Civic lessons for the Fourth of July

You can become an American citizen by being born in the U.S., or you can become one by getting “naturalized.”

Becoming naturalized is a heck of a lot harder.

It not only means having to meet all the legal and residency requirements which Congress has established, it means passing a U.S. civics test that would stump a random, cable-news talk show host.

Sadly, based on the results of the civics test...