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Proud to be an American

By on 11.5.09 @ 2:54PM

Excellent essay today from sometime AmSpec contributor Patrick O'Hannigan, over at his site "The Paragraph Farmer."  It's a lengthy essay in which he argues that there IS an identifiable American character. Among many other insights, he writes: "Freedom and optimism seem indispensable to the American character." Well put. So is the rest of the essay. Go read it. Now.

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Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom.

http://spectator.org/blog/2009/11/05/proud-to-be-an-american

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