Gore Vidal: 'We'll have a dictatorship soon in the US'  —  The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is ‘rotting away’ — and don't expect Barack Obama to save it  —  A conversation with Gore Vidal unfolds at his pace.  He answers questions imperiously, occasionally playfully, with a piercing, lethal dryness.

Newsmax columnist: Military coup “to resolve the ‘Obama problem’ ” is not “unrealistic”  —  From John L. Perry's September 29 Newsmax column:

Is today Military Dictatorship Day?  ; Update: Newsmax removes column  —  In case anyone thinks that one side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on paranoid ranters, we present today's offering from Gore Vidal (Left) and John Perry (Right) on the coming American military dictatorship.

Newsmax: Military Coup Would Take Care Of “Obama Problem”  —  From John L. Perry at Newsmax: … Did you get that?  Perry doesn't advocate a military overthrow of the Obama administration, he's...just sayin'.  Does anyone doubt that we'll see “military coup” signs at the next tea party?

The Polanski Case  —  Roman Polanski was arrested on Saturday at the Zurich airport on an American-issued warrant.  But to hear the protests from the French, the Poles and other Europeans, you might have thought the filmmaker was seized by some totalitarian regime for speaking truth to power.