by Robert L. Maginnis

Truth is becoming an endangered species in America because our moral compass is broken.  The COVID-19 pandemic is just the latest petri dish into which truth has gone to rot like a dead fish.  It seems as if no one tells the truth anymore and in part that’s why America is failing.

It used to be a man’s word was his bond, the professional classes were mostly honest and government shot straight with citizens.  After all, America was built on trust in our leaders and its citizens.

Founder John Adams said as much: “Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Our early leaders were known for their integrity.

President George Washington supposedly said “I cannot tell a lie.”  Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, was known as Honest Abe.  But honesty, truth even from…