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Posts Tagged ‘are you smarter than a natural-born american dept.’

BEN FRANKLIN

100 Simple Questions For Becoming an American Citizen

Friday, September 28th, 2007

apu.JPGAre you smart enough to be a citizen? While it’s long been accepted that ignorance of history is what keeps America strong, it seems that immigrants are all expected to pass a civics test to become citizens and get Tom Tancredo off their backs. And they just updated the whole thing. So now everyone has to answer brand-new questions about Abe Lincoln and the lady from the old dollar coins (not the Indian, the other one) and, uh, 9/11. MORE »