ISRAELI WARFARE: We [Israelis] are doing something that no other country would do. . . . We warn the people using Lebanese television, radio and flyers that we spread over the affected areas. We ask the people to leave their homes and get themselves to safety. -- Tzipi Livni, Israeli foreign minister, quoted by Suzanne Fields, townhall.com, 7/31/06

HEZBOLLAH: What so many . . . fail to understand is that there is no "compromise" possible with a group such as Hezbollah whose sole mission is to destroy Israel and eventually every nation and person that they deem to be an infidel. . . . No one questions that Iran is supporting Hezbollah and there is no doubt that Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that if Hezbollah could launch a nuclear weapon into Israel, they would do so. They have no fear of death and no fear of retaliation. . . . There is nothing that will deter them. There is only one way to stop them and that is to destroy them and prevent the states that support them from having the weapons that they would use to accomplish their goals. -- Jan Larson, opinioneditorials.com, 7/31/06

LEBANON WAR: The word that obviates all thinking and magically inverts victim into aggressor is "disproportionate," as in the universally decried "disproportionate Israeli response." . . . The perversity of today's international outcry lies in the fact that there is indeed a disproportion in this war, a radical moral asymmetry between Hezbollah and Israel: Hezbollah is deliberately trying to create civilian casualties on both sides while Israel is deliberately trying to minimize civilian casualties, also on both sides. . . . Creating human shields is a war crime. It is also a Hezbollah specialty. -- Charles Krauthammer, nydailynews.com, 7/28/06

HEZBOLLAH: Those who believe that Hezbollah is simply an Israeli problem need to think again. . . . Hezbollah is -- and has always been -- America's enemy. -- Oliver North, townhall.com, 7/28/06

LEBANON WAR: The mini war that is taking place between Israel and Hezbollah is, in fact, a proxy war in which Iran's vision for the Middle East clashes with the administration in Washington. What is at stake is not the exchange of kidnapped Israeli soldiers with Arab prisoners in Israel. Such exchanges have happened routinely over five decades. The real issue is who will set the agenda for the Middle East: Iran or America? -- Amir Taheri, quoted by Cal Thomas, townhall.com, 7/27/06

BUSH DOCTRINE: The Bush Doctrine states that governments or organizations that harbor or aid known terrorists are just as liable as the suicidal/homicidal terrorists themselves. . . .If the Bush doctrine is valid, there are only a few questions that need to be answered:
(1) Is Hezbollah a terrorist organization? (2) Which governments are sponsoring, aiding, sheltering, harboring or otherwise supporting Hezbollah? (3) How should Israel respond to the governments that are supporting a known terrorist organization?
If the Bush doctrine is valid then overwhelming, disproportional military force may be unleashed, not only upon Lebanon, but upon Syria and Iran as well. -- Monte Kuligowski, opinioneditorials.com, 7/28/06

HISTORY LESSON: The real lesson of WWII was not failing to try diplomacy and negotiations. The lesson was that America and the West should have moved militarily against Hitler in the mid 1930's. It was already clear that Hitler was rapidly re-arming Germany for a coming war of aggression, but was not yet ready to attack. A pre-emptive attack by the West against Hitler at that time could have destroyed Hitler and his Nazi war machine while still confined to German soil. There would have been casualties on both sides but far, far, fewer than the millions killed later while much of Europe was destroyed.

The world seems inclined to forget the lessons of history rather than learn from them. The West should be supporting Israel's attempt to demolish the Islamic terror threat surrounding them rather than lecturing Israel about its "disproportionate response." Iran and Syria are clearly backers of Islamic terror, not only against Israel but also against America. The longer it takes to deal with them the greater the risk of a wider and more lethal war with an enemy possessing nuclear weapons and the means to reach America. -- Rachel Neuwirth, opinioneditorials.com, 7/28/06

HEZBOLLAH: The problem is that Hezbollah has woven itself into the very fabric of Lebanon, masquerading as a political party much as the Nazis did in Germany. The terrorists have in fact converted an entire nation into a human shield. -- editorial, Investors.com, 7/26/06

JOHN BOLTON vs THE UN: Republicans support Bolton's nomination [as U.S.ambassador to the U.N.] precisely because of his clarity of thought and speech -- and his unapologetic representation of America's interests. Democrats oppose him because they sympathize with the negative view of Bolton held by foreign envoys who have anything but the best interests of the United States in mind. -- David Limbaugh, townhall.com, 7/25/2006

