3 times today my calls were answered by companies whose automatic phone systems told me to "press 1 for English". Enough! I can't stand it anymore.

Over the past 40 years I've lived and traveled throughout Europe, Latin America and the Pacific Rim. Everywhere I lived and worked we were expected to learn the local language and to carry out business in that language; especially when dealing with the government. Not one other country offered…

James Madison said: "Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation."

I believe we are in-fact in that "wretched situation". Today many politicians, commentators…