In this election, the plebs were more mature than the elites:

    For many of us, the war is also a moral issue, and the (others) are on the wrong side of it, standing not with the women voting proudly in Afghanistan's first election but with the amoral and corrupt U.N.

    Economies are built from the ground up, by entrepreneurs who have ideas and are willing to take some risks to start a business and make it grow. If the business is legal, governments can contribute mainly by staying out of the way, something they are not inclined to do in many poor countries.
 
    Governmental institutions have a different incentive structure from private firms. Private-sector workers are rewarded for problem solving. The public sector has no such incentive because the continued existence of the problem keeps them budgeted and in business.

    ''In Ohio, the church is awakening to its historic role as the moral voice in the community,'' said Colin A. Hanna, president of Let Freedom Ring, a conservative group based in Pennsylvania that trains ministers in political activism. ''Ohio is in the vanguard of that nationally."
 
    In a recent meeting of leaders from some of the state's largest churches, many of them in booming Republican suburbs, the Restoration Project issued a blueprint calling for Patriot Pastors to register 500,000 new voters by the May 2006 primary, then inform and energize them with voter guides, rallies and so-called e-prayer networks on the Internet.

Acts17.. 17 Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there.

    Since the election, I've been feeling more and more clueless about the realities of American life. I've always known that living in a city, being single, not having a car and not attending a church took me out of the Midwestern mainstream.

    It is in the field of foreign policy, however, that the neoconservatives have become both famous and infamous. Most look to Theodore Roosevelt as a model. He once wrote: "Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may...ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation...to the exercise of an international police power."
 
    If a person commits a criminal act, he should be held accountable for it. If a country commits criminal acts in violation of international law, and then tells the world to go to hell 17 times, that country should be held accountable too.