FROM MAC: Thank you all for your comments and visiting the site. I need to keep up with it! I enjoy writing it. I wanted to specifically address Johanna's thought. You're right - "freedom" is just a concept, and we have been committed for 3 centuries of American history to making it a reality, usually successfully. But I really believe that it is something that we as a people have to be constantly vigilant about. That is why the situation with Hardaway caught my attention. I am going to go out on a limb and say that in my humble opinion, the current Political Correctness ideology is the biggest enemy to freedom that we face, perhaps because it is so quiet and insidious - - it sneaks up on us until one day no one can speak in freedom anymore.