[Tolik]

LS Nailed It!

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[too much time]

My daughter's 7th grade social studies book had one sentence about the end of the cold war: "The cold war ended because Mikhail Gorbachev was a gracious leader and wanted freedom for his people."

[loveliberty2]

Political dialogue on some of the most significant issues of our day is distorted because of lack of public understanding of fundamental principles underlying our liberty.

A few years ago, Michael Ledeen said, "Our educational system has long since banished religion from its texts, and an amazing number of Americans are intellectually unprepared for a discussion in which religion is the central organizing principle."

In a speech in Germany, the Pope observed:

"A reason which is deaf to the divine and which relegates religion into the realm of subcultures is incapable of entering into the dialogue of cultures."

Ledeen put his finger on a problem that long stifled meaningful debate in America on important things. Censors [disguised as "protectors" (the Radical Left's ACLU, NEA, education bureaucracies, etc., etc.)] have imposed their limited understanding of liberty upon generations of school children.

From America's founding to the 1950's, ideas derived from religious literature were included in textbooks, through the poetry and prose used to teach children to read and to identify with their world and their country.

Suddenly, those ideas began to disappear from textbooks, until now, faceless, mindless copy editors sit in cubicles in the nation's textbook publishing companies, instructed by their supervisors to remove mere words that refer to family, to the Divine, and to any of the ancient ideas that have sustained intelligent discourse for centuries.

Now, it is the ACLU which accuses middle Americans of "censorship" if they dare object to books, films, etc., that offend their sensibilities and undermine the character training of their young. Sadly, many of those books and films are themselves products of the minds that have been robbed of exposure to wisdom literature in the nation's schools and universities.

From economic principles to an understanding that our rights, in the words of JFK, "come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God," generations of Americans have not been taught the philosophy upon which their constitutional protections rested.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Great interview!

Good to see you and your book are getting a lot of coverage.

[Mr. Silverback]

I’m glad to see this book is being promoted, and I’ll make sure I buy a copy.

What really makes me shake my head over the Pearl Harbor conspiracy theory is that it depends on believing that FDR felt he wouldn’t get a declaration of war from Congress if he brought them evidence of a Japanese plan for a surprise attack, or the attack went off and the Navy successfully defended themselves with few losses. You have to believe he thought he could only take us to war if thousands of sailors and Marines were killed, but not if, say, 100 were killed.

Moronic.

[ForGod'sSake]

History in the making, so to speak ;^)

Well done Larry!

[spacewarp]

I get to ask stupid question of the day.

It says in the article, 49. The response is 49. The book on the Amazon link shows the cover saying 48.

What am I missing?

[NonValueAdded]

Bravo, professor!

[Revolting cat!]

Soup-herb!

[Skooz]

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[jellybean]

I heard you this morning on my local radio station: WSAU. You did great!

[petercooper]

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[dixiechick2000]

If you are going to expose all of the liberal lies,
you’ve got a job for life, and one you can pass on
to your kids! lol

Congratulations on the book, LS!

Very nice interview!

[Iris7]

I never learned that FDR knew about Pearl Harbor in advance.

The Japanese Imperial Navy operational code was known to US Navy analysts as JN 25. In those days communication between ships and shore stations, ships to ships out of line of sight, etc., was by medium wave (2-25 Megahertz) hand keyed Morse telegraphy. Human beings listened to the Morse beeps and operated hand telegraph keys. The messages were encrypted because the information was priceless to the enemy.

JN 25 was being read well enough to be useful, say one code group in three, on average, by the middle of 1941. Unfortunately the Japanese changed one of the three encryption steps (one known as an “additive”) in JN 25 in late 1941 and no useful decrypts were being made on December 7th.

Of course, in retrospect it looks like a truly amazing cluster f-— on the American side. The info was there in plenty of detail if one but looked at it. The usual human groupthink.

Besides, the record is clear that the Roosevelt Administration was attempting to provoke a Japanese attack. This should have been reason enough to plan for a Japanese attack, eh?

[Liberty Valance]

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