To me the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.
Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza with no individual liberty and no freedom of speech or press.
And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America America: economic freedom individual liberty and personal responsibility.
We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
Fortunately somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination the only thing that protects our freedom despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
A nice easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.
But if people want to swim in the Thames if they want to take their lives into their own hands then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.