Our uniquely American culture:
How it began, its current condition,
and its probable future.

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What defines our unique American culture?

OUR CULTURE

"The American culture is journeying through muck and smut, looking for lower ground, not of necessity but of depravity. Unless we change course, and soon, our destination is either moral anarchy and social chaos, or the surrender of all our freedoms to Big Brother in exchange for his promise to protect us from ourselves."
— Linda Bowles

Independence day
supplement

Kate Smith Introduces God Bless America in 1938;
Replayed in the 1943 Movie This is the Army

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2jan22Kwanzaa: A Fake Holiday with a Racist Goal,
Created By a Criminal Madman

Jeff Dunetz
Eventually, the Kwanzaa scam's creator, Maulana Karenga, admitted it was a fraud. In 1978 he told the Washington Post's Hollie West: "I created Kwanzaa," laughed Ron Karenga like a teenager who's just divulged a deeply held, precious secret. "People think it's African. But it's not. I wanted to give black people a holiday of their own. So I came up with Kwanzaa. I said it was African because you know black people in this country wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was American.
16apr20"My name’s Friday. I carry a badge."
In Praise of Drabness.

Terry Teachout
Dragnet, badge 714The real Dragnet was the black-and-white version that aired from 1951 to 1959. That series, in which Jack Webb was partnered by Ben Alexander, was pulled out of syndication long ago and has never been legitimately reissued on DVD, nor is any “official” version, so far as I know, currently in the works. Fortunately, a few dozen episodes were inadvertently allowed to go out of copyright, and it’s easy to track down copies of them.
28jul15 History and Origins of the Gadsden Flag
Gadsden flag “'Tis curious and amazing to observe how distinct and independent of each other the rattles of this animal are, and yet how firmly they are united together, so as never to be separated but by breaking them to pieces. One of those rattles singly, is incapable of producing sound, but the ringing of thirteen together, is sufficient to alarm the boldest man living.”
28jul15First Navy Jack in the War on Terrorism
First Navy Jack As the first ships of the Continental Navy readied in the Delaware River during the fall of 1775, Commodore Esek Hopkins issued a set of fleet signals. His signal for the "whole Fleet to Engage" the enemy provided for the "strip'd Jack and Ensign at their proper places." Thus, from the very beginning of our Navy, the Jack has been used on board American warships.
19sep08 The Land That Made Me, Me
Long ago and far away, in a land that time forgot, Before the days of Dylan, or the dawn of Camelot. There lived a race of innocents, and they were you and me.
15jun04 The United States Flag
The flag of the United States
is one of the oldest national standards in the world.
 
12jun04 RONALD WILSON REAGAN, 1911–2004
"My friends: We did it. We weren't just marking time. We made a difference. We made the city stronger, we made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all. And so, goodbye, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America."
 
31mar04 What does 'Judeo-Christian' mean?  
13mar04 Are All 50 States Wrong?  
26dec02 Kwanzaa: A Holiday from the FBI
25nov01 America, Unique Among Nations
26oct01 The Pledge of Allegiance;
as re-told by Red Skelton
28aug01 The Most Auspicious Period
8jul01 When, in the Course of Human Events
30mar01 A Civics Lesson on the One-Dollar Bill
23oct00 One Marine, One Ship
24jul00 Abraham Who?
9jul00 Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor
by Rush H. Limbaugh, Jr.
27may00 The Americans
Behold the power of words!
Written by a Canadian radio broadcaster in 1973
7apr00 My Name is Freedom
I was never born, and I will never die. I am Freedom.
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30dec99 So That's Who That Masked Man Was!
25oct99 If You Do Not Stand Against Evil,
You Stand For It
1jul99 The Price They Paid
20jun99 'Culture of Arrogance'
29may99 Safeguarding Freedom
17may99 This is No Joke
17may99 Mike Barnicle on God
19apr99 Concord Bridge Patriots
16may99 The "Gun Problem"
20may99 The Ant and the Grasshopper
17mar99 Winning the Cultural War
13mar99 The New Covenant
28feb99 Why We Can't Quit the Culture War
28feb99 A Nation of John and Jane Does
28feb99 The Culture War Begins in Earnest
10feb99 Para-Military Extremisits Riot
7feb99 God, Guns and Guts Made America Great
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