According to theAmerican Pie Council, Americans consume $700 million worth of retail pies each year — and that doesn’t include those that are home-baked, or sold by restaurants and independent bakers. Of those who responded to surveys, 19% of Americans — some 36 million people — cited ...
More patriotic? More spiritual? Americans differ on how Sept. 11 changed themDAVID CRARY, AP National Writer
I am the most patriotic person I know. I love this country so much, I served my nation not in war, but in peace, as a VISTA volunteer. I took the time to explore and document it at a depth few ever will. But tonight I am in tears that the nation I love is so morally bankrupt...
How Patriotic is the Patriot Act?: Freedom Versus Security in the Age of Terrorism. Routledge; 1 edition (July 8, 2007). 978-0415955560. H.R. 3162 (The USA Patriot Act). http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html “John Doe v. John Ashcroft: U.S. District Court Decision.”...
But the public, encouraged by the Cuban patriotic cause, yellow journalism, and the sinking of the Maine, clamored for a war. Finally, President McKinley yielded and gave the people what they wanted. He believed that the people should rule, even if they don’t know what’s best for ...
In a typical year, more than 200,000 Americans are hospitalized for flu-related complications, and over the past three decades, there have been some 3,000 to 49,000 flu-related U.S. deaths annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Young children, people over ...
William J. Simmons, a former Methodist preacher, organized a new Klan in Stone Mountain, Georgia in 1915 as a patriotic, Protestant fraternal society. Then and Now: KKK membership peaked at four to five million in the mid-1920s; today there are an estimated 5,500 to 6,000 Klan members ...
As college students, we are fortunate to be receiving an education that not only equips us with knowledge and skills but also shapes our worldview and values. It is during this formative period that we can develop a deeper understanding of what it means to be patriotic and how we can contr...
As to how to solve the undeniable problem of the general erosion of patriotic sentiment in this country, how to inculcate patriotism in rising generations of Americans, how to reconcile a vigorous conception of assimilation with the pluralism to which we are so deeply committed — those are...
Immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, for instance, the share of Americans who told Gallup the economy was good or excellent spiked from 32% to 46% in what may have been a brief bout of patriotic reluctance to criticize the US in any way. But in an era marked by...