Unbeleivable.

It is hard to be a member of the reality-based community these days, because reality is getting seriously weird. But I feel especially bad for political satirists. I mean, stuff like this leaves them no room to work in. If this were pardody, it would be quite funny. But unfortunately it is not, and so it just leaves me slack-jawed.

Take a look a this article from the conservative Christian "news" service World Net Daily, which reports, in essence, that some members of the Bush administration are urging the Commander in Chief to model his Middle East foreign policy on a quote from a lesser-known John Wayne movie. Seriously.

Now then, I do have some doubts about how reliable this article is, because it seems the main source for the article is a column from Dr. Jack Wheeler's "intelligence" website To The Point. In fact, the article is really nothing more than a thinly-veiled advertisement for his newsletter, which bills itself as "The Oasis for Rational Conservatives."

So how rational is Dr. Wheeler? Well, if you subscribe to his newsletter for the low, low price of $8.95 per month, he promises to share with you the rational thinking that led him to conclusions such as these:

• It is envy that makes a Communist, Nazi, or Moslem Terrorist. It is the fear of being envied that makes a liberal.
  
• Liberalism is not a political philosophy or coherent set of beliefs. It is a psychological strategy to avoid being envied.
  
• All forms of leftism and liberalism are based on an atavistic belief in Black Magic. All are based on the primitive fear of the envious Evil Eye.
  
• The only Americans who owe reparations to the descendants of slaves are the descendants of slave owners. These people are one and the same, i.e., American blacks are a racial mix of white slave owner and black slave. Blacks owe reparations to themselves.
  
• The next insanity to come in the homosexual assault on the American Family will be PHM: Polygamous Homosexual Marriage. Pathologically promiscuous homosexuals will consider their "marriage" a legalism that will in no way prevent them from adultery en masse. To maintain the pretense of "marriage" however, they will have to quickly begin agitating for the legalization of group sodomization as "just another form of the married life-style".

If Dr. Jack's website really is an oasis for rational conservatives, I shudder to think where the less rational conservatives are going for information and commentary.