Recent polling data on Congress, immigration, housing prices, and home schooling.

The Supreme Court is not testing the limits of free "speech" so much as it is obliterating them.

In an April 6-9 CBS News poll, only 15 percent of respondents said that the current Congress is accomplishing more than it usually does during a two-year period, compared to 67 percent who said it was accomplishing less.

In recent decades the Supreme Court has, in the name of the First Amendment, disabled the government from enforcing the most elementary standards of public decorum and civility.

As Republicans move toward consolidating power in government, Democratic opponents of free-market conservatism have grown more rhetorically violent in their own counterinsurgency.

But what is coming out of Germany? What do we hear? Nothing! Nothing but deafening silence! It seems as though the political class is speechless before an American president who has adopted the liberal triad of political freedom, human rights and economic development as preventive medicine against all kinds of crises.

Super-sensitivity these daysmeans onecan't tell a decent ethnic joke anymore in mixed company for fear of being arrested for a hate crime.

Congress trains its scorn on unlikely targets, ignoring ethical miscreants in itsmidst.