And Crown Thy Good With Brotherhood From Sea to Shining Sea

Yes, America, you are worth celebrating in this 250th anniversary of independence. Let us ask that God mend thine every flaw, confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!

David Robb , Bio and Archives--June 29, 2026

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These days it seems that all we hear about is what is wrong with America. We're oppressive, racist, Capitalist, bigoted, Fascist, islamophobic, transphobic, nationalistic, patriarchal, colonialist, and many other things that someone, somewhere, finds objectionable. They never stop to think that they can hold and express all these objections because they live in America. Most other places in the world, such opinions would get them fined, or jailed, or even dead.

No, it is time to present the other side of the coin. True, America isn't perfect, it's just better than just about anywhere else, and it is constantly striving to improve itself. There are lots of ideas of what would be better, and it is one of our virtues and strengths, that people can try them out to see if they actually improve things. We currently have a large experiment with Socialism involving one of the largest cities in the country. It is turning out just as most of us thought it would, but hey, we are giving it a try.

Our earliest settlers came to this land seeking the freedom to practice their Christian beliefs as they saw fit. They left nations that required them to believe according to whatever religion the State required—typically whatever was the religion of the king at the time. Today people are still free to believe or not as they wish. Religious freedom is enshrined in our Constitution, unlike many other countries, mostly Islamic, where you believe or else.

A fanciful pseudo-history claims that America was founded and built by black slaves. While true that at the time of our Revolution there were about a half million slaves in the colonies, only about a third of them were black. The rest were mostly white British transportees with a few natives in the mix. In those times, Britain was selling off its homeless, its poor, and its convicts as slaves and dumping them into its colonies. Australia was not the only beneficiary of this largesse. Even Irish children came here as indentured servants or worse. The Black Irish, despite the name, were not black.

The black slaves who were brought to this country were only a tiny fraction of the product of North African muslim slave traders who had instituted and been conducting black slave trade for over a thousand years before the American........

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