Welcome to The America First Blog

I was motivated to start this site by a love of and concern for our Country. I was born and raised here, was educated here, and all my opportunities to succeed come from fully integrating into our great society. I grew up believing in the melting pot concept of being American, and therefore I am greatly concerned about the emergence of the competing philosophy of multiculturalism. I welcome the idea of multiple cultures contributing to our American fabric, and it is my hope that we all make our goal the unity of the United States in face of the global threat of terrorism. The American revolution created the Great Experiment of self government. The Civil War reinforced the primacy of the Federal government over the States. Our next challenge seems to be whether we are going to leave a legacy of Democracy that continues to shape world history, or whether our experiment is washed away by a different world view, such as a global government. I quote from Alexander Hamilton in the first Federalist Paper, in which he lays out the task of the American people in considering their destiny as a country, and which possibly was never meant to lose its relevance:

The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.