America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.
The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.
To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.
Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.
Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.
When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.