In many ways, Martin Luther King was a good man - certainly a highly intelligent man. Well read, well spoken, influential well beyond his life. But equal to all the Presidents of the nation?

The conservatives have rightly complained about the fiasco that was the CNN/YouTube debate, to say nothing of Chris Matthews' execrable moderating. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and it doesn't fit any better on that side.

Once again, lawbreakers get a nice fat Christmas present, while the longsuffering voters get "nothing but hooks and some wire."

Having been put on the scent, the blogosphere discovered that this was only the tip of the iceberg.

By thumbing their nose in the fact of the overwhelming majority of Americans, the Democrats are running a very serious risk.

Why "Hillary"? In 1980, did we have a race between Ronald and Jimmy?

What are we to make of the news that career State Department staffers are refusing to go to Iraq?

Why such a difference between the handling of the California fires, vs Katrina in New Orleans?

We all know what Rudy believes. Like no other politician in America, he can be trusted to do as he says he will do - like it or not.

There is one place from whence the Star-Spangled Banner no longer waves: Barack Hussein Obama's lapel.