I ACTUALLY LIKE Gov. Nikki Haley, but she made a boneheaded move when she decided to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State Capitol grounds.

I have no particular problem with removing it to a more appropriate historical site, but the move should have been done quietly, and several months after the murders at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston.

Here's why: the immediacy of calling for removal gave the racist bigots of the progressive Left license to declare any display of any Confederate symbol, artifact, or historical item as proof of racial animus on the part of the holder. And that is utter nonsense.

Nevertheless, it is rapidly becoming the conventional wisdom, as evidenced by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe's almost immediate decision to remove the Confederate flag from Virginia's personalized licence plates as "unnecessarily divisive and hurtful to too many of our people".

Well, okay. Then shouldn't the following personalized license plates also be banned as 'unnecessarily divisive and hurtful'?

Choose Life (offends pro-choice liberals)
Civil War (offends historical illiterates)
Don't Tread on Me (offends liberals and otherTea Party haters;
  full disclosure: my cars wear them proudly)
In God We Trust (offends atheists)
National Rifle Association (offends gun controllers)
Order of the Eastern Star (offends non-Masons)
Tobacco Heritage (publicize smoking? Heaven forfend!)
Trust Women Respect Choice (offends pro-life conservatives)
Washington Redskins (offends liberals; Native Americans apparently unaffected)

Heinlein's 'crazy years' are a bit late, but off to a roaring start as the progressives 'reality world' becomes more and more untethered to the mother ship.