DEMOCRATS GET PARANOID - more so than usual.

To read the news, you might assume that there is a militiaman under every rock and that every tea party is a front for the Aryan Nation.

Will Sarah Palin's "targeting" of House Democrats incite assassins? Is "kill the bill" really a call to violence? Are there links between the Republican Party and nine nuts shooting guns outside a southern Michigan doublewide?

It is usually those out of power who are drawn to paranoid conspiracies, but Democrats sound like a pack of John Birchers talking about a shadowy conspiracy that is plotting against them.

Read it all.