"Bush is Reagan's heir!"

Try reading my comment again; it had nothing to do with Bush being "Reagan's heir".

1) ID is being suppressed!

2) It's a "good" war!

2) Bush is Reagan's heir!

3 (Bradford's last post) Activist judges!

Now how are we gonna deal with that MOTHER of all THREATS"”authoritarian "Darwinists?"

And judges can issue edicts to further their own views without consequence. There was an extremely successful prison program in Iowa known as the InnerChange Freedom Initiative. A volunatary program whose very low recitivism rate, compared with the general prison population, has been acknowledged even by its critics, the program was shut down by judicial fiat because the program was organized and maintained by a religious group. The establishment clause being the judge's weapon of choice. There are too many who would set forth the views of religious Americans as a discrediting criteria even when their actions promote the public welfare.

I agree. Karl Rove makes Machiavelli look like an ice cream salesman.

Maybe, but there's little romance or drama in that kind of authoritarianism. Makes for mostly-boring TV movies. It would liven things up a bit if PZ Myers and Mike Behe would engage in some fisticuffs on PBS.

The most effective forms of authoritarianism are those able to use the direct or indirect power of the state to stifle opposition. Tow the line or no tenure, funding or position are all efficient intimidators.

Worked, though. Soviets just plain fell apart economically - thus politically - almost overnight. They couldn't keep up. I'll certainly give Reagan's handlers that. Even though they sure seemed surprised by it when it happened… §;o)