Lessons for the Left on the Price of Civilization By Newt Gingrich
A happy coincidence of scheduling found Callista and me in Italy on Columbus Day weekend, the birthplace nation of Christopher Columbus. He was from Genoa, and we were in Venice – but as we discovered, Columbus' Italy is filled with a history that Americans value.
Perhaps no one was more aptly named than Columbus. Christopher (literally "Christ Bearer") is the name taken from the saint who is to millions of Catholics the patron saint of travelers. And a traveler he was. Centuries before the sexton and other navigation tools, Columbus ventured to find for Spain a westward and competing route to spice-rich India. A great navigator he was not. He ended up finding the Western Hemisphere instead.
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