We Tend To Think Of Politics As

True Patriots Believe That We Should Measure A Citizen's Worth By Contribution To Country And Community, Not By Wealth Or Power-that Those Whom America Has Benefited Most Should Contribute In Proportion To Their Good Fortune-and That Serving Others Should Be Esteemed More Highly Than Serving Self.

Why Does An Iphone Cost Only A Couple Hundred Dollars? Because, As The Stage Performer Mike Daisey Depicted In An Arresting One-man Show Called 'the Agony And Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs,' Apple's Shiniest Products Are Made By A Shadowy Company In China Called Foxconn.

Conservatives Forget That Citizenship Is More Than A Thing To Withhold From Immigrants. Progressives Forget It's More Than A Set Of Rights.

If Half-black Barack Obama Had Decided Years Ago To Call Himself White - Which His Genes Certainly Entitled Him To Do - His Story Would Have Carried Very Different Meaning. If Millions Of Part-black People Had Followed Him Into Whiteness, Then The N.a.a.c.p. Would Be In True Crisis.

Honest People Know That The Road To Success And Virtue Always Involves Shared Sacrifice, Hard Work, And Gratification Postponed. Telling People Otherwise Isn't Leadership, It Is Pandering.