If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via various appointed bodies - decide what the public's interest is for them.

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.

Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in the early Nineties. It's hard to close down government bodies, but it should be possible to sell them off. And a side benefit to outsourcing the Bureau of Government Agencies and the Agency of Government Bureaus is that you'd also be privatizing public-sector unions, which are the biggest and most direct assault on freedom, civic integrity, and fiscal solvency.

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?