A better path

'Property' is not the enemy but the friend of the poor | Marvin Olasky

Illustration by Krieg Barrie

Savvy WORLD subscribers for years have seen that I have little prophetic ability. My "Paine's brain" column in our Jan. 30 issue proved that once again. I wrote that stopping ObamaCare might require "one of the 60 senators in Harry Reid's corrupt coalition to have a rebellion of the conscience," as in the classic film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

I typically hand in my columns well before the cover date, and on Jan. 1 I did not anticipate something even more extraordinary than an individual change occurring on Jan. 19—a whole liberal state switching from faith in Washington to an emphasis on liberty. Future scholars might debate not only God's providence in 1775 but His role in the Massachusetts miracle of 2010.