Jay Leno and David Letterman still will be able to joke about federal political candidates in the weeks before an election.
While this is a somewhat inflammatory headline, you've got to wonder after hearing Ari Fleischer's terrifying comments following the Bill Maher flap of last fall (something to the effect that people need to be more careful about the things they say).
Your question, WS, is one that I've found myself revisiting more and more over the past year or two: would the founding fathers still recognize this country?
I'm sure they would, as the forces that are active today are permutations of those which they fought against and tried to preempt with the limited government structure they put in place: interventionists, apologists, and those who may pay lip service to laissez faire, but whose actions are firmly entrenched in collectivist activism. I think, though, that Jefferson & Co would be less disappointed with the overall trend and more by the fact that there aren't more voices speaking up - and by that, I'm certainly not talking about those hilarious, bumbling, overweight twenty-somethings currently damaging public property and putting others' lives at risk (apparently prank calling 911 is one of their "tactics") over issues they hardly understand.
We need a John Galt. Jack Welsh missed his chance, and Bill Gates has never quite stepped up the way I once hoped he would have. Any nominees?
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