Divided

         We are a nation and a culture split down the middle. Tuesday's special election for the congressional seat in New York vacated by Kirsten Gillibrand who was appointed to the Senate, has a 25 vote difference at this point and will be decided by absentee votes. We are still waiting for a result in the Minnesota Senate race. A jury today found for Ward Churchill in his lawsuit concerning his firing from the University of Colorado. In elections anyway, one half of America is of a mind that resembles the first centuries of this nation. They hold to tradition as to how we think, reason and reverence God. The other half is an intellectual colony of Europe's move towards socialism, the global village and toleration, out of fear, for anything other than Christianity. Our Constitution is in danger of being relegated to the scrap heap of history, a document "useful in its time" but outdated. If the former wins this struggle for the future of America, it will be through the workings of a Constitutional Republic. If the latter should win, it will be through usurping power with the help of a culture that has a very short attention span when being warned of impending disaster.