"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." - H. L. Mencken. "One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them." - Thomas Sowell. - Join search for truth learn to recognize it when you encounter it. See also enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com youtube.com/user/roybercaw [Editor: Roy Bercaw]
June 20, 2014
Ted Roosevelt Understood How Ideals Are Corrupted
[From article]
So NSA snooping is meant to protect us; ObamaCare will give us "free" healthcare; and Obama hopes to turn the unprecedented wave of undocumented children from Central America into a humanitarian disaster while effectively harming American interests.
Teddy Roosevelt understood the need for Americans to support American ideals and values, because "[t]here are philosophers who assure us that, in the future, patriotism will be regarded not as a virtue at all, but merely as a mental stage in the journey toward a state of feeling when our patriotism will include the whole human race and all the world."
http://americanthinker.com/2014/06/a_sorely_needed_civics_lesson.html
June 17, 2014
A Sorely Needed Civics Lesson
By Eileen F. Toplansky
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