I’ll apologize up front for the overuse of quotation marks as indicators of sarcasm. That said, it has been disappointing to watch the level of “outrage” amongst “conservatives” these past few months on any number of “issues,” most recent of which is a back-to-school speech by President Obama that will be broadcast Tuesday across the country.

Our own local paper reported that school officials will provide alternate activities for students whose parents don’t want them watching Obama’s speech. Which is fine, so far as it goes — one wonders why schools don’t make it so easy for parents who don’t want their children immunized, for instance, or subjected to all manner of “tolerance” seminars — but what possible reason would one have for not wanting their child to see it? The same talking heads who are denouncing the speech are the ones who claim superiority on most issues of “patriotism”; since the presidency is set up by the Constitution, it would seem they’d at least let the guy tell their kids to do their homework and not play so many video games.

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