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The president’s State of the Union Speech was – at long last – the one I wanted him to give. It went after the very poison that has so sickened the United States of America. His call for us to shake off the Cult of Future-Hatred, indulged in by both right and left, was about urging us to start looking forward again, instead of to some mythically better past.

11. TOP PROPOSAL... create the office of Inspector General of the United States... ... or IGUS, who will head a uniformed agency akin to the Public Health Service, charged with protecting the legal and ethical health of government. No, I am not asking for yet another vast new bureaucracy. Ninety percent of this service exists today! Every major department or agency already has an internal Inspector General (IG), charged with examining operations and giving warnings -- when it comes to minor infractions -- or else stepping in when things get out of hand. The problem? Nearly all of these officials...