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Glenn Beck's commie-hunt continues! Last month he was waving the bloody pelt of Van Jones. "We need to at least in this country start having the necessary discussion of, Do we want communists in the United States government?" he ranted. "This guy is still a radical, just like Cass Sunstein and John Holdren and Carol Browner and Mark Lloyd and the list goes on and on and on. Now some in the White House may be uncomfortable calling these individuals radicals or revolutionaries or communists, but I'm not — America, when did we stop caring about communism?"

A few days ago, Beck posted a picture on his Web site of the Empire State Building in the colors of the Chinese flag.Apparently this was a courtesy gesture from New York City in recognition of our largest bondholder and second-largest trading partner's birthday. Beck's headline: Communist State Building?

This got me thinking, even though I prefer not to think about Glenn Beck: His administration suspects are actually a pretty tame bunch. (Cass Sunstein is a vaguely libertarian professor at Harvard and author of at least thirteen books. John Holdren is a distinguished professor at Harvard's Kennedy School, the director of the Woods Hole Research Center, and former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Carol Browner is a former Senate staffer and senior state government official. Mark Lloyd is a professor at Georgetown University's public policy school and a former lecturer at MIT.) Not exactly bomb-throwing revolutionaries.

However, there