Let's start at the beginning; "Mark Sanford is the worst example of what passes for a political professional in the United States." Worst. There can only be ONE worst I have little respect for anyone, let alone journalists, who use superlatives. Off the top of my head, I can think of about 100 "political professionals" who are worse.

"Chesimard/Shakur is the godmother of the late Tupac Shakur, a gangsta rapper whose genre spawned NWA's "F**k tha Police," Ice-T's "Cop Killer" and The Game's "911 is a Joke" ("I ought to shoot 51 officers for the 51 times that boy was shot in New York")." Celebrating diversity. This is culture?

"homophobia has had a detrimental effect on the emotional health of gay students." The emotional health of "gay" students? It's an emotional problem to begin with. "Church tax exemptions would be in peril." The whole purpose of the bill of rights was to make sure this didn't happen. While the government was not given the power to establish a religion, or to impede the free exercise of worship, some founders pointed out that the government DID have the power to tax, and could engage in these nefarious practices through tax policies. There were no "implied powers" in the constitution, and the bill of rights was passed to make sure that government did not use the powers granted it to, namely to tax, to get around it's prohibitions.

The Romantic is enticed by whatever is strange to his nature, the Classic by what is proper to his nature. Noble dreamers on the one hand, noble masters of dreams on the other. The one type adored the conquerors, rebels, and criminals of the past, or ideal states and supermen of the future; the other type construed statesmanship in practical, methodical terms or, like Goethe and Humboldt, even practiced it themselves.

Just so long as it gets done. To paraphrase Reagan, it's amazing what you can accomplish if you're not worried about who gets the blame.

"Instead, expect a renewal of federal oil and natural gas leases on public lands." with first dibs going to ...CHINA...this is how we're supposed to pay off our debt to them.

"Sometimes it's hard to measure the distance between the supposedly established, respectable press and the seediest corners of hardcore pornography." MSNBC is the model for this. It's the new National Enquirer, the magazine that publishes the trial balloons to see what the gullible public will swallow. The more outrageous the better.

"Why Does Obama Need 1.6 Billion Bullets?" He's probably an incredibly bad shot.

"The man is going to be re-elected as a Republican." Like Bloomberg? "But CPAC has declared that gay groups can't even set up a booth " They're not gay, they're miserable. The very last thing we need is to adopt the institutionalization of obsessive-compulsive behavior.

" The program was concocted not at the grassroots level, but by a bipartisan cabal of nonprofits... " Non-profits are those who have "opted out" of paying taxes, they are only "non-profit" are far as the IRS is concerned, they actually make obscene profits. Like the non-government organizations who want to govern without having to bother with getting elected. This is the juggernaut. The strategy of the leftists is the death of 1000 cuts, you can't keep up with the outrages that are happening every day in every part of the country. One possible strategy would be to adopt the shameful policies of the left, viz. go to this teacher's HOUSE and protest until some kind of action is taken. Following orders is not a good enough excuse.

"Both groups have little use for the middle class..." Au contraire. The essence of liberalism is to funnel money from those who have too much money (those who have savings, that is, those who don't live hand-to-mouth) to those who don't have any. If I make $100K/year, I can buy an iphone and bank some money. This doesn't fit Apples needs. They want to sell iphones to people that don't have money. So to take some from me and give it to them. This goes for the phone companies, utility companies, landlords, etc. If Wall Street didn't need the welfare state, it wouldn't exist.