elected to Congress in the 4th District in 1991. Every year, he would visit different parts of the Eastern Plains. When Allard was elected to the U.S. Senate, and Republican Bob Schaffer took his seat in the U.S. House, it became the Schaffer wheat tour. Then it was the Musgrave wheat tour after Republican Marilyn Musgrave; the Markey wheat tour after Democrat Betsy Markey; and then the Gardner wheat tour.

A year ago, Republican Cory Gardner created a firestorm in Colorado when he proposed that the pill should be available to women over the counter. Now the controversy has moved to the U.S. Senate and to no one’s surprise it involves Obamacare.

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat, and U.S. Sen. Cory, Gardner, a Republican, both of Colorado. (AP/Getty Images)

Lastof substance to the quest for peace. Indeed, by demonizing Israel and dehumanizing its supporters, this kind of hate speech encourages those who oppose a compromise peace and discourages those who seek it.

The favorite rhetorical reversal of the hard left is to call Israel and its supporters “Nazis.” Listen to Ali al-Mazrui, professor of humanities at the State University of New York – Binghamton, director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies, and former North American spokesman for the Islamic extremist group Al-Muhajiroun:

“Israeli neo-Nazism reversed the scale of genetic values favored by German Nazis. Both forms of extremism exaggerated the impact of the Jewish factor. The Nazis thought the Jewish impact was negative. The Israeli extremists erred the other way.’ ‘As for the trend towards militarization, Israel has