Americans Spend More Money On Botox, Face

It Is Rather The Nature Of America - Our Freewheeling, Outspoken, Prosperous, Liberty-loving Citizens Extend Equality To Women, Homosexuals, Minorities, And Almost Anyone Who Comes To Our Shores, And Thereby Create Desire And With It Shame For That Desire. Indeed, It Is Worse Still Than That: Precisely Because We Worry Publicly That We Are Insensitive, Our Enemies Scoff Privately That We In Fact Are Too Sensitive - What We Think Is Liberality And Magnanimity They See As License And Decadence. If We Don't Have Confidence In Who We Are, Why Should They?

Offering 'comprehensive' Reform Usually Means Years Of Arguing And Horse-trading Among Pressure Groups To Get Anything Done. By The Time All The Special Interests Are Appeased Or Bought Off, The Resulting Elephantine Legislation Typically Looks Nothing Like What Was Intended. In Short, Big-government Medicine Usually Doesn't Work On Big-government Sickness. If President Obama Wants 'comprehensive' Change, It Would Be Better Simply Not To Spend Any More Money We Don't Have.

In History, One Gathers Clues Like A Detective, Tries To Present An Honest Account Of What Most Likely Happened, And Writes A Narrative According To What We Know And, Where We Aren't Absolutely Sure, What Might Be Most Likely To Have Happened, Within The Generally Accepted Rules Of Evidence And Sources.

States Are Like People. They Do Not Question The Awful Status Quo Until Some Dramatic Event Overturns The Conventional And Lax Way Of Thinking.

The Easily Ridiculed, So-so Status Quo Often Hides Herculean Efforts By Those Whom We Take For Granted, And Who, Working In The Shadows, Guarantee Civilization Instead Of Chaos.