Will we be masters of our fate...

...or give up on our soul?

Five threats to American way of life
Newt Gingrich, Philadelphia Inquirer

This blogger (and this web site) focuses primarily on the second and third threats on his list:

"The first threat is the potential for Islamic terrorists and rogue dictatorships to acquire and use nuclear or biological weapons. The second is the effort to drive God out of American public life. The third is the possibility that America will lose the patriotic sense of itself as a singular civilization. The fourth is that America's economic supremacy will eventually yield to China and India because of failing schools and weakening scientific and technological leadership. The fifth is that an aging America's demands on Social Security, Medicare, and related government programs will collapse the current system."

Furthermore, I have to agree most heartily with this:

"America is a good and decent country created by heroes worth studying - yet schools teaching young Americans and American immigrants have replaced their stories with politically correct, multicultural drivel that fails to teach American history. Worse, they ridicule what little they are required to teach.

Most Americans believe that hard work will keep America's economy second to none. But our efforts are hampered by trial lawyers who seek their own enrichment and not justice. Labor unions get away with special deals and protection from competition by bureaucracies that value process over achievement.

For this generation to pass on our nation's blessings, we need a grassroots movement that demands profound change to defeat fundamental threats to our way of life. This movement must be focused on values, solutions, and on telling the truth even when it is controversial."

It takes guts to tell the truth. More of us need to risk having retribution brought upon us by those who wish to erase nations in favor of global business or global government. All of our "early patriots" put their homes, good names, and lives on the line for this nation.

We'd better find more "latter day patriots," and soon, or the original concepts that shaped America will surely pass into history. If our core is corrupted, something called "The United States" may exist for a while, but it will no longer be connected to its roots; this tree of exceptional liberty will surely die.