America remains, in spite of the left, the Last Best Hope of Man.  As the New Year starts and the 2016 presidential race begins in earnest, that is a vital truth to grasp.  Happy optimism, not grouchy despair, ought to inspire conservatism today. Yes, the national debt is huge and growing; entitlements and debt service will soon swallow each tax dollar.  Yes, Obama has tried as hard as he can to undo the American Dream and will try in 2015 to fight us with unconstitutional rule by executive fiat.  Yes, the educational and informational establishment is firmly in the hand of leftist cadres, and the ignorance of Americans is appalling and growing.  There are many things to worry and depress us, but there always have been problems.  Fifty years ago, in January 1965, LBJ propounded his calamitous Great Society and shipped young Americans to a war in Southeast Asia that he chose not to win.  Seventy-five years ago, Nazis and Communists were fast...(Read Full Article)