Christopher Columbus was born in 1451.  In 1453 the ancient Christian city of Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks. The Hagia Sophia, an ancient, amazing cathedral, was turned into a mosque.  Spain was still fighting the last of the Moorish, or Muslim, occupation that it had been under for nearly 800 years, and would until 1492 (obviously a key date) These two examples are a tiny piece of the needed context for the story of Christopher Columbus, and the majority of us have never heard either one. Columbus referred to his financial backers, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, as “enemies of the wretched sect of Mahomet,” and that they had sent him forth so distant peoples might “aid in the war against the enemies of our holy faith.”  He called himself “a servant of the Most High Saviour, Christ the Son of Mary,” and pledged any gold he found to “the recovery of the Holy Sepulchre,” that thousand year old church (at the time) in Jerusalem that the mother of Constantine had founded, also controlled by muslims. Why do we judge our Christian forebears by our modern Christian civilization and our modern standards, but never the enemies they were facing?  Our own stories have been ripped from their context and retold to us to make us hate our forefathers, textbooks having been written by the Epstein class for the last 50 years, but enough about Ghislaine's dad, Robert Maxwell.  In 1492, the same year the “muhammadans” were forced from Spain, Columbus set sail beneath the banner of his faith with that very real threat of militant islam in mind.  We should look to his example, remember his courage, and celebrate his accomplishment that allowed us to build the modern west and civilization that has blessed the entire world, including the ‘mohammadens’ too.   So with that in mind, Happy Columbus Day!

This is disappointing, but not surprising. I hope Americans start to see that anybody advocating for not enforcing the law on illegal immigration, and "legal" immigration scams, are in favor of suppressing American wages. That's all. Helps the corporate bottom line, but it keeps wages low for Americans. Oddly enough, the savings are never passed on to the consumer, either. A standard of living their generation enjoyed is perpetually out of reach for young families today.