GEORGE W. BUSH: For the next two years, we will continue to have the only President since the Vietnam War who is not an appeaser. . . . George W. Bush is called dumb, but he's smarter than any of his immediate predecessors, because he understands that when your enemy has no scruples, has no vital interests to protect, and desires war, it is absurd to wait for them to get stronger and more dangerous. The trouble is, he lives in a country where, when he wages the most successful, cleanest war, with the soundest military doctrine, in the history of the United States, he is vilified in the press and lied about so incessantly that the people now largely believe that the war has been badly handled. Compared to what war? -- Orson Scott Card, ornery.org, 7/20/06

ISRAEL: Israel has pursued a policy of appeasement for years, giving concession after concession to the Palestinians and their supporters. No matter what they gave in on, two things happened: The Palestinians and their supporters broke every promise, and the rest of the world demanded that Israel make even more concessions.. . . .The only thing that has ever brought concessions from Israel's enemies is victory in war. The negotiating table has never brought Israel even a moment's peace.The opposite is true -- the more they gave in, the more their enemies came to believe in Israel's weakness and the more Israeli civilians they killed. -- Orson Scott Card, ornery.org, 7/20/06

IRAN: Unless the Iranian people get rid of their present government, open war between the United States and Iran is inevitable, because they are grimly determined to force their brand of Islam on the rest of the world, and to kill any who stand in their way. . . . Because of its relationship with Syria, Iran effectively controls both the eastern and western borders of Iraq. Every dead American soldier in Iraq since the initial invasion can be laid largely to the charge of Iran and Syria; they are the reason the insurgents in Iraq are so well-supplied. -- Orson Scott Card, ornery.org, 7/20/06

WAR ON TERROR: Will Americans pay the painful price to win the war on terror? Or will we retreat to our BlackBerrys and iPods and video games? Will we continue to allow partisan politics to divert attention from the real threat, or will we demand that our leaders win the conflict? In the summer of 2006, that is the hot question. And, at this point, there is no clear answer. -- Bill O'Reilly, billoreilly.com, 7/21/06

WAR: There is only one war. It is global in scope and varied only insofar as there are certain and obvious differences among those who seek to wrap their tentacles around the innocent. They are united by their hatred of America and their desire to shatter the West. There is only one war. At some point the West will have to accept that it must either defeat or succumb to its enemies. That is unquestionably a horrible realization. No wonder so many prefer denial. -- Joe Bell, OpinionEditorials.com, 7/21/06

ISRAEL: Will we agree to live under this evil threat or will we fight. . . . There is no more just struggle than that we are now engaged in. . . . And I say to everyone: Enough is enough. Israel will not be held hostage -- not by terror gangs or by a terrorist authority or by any sovereign state. . . . There is nothing we want more than peace on all of our borders; Israel will not agree to live with rockets fired on its citizens. Only a nation that can protect its freedom deserves it. -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Israel National News

ISLAMOFASCISM: Much of the world, and unfortunately, much of America, refuses to get it. This is World War III. Islamofascism seeks our destruction -- not accommodation, not conciliation, but complete and total destruction. Islamofascism does not end with the "recapture" of "historic Palestine." Our very existence -- democracy, freedom, religious tolerance and gender equality -- threaten Islamofascism. . . . Nothing short of civilization is at stake. -- Larry Elder, townhall.com, 7/20/06

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: There are two dirty little secrets behind the debate over the illegal alien issue that even the advocates of securing the borders first have failed to discuss.The first secret is that the estimated twelve to twenty million aliens living and working illegally in the United States have to commit identity theft to secure employment. The second secret is that without illegals' payroll tax contributions, filed under stolen or fraudulent Social Security numbers, the Social Security system would collapse years earlier than estimated. -- Herman Cain, townhall.com, 7/19/06

GLOBAL WARMING: If global warming is real, and if it is new, and if it is caused not by nature and her cycles but man and his rapacity, and if it in fact endangers mankind, scientists will probably one day blame The People for doing nothing. But I think The People will have a greater claim to blame the scientists, for refusing to be honest, for operating in cliques and holding to ideologies. For failing to be trustworthy. -- Peggy Noonan, opinionjournal.com, 7/20/06

