Three Cheers for Wealth Inequality

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  May 29th at 07:02 AM  | 

One can’t but hear the almost daily drumbeat from the left about how unequal things are in the United States. There is an income disparity between the haves and the have-nots where Wall Street bankers take millions of dollars home to their Greenwich mansions while millions of others work for minimum wage and can’t afford their own home, never mind something resembling a mini-Versailles. That | Read More »

Why I love Sarah Palin

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  March 21st at 06:11 AM  | 

I love Sarah Palin. There, I’ve said it. While I’ve never met her, that is beside the point. What is right on point however is why I love her. Sarah Palin bleeds American. She is not American simply because of an accident of birth. Rather, she understands what makes America different; she believes that America is exceptional and knows what makes it so; she is | Read More »

What is America? A country, an idea or both?

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  November 22nd at 09:22 AM  | 

I heard someone remark this week that Barack Obama did not share the values of the United States because he didn’t grow up here. While initially that sounded plausible, the more I thought about it, the more I disagreed with it. The truth of the matter is that growing up in the United States is no guarantee of sharing values with America. A few examples | Read More »