The liberal forces gather to befoul the land of Daniel Burnham!

Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues which have one vice,--error. The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously venerable radiance. 


After slumbering fitfully for five long years, my undead bones were unceremoniously awakened by news of an assault on our fair conservative bastion by liberal forces from without.  Yet-- grandly and radiantly-- the conservatives of my fair "city by the lake" rose up and expelled these left-wing n'er do wells known as NATO!


My thoughts on these momentous events as I, quite literally, collect myself...