[arthurus]

This fellow doesn't like Americans much, does he?

[Freedom4US]

Yep. Plotz is an idiot. His bilious review of the Corps of Discovery is just another deconstructionist diarhea-of-the-mouth, he obviously hates himself, his country, etc.

The expedition was extraordinarily well run. Only one soldier died throughout the entire trip - and most likely because of appendicitis, something that would have proved fatal in Philadelphia as well as Council Bluffs.

His snide remark about not "killing Indians (much)" shows he knows nothing about Indians nor the expedition. It's not entirely settled whether Meriwhether Lewis killed himself - while he was prone to bouts of depression and was in severe debt, there is some evidence he was murdered in Tennessee.

[gcruse]

The Lewis and Clark phenom today is part
of the Great Myth of Diversity's Benefits.  As
public education consigns Columbus, Washington,
and even Ronald Reagan to it-would-have-been-
better-not-to-have-them-in-our-history-at-all,
we instead celebrate the marginal for what they
thought, not what they accomplished.

What did Martin Luther King really do, after all?
That stuff Maya Angelou writes -- would anyone
read it if they didn't have to?  Does anyone
believe Cornel West is of value to education?