[LifeOrGoods?]

Who is kidding who? If the founding fathers had access to the modern military technology America has today, they would have blown up every terrorist in the world by now and would not have even thought of trying nary a one of them and without apology.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

If the founding fathers had access to the modern military technology America has today, they would have blown up every terrorist in the world by now and would not have even thought of trying nary a one of them and without apology.

It always comes down to the fact of the hypertrophy of journalism. Journalism was expected to be influential, but two developments were not and could not have been anticipated by the founders:

1. the coalescence of journalism into a single leftist political party, which politicians join for expediency, and

2. instantaneous worldwide communication.

Jefferson was quite familiar with tendentiousness in journalism, but that was a matter of political competition - now and since memory of man scarcely runeth to the contrary, "objective journalism" exists to propagandize on one side and "conservative talk radio" and conservative bloggers are the only counterweight to it. And we are up against not merely half truths but staged photo ops and even fauxtography.