The Case for Local Control

by Conor Friedersdorf

Nick Gillespie reflects on the folks at the Glenn Beck rally:

For much of the new century, and certainly for all of thepast three years, there has been nothing but uncertainty in theeconomy and a good degree of uncertainty in the political arena.The people we talked to felt something like cogs in a machine whoseshape and size they didn't even understand. They were not rabidxenophobes or racists or even haters in general, but they werepissed off that their individual...