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"I was watching Glenn Beck and I just had to turn it off and spike my mountain dew with some vodka. "

My personal advice is, turn off Glenn Beck; I had to stop watching him as every time he would just ruin my day. His gloom and doom - with absolutely no solutions - is very depressing.

I was impressed with this "history lessons", but once a week of Beck would be plenty for me...not every, single day.

His show should be re-named, "Lessons on Libertarianism".

"Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth -- to know the worst and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House?"

Knowing the truth presents its own solutions.