The New York Post wears its heart on its sleeve, the must-read rag for right-wing nutjobs. They're got an agenda, dictated by a billionaire who makes Lex Luthor look logical, and they don't let no stinking facts stand in their way. Last week an opinion piece by Michelle Malkin analyzed the anti-war movement and came to the conclusion that it's a dangerous left-wing conspiracy that desperately needs to be stopped.

"From Pittsburgh to Berkeley, anti-war extremists have smeared recruiters as 'death pimps' and 'child predators,'" she says, as if pointed words are the worst danger facing America today. "The militant Code Pink group continues to organize in-your-face protests to drive recruiters from major metropolitan areas." Yes, she's complaining about protests. About people standing around WITH SIGNS.

She whines on and on, seeming to be newly annoyed by all this free speech stuff, before getting to the cold, hard facts. She's compiled eighteen particularly egregious examples of anti-war terror over the last five years to show "the ongoing campaign against military recruiters." Anti-war "zealots" splash blood on recruiting posters. Handouts are torn apart. "Anarchist symbols were scrawled in red paint on the building," making me think the culprits were more likely Sex Pistol fans. Manure is hurled! Door locks are ruined with Super Glu! "At UC Santa Cruz, 'peace' thugs drove recruiters off campus after an hour-long demonstration of shouting and window-banging."

Ohmigod. Have they no honor, these peace thugs, raising their voices and rattling glass? WILL NO ONE PUT A STOP TO THIS HORROR?

"There will be no end in sight," Ms. Malkin warns, "until lawmakers, law enforcement, the media and the public open their eyes to the hate and stop coddling the increasingly crazed and emboldened anti-military militants before more bombs go off - and innocents get harmed - in the name of 'peace.'"

Yes, WHAT ABOUT THE INNOCENTS? That's what all the news anchors here wondered as they interviewed military recruiters after the Times Square bombing. Would the imminent threat of death keep them from sending more young people to steal us some oil? Were they scared witless, worried about those dastardly bombers hitting again?

No, they said. Because, you know, they don't usually hang around the office at FOUR IN THE MORNING, SITTING IN THE DARK.

It's easy to make lists, to make isolated instances seem like a concerted threat. Ms. Malkin ignores the thousands of demonstrations that have attracted literally millions of peace-loving people, instead focusing on a small number of relatively harmless incidents, and concludes that something drastic needs to be done.

Two can play at that game. Below is a list of eighteen police officers who have been arrested for drunk driving. I had a larger pool to choose from, though, so my list just dates from this year. Five were involved in crashes. One killed a fellow officer.

Is there any end in sight to this horrible string of violence? When will the media wake up and take action? When will the right-wing force these badge-wielding demons to stop harming innocents?

I wait for the Post's report.

Until then, should I be wandering some darkened street at four in the morning and see an antiwar activist bicycling towards me from one direction and a cop car coming from the other, I know which way I'm going to run.

January 1: Police officer Irving Simmons was arrested for DWI after running off the side of the road and wrecking his patrol car.

January 17: Police officer Donald Meredith was arrested for DWI after crashing his car.

January 24: Police officer Anthony D. Germany was arrested and charged with drunk driving. Germany has been reprimanded twice since 2003 for alcohol-related offenses, according to police records.

January 26: Dallas police officer Dwight L. Govan was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated.

January 29: Police Department sergeant Sgt. Robert Lund was arrested on suspicion of extreme DUI, striking a curb near South Harrison Road and East 22nd Street.

January 31: A Palm Bay police officer faces charges after investigators said they caught him driving drunk. Police said Officer Joseph Marsala was off-duty when he was involved in a crash at Emerson Drive and Jupiter Boulevard.

February 15: Kenneth Canterbury, a Myrtle Beach police officer, was arrested for driving under the influence.

February 16: Roanoke City Police Officer Andrew Page was arrested for DUI after he wrecked his cruiser.

February 23: Sgt. William Rollin, a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sergeant, was arrested for driving under the influence.

February 24: In Gustine, California, Police Chief Kris Anderson, was arrested on a drunken driving charge.

February 26: Police Sgt. Christopher Sands was arrested after a coworker found him slumped over the wheel of a car idling in a major intesection at around 3 a.m. Tuesday.

March 5: Jacksonville police officer David Angelo Escobar was arrested on DUI charges, his second such arrest since 2005.

March 8: Deputy James Mathis, 31, was charged with driving under the influence.

March 8: The Tennessee Highway Patrol arrested Officer Mike Early for DUI early Saturday morning.

March 9: Deputy Elizabeth Dillon was arrested for DUI.

March 9: Dallas Senior Cpl. Billy Ailey has been charged with drunken driving in his second such arrest since December.

March 10: Lieutenant Todd Exline, a Kane County sheriff's deputy who once served as director of the county jail, has been fired as he awaits trial on drunk driving charges.

March 16: State police arrested Vanceburg police chief Joe Billman on suspicion of drunk driving.

March 17: Rookie NYPD officer Danielle Baymack was arrested for DWI after a crash that killed Officer Marlene Rivera.

Peacenik Thugs: Anti-War Vandals Burn On