[Griff]

One troubling thing, to me anyway, my Democrat friends keep using the phrase "take back the government". The unmistakable implication is that it's full speed ahead with their version of the statist agenda no matter how close the election is. I have been toying with voting Dem this time around but I think I'll probably stick with the pointless protest vote.

I've been talking with a decent bright young Christian conservative about what he faces in his education classes. Needless to say diversity doesn't include him. In one class, his first assignment was an essay which was designed to reveal the religious and political backgrounds of all the students. He chose to be honest, so now when the prof and fellow students go on and on about how stupid Christans are during every class, he knows they mean him. We talk pretty frankly about politics and this guy will be a good civics teacher once he survives this. He understands tolerance, he was a minority white in an inner city school district. Sometimes I forget how intollerant the left can be when they have the power.