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• 1. shawnnews  |  November 23rd, 2008 at 2:56 pm

  If you think you’ve heard a lot about that, after Thanksgiving you’ll hear a lot about “The War On Christmas” or another manufactured issue. Fox’s John Gibson made some money off this idea in a book with that title. Incidentally he has a show with Heather Nauert from Rockford on Fox called the Big Story. I’ve seen Nauert’s picture in the paper but never an article about her.

• 2. shawnnews  |  November 23rd, 2008 at 3:43 pm

  I guess “The Big Story” show is gone now according to her wikipedia entry that says she WAS the co-host.
  Oh well, they’ve still got O’Reilly to talk about the War On Christmas.

• 3. LD  |  November 23rd, 2008 at 5:37 pm

  One of the great things about free speech is it lets morons identify themselves (along with racists, misogynists, bigots, etc), Why would liberals want to silence them?

• 4. David Johnson  |  November 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm

  Would one of you self described scholars like to explain in detail how the government intends to define \"conservative speech\" and \"liberal speech\" and how they will establish a measurable criteria for insuring that what everybody hears and listens to each equally? Not you Pat. Your credibility is so worthless these days that I wouldn\’t believe you if you said the sky was blue.

• 5. Mike Carroll  |  November 24th, 2008 at 9:24 am

  Hijack alert!
  Lets call it the Applesauce challenge. A bit of a Civics quiz. Note the abysmal average score.
  http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx

• 6. Pat Cunningham  |  November 24th, 2008 at 11:57 am

  Mike: You beat to the punch on the Civic Literacy Quiz. Modesty prevents me from telling you my score. I’ll just say this much: I was a little unsure of myself on a few of the economic questions, but I lucked out.

• 7. Milton Waddams  |  November 24th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

  90.91%, not too bad.

• 8. Mike Carroll  |  November 24th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

  Pat-94% for yours truly. Modesty has never been one of my prime, but numerous , virtues. I blew one of the economic questions and, to my embarassment, the Lincoln Douglas debate question and I knew better.
  I’m tempted to give the quiz to my kids when they are home.
  Maybe you should post as a separate item as it will attract more notice than in a Comments section.

• 9. David Barrett  |  November 24th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

  I’m not modest either. I got 32 out of 33 for 96.97%. I missed the 1st Admenment question - I keep forgetting that it is not just about free speech.

• 10. Pat Cunningham  |  November 24th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

  Mike: When you’re quizzing your kids, try these trick questions (they’re best done orally) just for the laughs:
  1. How many animals of each species did Moses take with him on the Ark? (Answer: Moses wasn’t on the Ark; it was Noah.)
  2. How many outs are there in a baseball inning? (Answer: No, not three. It’s six.)
  3. How do you pronounce the capital of Louisiana — New Orluns or New Orleens? (Answer: It’s Baton Rouge.)
  4. Who was the only president born in Illinois? (Most people say Lincoln, but it was Reagan.)
  5. How many months have 28 days? (Answer: 12.)
  6. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? (Answer: Mount Everest.)
  7. That attorney is my brother, testified the accountant. But the attorney testified he didn’t have a brother. Who is lying? (Answer: Neither. The accountant is the attorney’s sister.)

• 11. snuss  |  November 24th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

  Interesting quiz. It’s been a long time since I studied Civics and U.S History. But, I still easily beat the average score.

  I was reminded of “Jay-Walking” on the Tonight Show, and how COLLEGE STUDENTS couldn’t answer simple questions on political figures, and U.S. History. It also reminded me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53C2-b8BOLs

• 12. Pat Cunningham  |  November 24th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

  snuss: Don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back for your quiz score. You’re still stupid enough to fall for that widely discredited Zogby poll to which you’ve linked. Every pollster with half a brain has dismissed that thing as ludicrous. Do I have to remind you again that Obama defeated McCain by a wide margin among the most educated voters?

• 13. snuss  |  November 24th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

  I’ve met enough “educated” idiots in my time to know that education, without common sense to back it up, is a dangerous combination. Obamania is more like a cult, where you get a “tingle up your leg”, and base your choice on pretty speeches and celebrity, rather than by the issues and an actual history of performance. But, “symbolism over substance’ IS the Far-Leftist’s creed, isn’t it? And it hasn’t changed in thousands of years.

  “In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill… we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
  Plato

• 14. echo4charlie  |  November 24th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

  I did well on the quiz, but, there were some that I didn’t know/remember. I was around 70%.

  Good quiz, though. I learned a lot. Now, I just have to remember it.

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