Now that Ron Paul has achieved electoral respectability in the Republican primaries, the media is in high dudgeon over his extremism.  Paul, according to the procurators of good taste at the New York Times, "long ago disqualified himself for the presidency" by, among other things, "peddling claptrap proposals" such as "cutting a third of the federal budget." The Times doesn't bother to explain why it feels cutting the federal budget by one-third is radical enough to disqualify a person from the presidency, but increasing it by one-third, as Obama did his first year in office, is "exactly what the country needs."  But now Paul has "made things worse" by not adequately repudiating newsletters from the 1970s in which he claimed that "95 percent of Washington's black males were criminals," that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday is a "Hate Whitey Day," that the U.S. has a "disappearing...(Read Full Article)