Back before the Republican party expelled all of its passable writers, conservatives liked Kathleen Parker. Now she has come over to the Dark Side and been expelled from the National Review, forever, so she wanders the wilderness in rags and swaddling cloths, lamenting the loss of her soul and shaking her chains like Jacob Marley. Today she has a little column in the liberal Washington Post about how Barack Obama is going to force the nation, at gunpoint, into being very earnest. It is fairly amusing. MORE »