The American System Of Political Spending Is

Extremists Often Derive Their Inspiration From Literal Interpretations Of Texts That Should Rightly Be Read Not As Associated Press Reports From The Ancient World, But As Theological And Literary Enterprises Requiring Independent Intellectual Assessment.

The Past Always Seems Somehow More Golden, More Serious, Than The Present. We Tend To Forget The Partisanship Of Yesteryear, Preferring To Re-imagine Our History As A Sure And Steady March Toward Greatness.

I Believe That My Children, Who Are Young, Will Look Back On The Early Years Of The 21st Century In Rather The Same Way I Look Back On The Middle Of The 20th: As A Time When Seemingly Respectable People Supported Discrimination Against Americans Simply Because Those Americans Were Different From Themselves.

The Fact Is That America Has Been At Her Most Prosperous When Government And The Private Sector Have Been Not At War, But In A Wary, If Often Underplayed, Alliance. History Is Unmistakable On This Point.

I Do Not Believe 'newsweek' Is The Only Catcher In The Rye Between Democracy And Ignorance, But I Think We're One Of Them, And I Don't Think There Are That Many On The Edge Of That Cliff.