OUR OLD PAL Nick Anderson, like all progressives, is a gun-control absolutist. His latest contribution appears today. The point he makes is predictable and, in its essence, wrong. But it is done with good craft, effectively, and within the rules of the cartooning game, fairly and squarely.
His headline, though, is a sad bit of work. It opens a window to the sarcastic-to-the-point-of-hateful progressive attitude toward our sweet land. "Welcome . . .
His point is that America is stupid, America is murderous, America's Constitution is unworthy of respect, America is . . . oh, you fill in the blank.
Welcome to America, sucker. Good luck surviving our constitution and the rubes who revere it.
He believes this stuff. So do most progressives. So does the editorial board of the Houston Chronicle, as a whole. So does the president of the United States -- hence his project to fundamentally transform our dear country.
Mr. Anderson a volunteer in the army that fights for this transformation. So is his miserable newspaper, which offers not one local columnist or editorial writer who regularly and unapologetically takes the other side of the proposition.
How could two evil young men in Boston come to hate America so desperately?
Well, why not? The American elite, while considerably less willing to kill (unless you're an infant in a womb), doesn't much like the place either.
The greatest danger to America is not pressure cookers in the hands of jihadists or, for that matter, rifles and pistols in the hands of American citizens. It's clever people like Mr. Anderson and the other Occupiers on the Chronicle editorial board who, like the two evil young bombers, have never been assimilated into traditional American life, who believe the highest form of patiotism is bitter mockery.
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