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...country," Tancredo declared, Americans "put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House ... Barack Hussein Obama" - with an ominous emphasis on the President's middle name. Perhaps the most talked-about book of the convention was The 5,000 Year Leap, by the late right-wing writer W. Cleon Skousen, which argues that the Founding Fathers set up the U.S. on firm Christian bedrock and designed the Constitution to maximize individual liberty and free enterprise. Speaker after speaker commended the volume, a favorite of Glenn Beck's, and though it is far from Skousen's most extreme statement, with Skousen...
Billed as a seminar on the Constitution, "The Making of America" is more a churchy patriotic meeting than a scholarly dissertation. Sessions open with a presentation of military colors, followed by soloists belting out The Battle Hymn of the Republic and audiences singing God Bless America. When W. Cleon Skousen, 74, steps onto the podium, he preaches that the authors of the Constitution intended the U.S. to be governed as a Christian republic "under the law of God." As he explained to a rapt gathering of 800 in Anchorage two weeks ago, "The Founding Fathers wanted to separate church...
...former Salt Lake City police chief who had teenagers arrested for smoking on the street, Skousen was sacked in 1960 shortly after he raided a card game that included the mayor. Skousen has run his seminars for more than a decade, accusing historians and liberals of lying about the meaning of the Constitution, ignoring its religious nature and turning it into an "atheist" testament...
...promoting his seminars, Skousen touts his links to Ronald Mann, deputy staff director of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. Mann is a former board member of Skousen's National Center for Constitutional Studies. He provided historical engravings for a textbook by Skousen, although he insists he has nothing to do with supporting Skousen's seminars. The textbook, also titled The Making of America, is being sold by the California Commission on the Bicentennial...
Last week the liberal watchdog group People for the American Way cautioned the national Bicentennial Commission against Skousen. It argued, in the words of David Crane, a director, "An extremist group, extremist statements and extremist dialogue tend to threaten the heritage of our Founding Fathers and Founding Mothers." Former Chief Justice Warren Burger, who has made a point of keeping politics out of the bicentennial proceedings, will be studying the matter...