Since North Carolina has failed to replace textbooks since the Bush recession, cutting textbook budgets to nothing, teachers are expected to create their own teaching sources from the Internet. Yet, our Republican-controlled legislature would be quite happy with history as written in Texas to the point of forcing the Department of Public Instruction to create a course on the Founding Principles and American Exceptionalism to supplement post-Reconstruction U.S. History and threatening the College Board to revise the AP U.S. History curriculum to match. I can't wait for history to clash with their revisionism in classrooms this fall.

It's possible that economic interests that wanted independence (and were possibly funding the effort?) saw slavery as a sideshow to them getting control, but a very useful public sideshow. "Follow the money."

If an almighty creator can bury million-year-old bones in the Earth to test our faith in our teachers, burying a declaration of secession in our historical records should be simple in comparison. Our future is what we should focus on improving, not our past.

Details: What is going to show up on Alice's bedstand?

Today's strip really hits the nail on the head! That last panel should have really woken people up, but unfortunately it didn't. When even the police union of our nation's largest city shames the homeless, we have just gone from bad to worse.

There is more information in your strip than the average person realizes. The April 11, 2010 Sunday suggested saving old comics, including that one, for fifty years. Unfortunately I will not be around in 2060, but I had the entire comic page laminated, and will gift it to one of my great nephews. Thank you for all of your years of laughter, political truth, and satire. Keep up the good work!

It's downright scary that this week's comics are even more relevant today than when they were first published.

Two hundred billion dollar deficit? If only...

Back in the day my joke was:

Pessimist: "This glass is half-empty."

Optimist: "This glass is half-full."

Reagan Optimist "This glass is full."

When I consider #BlackLivesMatter, opposition to the Iran deal, shutting down the government to defund Planned Parenthood, and yes, soup kitchens, I am willing to have a discussion with those who maintain that the glass is half full. But I draw the line at those who claim that it is their glass.

I wasn't a Dbury addict when these strips first came out. They're all new to me and I love them.

Bravo, Garry! Today's strip is absolutely brilliant as well as hilarious.

Trump leading the Republicans? GBT, where are you? The world needs you now.

I had forgotten until this run of Classics how in the old days Trudeau used to vary little details in the strip, requiring a second reading to look for what changed panel-to-panel. Not so much in today's strip (as near as I can tell anyway) but last Thursday's is a good example. I appreciate the extra level of entertainment this playfulness provides.

"...A failed executive, a retired neurosurgeon, and a celebrity clown."?!? Today's strip is perfect, just effing perfect.

Between 2000 and 2010, out of more than a billion votes cast in federal, state, and local elections, ten people were convicted of in-person voting fraud at the polls. If this trend continues, that means that in the 2016 election three people may commit in-person voting fraud. Republicans so care for our country that they want to inconvenience 30,000,000+ people and send away 3,000,000+ potential voters from the polls to prevent those three people from committing voting fraud. They say we should all be grateful because the Republican Party cares so much for all of us.

Ah, Duke continues that fine old American tradition of kicking Haiti when it is down, begun when Thomas Jefferson went in with France on the embargo and crippling reparations that turned the Jewel of the Caribbean into a complete ecological disaster. Just because they had the first and indeed only successful slave rebellion, at the cost of half the population. No matter how much you think you know about the Haitian disaster, it turns out to be worse.

Re: JIM CROW AND THE GOP. Doonesbury has nothing to apologize for. Anyone actually interested in the issue can find the number of cases of voter fraud could be counted on two hands with a few missing fingers. Simply reaching offices that issue a driver's license can be arduous without a car in the U.S. (where I lived for nine years). The relevant policies of course disadvantage the poor, who are likely to vote Democrat. Keep up the fine work. Good for you for publishing your critics.

Sunday's strip about Jim Crow and the GOP was vile and revolting. As a Conservative Republican I take great offense at the inference that I am a racist. Voter ID laws are not to keep people from voting. They are to ensure that the people that step up to vote are who they say they are. If it is good enough for Mexico it is good enough for the USA. ID is required for many things these days. Requiring it for voting is a good thing. You should publish a retraction for generalizing that all Republicans are racists trying to prevent people from doing their civic duty by voting.

Is the possibility too far-fetched to wonder if The Donald is actually a double agent working for the Democrats? As a hard core Democrat, I've become a big fan.