[Tolik]

    Victor Davis Hanson Ping ! 

       Let me know if you want in or out.

Links: FR Index of his articles:  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson 
His website: http://victorhanson.com/     NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp

[Kakaze]

" We can see this strange psychological American need in the old conundrum over whether the United States is "hated."

I've been trying to figure out for years why we have such a collective cultural "guilt" over our sucesses.

Instead of apologising for having a high standard of life, we should scream from the roof tops...." If, you'd just educate yourself and drop the 10th century style of life you lead, this could be yours too!"

Instead we act like the guilt ridden spoiled rich college kid and try to BUY friendship through unaccountable loans and flowery apologies.