Word: un-american
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That summer, Nixon, a freshman member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, presided over the Alger Hiss case--a gaudy, sensational, two-year-long pageant of congressional hearings and court trials that would bring the cold war home, divide Americans and launch the young Nixon on a trajectory toward the White House...
...gets exhausting, this constant goad to joy. If you're not smiling--after we made all those wonderful pills and cell-phone plans!--what's wrong with you? Not to smile is un-American. You can pick out the Americans in a crowd of tourists by their reflexive grins. The U.S. enshrined in its founding document the right to the pursuit of happiness. So we pursued it and--at least as commerce defines it--we caught...
...objection to the use of torture is based mainly on our moral opposition to it. It is thoroughly inhumane and un-American. In its earliest days, our country established that cruel and unusual punishment was a violation of the rights of human beings. Let us not abandon that principle today. Though the Guantanamo inmates are not American citizens, we believe that they should still be entitled to the rights our national heritage claims are self-evident...
...imposed his will upon the people and who had been allowed to rule without their consent. This power allotted to himself a disproportionate amount of the country’s resources and oppressed the common man. And the idea of installing the shah in the first place? Precisely un-American...
That blissful isolation has to break down eventually, though. The problem is, American politics are un-American. At least, they no longer fit the a la carte ethos of iPod America. You and I can't each have our own President. We can't have our own Supreme Court or our own assault-weapons law. If you don't like the USA Patriot Act, you can't delete it from your digital playlist...