American Exceptionalism

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• Our President: Bringing America to its Knees, Before the World

  
  Flopping Aces — Authority: 643
  The shadow of the head of U.S. President Barack Obama falls upon a copy of the U.S. Constitution as he makes a speech on America’s national security at the National Archives in Washington, May 21, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque President Obama’s curtsy to the Saudi king and his reverential bow before the Japanese ...
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• Dick Cheney: Conservative of the Decade

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 621
  I’m writing this on my iPhone with a new WordPress app. If it works, I’ll be blogging more!! Yesterday a conservative magazine (I’m blanking on the name of it) declared Dick Cheney to be the “Conservative of the Year.” I’ll go one further. Cheney is without doubt The Conservative of The Decade and ...
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• Operational pause

  
  Beers with Demo — Authority: 435
  Because every piece of legislation that will nationalize 1/6th of the economy and effect the health of every American citizen (and non-citizen) deserves a 1 A.M. Senate floor vote , we are taking a short break to pass along something that goes on day after day and which goes unnoticed, unrecognized and too often, ...
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• Discretion and Circumspection

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 127
  Being one of those awful people who just does things because they sound interesting, when circumstances allow, there were those trips to Paris once or twice a year for a time – a few weeks alone there, just walking around the December streets and grooving on the Christmas windows and the guys from North Africa on ...
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• Obama’s Brand of American Exceptionalism

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 665
  As I suggested in my previous post , I was troubled by some elements of the president’s recent Oslo speech. But recent statements by former VP Dick Cheney have helped me appreciate a key element of the speech that I enthusiastically…
  5 days ago

• Denying American Exceptionalism

  
  Old Virginia Blog — Authority: 126
    "Some believe that America is a unique nation, a nation built upon extraordinary and good moral values, and a country which is a microcosm of what the world should be.  These people need not be Americans.  Churchill, for example, was an unabashed admirer of America." "Other people believe that America ...
  6 days ago

• American Exceptionalism: Tibor “Ted” Rubin

  
  Blog 4 History: American & Civil War History — Authority: 111
  “I always wanted to become a citizen of the United States and when I became a citizen it was one of the happiest days in my life. I think about the United States and I am a lucky person to live here. When I came to America, it was the first time I was free. It was one of the reasons I joined the U.S. Army because I ...
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• John Zmirak Helps you Understand How...

  
  Catholic and Enjoying It! — Authority: 602
  Conservatism became the Thing That Used to be Conservatism. Quick and dirty summary: It lost trust in the incarnational nature of reality and decided to become a thing of abstract ideas rather than actual peoples with real family ties, lands, histories, and cultures. Do that, and you become a wraith. A very ...
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• Teaching Social Justice in the Classroom?

  
  Blog 4 History: American & Civil War History — Authority: 111
  I took the week off to get some things accomplished that I needed to, so my apologies for a lack of posting, but I have been taking daily assessments of the blogosphere and noted a few things which I will comment on now. There has been some controversy over the History Channel’s upcoming Sunday evening program , ...
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• When Life Was Simpler

  
  Regaining the Center — Authority: 125
  In a strange pattern of behavior, former Vice President Cheney was again on talk television and offering his take on President Obama. Certainly everyone is entitled to their opinion. Some, such as historians and social commentators, provide important perspectives. The world is always changing and judging one ...
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• What Climategate and Copenhagen are really about…

  
  Akkam's Razor — Authority: 129
  In a nutshell ( Jeff McMahon at True/Slant ): [US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke] said unparalleled economic growth occurred in the 20th Century because of two factors: access to cheap, abundant fossil fuels and ignorance or disregard for the fact that those fuels produced greenhouse gas pollution that caused ...
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• Obama’s Best Speech Ever?

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 621
  I did not hear the president’s speech yesterday in Oslo when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, so cannot comment on his delivery. When I started reading snippets on conservative blogs, most singing the speech’s praises (with slight quibbles for some of the language), I thought I was reading something from a ...
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• Western Exceptionalism, or How America is the Future of Humanity

  
  Amber — Authority: 115
  With the rise of political correctness, and the notions that diversity means that all cultures are the same, and should be respected as equals came the idea that too much focus on one’s own culture showed an excess of pride; ethnocentrism was a sin, and the worst sin was Euro centrism, the tendency to interpret the ...
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• Richard Cheney and American Exceptionalism

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 475
       In a recent interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News, former Vice-President Richard Cheney referred to President Barack Obama as "this guy who doesnt fully understand or share that view of American exceptionalism that I think most of us believe in," and stated that it would give "aid and comfort to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dick Cheney: Obama Doesn’t Believe in “American Exceptionalism”

  
  Behind Blue Lines — Authority: 123
  In “Does Barack Obama Really Know America”, I questioned whether Hope ‘n Change really knows America and whether he is – in Dorothy Rabbinowitz’s words, “a stranger to the country’s heart and character”. Now Dick Cheney has weighed in on the same topic in an interview with Sean Hannity. Via ...
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• Research Update: Entrepreneurship & American Exceptionalism

  
  Campus Entrepreneurship — Authority: 117
  I have spent the last month going deeper into the concept of American Exceptionalism and also reading more commentators on Turner. I am just about done with a The End of American Exceptionalism by David Wrobel . The book looks into the era surrounding Turner’s development of and presentation of his Frontier ...
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• False Dilemma: American Exceptionalism Versus Anti-American Internationalism

  
  MANSIZEDTARGET.COM — Authority: 419
  Obama has been critiqued by some conservatives for a lack of sufficient embrace of “American exceptionalism,” which is normally defined as the view that America is a unique nation, with a unique international role, which views that role as chiefly a positive for the advancement of human rights and justice around ...
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• Is It Even Possible?

  
  RedBlueChristian — Authority: 112
  Here are my thoughts for the 2nd Sunday in Advent, 6 December 2009. It is as much a political piece as it is an Advent piece. ——————————————————————————————— For whatever reason, the thoughts that I had about this piece never quite came together like ...
  2 weeks ago

• The stable dollar was not the cause of America’s growth and ascent to global hyperpower status. It was a consequence.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 544
  It was the manifestation of American exceptionalism based in liberty and a profound sense of mission…the mission of global inclusiveness into the blessings of freedom so abundantly bestowed on America. Free markets, free elections, free speech, free thought and the freedom to experiment and innovate and the freedom ...
  4 weeks ago

• Gettysburg & Mr. Dreyfuss

  
  Blog 4 History: American & Civil War History — Authority: 111
  It looks like Mr. Dreyfuss had a nice day recently at Gettysburg as he continued his crusade campioning American civics and history instruction . Last Friday thousands showed up for the keynote Dedication Day speaker and Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss. After giving what appears to have been a well recieved ...
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