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America cannot be great if America, as Alexis de Tocqueville said, is not good.

We have two competing cultures in America today.

When the left seizes power, they don't know when to stop. But voters know how to say, "Whoa, enough."
Warnock is a poster child of the left, which embraces the view that the world is unfair, controlled by racists and exploiters.
This is called leadership.
Williams became one of the nation's most articulate advocates of American-style liberty and American-style capitalism.
If Republicans do not win at least one of the two Georgia Senate races, stand by for the most sweeping left-wing rewrite of our national script ever.
There should be zero tolerance of voting irregularities. But Republicans will be vulnerable to them as long as elections remain on a razor's edge.
When it came time to vote, American democracy prevailed.
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
Most voting-age Americans in 2020 still haven't grasped the fact that freedom is never guaranteed.
Government-mandated lockdown is all about giving politicians enormous arbitrary power.
We don't need taxpayers footing the bill for more trillions to pay for politicians to dish out ice cream for their constituents.
The poor are not poor because the rich are rich.
New York City is becoming an economic basket case. "'We're at war': New York City Faces a Financial Abyss," screams a New York Times headline.
President Donald Trump just rolled out his new "Black Economic Empowerment Platinum Plan." The plan focuses on building on his achievements since 2016 to improve the lives of black Americans by creating more opportunity to participate in a growing economy and to achieve greater security in life and property.
Chuck Schumer, Senate minority leader, says, "Our No. 1 goal must be to communicate the stakes of this Supreme Court fight to the American people." He continued, "nothing is off the table." Nothing? Not even violence?
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman observed in a column he wrote in 1996 that "no two countries that both have a McDonald's have ever fought a war against each other." Some have looked into how ironclad this rule is. But, in general, the point is pretty powerful.
As Washington has been frozen in debate about whether to pass massive new economic stimulus legislation, something interesting has happened in the real world.
I have returned with some regularity over the years to compare what is going on in our country today to what was going on in the 1850s, the years preceding the Civil War.