America is fascinating and impressive.
This week, I stand behind my country with a type of wonder I’ve never had before. Because it says a lot about our people that we are simply still standing. Or maybe that’s just the euphoria of having a full eastbound and westbound bridge off LBI. Those lanes are so wide and luxurious.
Now, none of us has firsthand experiencewith what American discourse was like around the turn of the century (not the Y2K one, but the Boxer Rebellion one).
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