Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson argued that protests that have sprung up around the country on Columbus Day about Christopher Columbus were not just about Columbus. According to Carlson, it was much broader, which was a rejection
A statue of Christopher Columbus was vandalized in Chicago’s Little Italy neighborhood on Columbus Day.
Patriotic American organizations carried on the tradition, dating back to 1912, of honoring the memory of the discoverer of the New World.
A statue of explorer Christopher Columbus was fenced off in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, as the city observed its first-ever “Indigenous Peoples Day” to replace the traditional Columbus Day holiday.
A small group of protesters came out Sunday demanding that San Antonio city officials remove a longstanding statue of Christopher Columbus. They held signs and chanted, asserting that Monday’s federal holiday, which honors the explorer, represents oppression for Native Americans.
Catholic organizations are fighting to protect Columbus Day against Antifa and similar groups, pointing out that calls for abolishing the holiday are rooted in the same anti-Catholic bigotry that, in part, gave rise to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke ruled out bowing to activist pressure to tear down historical monuments at the federal parks and lands he oversees in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House, Sunday.
The moves to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day is basically a tantrum by a 10 year old screaming “I wish I was never born!”
Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. What did Antifa ever do?
Mayor Bill de Blasio has not been invited to an upcoming Columbus Day Parade due to the controversy surrounding Columbus’s statue.
Vandals on Tuesday defaced a statue of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in New York City’s famed Central Park.
Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and professor at Brandeis University’s Heller School contends that although tearing down statues of Washington, Jefferson, and Columbus “in some ideal, utopian world” may “feel overdue,” it begs the question “will it contribute to healing—or serve as raw meat to the Bannons?”
NEW YORK CITY — Controversial Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio appears to be backing down from his crusade against “symbols of hate” in the Big Apple amid significant political pressure.
Despite the media and their Democratic counterparts working full speed to spin the lie that threats of political violence are on the rise in a polarized Trump era – with the Confederate monuments, they claim, serving as an “obvious flashpoint” – the events that took place in Charlottesville on August 12, and what President Trump said or didn’t say in the days after, did not lead to this.
New York City’s left-wing mayor Bill de Blasio has confirmed he will consider a proposal to remove a statue of the explorer Christopher Columbus and has ordered a review of all the city’s statues and monuments.
A video posted to YouTube shows a protester taking a sledgehammer to Baltimore’s 225-year-old Christopher Columbus statue the week after the city removed Confederate statues under the cover of night.
Leftist vandals in Baltimore, Maryland, smashed a 225-year-old “racist” monument to discoverer of the new world Christopher Columbus with a sledge hammer in the wee hours of Monday morning, posting a two minute video of themselves in the act to YouTube.
HOUSTON, Texas — Vandals apparently defaced a Christopher Columbus statue in Houston, Texas, on Thursday night shortly before a “Destroy the Confederacy” protest scheduled for Saturday.
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In reaction to student demands, Pepperdine University will remove the statue of Christopher Columbus from its campus. School president Andrew Benton said they will “relocate the statue to the Pepperdine campus in Florence, Italy.” Benton announced the statue’s removal in
The city of Cincinnati is proposing to replace Columbus Day with “Indigenous People’s Day.” The resolution, which was passed in committee Monday, has to go before the city council before it is approved.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has renewed his call for Muslim couples to eschew birth control, stating in a nationally televised speech that “Nobody can interfere in God’s work. The first duty here belongs to mothers.”
In his proclamation for Columbus Day, President Obama said Friday that European explorers to the New World ushered in “previously unseen disease, devastation, and violence” to the lives of Native Americans.
While the war on Christmas will likely heat up in the coming weeks, another holiday is also facing more and more scrutiny from liberals. There is without a doubt a war on Columbus Day and more salvos are being fired.
It’s that time of the year– a time to celebrate the indelible mark left by the Spanish empire on our cultural identities and the inextricable link between Spain, America, and Christianity: Columbus Day.
A Saudi Imam has followed the footsteps of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and delivered an extensive sermon proclaiming that Muslims had initially discovered America, and that Christopher Columbus’ voyage there was a plot to kill pre-Columbian Muslims.
