BACK STORY I- George Takei, the legendary actor from the original STAR TREK television series, was recently on THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT. He was peddling his new  children's book, about his experience in an internment camp in Arkansas, with fellow Japanese Americans, during World War II. He railed against the racism of World War II Americans, just attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy at Pearl Harbor. Takei said he could not understand how America could be so cruel as to intern Japanese Americans as a consequence of that attack. Colbert, in self righteous agreement stayed quiet.  Obviously, Mr. Colbert does not know, or has never talked to a World War II veteran. He just sat quietly, as Takei trashed a generation, engaged in an existential war, not of their choosing. In the old days of television; before television started lecturing versus entertaining or informing,  Colbert would have had a World War II vet on( there are some, a few left), sitting next to Takei...

The Republic’s    last great Irish America Senator was Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York; in fact, it is reasonable to say that in a world of Senators    like Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Barack Obama,    Moynihan was America’s last great Senator.  One of Moynihan’s greatest quotes was :  “ Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”  Liberals and the Liberal media used that quote as a  cudgel against Obama opponents, who lied about his birthplace.  But that was before Liberals became mummified in self-righteousness; their usurped  righteousness empowered Liberals and Liberal icons to lie, distort, change Historical facts, in order, in their opinions,  to correct the injustices of History.   Roger Cohen    is a Liberal media icon; he currently is a contributing writer to the NEW YORK TIMES, based in Paris. During Black History month, he published a...