State Journal

The trouble with some Florida students is that they don't know much about history, a state lawmaker recently explained to his colleagues during a House debate on academic standards.

"There are many students," Rep. Tom Feeney said last month, "who could not identify Thomas Paine as the man who said, 'Give me liberty or give me death.'"

Whoops. He probably meant to say Patrick Henry, who delivered the speech crying out for liberty at the Virginia Convention in Richmond...