Hmmm--It's fashionable for many to suggest America is declining. Especially on the left. But maybe it's not---even liberal columnists at the NY Times don't think so:
"As this election campaign is demonstrating, the United States remains the most vital, open, self-renewing and democratic society on earth. In December 2007, there were 1,059,793 naturalization applications pending: one million people are not clamoring to join a nation in eclipse."
