tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17669835.post7227147303915498187..comments2023-09-28T03:05:12.121-07:00Comments on Terrance this is stupid stuff: Rubin and Wehner on Thin Ice Between Establishment and SeparationT. D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11952394767212085011noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17669835.post-54037711588601087432010-10-21T13:05:47.280-07:002010-10-21T13:05:47.280-07:00Thanks, OG, for your penetrating addition to this ...Thanks, OG, for your penetrating addition to this issue.<br /><br />You are exactly right.T. D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11952394767212085011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17669835.post-89776096395948764282010-10-20T23:16:36.961-07:002010-10-20T23:16:36.961-07:00This is what the great dissenters, like Scharansky...This is what the great dissenters, like Scharansky and Solzhenitsyn were trying to express to the leaders of the Communist Party; you cannot compel a man to deny the truth a man finds on his own. <br /><br />The predecessors of Jefferson are our very own Pilgrims. It is important to teach why the Pilgrims came to the New World. Not to exploit the Red Man, but to find a place where government wouldn't intrude upon the private practice of worshipping in a manner that befitted the worshipper.<br /><br />New texts seem to overlook the basics of why America is different, hoping to instead inveigle the young kids to see America as a constant stream of imperialist intent and action. <br /><br />It is, of course, history upside-down. <br />.OregonGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08096619871119860938noreply@blogger.com