American
-noun
4. a citizen of the United States of America.
-from the Random House Unabridged Dictionary

In honor of my least favorite time every year, election season (often called by the losers "the beginning of Armageddon"), this week will bring the critical eye of the Version 2.0 machine on the traditional American person. One must note the noun, not the adjective, is the item in question.

1776 is a year that for most who have a basic knowledge of history rings a bell for the sheer sake of the liberty being expressed on the North American continent. Never before had such an idealistic group achieved actuality in such a short amount of time. The American Founders sucessfully created a new nation with a relatively new system of government all within a lifetime. They cared for the rights of man (as long as the "man" was literally a white, Protestant man), and promoted the values of liberty above loyalty to a government....