With right-wing zealots taking over the legislature even as the state's demographics shift leftward, Texas has become the nation's bellwether.
Either the moderates collaborate or the zealots take over; take your pick.
"There are a few zealots over there, but by and large we have an excellent relationship with the F.B.I".
This play threatens to open conservative minds to the heretical possibility that government policies favored by free market zealots over the past generation have played a role in our economic mess.
But Cruz's concerns are obviously, the fact that the people ostensibly opposing Assad aren't necessarily an improvement, in terms of non-psychotic, non-death culty super-zealots, over the Assad regime.
If the army fails to resume control, the Islamists could pour into Aden itself.Two weeks ago hundreds of such zealots briefly took over Hawta, the capital of nearby Lahej province, due north of Aden, only to melt away a day or so later.
The further down the food chain you go, the more the zealots take over.
Given how much I've seen Apple zealots fawn over the iPhone 4 and 4S, I had pretty high expectations.
Every commentator, in his or her own way, has made the central point that the Samiti, its chief Dina Nath Batra and their tribe of Hindu zealots all over the world, are trying to make Hinduism what it is not: puritanical, austere, devoid of joy and color.
When David Brooks implies that conservatism has helped reintroduce "traditional social values," I doubt he means families spending their way into debt with 24/7 consumerism; the anti-gay, "pro-family" bigotry of many right-wing activists; religious zealots trying to take over school districts; or a White House that has us talking about whether torture is O.K.
