I stand on the premise of "there are no grounds for debate" concerning why America is the greatest. We do have the freedom to fail and through that failure; learn. That brings to the front the great experiment of building self esteem by never allowing anyone to fail...duh???? Enough Americans continue to believe it is a good idea to feret out what is really going on here? If you fail at a project then as R. Ringer stated; "go back to the beginning and check your premises because at least one of them was wrong." Therein, you may request a second chance and have reason to hope you might receive it.. JCMcIntosh

I don't know who advised him that he should publicly apologize but they erred. I assumed it was his therapist but might have been his publicist. Mr Wood should apologize to any whom he personally wronged and caused damage but mostly he needs to apologize to himself for foolishly shooting himself in his own foot.

Thanks to Dr Sowell again for shoring up my own reaction to this.

JCMc, NM

I worked with an OEO program in the 70's and witnessed how Govt. programs target those most vulnerable and it scared me, even then. I taught home management and witnessed their smiles of tolerance because they knew it was not necessary to learn because there was always a program and a Social Worker to encourage them into another program for sustenance. I was always proud of my skills developed in my youth while working in the share cropping fields of my not so ambitious parents and doing janitorial work for my 30 pupil country school when I was age 11 which paid for the co-op fee to connect us to the electricity grid. Therefore, I stand firm on the premise that our children are encouraged to be "cool" lazy and do not take learning as...

I had a random thought: All candidates must run on a platform that consists of planks for ridding us of laws of regulation. No new promises for new laws just ridding us of old laws.

This random thought is recurring so "random" actually does not apply.

Growing up I was under constant admonition to always be fair only to discover that apparently no one else ascribed to that "fair."

Finally I figured it out after being left repeatedly with the North end of the fried chicken flying South that the moral had a flaw.

JC