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As Jared Loughner awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. To learn more, go to Kafka, or better yet, Dostoyevsky’s “The Undergroud Man.” It cannot be explained on Dr. Phil’s couch without moral treason to the living and the dead.

When CPAC meets in early February it should consider this to be the zero vortex from which things end and begin again. Politics and culture, as in Einstein’s theory of time and space, must either expand or contract. They can’t stand still. And this tragic incident brought to center again she who will not go away, Sarah Palin. But there are other things for CPAC 2011 to consider: problems that challenge our existence: a $202 trillion debt, the Red Army, the end of the world.

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