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Elite? You Got a Problem with Elite?

Immigration—everybody’s hot-button issue--and America is once again arguing across the metaphoric back-fence and having the very devil of a time trying to balance fairness and equity.

BEING POOR--AND MAINTAINING YOUR POVERTY--IS A VERY EXPENSIVE PROPOSITION

The typical conservative leans back on his couch, meditatively stirs his Chivas and water with a pinkie and declares (with some considerable justification) "Well, it’s their own damned fault if they got in over their head. What the hell were they thinking?"

Welcome to the Ever-Changing, Ever-Same Face of America

As America becomes more diverse, there are edgy calls from talk-show-radio hosts to save the country for white, Christian (mostly) males . . . as though they had done something (other than kill off the natives) to deserve preservation. It’s interesting, to me anyway, that these Limbaughs and Coulters are a couple generations in from Ellis Island themselves and want almost desperately to slam the door on anyone and everyone else.

Losing Our Edge on Our Own Home Turf

John McQuaid makes the case in an editorial, The Can’t-Do Nation, that America is losing its knack for getting big things done. It’s an interesting premise.

Enjoying a George F. Will Column

George has an interesting column today, titled Anger Is All the Rage and one of its most interesting aspects is the ‘reader comments’ posted. They are almost uniformly angry.

Conserving Scenery, Natural Historic Objects and the Wildlife Therein

Woodrow Wilson’s instructions are pretty succinct;

“to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”