I just got my “application for Absent Voter’s Ballot” in the mail. I wonder if anyone will offer to help fill it out? I only hope she’s cute. In Ohio this fall ballots will carpet the ground game like “ACORNS” from the mighty Left-Democrat Oak! Turn out, baby, turn out.

De Tocqueville said that people value equality over liberty. The temptation: if they cannot be equal in freedom they will find equality in relation to one man — a despot that is so capricious and raised so high that all his subjects are equal when compared to “One.” I will not say Sen. O is such a “one” (I certainly hope not) but the cult of personality that has so quickly formed around him is worrying.

This is why local government (small town mayors and all) and state governments are so important — along with all the intermediary private institution and the private economy. They form the rocks upon which despotism smashes.

One of the great threats we face is our national “celebrity-centric” media. They need to convince you that the most important events that effect your life happen within twenty minutes of where they live rather than twenty minutes of where you live. They want you focused on the national centers of power, so that is where the answer for every question are found. All to often this even applies to conservatives in Washington. It is not what’s in the water, it’s what’s in the cocktails. Washington is their home and a quite comfortable home it has become. They move from the comfortable kitchen to the comfortable living room to the comfortable den and, with all that inbreeding going on, the comfortable bedroom as well.

The result: the media that sells itself as the watchdog of the people has become the guard dog of the bureaucracy and the attack dogs of the government-media party, now virtually identical with the Democrats. More power to the center! All hail the Capitol.