John Hawkins  "In a free society, government reflects the soul
of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have
to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the
cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it." -- Cal
Thomas  You've undoubtedly heard the old wives’ tale about frogs
and boiling water. If you toss a frog into boiling water, he'll
immediately jump out -- but supposedly, if you increase the
temperature just a bit at a time, the frog will sit comfortably
in the water until he's cooked alive. Is that true? No. However,
if you apply that story to the way that human beings behave,
there's a lot of truth to it. The world is extraordinarily
complex and human beings are remarkably adaptable; so it's
entirely possible that if changes are incremental enough, people
will adjust to "the way the world is" without truly examining
the size of the shift that's changed their world.  In the last
few decades, our country has spiraled downward into decadence in
ways that are genui