For today's primary reading assignment, I encourage you all (in the strongest way) to read this truly fantastic speech by the Rev. Robert Sirico, President of the Acton Institute, which he gave at Acton's annual dinner in October.

Despite Acton's overtly religious overtones, and despite the speech being given by a Catholic priest, this non-religious Jewish blogger found Sirico's speech to be something which would have made James Madison proud and which recharged my batteries to continue the quintessential American fight for liberty.

http://www.acton.org/commentary/486_the_way_forward.php