"You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but only for a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?" -Ronald Reagan
If Independence Day Has No Future, Neither Does American Democracy
It seems that virtually every year around Independence Day, we are told by some in the media that we really shouldn’t be celebrating after all, because the Declaration of Independence, source of the American Creed, is, in reality, “a beautiful lie.” I have written about this rejection of the Declaration previously, but I must repeat...