Loyalty To Your Country Should

All In All, The Framers Would Probably Agree That It's Better To Impeach Too Often Than Too Seldom. If Presidents Can't Be Virtuous, They Should At Least Be Nervous.

Tax Time Approaches, And Americans Are As Always Paying H & R Block Billions To Help Them Save Some Of Their Wealth From Their Ravenous Government. Pitiful, In A Way: It Underlines The Grim But Unacknowledged Fact That The Government Is Their Enemy And They Have To Hire Protection From It. But Don't We Enjoy 'self-government'? Well, If We Have It, I'd Hardly Say We Enjoy It. True, We Aren't Being Taxed By The Monarch Of Great Britain, But Our American-born Rulers Claim Far More Of Our Wealth Than The British Monarchs Ever Did.

Most Americans Aren't The Sort Of Citizens The Founding Fathers Expected; They Are Contented Serfs. Far From Being Active Critics Of Government, They Assume That Its Might Makes It Right.

Freedom Has Ceased To Be A Birthright; It Has Come To Mean Whatever We Are Still Permitted To Do.

I Realize That The New York Times Probably Not Written For The Express Purpose Of Driving Me Mad; I Think Of It As Liberalism's Daily Bulletin Board.