Daring to say "God Bless America"
Here's a nice column by Paul Johnson, one of the world's great historians. Johnson's Modern Times is a masterful exploration of the bloodbath that was the twentieth century.
(Hat tip: Roger Simon)
(Hat tip: Roger Simon)
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Great column. Thanks for the link. Let my Forbes subscription run out because most of my favorite writers disappeared. But I miss Johnson. I've read parts of his "A History of the American People" and it's a good read.
I haven't read A History of the American People. Thanks for the recommendation, C.I.V.
CIV is always on the look out for books to counter the liberal pap taught in public schools. Can't let those text books go unchallenged!
You'd think this would not be a problem in the Old Dominion, but, I swear, the northern part of this state acts more like Taxachussetts or Montgomery County, Maryland, every day! Thanks be to God for our rural legislators who help keep the level of liberalism down to a very low roar (meow?).
Besides, I think all text books in the US get chosen in California, don't they?
Actually I believe it is Texas.
Depends on what you read. For example:
Creating a separate book for every state would cost publishers too much. So out of the 22 states that have a process for approval of textbooks, they concentrate on getting approved in the two biggest states, Texas and California. Twelve percent of all textbooks are bought in California, eight percent in Texas. That's 20 percent in just those two states.
From CBNNews
The big three adoption states [Texas, California, and Florida] are not equal, however. In that elite trio, Texas rules. California has more students (more than 6 million versus just over 4 million in Texas), but Texas spends just as much money (approximately $42 billion) on its public schools. More important, Texas allocates a dedicated chunk of funds specifically for textbooks. That money can't be used for anything else, and all of it must be spent in the adoption year. Furthermore, Texas has particular power when it comes to high school textbooks, since California adopts statewide only for textbooks from kindergarten though 8th grade, while the Lone Star State's adoption process applies to textbooks from kindergarten through 12th grade.Source: www.edutopia.org
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