Well, that depends on what you mean by Anti-American.
It seems some of my Liberal friends take offense at being labeled with such a moniker, and don’t understand what someone who believes in American Rights means when they say someone is Anti-American or Anti-America.
Here’s what I mean: (more…)
In the 1840s, Manifest Destiny was the cry of the citizenry. 1845 saw John K. O’Sullivan, a magazine editor, write that no nation on earth should be allowed to interfere with America’s “manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions,” echoing in popular sentiment the subtle but powerful Monroe Doctrine of two decades earlier.
It has been a prevailing axiom that as a tool of God, that which benefits America benefits the world and mankind. This had become an awesome and awe-inspiring prescription that begat results that were nothing short of miraculous reminiscent of divine intervention and divine right. (more…)
Never in the history of the world has the growth of a people in their social, political, technical, intellectual and entrepreneurial pursuits been so phenomenal as what has happened on this continent in the last 150 years, built on the four centuries previous to that and the 2000 generations preceding the time of a Genoan explorer. Whether Chian, Alexandrian, Egyptian, Greek or Roman, these cultures are mere sentinels in history, watching their very shadows eclipsed by the blossoming of a land, culture, and idea unique to our time and meant for the ages. (more…)
Is there anything said here that cannot and does not ring true today? We acknowledge the contribution of everyone, including the conquered and enslaved – perhaps especially their unique and unwilling sacrifice – and include them as part of the great experiment that was once a universally accepted premise in this country that God’s hand has guided its growth. (more…)
