When your victimhood is your empowerment, recovery is the enemy, and working on 'individual change' becomes counterproductive, even dangerous to your identity.

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.

As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.