What's really funny about that article is that almost every regime that has institutionalized a police state in this century has been left-wing socialist. There is probably something psychological going on here, related to "projection," but I'm no expert.

If Ashcroft does not actually get around to putting on his Cardinal Richelieu robe and hood and beginning an Inquisition pretty soon, the suspense is probably going to start killing a bunch of leftists. They are already busting blood vessels over his covering a statue's breast, violating an apparent Constitutional Right to See Boobs (which had I been a Founding Father, I probably would have voted for.)