Just a quick entry to alert anyone out there that a couple of pieces in the New York Times are well worth reading. You're not likely to see them in the local newspaper because they're a little critical of the Tea Party movement, which is a major constituency of the paper.
And, of course, these types of stories are something you couldn't possibly see on your local TV newscast. They're too complex and don't fit their rigid pattern of he-said-she-said-you-decide mold.
The first piece is by Frank Rich, the finest political columnist in the country, points out that the domestic terrorist attack on Feb. 18 in Austin, Texas, says more about the state of our country than anything else. I blogged on this in a previous post on that very day.
Rich references another Times' piece on the Tea Party movement with a dateline from Sandpoint, Idaho, the same place that once accepted the Aryan Nations brotherhood that is now trying to relocate to John Day, Oregon. It's another must read.
No one can destroy the U.S. We are quite capable of doing that ourselves.
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