Whether because I am naturally an optimist, do not believe in original sin, or am just plain proud of our nation’s history of self-sacrifice to help others, I believe the vast majority of Americans are good and compassionate people. We see this daily in the form of uncountable hours of civic volunteerism, a river of charitable giving, and our ingrained national habit of rushing to right wrongs wherever we see them—either at home or abroad. Unfortunately, our generous nature can be taken advantage of in a whole variety of ways, and a startlingly large number of frauds designed to empty our nation’s treasury (many of which recently seem to revolve around shameless illegal immigrants and their equally shameless enablers or the mismanaged money dumps during the outrageous Covid-19 scam-demic) test both our patience and the limits of our love for Read more