"Be not intimidated ... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice." --John Adams (1765)
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To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Suppose you were a liberal. And suppose you were a hypocrite. But I repeat myself."

Decisions by the Supreme Court this week to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California's Prop 8 prohibition against same-sex "marriage" set the bar to overturn every other state codification of heterosexual marriage.

Don't get me wrong -- as a conservative of the "classical liberal" school, I hold that government has no business dictating the type of relationships individuals choose, though on a personal level I believe homosexual behavior is, most often, the result of gender disorientation pathology, and thus, I grieve for those so afflicted -- no matter how "gay" they might seem.

However, I also hold that government has no arbitrary power to redefine marriage as anything other than what our Creator expressed through nature for all time.

And that irrefutable fact reminded me of a near-universal truth about Leftists: They are consummate hypocrites.

At the same time liberals are endeavoring to institutionalize the abject LBGT violations of nature, they advocate for the most stringent preservation of every minuscule aspect of natural order in the rest of the environment.

For the record, I support the protection and conservation of our nation's most incredible natural habitats, but certainly not the Orwellian climate change legislation that Barack Hussein Obama just re-warmed in order to win back some of his disillusioned constituents. The "war on coal" has everything to do with Leftist socialist political agenda rather than environmental preservation.

So, how is it that such a minuscule but vocal constituency is able to successfully challenge the timeless order of marriage and family, the third pillar of Liberty, without any Beltway Republicans and media types "outing" this hypocrisy?

Because undermining marriage and family is critical to the Left's statist agenda, and anyone who steps in the way of that agenda will be labeled xenophobic, racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, etc., etc., etc. Too many Republican politicos fear their own shadows -- and are incapable of articulating a defense against such derogatory references. But the reality is that Leftists use those slurs to divert attention from their own unmitigated hypocrisy in pursuit of their political goals.

Indeed, they have taken the tawdry art of political hypocrisy well beyond the outer-most limits of decency. Leftist protagonists have taken the once-noble Democrat Party and converted it into theSocialist Democratic Party. Today's party leaders are case studies in the exhibition of double standards, pretense and duplicity.

Leftist hypocrisy, of course, is not a recent revelation. In his 1944 book "Bureaucracy," economist and classical liberal Ludwig von Mises wrote, "The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent."

But the current ranks of Obama's sycophantic NeoCom cadres would have embarrassed even their '40s-era forerunners.

Obama is the prototypical face of Leftist hypocrites, who live the life of the rich and famous all the while feigning to be a "man of the people." This week for example, the Obama family is on a $100 million taxpayer-funded "heritage tour" of Africa.

He spews his class warfare rhetoric while he and Michelle LaVaughn and their entourage jet around the nation and world for purely political events and exotic retreats -- all at enormous expense to taxpayers.