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Well I never heard of Howard Zinn or Noam Chomsky before college. So you can't blame them for my "leftist" thinking, anyway. I mean I learned all the standard stuff in grade school. George Washington never told a lie even when he chopped down the cherry tree, etc. But even as a kid there has been two things that always bothered me. 1.) How do you reconcile "All men are created equal" with owning slaves? 2.) The JFK assassination and the Warren Commission report. Think about it. Oswald was the lone assassin according to the report but he is silenced before he can go to trial. His assassin then dies in prison before he can go to trial. That's way too convenient for me. But it was Ruby's explanation for why he did it that sealed the deal for
When, at long last, will people understand that the left is boring?
The question came to mind as I was dipping in and out of Oliver Stone's miasmic 700-plus-page tome. I'll never read the whole thing, and not because it's a left-wing screed full of slimy distortions about the evils of the United States (though that doesn't help). It's that it's boring.
Stone and co-author Peter Kuznick call their book "The Untold History of the United States," except, again, it isn't. This story has been told countless times before. As the Daily Beast's Michael Moynihan notes in a devastating review, Stone...
It's fun to read about history and actually understand it!
It's fun to read about history and actually understand it!"
So it's morally acceptable to simply claim you are not responsible for your actions if the practice was handed down to you?