Thomas Frank: Totally Extreme Taliban. I'm not sure I buy the conclusion, but the premise is dead-on: the right is firing up the culture-war rhetoric and blaming "liberalism" for the John Walker thing. Reminds me of that time, back in the day, when Newt Gingrich held liberal Democrats responsible for the woman who killed her kids by driving them into that lake. It's sad that we haven't made more progress in the last decade or so.