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Thursday, June 11, 2009 CNN Commentator Equates Bush-Hating Holocaust Museum Killer To Tea Party Protesters A Tea Party Protester in Denver, Colorado. (Looking at the Left) CNN guest commentator Wayne Slater from the Dallas Morning News equated the Holocaust Museum killer to Tea Party Protesters yesterday. NewsBusters reported: Dallas Morning News’s Wayne Slater become one of the first pundits after the shootings at the Holocaust Museum on Wednesday to hint that there was a connection to mainstream conservative activists. On CNN Newsroom, about two hours after the story broke, Slater linked this incident and the murder of abortionist George Tiller...

In part one, I described nine areas of major conflict between the Right and the Left in American life, a conflict that rivals the First Civil War in intensity, though thankfully not in violence. Here in part two, I describe 15 others. The Left regards American nationalism as dangerous, is more comfortable celebrating world citizenship and prefers that America follow the lead of international organizations such as the United Nations. The Right celebrates American nationalism, distrusts world organizations, prefers that America lead humanity and regards the United Nations as largely a moral wasteland. The Left believes that sensitivity to minorities' feelings trumps...

William Gibson, South Carolinian by birth, British Columbian by choice, is famous for inventing the word "cyberspace," way back in 1982. His latest novel, Spook Country, offers another interesting coinage: Alejandro looked over his knees. "Carlito said there is a war in America." "A war?" "A civil war." "There is no war, Alejandro, in America." "When grandfather helped found the DGI, in Havana, were the Americans at war with the Russians?" "That was the 'cold war.' " Alejandro nodded, his hands coming up to grip his knees. "A cold civil war." Tito heard a sharp click from the direction of...