January 1, 2010

The Most Important Three-Year Period in History?

By Steve McCann
The most important three-year period in the history of the United States will start on January 1, 2010. The choices that we as a people make during this time may well relegate our country to secondary status (easily dominated by those who wish to make us subservient to their power, influence, and ideology) -- or, in the alternative, allow us to continue as the greatest nation in the history of mankind.Is this unadulterated hyperbole? A statement made to incite fear and mobilize the electorate? No, it may well be reality.Some would say that the four years of the Civil War were the most crucial to the nation's survival. Perhaps the war was critical to the maintenance of the union, and more importantly, to ending the stain of slavery, but regardless of the outcome, the nation would have survived, either as one country or two. There was no threat from outside the borders of the United States.Others might claim that the Great Depression and World War II constitute the period of greatest...(Read Full Article)