As Opening Day of the 2009 baseball season is tomorrow, it is fitting to note that no image better illustrates where our once-great nation is heading and why than the decrepit, half-standing former home of the Detroit Tigers, where a Major League Baseball game has not been played in nearly nine years. To look at Tiger Stadium now -- if one can bear it -- is to imagine the scene in London the day after a visit from the Luftwaffe. Twisted steel mingles with rotting wood over a field of barren grass, overlooked by ancient plastic seats and long-decayed dugouts....