- no guns have been seized from private citizens nor have any been declared illegal
- the Boy Scouts exist
- preachers continue to use radio & TV broadcasts
- students can pray, read religious texts, talk with willing others in school
- campus ministries exist
- pornography can be kept from children
- home schooling continues
- Al-qaida did not take over Iraq
- an Iranian nuclear bomb has not yet exploded in Tel Aviv
- there is no national, single-payer healthcare system
- healthcare has not been rationed
- there are no “death panels”
- tax rates have not increased
- income level subject to Social Security tax has not doubled
- oil drilling has not been restricted in the U.S. save from some offshore areas where the citizens don’t want it
- the global demand for oil is being met
- there are no periodic blackouts of electricity in the U.S. due to shortages
- conservative talk radio exists
- no Bush administration officials have been prosecuted from “war crimes” in Iraq, etc.
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