John McCain is, or was, politically significant.

Senator Integrity sold out to Native American gambling interests, and affiliated Native American interests, a long time ago. Ah, irony......

Isn't there a saying that the victors write the history books. The people who were living in the Western Hemisphere when the first Europeans arrived (Indians, Amerinds, Native Americans, Redskins) have won after all.

They have written the myths and we have learned them as the modern gospels. The indigenous people who are as one with the universe, peace loving, kind to animals were ravaged by the white man who came with his germs and his guns and they don't want no anthropologists coming up with a different story.

Lucky for them, they have Senator McCain in their corner, so they don't have to worry about their con being exposed.

This is my favorite sentence from the NRO piece:

"And unlike the Neanderthals, who are usually described as nasty and brutish, the Flores people were short."

I didn't know that nasty and brutish were a function of height.

It's a reference to political philosopher Hobbes, who said that life in the state of nature (i.e., primitive humanity) was "nasty, brutish, and short."

What was Calvin's take? Sorry. I still C&H in my morning paper.

"John McCain is, or was, politically significant."

I certainly hope so. Extremists on both sides don't really bother me, because I think they don't have enough wide appeal. It's the "centrists" who have just as bad ideas (like McCain) that scare me. He and others like him seem to be quite popular.

Thanks, Robert. I need to quit posting in comments for a while. My brain isn't functioning normally this week.

Thank God for puppy dogs and John McCain.

By my reading of the change, it also applies to the Aztecs, Incas and Mayans.

Their boldest attempts to cover up the past have involved Kennewick Man, a set of bones discovered in 1996 near Kennewick, Wash. The remains are more than 9,000 years old, and physical anthropologists find them intriguing because their morphology is said to differ significantly from that of North American Indians.

This is the bone of contention. This would prove that the Native Americans weren't necessarily the first Americans. They were the "conquers" at one time. One of the good for the goose what's good for the gander things.