Conservatives have been asking themselves the question for years: "Is this finally it?" "This" being whatever event in the news exemplified a current gag-making excess of the culture or the polity or the law, and "it" being the point at which the nation as a whole simply won't take it anymore. There have been many points along the way when it seemed as though society might rear up and refuse to go in the current direction. So far, no. The Bill Clinton impeachment wave fell well short of taking out the establishment dam. Al Gore, fortunately, did not win the...