WAR: One would not expect a French president to know that the point of war is a completely disproportionate use of force culminating in victory. For the French, a proportionate response is, presumably, surrender. -- Ben Shapiro, townhall.com, 7/19/06

WAR IN LEBANON: The road to a solution is ... clear: Israel liberates south Lebanon and gives it back to the Lebanese. -- Charles Krauthammer, nydailynews.com, 7/19/06

WAR IN LEBANON: One cannot understand the significance of the current Mideast war being fought out in Lebanon and Israel without seeing it as part -- however ambiguously connected -- of the larger struggle between radical Islamists and the rest of us. -- Tony Blankley, washingtontimes.com, 7/19/06

GOD-GIVEN KNOWLEDGE: The Greatest discoveries are yet to come, if we are willing to see all useful things through a sacred lens. When scientists combine the classic scientific method with an intense spirituality and longing for revelatory contact with God; when the laboratories of medicine and the conservatories of music also become institutions of prayer; when brilliant creative types align their talents with the infinite genius of God's creativity; when artists are motivated by charity for mankind and a yearning to understand God's character and work; then will knowledge and happiness vastly multiply beyond our present measure. . . . We [Mormons], who believe all valuable knowledge is spiritual and not temporal, should of course seek the world's knowledge that has been amassing over the centuries, but then have the bravery to break with secular restraints and add to our various disciplines the principle of pure revelation. If this happens, I believe unimaginable wonders will begin to unfold. -- James T. Summerhayes, Ancient Prophets of Genius, meridianmagazine.com, 7/18/06

WAR IN LEBANON: If Hezbollah is going to be destroyed, Israel will need to do this, heavily backed by U.S. military reserves. -- William F. Buckley, townhall.com, 7/19/06

SUPREME COURT: The Supreme Court's supremacist views will continue to expand if the other branches of government continue to accept the arrogant notion that whatever a judge says is the law of the land. Congress and the President can fix the problems created by Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, but only if they have the courage to rebuke the supremacist justices. -- Phyllis Schlafly, townhall.com, 7/18/06

WESTERN SURVIVAL: Of all the Western democracies, only two have no choice but to depend on their own military forces for their survival -- the United States and Israel. The rest have for more than half a century had the luxury of depending on American military forces in general and the American nuclear deterrent in particular. -- Thomas Sowell, townhall.com, 7/18/06

ISRAEL: Regardless of fashionable rhetoric, there is no Middle East "peace process" any more than trading "land for peace" has been a viable option. Nor is a Palestinian "homeland" a key to peace. -- Thomas Sowell, townhall.com, 7/18/06

GUN CONTROL: The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.

GUN CONTROL: What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?

IRAN: Gaza, Hezbollah, Iraq, Al Qaeda: It is all the same fight. "No one should have any lingering doubts about what's going on in the Middle East," writes Michael Ledeen, an expert on terrorism and Iran. "It's war, and it now runs from Gaza into Israel, through Lebanon and thence to Iraq via Syria. There are different instruments, ranging from Hamas in Gaza to Hezbollah in Syria and Lebanon and on to the multifaceted `insurgency' in Iraq. But there is a common prime mover, and that is the Iranian mullahcracy, the revolutionary Islamic fascist state that declared war on us 27 years ago and has yet to be held accountable." ... We will never win this war, Ledeen and others argue, until the Iranian theocracy is brought down. That does not have to mean military action. Our aim instead should be to empower Iran's restive population, which is largely pro-Western and moderate. Give them as much support as possible, much as the Reagan administration did for Lech Walesa and Solidarity in Poland -- and let them find the means to reclaim their government for themselves. -- Jeff Jacoby, townhall.com, 7/17/06

ISRAEL: The difference between Israel and America is not simply language ...; rather, Israel is fighting for her survival and will do anything (even if politically incorrect) where America is worried about public and international opinion. ... Differences are striking between how the two nations operate not because one cares more or less for her population or military, but because the United States cares about the all important and never successful quest to look diplomatic. Israel cares about results and it will not stop until her mission is achieved. -- Steve Yuhas, opinioneditorials.com, 7/13/06

