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241 Charles Robert Jenkins with Jim Frederick, The Reluctant Communist,
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2008, 9.
242 Ibid., 10.
243 World Prout Assembly, “The Crimes of America” http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2005/11/the_crimes_of_a.html (accessed April 3, 2009).
244 Trygve’s digital diary, “How Long is It? (The United States tax code)” http://www.trygve.com/taxcode.html (accessed April 3, 2009).
245 Neil MacDonald, “Free speech, eh? Why is Canada prosecuting Mark Steyn?” CBC news, June 13, 2008. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/06/13/f-rfa-macdonald.html (accessed April 3, 2009).
246 L.A. Unleashed, “French Court convicts Brigitte Bardot over animal-related remarks”, LA Times, June 4, 2008, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2008/06/french-court-co.html (accessed April 3, 2009).
247 Christopher Quinn, “Author digs into founding father’s view on religion, govt.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 5/30/08, http://www.ajc.com/news/content/living/stories/2008/05/30/waldman_steven_religion.html (accessed April 3, 2009).
248 Northwest Ordinance, Article 3, Archiving Early America http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/ordinance/text.html (accessed April 3, 2009).
249 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, pg 332,
http://books.google.com/books?id=vPEtAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA332,M1 (accessed April 3, 2009).
250 Ibid., 329.
251 Paul Vitz, Censorship: Evidence of Bias in our Children’s Textbooks
(Ann Arbor, MI, Servant Books, 1986), 18-19.
252 AP, “Atheist challenges ‘In God We Trust’”, Nov 18, 2005, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10103424/ (accessed April 3, 2009).
253 “The Great Seal of the United States”, Untied States Department of State, Sept 1996, http://www.state.gov/www/publications/great_seal.pdf (accessed April 3, 2009).
254 Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation,
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/lttaf10.txt (accessed April 3, 2009).
255 Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus,”
http://www.nps.gov/archive/stli/newcolossus/index.html (accessed April 3, 2009).
256 Ben Wattenberg, “The First Measured Century”, PBS,
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/timeline/emeltpot.htm (accessed April 3, 2009).
257 Mark Penn, Microtrends, as cited by Jim Geraghty, “the campaign spot,” National Review Online, Oct 15, 2007
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258 Gregory Jay, “What is Multiculturalism?” University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
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259 Julie Johnson, “Teacher Union Faults History Books”, Special to the New York Times, Sept 14, 1989.
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260 Lynne Cheney, “The End of History” Wall Street Journal, Oct 20, 1994
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mlassite/discussions261/cheney.html (accessed April 3, 2009).
261 Ibid.
262 Ibid.
263 Diane Ravitch and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., “The New, Improved History Standards,” Wall Street Journal, April 3, 1996.
http://www.edexcellence.net/detail/news.cfm?news_id=75 (accessed April 3, 2009).
264 Lynne Cheney, “The End of History” Wall Street Journal, Oct 20, 1994
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mlassite/discussions261/cheney.html (accessed April 3, 2009).
265 Diane Ravitch and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., “The New, Improved History Standards”, Wall Street Journal, April 3, 1996.
http://www.edexcellence.net/detail/news.cfm?news_id=75 (accessed April 3, 2009).
266 Lynn Vincent, “Whose Standards? Rejected revisionist history standards are finding their way through the back door of American education” World Magazine (Nov. 20, 1999)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mlassite/discussions261/vincent.html (accessed April 3, 2009).
267 Gary Nash, “Reflections on the National History Standards”
National Forum (Summer 1997)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mlassite/discussions261/nash.html (accessed April 3, 2009).
268 Lynne Cheney, “The End of History” Wall Street Journal, Oct 20, 1994
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mlassite/discussions261/cheney.html (accessed April 3, 2009).
269 William J. Bennett, America: The Last Best Hope, Volume 1, (New York: Nelson Current, 2006), xv
also The Hill, July 13, 2006 “William Bennett’s history as moral reckoning”
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270 Michael Barone, “Land of the Free” Claremont Institute, Fall 2007
http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1476/article_detail.asp (accessed April 3, 2009).
271 Jay Matthews, “A Battle on the WWII Knowledge Front”, Washington Post, May 28, 2004, B01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A61803-2004May27 (accessed April 3, 2009).
272 Ibid.
273 infoplease.com, “National Voter Turnout in Federal Elections: 1960-2008” http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html