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...first such disgrace. Four years ago, the National Museum of American Art produced an exhibition on America's westward expansion that mined every artifact for evidence of white racism and rapacity. Former Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin called the show "perverse, historically inaccurate, destructive." These exhibits are not accidents. They reflect the extent to which the forces of political correctness and historical revisionism, having captured the universities, have now moved out to dominate our museums and other institutions of national culture...
...first time in the 12-year history of exit polling, a clear majority of voters said they had cast ballots for a Republican candidate for Congress. Distrusting their data, Edelman and his colleagues double-checked individual precincts for glitches, but the rumbling only grew louder and spread westward. By 1 p.m., when Edelman placed a conference call to his clients at the four major TV networks, he could state with confidence that "the Republicans will have a big win," taking control of the Senate and perhaps even the House...
Hitler seized on the Allied hiatus to organize a 24-division counteroffensive through Belgium's Ardennes Forest in December -- and Eisenhower came into his own as a combat general. He issued the orders that cut off the Bulge -- a German penetration westward into Allied lines 45 miles wide and 65 miles deep -- and made certain it would fail. He sent the 101st Airborne to hold the key city of Bastogne, put three other divisions into the battle and ordered Patton to turn his Third Army 90 degrees to the north to cut the advancing Germans' supply lines. The German counteroffensive...
...verities are not so clear-cut. Indians -- now Native Americans -- are more likely to be tragic heroes than whooping villains. Women and blacks, long ignored, are major participants at last. These adjustments reflect the revisionist bent of much recent historical writing about the West -- the view that America's westward expansion was not the triumphal taming of the frontier but a morally dubious enterprise in which a race of people was conquered, the environment ravaged and democratic values frequently trampled...
...resources to spread their security guarantees over Central and Eastern Europe, taking on the unending feuds, ethnic hatreds and border disputes that have poisoned the region for centuries? And if they do, are they also prepared for the hostile reaction the move will trigger in a Russia that looks westward with as much suspicion as envy? Is there any virtue in a new NATO that shifts the Iron Curtain back to Russia's very borders...