By Patrick J. Buchanan"Like a fire bell in the night," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1820, "this momentous question ... awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union."Jefferson was writing of the sudden resurgence of the slavery issue in the debate on Missouri's entry into the Union, as foreshadowing a civil war.And that massacre in Oslo, where a Continue reading...
The Dumbing-Down of America
Tuesday - June 21, 2011 at 12:54 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Is our children learning?" as George W. Bush so famously asked.Well, no, they is not learning, especially the history of their country, the school subject at which America's young perform at their worst.On history tests given to 31,000 pupils by the National Assessment of Education Progress, the "Nation's Report Card," most fourth-graders could not identify a Continue reading...
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