First, they came for the Confederates... Now that they've toppled Robert E. Lee, and various lesser emblems of the Old South, they're going after far more important targets, and worse still, getting away with it. Is it too extreme to compare the mass destruction of the public monuments and faces adorning cities across the U.S. to the monstrous dynamic that propelled the Nazis to kill? Yes, it's far from the same degree, but the underlying dynamic of what's happening is the same - a spiraling vortex of outrage, which being unchecked, eventually hits home.  Three of the latest from San Francisco, are purest Taliban, and provoke nothing but revulsion in anyone with any tie of identification to this country: First, the attack on Cervantes in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park:   Why Cervantes? Cervantes, famously, was a slave himself- captured by Barbary Pirates, and enslaved in the galleys of Algiers for...(Read Full Post)