One of the things I don't understand about liberal thinkers is their desire for big government, their lust for a giant colossus in Washington that, in theory, would solve all our problems. How delusionary is this? Why don't liberals just demand the country be handed over to the people who run Disneyland?

Those of us old enough to remember lining up for gasoline during the Jimmy Carter administration understand that, for three decades, the federal government has known America is vulnerable to oil profiteers. Yet no serious attempt was made to develop alternative fuels like Brazil has done.