“Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere…”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem is among the best ever written.  Do you know it?  Generations of Americans have memorized it and cherished it as a powerful statement of who we are as a nation.

Part of the reason the stunning victory of Scott Brown in Massachusetts has such mythic resonance is that he’s struck a nerve as a modern-day Paul Revere figure, riding through every Massachusetts village and town in his beat-up GM pickup, waking up America by warning “The Socialists are coming!  The Socialists are coming!”  The parallels are striking…

If you don’t know Longfellow’s mythic poem, read it right now by clicking here.  Teach it to your children.