The New Intolerance - An Answer to Virginia's Confederate History Month Uproar

Written By: Pat Buchanan  |  Posted: Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

"This was a recognition of American terrorists."
That is CNN's Roland Martin's summary judgment of the 258, 000 men and boys who fell fighting for the Confederacy in a war that cost as many American lives as World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq combined.

Martin reflects the hysteria that seized Obamaville on hearing that Gov. Bob McDonnell had declared Confederate History Month in the Old Dominion. Virginia leads the nation in Civil War battlefields. So loud was the howling that in 24 hours McDonnell had backpedaled and issued an apology that he had not mentioned slavery. Unfortunately, the governor missed a teaching moment - at the outset of the 150th anniversary of America's bloodiest war.

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