As the man who was "first in the hearts of his countrymen," George Washington wrote guiding principles for the newly established country in his Farewell Address of 1796.  He stressed: ... that the 'national Union' formed the bedrock of 'collective and individual happiness' for U.S. citizens.  As he explained, 'The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local distinctions.' We see the degradation of this idea of patriotism as the left continually hammers away that America is the nexus of evil.  One need only read the 1994 book titled Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, which states in its introduction that the "nostalgic vision of a simple, harmonious past ... obscures the long history of oppression within the United States."  The editors choose...(Read Full Article)