POLITICS: I have only three thoughts [on political decision-making]. One: It is good to keep in mind ... that we must let as many questions devolve into the private sphere as possible. Not all can but many can, and on so many issues it's better to err on the side of individual freedom than the authority of the state. Two, in making big decisions do not lose simple common sense, which is common human sense, which is, for instance: If you start to clone humans it will have an ugly end. Three: Do not let go of your faith. Do not lose it. In the age in which too much is demanded of the slim wisdom of politicians, it is our only hope, and theirs. -- Peggy Noonan, opinionjournal.com, 7/13/06

ISRAEL: Despite the forlorn (and fatuous) hopes of so called peace advocates, there is to way to compromise or negotiate for the resolution of an implacable conflict. One side or the other must clearly and completely reject its most cherished dream for its future. Either the Israelis must abandon their now-realized dream of maintaining a Jewish homeland in the Middle East, or else the Palestinians must altogether reject their own cherished dream of obliterating and eliminating the Jewish State. President Reagan changed the world with his clear, unequivocal (and repeatedly expressed) recognition regarding the Cold War: that ultimately one side was going to win, and the other side was going to lose. There was no other way to settle the struggle. In this same spirit, those who honestly wish to see an end to the bloodshed and suffering in the Middle East must first give up their sick infatuation with negotiation, compromise and empty promises on paper. It's not a peace process that the world needs when confronting relentless terrorist demands. Only a victory process can finally end the violence and the pain. -- Michael Medved, townhall.com, 7/12/06

GUN CONTROL: When a government seizes citizens' ability to protect themselves, that government becomes a usurper. It is for this reason that the Second Amendment guarantees both the individual right to self-defense and the communal right to fight any deprivation of the right to self-defense. -- Ben Shapiro, townhall.com, 7/12/06

SOCIAL SECURITY: According to the National Council for Capital Formation,Social Security lowers private saving and investment and, as a result, GDP is at least five percent lower than it otherwise would be. Moreover, had people been able to use the money for private retirement plans, they'd earn much more than the paltry sum Social Security pays out. -- Walter E. Williams,townhall.com, 7/12/06

MEDIA: The press is on of the most secular institutions in American society. It just doesn't get religion or any idea that flows from religious conviction. -- Bill Schneider, LA Times

Marxist Methodology

[In the 1960s] the New Left began infiltrating and taking control of America's culture-shaping "idea producing' institutions. Their goal was to psychologically manipulate Americans into committing spiritual, cultural, political, and ultimately demographic suicide. This would be achieved through Psychopolitics, the science of sinister psychological manipulation.

The multifaceted attack began in America as it had begun in Russia under Lenin and Trotsky?with attacks upon the patriarchal family and Christianity.

Before long, the notion that marriage, domesticity and family are types of slavery began to be heard. Temptations such as 'free-love,' porn, and drugs were held out to husbands and fathers while the ears of wives and mothers were filled with the poisonous notion that they were sex-slaves to their husbands. "Liberation and personal fulfillment," it was suggested, "were to be found outside the home in the workplace." Easy divorce, abortions on demand, and plenty of daycare centers, it was insinuated, were necessary to achievement of self-fulfillment. Government-controlled schools helpfully offered various social programs, including feeding programs.

The idea that 'unisex is cool' was smoothly slotted into position. This was eventually followed by the idea that sodomy and erotic fantasies were the same thing as having black skin or being Irish or Italian. People who do these things, itwas inferred, are a 'species' or 'class' of people who ought to have the same rights as everyone else. This new species or class is called 'gays,' it was intimated. The word 'pride' became attached to everything about the new class. Through judicial chicanery, sodomy laws were declared unconstitutional and struck down, thus awarding the new 'species' of 'gay' people with the right to engage in sodomy. "Gays ought to have the right to marry and have children (even though theycannot procreate),' we were told. Then very quietly, so no one would notice, the word 'gay' acquired an expanded meaning ... sexual continuum. Almost immediately, the newly expanded definition was redefined to 'polymorphous," also known as androgynous, thus bringing us full circle to unisex. The gospel of unisex (also known as queer theory) began being taught in America's universities. It crept into lower schools disguised as "safe school" programs. ...

