This past week, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ordered that the official portraits of four of her predecessors be removed from the Capitol walls.  This grandiose display of virtue signaling occurred, she said, “because we must lead by example.”  Example of what?  “There is no room in the hallowed halls of this democracy, this temple of democracy, to memorialize people who embody violent bigotry and grotesque racism of the Confederacy.”  The four portraits are of whom? Robert Hunter who served as Speaker 20 years prior to the Civil War and Charles Crisp, an enlisted man in the Confederate Army, who served as Speaker 26 years after the Civil War.  Howell Cobb who served 10 years prior to the war and James Orr who served as Speaker just prior to the war.  Cobb became the President of the Provisional Congress of the Confederacy.  The others most people probably never heard of.  None are household names.  Hardly the...(Read Full Article)