Good luck and Godspeed to all our grads this spring

When I was in high school, it was easy to impress me. It did not take much for a teacher, parent, sibling, friend or newsmaker to convince me about certain facts in the world.

That was a long time ago but perhaps it is time to debunk a few facts that have changed or perhaps were never true in the first place. Let’s take a crack at three facts.

This, by the way, is what I would say had some school asked me to give the commencement talk this year:

1) You were told your entire lives that America would be relying on foreign energy imports forever. You were taught that our destiny, as a country, is...