A Sad State of Affairs The President of the United States decides to address the country’s students, urging them to study hard and stay in school. The raw-meat eaters on the Republican side then accuse the President of trying to indoctrinate our children with “socialist ideology”. Their spokespersons on talk radio and cable television suggest that the President is Hugo Chavez, Saddam Hussein and a banana dictator all wrapped into one. It must be frustrating for these self-proclaimed paragons of the right to go through [...]