Once again my fellow Americans are failing to consider the big picture, concerning themselves instead with a subject more easily encompassed conceptually: the behavior of one seriously squirrelly individual.
I speak of Lt. Gen. William Boykin, the active duty officer who has been addressing conservative Christian audiences from the pulpits of their churches for some time now.
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