Rick Moran has a moving article on Rightwing Nuthouse about the late Hubert Horatio Humphrey. Like me, Rick was first galvanized into his political fascination by the "Happy Warrior," a man whose purity of purpose and enormous personal charisma overhwelmed me the first time I encountered him face—to—face. I grew up in a family of Minnesota political activists, and my parents knew Hubert from the time when he first ran for mayor of Minneapolis. His charisma did not carry well over the television screen, but in person the man was an utter dynamo, who could uplift you with his words and persona as nobody else I have ever met. By the standards of today he may seem corny, but he was precisely in tune with the manner and mode of his formative time and locale. HHH was a pure compassion—driven liberal of the era in which modern activist liberalism was being formed. He did not foresee the ultimate consequences of the welfare state and the reverse discrimination of the...(Read Full Post)