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American Rhetoric: Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Farewell Address
Eisenhower's brilliant farewell address, January 17, 1961. With audio.
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: "That is not racism" - GOP chair Michael Steele
Robert Jensen, "How I Stopped Hating Thanksgiving and Learned to Be Afraid," CommonDreams.org (Nov. 15, 2009)
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I realize now that "hate" is the wrong word to
describe my emotional reaction to the holiday. I am afraid of Thanksgiving.
More accurately, I am afraid of what Thanksgiving tells us about both the
dominant culture and much of the alleged counterculture. -
Here's what I think it tells us: As
a society, the United States
is intellectually dishonest, politically irresponsible, and morally bankrupt.
This is a society in which even progressive people routinely allow national and
family traditions to trump fundamental human decency. It's a society in
which, in the privileged sectors, getting along and not causing trouble are
often valued above honesty and accountability.
Listen to the Federalist Papers online
These are in .AAC format. The archive seems to have all 85 papers.
Christian Popa, "Are Americans Faking Religiosity?," reasonWeekly (Oct. 15, 2009)
The argument is that if you take the number of people who affirm on surveys that they attend church weekly, you end up with a figure much too high to be accommodated in all American churches put together. The weakness seems to be that of course we don't really know how many people can fit into all the churches, or how many services they hold per week, or whatever. Still, it's an interesting idea.
The Morning Oil: Flannery! (WMA links to two radio broadcasts by Flannery O'Connor)
Bookmarking for future reference. At the moment the service hosting the audio files is dead, so I haven't been able to download them, but another blogger at Black Market Kidneys (http://j.mp/14aQJd) posted mp3 versions. The quality of the conversions isn't great, though, so I'm hoping sometime to be able to get this blogger's WMAs.
Black Market Kidneys » Flannery O’Connor Audio
Two radio addresses by Flannery O'Connor. These are mp3 versions of the files originally posted at The Morning Oil http://bit.ly/i9hBs
Demographics of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A pretty good resource on U.S. demographic data. Lots of links to Census information and other sources.
RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY: In Guns We Trust
A great piece by historian Jon Pahl reflecting on the murder of Meleanie Hain, the Lebanon, PA mother who became a gun rights cause celebre when she open-carried her loaded pistol at her five-year-old's soccer game. (The local sheriff subsequently revoked her permit for showing "poor judgment; a judge reinstated it.) Hain was recently killed in her home by her husband, who was also a gun enthusiast.
Healthcare reform rationing ‘precisely what the Nazis did,’ Land says
Quotations from Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religoius Liberty Commission, speaking to the "God and Country Banquet" held by the Christian Coalition of Florida. What he said: "I want to put it to you bluntly. What they are attempting to do in healthcare, particularly in treating the elderly, is not something like what the Nazis did. It is precisely what the Nazis did... Let's remember... the first 10,000 victims of the Holocaust were not Jews, they were mentally handicapped German children who were gassed and burned in ovens because they were considered to have... lives unworthy of life... [The healthcare debate is] about whether we are going to continue to believe our founding documents, which say that we believe that all people are equal and we're created in the image of our Creator and that we have certain unalienable rights -- and among these is the right to life... [At stake] is the definition of a human being... We are faced with what I call 'biological bigotry' and it is every bit as pernicious, every bit as evil, every bit as destructive as the racial and ethnic bigotry that has plagued us in the past... There is loose within the liberal culture which dominates the Democratic Party and dominates our government at present, a biological bigotry that is feeding a euthanasia mentality."
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