Following last year's State of the Union address by President Barack Obama, I titled my column "The State of the Union is Mendacity." It is quite remarkable how little within it would need to be changed to have it apply to this week's State of the Union. From the recovering economy, to negotiations with Iran, to the containment and defeat of "violent extremism," to equal pay for women and the need to combat climate change, to a call for a minimum wage hike--there is little difference between the laundry lists presented by President Obama in 2014 and 2015.
