So...there are two types of conservatives: overt bigots, and closeted bigoted. Duly noted, Mr. Blow. (Which reminds me, I need to pick up my Klan outfit at the cleaners.) I learn so much reading the NYT.

And the War On Normalcy continues. The beat goes on....

The major wrinkle I see in this is the fact that we are right down the middle as a nation, blue/red, takers/payers, Left/Right. Ignoring this basic fact (more of an ever-accelerating trend, really--it's going to keep going that way as we become, more and more, as was said elsewhere, a nation of moochers) will lead us to make make foolish mistakes.

Shame may not be dead, but it is definitely on life support.

Amazing what happens when we elect a DSA/DSOC/New Party liberation theology Marxist President. Oh look, vulture capitalism, let's obsess on that!

Rather wordy. #caring. I got about halfway thru. However:

"The only ones who don’t get treated as utter slime are the black churchgoers, mostly because Hollywood liberals always depict African-Americans of faith as harmless, childlike believers while everyone else who professes a belief in God is insane, evil or both."

Um, er...BINGO! Perfect, perfect encapsulation. And that insight gives redundant confirmation bias as to where racism resides in America, generally, when it does.

Flipping well said.

I got a bit of dyspepsia finding my personal views on Iran/Iraq nexus to be somehow allied with the Left, but that's probably a failure of my own attention to have missed it.

I have largely kept my mouth shut while troops were in harm's way. And once committed to war, there is a coming together to prosecute it effectively.

But I have been saying for a long time that Iraq was not the problem--Iran was, and is, and will be--and it has been since the late '70s.

And that removing Saddam as a counter-balance was, to put it charitably, flipping insane.

And now we need to immediately repatriate all the Iraqis who bought into this clusterflip of nation-building and hubris, and have been vouched for by military and intelligence and diplomatic sponsors. NOW!

Pathetic.

The most immediate and pressing necessity is to get Iraqis who have worked with the US the hell out of Iraq before we see a remake of Saigon in the mid-70s.

The idea that the only opposition to crony capitalism comes from libertarianism is abject nonsense on stilts worthy of the Left.