Talk radio host Michael Medved has penned an edifying book, about the strange coincidences and unusually timed events that have contributed to the against-all-odds rise of America as we know her today, titled The American Miracle. Here are just some of the startling coincidences and events: When the pilgrims landed in (now) Massachusetts, why were there settlements that seemed to be vacated – ghost settlements, so to speak? Who was Native Squanto, and why did he speak English so well, and how was his help so necessary to the pilgrims? How did unusual and unexpected weather favor the Americans who were about to be surrounded on Brooklyn Heights during the War of Independence? How did Washington survive so many bullets whizzing past him throughout his military life without a scratch, though his clothes had bullet holes in them? How did one little known man oddly named Daniel St. Thomas Jenifer and his stroll through Philadelphia save the Constitutional...(Read Full Post)