People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and the gullible American people seem proud of it. Those ribbon decals on their cars, SUVs and monster trucks proclaim their naive loyalty to the armaments industries and to the whores in Washington who promote wars.

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

A country in which 42% of the population is totally misinformed is not a country where democracy is safe.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

The United States has collapsed economically, socially, politically, legally, constitutionally, and environmentally.

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.

Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.