This Blogger believes that it may well be time to license intellectuals. This society can no longer survive with its intellectual class being anointed by THE ATLANTIC, NEW YORK TIMES, CNN, MSNBC and assorted moth ridden academics and not by successful empirical observation. For what is the true purpose of intellectuals? To find fault with the past? To denigrate Robert E. Lee? To chastise Winston Churchill? To trumpet a Liberalism which is Orwellian in its conceptualization and execution ?   To demand conformity in society? To punish free thinkers? To administer a Grand Inquisition to make Americans swear allegiance to multiculturalism?     No, the purpose of an intellectual is to be a canary in the mine; to inform the hard-working people of the dangers ahead, to be accurate in one's  predictions about the future.     H.G. Wells    was an intellectual; as was John Brown, who stated at his hanging for attempting to overthrow the old decadent or...