Transmogrify,

To transform into something magical or grotesque.

VDH writes about the dumbing of our masses with less work ethic.
The government can't transmogrify them into expert solar panel workers that can compete with China overnight. Especially in a state with massive taxes and regulations like California.

Strangers in a Familiar Land

It has always seemed to me that as America has developed since the 60's that we have a culture of extremes. Extremely smart young adults and extremely dumb ones. Extremely ambitious and Extremely lazy. VDH points out that our technology is produced by a few ambitious smart....and used by many that just push the buttons or icons and have no knowledge of the inner workings.

The days of the self made man are fading. ......

Victor Davis Hanson, wrote today about how Obama has set race relations back a few is a racist allegation.

Obama's Racial Crisis

Barack Obama was raised in a middle class white neighborhood, and Herman Cain was raised in a Black neighborhood. Cain’s accent is real and Obama’s is tailored to those in the Black Caucus and it’s constituents.

Obama has an Ivy league degree and lots of friends and donors on Wall street, and Herman Cain came up through the trenches of working in business.

Hanson says that in reality Obama has caused racial strife by his economic policies that has stifled business and hurts employment, particularly to Blacks.

But the left in response says ….well he didn’t spend enough and that is why it didn’t work.

Hanson talks of the irony, of while Freeman may be right that the tea party is influencing the Republican party in Florida, the problem is that while he charges the tea party with racism and all there only purpose is to get Obama a black man out of the White House, the Straw Poll that was influenced greatly by the Tea Partiers chose Herman Cain, that inconveniently for race baiters is black.