And now we're right back to what we were doing before. Our national attention span is about 20 minutes, and our leadership is not interested in focusing that at all. After all, if our memories get longer, who knows what puzzle pieces might make more sense?

My mother poured grease into a can for years after it was no longer asked of citizens to do so for bomb manufacture. She learned it at home, during World War II. It had to do with civic identity.

This Administration is not asking for one ounce of material discomfort, nor is it demonstrating the need. The only thing they are interested in is evicerating the Bill of Rights. BTW, have you been following the Senate hearings on the DOJ's practice of indicting companies if they don't "cooperate" by jettisoning their right to attorney-client confidentiality? Anything that equally annoys the Wall Street Journal and the ACLU, as this does, has something wrong with it.