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Then, nearly halfway through his State Fair set, Aldean announced a new album slated for release in November and addressed the controversy surrounding "Try That in a Small Town" at length. Aldean shouted out Allison, who received a hero's welcome from his hometown crowd. Aldean said the song is about turning on the television every day and looking at what's happening and being like, "what in the hell is wrong with all these people. This is not right." "In this day and age, man, every time you do something the public or the media doesn't agree with, or one certain...

This year, America is receiving a subliminal holiday message that Nativity scenes pose a more imminent threat than Gitmo detainees being tried on American soil. Regardless of personal Christmas traditions, most Americans agree that the Nativity visually represents the biblical story of Jesus’s birth. Thus, controversial crèche issues are not about Christmas, but Christianity. Founding Father Thomas Jefferson said that “[t]he Bible is the cornerstone of liberty … Students’ perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.” Who could have foreseen the First Amendment becoming a secular platform to warn public schoolchildren to...

ANTI-AMERICANISMTaking a Left Turn Toward Hatred: Anti-War or Anti-American? By Paul StrandWashington Correspondent March 6, 2003 America has ended up with the strange spectacle of some who call themselves liberals taking the side of the most authoritarian, anti-liberal leaders on earth, simply because those are the present opponents of America. CBN.com – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In recent months, hundreds of thousands of Americans have marched against the likely war with Iraq. But some believe those protestors are actually marching against their own country, and that they are led by hardcore leftists who truly hate America. This anti-Americanism has led some...