I am a bit late in getting to this, but Frank Rich's New York Times column of last Sunday, about coups in Pakistan and the US, resonated with Naomi Wolf's even more alarming piece at the Huffington Post about growing restrictions on travel and what they might portend.

Rich writes, "Wrong track is a euphemism. We are a people in clinical depression. Americans know that the ideals that once set our nation apart from the world have been vandalized, and no matter which party they belong to, they do not see a restoration anytime soon."