Shelley,

There are at least two, and I believe more, webloggers who have been expertly trained by so-called ‘conservative’ think tanks in how to direct and misdirect communication in weblogging so that the focus is on immigration or the Muslim threat because if we ever stopped to look around ourselves, we’d realize how many of our basic protections and rights have been eroded.

Well, there’s a lot that’s wrong with right-wing think tanks, but I’m not sure what’s wrong with focusing discussion on (say) immigration restrictions. How is that “misdirecting” anything? Aren’t immigration restrictions an important issue?