Is America the Jewish "Promised Land".. Really?

An interesting article on the Jewish immigration to America and its place in Jewish history.

From the article:

"One Jew – Haym Solomon – quickly recognized the opportunities that the liberal values of the American Revolutionaries might afford future Jews. Solomon put his money where his thoughts were and gave $20,000 to George Washington’s army, making him the largest financier of the American Revolution."

Read the whole thing:    USA: The Jewish Promised Land?

Government Gone Wild in the Antelope Valley

We don't need no stinkin' private property.  The bureaucrats in California graciously validate my point in the previous post "Six Billion (data) Points of Light".

L.A. County's Private Property War - Page 1 - News - Los Angeles - LA Weekly www.laweekly.com

Culture, Education, Unions, Islamism, Darwin and Marx and.. I'll have fries with that

THE ROLE OF EDUCATORS

A question has been nagging me for clarification.  The traditional role of the educator is to impart basic academic knowledge and cultural norms.  This implies two definitions the first is a definition of “basic academic knowledge”. The second, “cultural norms” is more difficult to define and varies from constituency to constituency across the United States. There are, however, in a capitalistic society, a certain small subset of cultural norms that are embedded in capitalism.

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