I'm a big fan of XM 164--Old Time Radio. They play, of course, the old radio shows. Burns and Allen, The Great Guildersleeve, Johnny Dollar and of course Dragnet and other shows with the incomparable Jack Webb.

"Just the facts, Ma'am," endeared him to me for decades. Instead of the rubbish of root causes and entitlements, people on Webb's programs were good or bad, and did good or bad things. Yes, life is more complicated in some ways but the shows were morality plays and good ones at that.

In one of his characters, Webb says, "I'm an American. You can't push me around!"

Fifty years later Barack Hussein Obama says to the world, and especially to our enemies, "I'm the president of the Americans, and please push me around."