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From Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Happy Father's Day Dad! With gratitude for all you taught me and all you have done throughout my life. Thank you for being my Dad. This song is for you. Happy Father's Day to all fathers out there as well!

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism Liberty -vs- Tyranny Not to pat myself on the back but I have been saying for the last forty years to anyone who will listen that history is important. The knowledge and understanding of history is critically important if a society is to preserve its culture and heritage.. Back in the early 70's when I was in college I recall a competent history teacher telling me of the efforts {even at that time} to revise actual historical fact. He called it revisionist history and he told me there was a definite cultural and ideological force behind it. As I recall he said it was the march of the progressive movement. Whatever it may be David McCullough's article in the WSJ is spot on. 'We're raising young people who are, by and large, historically illiterate," David McCullough tells me on a recent afternoon in a quiet meeting room at the Boston Public Library. Having lectured at more ...

Issue #1. Solution - raise taxes on the wealthy. Issue #2. Solution - raise taxes on the wealthy. Issue #3. Solution - raise taxes on the wealthy. Issue #4. Solution - raise taxes on the wealthy....Are you starting to see a pattern here, people?...Seriously, though, have you noticed how certain progressives simply cannot fathom EVER being questioned? I mean, it's almost like, "How dare you!" "How dare you say that the great Franklin Delano Roosevelt wasn't the supreme President of all time." How dare you say that the lowly Harry Truman may actually have been better." "How dare you say that the Great Society may have had a double-edged sword or two." "How dare you say that unions may engage in questionable tactics occasionally." My God, it's gotten so bad that I almost want to talk to Pat Robertson, the ghost of Jerry Falwell, etc..

I always find it interesting that the African-American family was able to survive slavery, Jim Crow, and lynching, but it couldn't survive the 1960s. Is it possible here, folks, the we killed it, that entire institution, with kindness?