<em>"... and the lonely voice of youth cries, 'What is truth?'"</em>
<strong>-- JOHNNY CASH, 1968</strong>

<a href="http://mikerappaport.net/onevoice/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/truth-small.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-761" title="truth-small" src="http://mikerappaport.net/onevoice/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/truth-small-300x238.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="238" /></a>If there's one answer I could give to that question, it would be that truth is something almost everyone thinks they know, but very few of us actually do.

Conservatives might say that keeping taxes low is good for the economy, that the government does few things as well as the private sector does and that welfare destroys initiative.