I doubt the mass of people in journalism have the conceptual cattegories to deal with this.  They can't imagine that the American government is now largely in the hands of thugs of the American Fascist (aka Democratic) Party.  Even the "Democrats" don't know it.  The Progressives at least were forthright about their rejection of America's founding principles and documents and about their admiration for the European Fascists (Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, etc.), and they were self-conscious enough that when "Progressive" lost its popular lustre they changed their designator to "liberal" and renamed--with breath-taking ease--(classical) liberals to (yecch) "conservatives".

All modern Democrats can see is the levers of power, there to be used.  They don't realize that their programs are driven by a neurotic need for justification, but they do know that being openly un-American and anti-American doesn't sell.  Hence their tendency to make religious-flavored appeals for their policies while stamping out the resistance of religious institutions as illegitimate political opposition.

Right.  Big nose, greying beard, etc., etc.  What more do you need?  Off with his head!

<<I have a serious question.  Is it possible to be a devoted progressive and also be a moral human being?>>

No, because Progressives don't believe that humans are moral beings living in a moral universe.

Likewise, Progressives/Liberals cannot be Americans except in the narrowest legalistic sense.

The issue is breech of contract, an unmet agreed-upon quid pro quo.  A real internship is not uncompensated.  It sounds as though the employer just took on a couple of unpaid gophers.  Not that gophering couldn't be part of a real internship.

Why the founders required that the President be a natural-born citizen. :-)

The American Catholic hierarchy were born Democrat.  They had to be baptized Catholic.

It may well be the responsibility of the Church to succor the immigrant stranger.  That can't be said of the State, nor even the citizen.  That Dolan conflates the responsibilities of the two institutions is the result of the congenital partisan bias of the bishops combined with the European corporatism and caesaropapism of the hierarchy in general.

I am coming to like Thomas Nast more and more:

There was this Texan who decided he had to be from the biggest state, so he went to Anchorage, walked into a bar, and demanded they him tell how to become an Alaskan. . . . whiskey . . . grizzly bear . . . Eskimo girl . . .  et cetera et cetera et cetera. 

First thing I noticed, too.  Do what Nanny tells you!

The Institute's study estimated higher speed limits caused 1,255 additional death per year.  H'mm.  Someone should do a study of additional death caused by the liberals' pet regulation, corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards, which for upwards of 40 years have forced auto makers to sell practically at cost lighter higher-milage, less crash-worthy cars to balance the safer gas-guzzlers people want to buy.

Oh, wait!  The national  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and lots of other someones have.  The standards have also cost US car makers $1 billion over the years.  Wonder what they might have done with that cash?

One more example of a liberal fascist policy that kills so progressives can feel good about themselves and for which we will never hear an apology.

I believe there are studies that accord with my observation that speed limits are slower than people want to drive and that people in general drive at a safe speed.  On highways that's 10-20 mph faster than the posted limit.  (Curve access ramps are generally posted at what I consider the safe speed in wet conditions.)

True story:  A friend of my sister was a travelling salesman.  He religiously drove the posted speed because he was a radar magnet.  One morning on the Baltimore Beltway, the police pulled him over.

"No problem, sir" they said.  "But could you please just sit on the shoulder for a few minutes, please."  Turned out he was driving the make, model, and color currently being used by the MD State Police for unmarked cars, and rush-hour traffic was backed up behind him for miles.

Which brings up a wrinkle, at least in the states I'm familiar with.  What is illegal is unsafe operation of a motor vehicle.  The posted speed is merely admissible as prima facie evidence of unsafe driving.  That gives the police a lot of discretion, which can be to the public good, or not.

Her middle age or yours?

If you want to know what the Democrats/Liberal Fascists are up to, look at what they accuse their political opposition of.  The Charlotte convention was the introduction of the American Fascist Party.  

How bold, picking on an insignificant, non-Orthodox, non-mainstream bunch of Christian believers.  I think a Christian would have to be crazy to get upset by it.  That a substantial portion of Muslims would get violently infuriated were it about the last days scenario in the Koran tells you all you need to know about Islam today.

Now I know the man's name is pronounced "ERD-eh-wahn".  I also know there is a podcast listener who put holds on almost all the Tom Sharpe books in the Lower Merion Library System.

Mean Grendel the River Pirate is not amused.  We need a meet-up where he might overindulge in Bulleit's, lose his library card, and smear picante sauce on his bifocals.

Well, I'm with you 3 out of 4, and I'll have to try the Buffalo Trace.  I recently discovered the Bulleit Rye when my daughter couldn't remember whether she liked the orange label or the green label.  We settled the matter in a postprandial symposium with two bottles, four glasses, and a bowl of ice.  Turns out the rye, like some single malts, really blossoms when you add a bit of cold water or let the ice melt a bit.

Also by Fischer on the Revolution, Paul Revere's Ride.  His Historian's Fallacies and Champlain's Dream are also very good.  I haven't read Albion's Seed yet, but my wife recommended it.

The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages by Nancy Marie Brown.

Lynn White's classic, Medieval Technology and Social Change. 

Why say that to me?