tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post116051493530784853..comments2024-03-26T16:03:42.608-06:00Comments on Flares into Darkness: The Coming Crisis In Citizenshipambisinistralhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836786826294202405noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1160564300540351712006-10-11T04:58:00.000-06:002006-10-11T04:58:00.000-06:00Syl:Yes that is why American history is all about ...Syl:<BR/><BR/>Yes that is why American history is all about dead Indians and slavery and war. The rest of it, the revolutiinary ideas upon which it was founded are considered self serving platitudes.<BR/><BR/>Kind of makes you wonder why some of these folks don't move to Europe.terryehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16609746018265953069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1160534128357231912006-10-10T20:35:00.000-06:002006-10-10T20:35:00.000-06:00I can not add nor detract from that Syl. Very well...I can not add nor detract from that Syl. Very well said.Lutherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08901441364329385474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1160531771697916002006-10-10T19:56:00.000-06:002006-10-10T19:56:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Lutherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08901441364329385474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1160521635594265862006-10-10T17:07:00.000-06:002006-10-10T17:07:00.000-06:00It's not the specific facts or details of history ...It's not the specific facts or details of history that are lacking so much as the general notion that America was founded on an idea not just on borders and that this idea that begat America is something precious and worth being proud of.<BR/><BR/>The transnational movement wishes to weaken the sovereignty of America and subsume it to international law.<BR/><BR/>America is called the Great Satan not because of our military power, nor our culture, because military power can be defeated and much of the West shares our culture. We are the Great Satan because America is based on the idea that all men are created equal. That is what bonds us together, native and immigrant alike. <BR/><BR/>We are a country not based on specific race nor specific religion, nor based on any construct of separation that informs other nations. <BR/><BR/>Our sovereign borders simply serve as a safe haven for anyone who shares our founders' ideals which themselves transcend all borders and all peoples across the globe.<BR/><BR/>The transnational movement rejects this, the Islamo-fascist movement fears it.Sylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03069871911665125873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1160518476572575642006-10-10T16:14:00.000-06:002006-10-10T16:14:00.000-06:00Since when is 53% an F? It sure wasn't when I went...Since when is 53% an F? It sure wasn't when I went to school. Standards were tougher in the good old days, I guess. (In my historical studies I once came across a civics-history test that a 1920s fraternity gave to its members (mostly small businessmen) and they failed it miserably - but then Canadian history is much more difficult, i.e. less eventful, than the American variety.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, the thing about any test is that it often points to the weaknesses of the test authors, not just the students. For example: "an overwhelming majority, 72.8 percent, could not correctly identify the source of the idea of "a wall of separation" between church and state." - my answer to this question would be Jesus, but I don't think that's what they were looking for.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1160516443092122702006-10-10T15:40:00.000-06:002006-10-10T15:40:00.000-06:00I always hope the students are pulling someone's l...I always hope the students are pulling someone's leg when I hear about these things.<BR/><BR/>I wonder if they know that the Confederates were the South and the Union was the North?<BR/><BR/>How many of them know what the Emancipation Proclamation was?<BR/><BR/>Or for that matter how many of them know what happened on December 7, 1941?terryehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16609746018265953069noreply@blogger.com