Peggy Noonan -- the voice of Ronald Reagan, for whom it is forever sunrise in America -- celebrates what's right with the United States. It's worth reading the whole article, if your belief in the American way ever falters. But here's her condensed list. The U.S. military. Cops and firemen. Airline pilots and stewards. The men and women of newspapers. American television. Television entertainment. American wit. Science and medicine. The Internet. Blogging. Local government. The local church. American abundance. The American Dream. New Americans. Noonan, in a nod to the newest medium, describes blogging as "free speech at its straightest, truest, wildest, most uncensored, most thoughtful, most strange."
The Lights That Didn't Fail [Wall Street Journal]