If there's one thing the United States stands for, it's unfettered free speech. It is vital to a functioning democracy. Unfortunately, the increasing use by government and law-enforcement officials of "free speech zones" and other stifling tactics to purge dissent has largely undermined the First Amendment's safeguards for political free speech.

Who are Barack Obama's supporters?

Picture an old 1950s era black-and-white zombie movie. The undead rise from their graves, begin lurching forward, arms outstretched, eyes vacant, all murmuring eerily in unison, "Change, change, change ... ."

Except Obama's zombies don't rise from graves. They emerge from high schools and colleges and Hollywood soundstages and media centers.

Admit it. You know you've done it. You're loafing in your Laz-Z-Butt lounger in your living room, or compressed between passengers in the middle seat on the Crack o' Dawn flight to East Piddlyborough, or sneaking an on-the-job mini-vacation in the stinky-stall of your workplace pottyroom, when your eyes land on a line of type in the local Balderdash Bulletin you've been drowsily browsing through.

Some subnormal moron did something stunningly stupid today, or said something incredibly enlightened, or offered an ignorant opinion, and it was all prominently preserved in newsprint.

You want to yell at the newspaper. Show it to someone. Vehemently voice your concurrence or your condemnation.

Libertarians have long warned that interventionism in foreign affairs inexorably leads to interventionism in domestic policy.

The hallmark of worldwide liberal-blessed Neocon-beloved empire-building is the quaint little idea of preemptive war.