Gee--'smashed and broken' sounds pretty different from 'controlled and removed from political power,' it seems to me. But I don't think that 'controlled' is is much better, really, because you're talking about 'controlling' people whose attitudes and beliefs you don't like, not people whose actual actions have violated any laws. When we start 'controlling' people on the basis of what they think (or, worse still, on what you think they think), we're in 1984-land; that's Thoughtcrime. Do you really mean the things you say? I'd like to think that you just get carried away sometimes.

I also live in a mixed neighborhood and have friends of all races & ethnicities, but I don't see the world, as you apparently do, through a prism of antagonism toward white people, nor do I assume that every person of color is innocent of any and all crimes simply because some members of his race have been oppressed. How can you say 'You people need to be smashed and broken' and not see that attitudes like yours are as much the problem as anything coming from the other side?

Gee, Lilly--why do you unquestioningly accept so many stereotypes? That's pretty close-minded, it seems to me.

Wouldn't political discourse be improved if everyone knocked off the wild allegations and concentrated on candidates' records in office? Not that proven moral turpitude isn't potentially a disqualifier--but let's have some solid evidence before we start throwing around those sorts of accusations. Not everyone who reads Townhall 'believes [any wild claim] like Holy Writ.' What would your evidence for that claim be?

David, I think you're mistaken. If a school wanted to teach the Koran (honestly and without making apologies for anything in it), I believe that most conservatives would welcome it, because people who know what the Koran says are unlikely to be taken in by protestations about how Islam preaches nothing but peace and tolerance. We'd have the desirable by-product of greater knowledge about one of the world's big three religions, and that might lead to more civil discourse and fruitful exchange between Muslims and non-Muslims--also desirable, but above all, we'd have at least a handful of people who'd seen for themselves some of the passages that inspire radical jihadists to try to kill Americans in large numbers. That's something that...

You sound like someone I'd like to know & be able to have conversations over coffee with! Thanks for the judicious observations on my rather hasty remarks.

These days I shudder at the thought that ANY book of worth might be taught by the products of the current education schools. When my younger daughter was in high school (one of those 'good schools' that our prosperous community likes to brag about), she was informed by the teacher of her Honors English class that Shakespeare's Julius Caesar was really a feminist work (because of Calpurnia's role in warning JC). And that wasn't even the worst of it. Mostly the students were given lightweight contemporary 'young adult' stuff to read and discuss (well, 'discuss' in the sense of 'repeat what the teacher thinks or face the consequences'), and judgments of relative literary value were conspicuously absent. I agree that everyone should...

Would you mind elaborating? Documented where, how, and by whom? Thanks.

Nice one!

Did you mean to suggest that you think one's principles depend on the source of one's paycheck?