"All of the very best people -- the progressively enlightened, tolerant, and broadminded type of people -- support the 'gay civil rights' movement while only backwards, superstition-believing Christians and red-state rednecks don't," we were instructed to believe. "These latter are hateful bigots who ought to be forced into'shutting-up' by having hate-crime laws imposed upon them," Trotskyites slyly suggested.

-- Linda Kimball, opinioneditorials.com, 7/10/06

NORTH KOREA: Bush needs to announce in [a] nationally televised speech that the very next time North Korea even moves ICBMs onto the launch pads that those missile installations will be destroyed. End of story. This kind of strength by America would not only serve to defend our own country, it could also hasten the end to the murderous regime of Kim -- a real blessing for the Korean people. It would also send the right message to all our enemies abroad. -- Joseph Farah,wnd.com, 7/11/06

ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILES: This North Korean threat dramatically confirms the need for the anti-missile defense system that President Ronald Reagan called for in his famous nationally televised address of March 23, 1983. ... If we shoot down a North Korean missile with our own anti-missile system, that would send a powerful message to North Korea that its tactics are a loser. It would also reassure Japan and other U.S. allies that we have the will to protect them from rogue madmen. ... The best way to discourage nuclear proliferation would be to demonstrate that the United States is willing and able to destroy their missiles before they hit their targets. It's time for the United States to let the world know that we have an anti-ballistic missile defense system to protect our people and our allies, and that we will use it. -- Phyllis Schlafly, townhall.com, 7/10/06

IMMIGRATION: No small part of the outrage over the immigration issue [ "it's not an amnesty bill" -- kjk ] came from people's sense that their intelligence was being insulted by those they elected. -- Thomas Sowell, townhall.com, 7/11/06

DEMOCRACY: Never think that you don't count. You are what count most of all. Politicians understand votes if they don't understand anything else. They are virtually obsessed with public opinion polls. ... Democracy means that each individual voter cannot expect to prevail on every issue because there are other voters with other views. But that does not mean that the public is powerless when a clear majority knows what it wants and doesn't want. -- Thomas Sowell, townhall.com, 7/11/06

WAR ON TERROR: According to the Populus survey conducted for the London Times and ITV News, more than one in 10 British Muslims believe the bombers should be regarded as "martyrs." Sixteen percent of British Muslims - about 150,000 adults - believe that while the attacks were wrong, the cause was right. Seven percent of the 1,131 Muslim adults surveyed believe such attacks can be justified "in some circumstances." Sixteen percent would be "indifferent" if a family member joined al-Qaida. Since terrorists are known to lie, these figures could be much higher. There are an estimated 1.6 million Muslims in Britain. Do the math and see if this is a tolerable number of extremists, who might be terrorists and are certainly in sympathy with the killing of "infidels." A similar study should be conducted in the United States. -- Cal Thomas, townhall.com, 7/11/06

CENSORSHIP:
I went to the Titanic Burger place and ordered a giant cheeseburger with everything on it except onions.
"I can't do that," said the clerk.
"Why not?"
"Well, a U.S. district judge has ruled that removing part of the whole Titanic Burger experience injures the creative expression of our chef. It's a copyrighted recipe."
"But onions make me sick!"
"Sorry. What if somebody else accidentally got a Titanic Burger without onions? They might think that's the way we intended our burgers to taste."
"Can't you just put a label on it that says NO onions?"
"Nope. You'll have to take them out yourself -- if you can find all the pieces."
"I guess I won't be eating any more Titanic Burgers!" I said, and drove away.
For burgers or DVDs, we could soothe the creative temperament of chefs and producers alike with a simple disclaimer that parts have been deleted. In the meantime I won't be buying a copy of "Titanic" on DVD. I really don't want to see Kate's onions.
-- Margaret Leigh, letter to the editor, deseretnews.com, 7/11/06

HOW TO HONOR

What follows was written by Vicki Pierce about the funeral of her nephew James M. Kiehl who died serving our country in Iraq. Please read it and remember it.

"I'm back. It was certainly a quick trip, but I have to also say it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. There is a lot to be said for growing up in a small town in Texas. The service itself was impressive with wonderful flowers and sprays, a portrait of James, his uniform and boots, his awards and ribbons. There was lots of military brass and an eloquent (though inappropriately longwinded) Baptist preacher. There were easily 1,000 people at the service, filling the church sanctuary as well as the fellowship hall and spilling out into the parking lot.

