For roughly six months, one of our nation’s most revered institutions, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, has been defaced by crude and obscene graffiti. Today, at last, the offensive scrawl has been removed.<\/p>\n
I won’t discuss the contents of that graffiti, because children might be reading this post. Suffice it to say, all patriotic Americans can breathe a sigh of relief that it is now gone.<\/p>\n
The wheels of justice may grind slowly, but they usually get to where they need to go. The courts have now decided, correctly, that those who would deface our nation’s most hallowed and respected monuments should not be permitted to do so. Nobody should be allowed to turn our shared cultural heritage into the punchline of a crude joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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