The Berlin Wall, the symbol of the Cold War and Soviet domination of Central/Eastern Europe, starting coming down this week 20 years ago. Having been born into a world where there was East Germany and West Germany, East Berlin and West Berlin, it was astonishing to see. I was in college at the time and it vindicated everything President Reagan, Lady Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, etc. were trying to do that entire decade. And it blew the Yay, Global Socialism dreams of my professors out of the water... read more