Saying that the other side is crazy has long been a weapon of choice in political debate, and we normally use it to marginalize people as extremists or cudgel them with the disgrace of deep psychological underpinnings. In some cases it is justified, like with insecure and hyper-medicated stooges like Keith Olbermann, or calling Nancy Pelosi insane…which she clearly is loco. But while our insult to them is that they need a padded room, theirs is to us that we can’t find our way out of a room. Today’s pop psychology suggests that we are stupid, and for this they seek to find neurological reasons for our wide galaxy of pretty ideals… all symptoms of a broken brain.

I returned from the Atlanta Tea Party and I wanted to offer some of what I saw—and what I did not see...

I have tremendous faith in the American worker, but it seems that as of late, he/she is not at peak performance in a number of ways. It begins in the American education system, which is autocratically inert, inefficient, refuses to accept that better teaching exists outside the system, and genuflects by in large to the Teacher’s Union. But let’s set aside the arguments relating to this and steer them to what we see today in Detroit and nationwide, at the unions that set the blaze and now demand to put the fire out thereafter. Ultimately, unions as they exist today and in their present form, are about control, power, and the riches of hourly dues paid to union executives and lawyers...