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We learned haunting and currently relevant facts about our nation’s history while spending an early fall week in Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown. For those who founded this nation, opportunity trumped concern for personal safety. It staggers the imagination to think of people leaving the security of their familiar, comfortable homeland to build a new life for themselves in a strange and primitive land about which they knew almost nothing. Just how harsh and forbidding the challenges of this endeavor would turn out to be is measured by the fact that by 1610, three years after the Jamestown settlement’s founding, only 60...
Liberty First, Security Second
"You paint America of yesteryear as no better or perhaps worse than today. Is that just being disingenuous or what you really believe?"
America today is much much much better than it was say 100 or 90 years ago. You didn't have the KKK helping draft legislation (where did you think the National Origins Act came from?), nor have thousands and thousands of members marching down Pennsylvania Avenue. In 1924, when the NOA was passed the Klan had over 6 million members and had either members of Congress, governors and the like as members or were directly responsible for their election (and then they did the Klan's bidding),...