The rightwingers are the radicals. What's more, they are radical subversives. They want to subvert the constitution of the United States of America. You can't get more subversive than that. Torture, illegal spying, holding people without charges, trying people in secret courts...

They also want to overthrow the US government - but unlike the radical subversive leftists of the 60s, the rightwing radical subversives wants to destroy the government from within. The quaint leftist radicals of yore wanted youth to go out into the streets, demonstrate and tear down buildings. They forgot that youth graduate from school and have to get jobs - something which interferes with daily demonstrations and the destruction of buildings.

The rightwing was smarter. They'd already graduated from college. They called destruction of the government "starving the beast." That would be done by infiltrating the state and federal government, cutting taxes, defunding and obliterating government-funded regulating agencies, government-funded collection agencies, government-funded scientific research, public education, social safety nets and medical care. After weakening the government in this way, they plan to "drown it in the bathtub." And they're damn close to doing it.

These rightwing "me first" radicals pretend to be against Darwinism, but they are its ultimate champions.

Well, I can show you why he's still on "Hardball." Here is a clip of Chris Matthews fawning over DeLay in 2006, telling DeLay that "I owe you one." Methinks Chris owes DeLay more than one. He tells DeLay that Hillary did terrible in polling for the next presidential race (2008) and says that Hillary was seen as a "know it all," to which DeLay replies "Nothing worse than a woman know-it-all."

Yeah. A sleazy, crooked politician male criminal isn't worse than a woman know-it-all to these guys.

Click on my signature for the clip.

My family all voted for McCain, because they are willfully ignorant and refuse to educate themselves about anything. Oh, and there's no way they would vote for a black man.

My spouse's family voted for Obama. They are Brooklyn Jews who lived through WWII, McCarthyism and New York City's years of ridiculous knee-jerk liberalism (the consequences of which rebervorate today as the city has had Republican mayors for the past 16 years).

The home health aide who helps the parents is a Caribbean American black woman. She didn't vote because although she is a Democrat, she refuses to vote for a mixed race person. She does not approve of race-mixing.

Racism is alive and well on both sides. But luckily for us, the non-insane people prevailed this time.

Chanting "What do we want? Peace! When do we want it? Now!" at that rally against the Iraq War made us feel self-conscious in spite of ourselves. We felt like cliches. We wondered why someone couldn't come up with a newer, catchier, pro-peace slogan over the course of 40 years of protests.

If you weren't such slackers, you might have come up with a newer, catchier pro-peace slogan yourselves!@

There is no such thing as a blue-crested sparrow.

You other birdwatching Salon readers out there - all one or two of you - know you noticed this, too.

The KKK is making shit up! They aren't watching birds at all!

Where I live, Latino immigrants are going evangelical in a big way. There are more storefront churches popping up every day. A teen babysitter told me her dad decided to become a preacher because there wasn't much interaction between the Catholic church and its members. Parishioners showed up on Sundays and holidays and at weddings, baptisms, etc, but there wasn't much interaction between the priest and the parishioners. The priest did not even know the names of most parishioners. The young lady's father felt he could be a better conduit between Christ and parishioners, so he started his own church in his basement. Now he has his own church building and they are outgrowing their current location. Her father and his parishioners are Mexican.

I see more and more pentecostal iglesias. The members go door to door in Latino areas, inviting people to their churches. Don't take the Latino vote as Democratic for granted. Evangelicals don't look like they are going to drop their obsession with abortion and homosexuality anytime soon, so look for the burgeoning Latino evangelical movement to vote Republican.

12,999,999 more to go.

pretty much white?

Look out California. You are being evangelicized. Better start paying attention to religious demographics.