What Passes For Investigative Journalism Is Finding

We've Had The Trivialization Of Our Politics Going On Ever Since We Had Electronic Media.

The Terrorists Are Going To Believe The Worst About America. They Think We Spy On Everything. They Think We Kill Everyone. They Think - They Don't Believe That We Believe In Democracy, Right? They Don't Believe We Have Limits On Our Government.

The Death Of American Liberalism As A Significant Moral Force Can Be Traced To The Point In When President Bill Clinton Signed Legislation That Effectively Ended The Main Federal Anti-poverty Program And Turned The Fate Of Welfare Recipients, 70 Percent Of Whom Were Children, Over To The Tender Mercies Of The States. With A Stroke Of The Pen, Clinton Eliminated What Remained Of New Deal-era Compassion For The Poor And Codified Into Law The "tough Love" Callousness That His Republican Allies In The Congress, Led By Newt Gingrich, Had Long Embraced.

The Issue I Highlight In The Book Is Welfare Reform.

It Takes No Courage To Make War, Particularly If You're Not Going To Go And Your Children Are Not Going To Go.