Meanwhile raised eyebrows about a President who ...had an association with a marxist America-hating pastor for 20 years" -- yes, this sort of false issue is exactly what I'm talking about. It's the worst sort of hypocrisy The right has been permeated with "ex" Marxists. The neocons are a prime example. Irving Kristol was a Marxist. So were a slew of others in his circle. Even Marvin Olasky was a Marxist. We can look at the communitarian connections too. "Conservatives" are becoming fond of their Marxist ideas.

"You just fail to acknowledge those wrongs." What wrongs do I fail to acknowledge? Those on your list? Why would you think that? There have always been end-of-the-worlders -- on the left and right. I didn't buy into the population explosion scare. I don't buy into human caused global warming. You seem to think I'm on the left. I'm not. I despise the left every bit as much as I despise the right. But unfortunately the alarmist on the right have a lot more power today than the left ever did.

Read my response. I didn't say she was jailed for rudeness. I don't care what excuse the government gives. There was no just cause for legal action. My complaint is with West's defense of an idiot who deserves ridicule, not West's implicit martyrdom. That drunken woman is the poster child for what "conservatives" are becoming -- raving maniacs who deserve nothing but ridicule.

"What on earth makes you think that Diana West is a conservative?" If you notice, I put "conservative" in quotes. Real conservatives are almost extinct. None of the TH columnists qualify, IMO.

"The British woman was merely expressing her opinion" Merely a bunch of dumb, ignorant opinions. But those seem to be the opinions "conservatives" admire. Btw, she wasn't "assaulted." She was the aggressor. She was laughed at for good reason. Watch the video.

"I'm sure when you finish controlling and calling the shots in GB..." You don't read well. I don't condone the government's action.

You seem to think I believe two hundred wrong make a right. I don't.

In yet another piece, West wrote, "Indeed, tolerance is doomed if it is extended to the intolerant, something philosopher Karl Popper worked out in the last century." So how much different is she than that British judge? Really?

In another piece West wrote, ""A society that rejects officers and gentlemen, it seems, is going to get crude clowns helming its nuclear-powered aircraft carriers." So I'll add what should be even more obvious. When "conservatives" reject civility it's going to get crude clowns helming its culture.

And "conservatives" are leading the charge in that collapse as West's article inadvertently demonstrates.