If you want to guarantee you will never win public office or be appointed to public service, just say these words: “America is no longer the greatest nation in the world.” It used to be the US led the world in almost any category you could think of. But in the past 50 years we’ve fallen to 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, 3rd in median household income, number four in labor force, number four in exports. I’ll stop there. You’ve got the picture.

We still do lead the world in some things.

• We lead the world in television watching…28 hours/week.
• We lead the world as the most expensive place to have a baby…about $10,000/child.
• We lead the world in obesity (although Mexico is closing the gap fast).
• We lead the world in anx…