PEGGY PONDERS THE POSITIVES: Wordsmith and Wall Street Journal contributing editor Peggy Noonan puts America's problems on the backburner for now and focuses on what's right about our 226-year-old Republic.
Included in Peggy's prestigious list of "lights that did not fail" the American people:
"Blogging. The 24-7 opinion sites that offer free speech at its straightest, truest, wildest, most uncensored, most thoughtful, most strange. Thousands of independent information entrepreneurs are informing, arguing, adding information. Imagine if we'd had them in 1776: 'As I wrote in yesterday's lead item on SamAdams.com, my well meaning cousin John continues his grammatical nitpicking with Jefferson (link requires registration) 'Inalienable,' 'unalienable,' whatever. Boys, let's fight. Start the war.' Blogs may one hard day become clearinghouses for civil support and information when other lines, under new pressure, break down."
Read the entire column. It's Peggy at her best.
