Richard, you seem to be becoming just a little too formulaic in your posts. In each and every instance, you take a single-instance event and in the final summation, attempt to show in overly-flowery prose how it is symptomatic of a greater decline, conspiracy, etc.

It’s getting to be tiring to read. Sometimes, a biased hack is just that – a biased hack. They were around in Teddy Roosevelt’s day and they’ll be around centuries from now. Their methods and means will change, but not the partisan loathing.