"However, the most incredible thing was what happened following the service on the way to the cemetery. We went to our cars and drove to the cemetery escorted by at least 10 police cars with lights flashing and some other emergency vehicles, with Texas Rangers handling traffic. Everyone on the road who was not in the procession pulled over, got out of their cars, and stood silently and respectfully. Some put their hands over their hearts.

"When we turned off the highway, suddenly there were teenage boys along both sides of the street about every 20 feet or so, all holding large American flags on long flag poles, and again with their hands on their hearts. We thought at first it was the Boy Scouts or 4H club or something, but it continued .... for two and a half miles. Hundreds of young people, standing silently on the side of the road with flags. At one point we passed an elementary school, and all the children were outside, shoulder to shoulder holding flags -- kindergartners, handicapped, teachers, staff, everyone. Some held signs of love and support. Then came teenage girls and younger boys, all holding flags. Then adults. Then families. All standing silently on the side of the road. No one spoke, not even the very young children.

"The military presence -- at least two generals, a fist-full of colonels and representatives from every branch of the service, plus the color guard that attended James and some who served with him -- was very impressive and respectful, but the love and pride from this community who had lost one of their own was the most amazing thing I've ever been privileged to witness.

"I've attached some pictures; some are blurry (we were moving), but you can get a small idea of what this was like. Thanks so much for all the prayers and support."

POLITICS: Political figures don't like to make choices; they don't like to reward some groups and not others; they don't like to admit that they can't do it all. They are political. Not rational. -- Kimberley A. Strassel, opinionjournal.com, 7/08/06

MORMONISM: The [new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg] poll found that while anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism are fading among voters, anti-Mormonism is not. Thirty-seven percent of those questioned said they would not vote for a Mormon presidential candidate. Article VI of the U.S. Constitution forbids a "religious test" for those wishing to serve in public office, but it can do nothing about voters who wish to apply a religious test to candidates. ... If an ambulance hits me, I care less where or how the driver worships than I do about his sense of direction to the nearest hospital. It troubles me not that a Mormon might be president. It does trouble me a great deal that so many people would think a person's faith - whether one shares it or not - should be the only reason to deny someone the presidency. -- Cal Thomas, townhall.com, 7/6/06

IDEOLOGY: There is no more a "political middle" than there is a family in America with 2.3 children. People with opinions take sides. Contrary to what you've heard, it's actually more important to stand for something than it is for everybody to "just get along." -- Ann Coulter, townhall.com, 7/6/06

SUPREME COURT:
The Court lacked jurisdiction to hear [suspected terrorist SalimAhmed] Hamdan's appeal, but once assuming jurisdiction, it ruled incorrectly that the Geneva Conventions apply to his case. ...

[Justice Antonin] Scalia said that judges inclined toward the "living Constitution" approach think "there really is a brotherhood of the judiciary who indeed believe it is our function, as judges throughout the world, to determine the meaning of human rights. And what the brothers -- and sisters -- in one country say is quite relevant to what the brothers and sisters in another country say. And that's why I think if you are a living constitutionalist, you are almost certainly an international living constitutionalist."

To grasp the magnitude of the arrogance of the Court's majority in extending Geneva protections to Hamdan, you really need to understand that it had no power to decide this case. ...

On Dec. 30, 2005, Congress passed the Detainee Treatment Act (DTA), in which it expressly and unambiguously stripped all courts, including the Supreme Court, of jurisdiction to consider habeas corpus petitions of Guantanamo Bay detainees,such as Hamdan.

It is inconceivable that the Court's majority was in doubt about Congress's intent to deprive it of jurisdiction in these cases. ...

Once it usurped jurisdiction of the case, the majority further demonstrated itsdetermination to go the extra mile for Al Qaeda (and thus please its international brethren) by straining to interpret "Common Article 3" of all four Geneva Conventions as applying to Hamdan even though Al Qaeda is not a nation, not a Convention signatory, and the conflict is clearly international in scope.
-- David Limbaugh, humaneventsonline.com, 7/5/06

AMERICA: There is no question that we have failed to live up to the dreams of the founding fathers many times and in many places. Sometimes we do better than others. But all in all, the one thing we must be on guard against is thinking that because of this, the system has failed. The system has not failed. Some human beings have failed the system. -- Ronald Reagan