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lame54

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Thu Sep 20, 2012, 05:23 PM Sep 2012

A CONSERVATIVE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2012/09/a-conservative-history-of-the-united-states.html

September 19, 2012
A CONSERVATIVE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
Posted by Jack Hitt

1607: First welfare state collapses: “Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.”—Dick Armey

1619-1808: Africans set sail for America in search of freedom: “Other than Native Americans, who were here, all of us have the same story.”—Michele Bachmann

1775: Paul Revere “warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms, by ringing those bells and making sure as he was riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free.”—Sarah Palin.

1812: The American War for Independence ends: “ ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’…that song—written during the battle in the War of 1812—commemorates the sacrifice that won our liberty.”—Mitt Romney

And more - so much more...
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A CONSERVATIVE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (Original Post) lame54 Sep 2012 OP
where's the part where our founders flee christian nations to establish, uh, a christian nation? unblock Sep 2012 #1
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