Palin knew Revere better than Obama knew Lincoln

William A. Jacobson Legal Insurrection 9/9/2011

Obama flubbed his history. Via Ed Morrissey, Obama inaccurately called Abraham Lincoln the founder of the Republican Party:

Not true! Doesn’t Obama know history?…

Read the rest at Legal Insurrection.

Also at Legal Insurrection, Sarah Palin may be the one liberals have been waiting for

…With Palin, liberals […]

Experts back Sarah Palin’s historical account

You betcha she was right!

Chris Cassidy The Boston Herald 6/6/2011

Sarah Palin yesterday insisted her claim at the Old North Church last week that Paul Revere “warned the British” during his famed 1775 ride — remarks that Democrats and the media roundly ridiculed — is actually historically accurate. And local historians are backing her […]

Sarah Palin’s interview with Chris Wallace on ‘Fox News Sunday’

The Right Scoop 6/5/2011

Sarah Palin talks the economy, energy, Afghanistan, Libya, Paul Revere and much more.

Also at The Right Scoop, Kirsten Powers: It’s refreshing to see Sarah Palin say ‘screw you’ to the MSM (video)

If you look at the MSM there’s just a lot of hostility towards her and, you know, […]

Riehl: Palin Gives Media a History Lesson…

…Revere Warned British and They Retreated

Dan Riehl Riehl World View 6/4/2011

The media and the Left are celebrating as they believe they’e shown-up Sarah Palin. Oops! Turns out she’s correct. They appear to be taking their history from Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride“, which wasn’t written until 1860, almost 100 years after the event.

PALIN: […]

‘…One if by land, and two if by sea…’

“The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” by Grant Wood, American artist, 1931. A larger view of the image is here.

Long ago, when American school children were taught the history of our nation’s founding, a reading or recitation of the poem Paul Revere’s Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was generally required in celebration of […]

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