Clinto, Saul Alinsky, Terry Crewes | Comments Off