That’s a hoot coming from the leftist at Politico where they believe everyone has a right not to be offended.
Politico, for some reason, sometimes publishes the opinions of Non-leftist.
Here is the background of this particular author:
Chester E. Finn, Jr. is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute is an ideologically conservative American nonprofit education policy think tank with offices in Washington, D.C., Columbus,Ohio, and Dayton, Ohio. The Fordham Institute is not connected with Fordham University.
The Institute’s namesake was a businessman and civic leader in Dayton, Ohio. His widow, Thelma Fordham Pruett, established the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation in 1959 to support a wide range of causes in the Dayton area. In 1997, following the death of Mrs. Pruett, the Foundation was relaunched—with a narrowed focus on education. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute joined the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation in 2007. In 2013, the Associated Press described the organization as “conservative-leaning”
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_B._Fordham_Institute