Susan Lindauer's Wacky Hometown

We knew that Takoma Park, Md., home of Saddam spy suspect and self-described "anti-war activist" Susan Lindauer, must be quite a place when wire services yesterday said it had "liberal views," something the media establishment normally won't admit.

Then the Democrats' favorite house organ, the New York Times, today called the suburb a "left-leaning enclave," again a surprise from a publication that considers the left to be the mainstream status quo from which any deviation is usually branded "right wing."

Wes Vernon, one of NewsMax's Washington correspondents, lives just a few miles from Takoma Park and gave us the scoop:

The city, a longtime hotbed of left-wing activism, some years ago declared itself a "nuclear-free zone.” Sadly, no terrorist around the world is known to have taken respectful notice of that designation. Nor, in the Cold War, did the old Soviet Union or its satellites promise to avoid bombing Takoma Park in the event of World War III.

Takoma Park was the home of the late Sammy Abbott, a prominent proudly self-proclaimed Marxist whose activities in the 1960s and thereafter covered everything from the Vietnam War to the environment.

Takoma Park is part of Democrat-dominated Montgomery County, itself the object of nationwide ridicule for attempts to outlaw smoking in one’s own home and one town's effort to ban Santa Claus. Even by that standard, Takoma Park is regarded as the farthest left part of the county.

Maybe this present-day municipal version of Rip Van Winkle could rename itself Coma Park.

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