It seems to me that when crazy white people like Adam Lanza and James Holmes occasionally shoot a bunch of other white people, liberals will inevitably insist that stricter gun laws need to be enacted. But when 10 or 15 black people are shot by other black people on a typical weekend in Chicago, the poster city for gun control laws, liberals are as quiet as very shy mice. It makes me wonder if they really don’t believe that black lives matter all that much.

Furthermore, when an illegal alien shoots and kills an American citizen — as happened in San Francisco recently, when a schmuck who’d been deported five times after committing seven felonies, murdered a young woman — liberals, not to mention other GOP presidential contenders, responded by telling Donald Trump to shut up.

The hypocrites in both parties like to pretend that Trump slandered every Hispanic, including Father Junipero Serra, Fernando Lamas and Carmen Miranda, when all he did was tell the truth about illegal alien scumbags.

I’d like to know how it is that places like Arizona, Missouri and now Donald Trump, have all faced boycotts by tourists, unions and/or corporate entities — among them, in Trump’s case, Macy’s, NBC, Serta and NASCAR — but places like San Francisco and New York get to brag about being sanctuary cities for those who have broken into our country, but they face no financial consequences whatsoever.

What Trump is proving, if the polls are to be believed, is the truth inherent in the words written by 18th century scientist/philosopher Georg Lichtenberg: “It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard.”

The Founding Fathers declared that there is a time when blood must be spilled in defense of liberty, whether the enemy is British or Islamic, and a time, as the loony response to Trump’s words suggests, when beards must be singed in defense of honesty.

One of the things that Trump said that has come in for the most derision from Fox’s resident pundits is that he would build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. Is it just possible that Charles Krauthammer and George Will are unaware of the fact that the U.S. provided Mexico with $418 million in foreign aid in 2013 and another $971 million in 2014? Don’t you think we could build a pretty decent wall for $1.4 billion over the next two years if we simply decided to separate Mexico from America’s teat?

For me, one of the things I enjoy the most about Trump’s politically incorrect pronouncements is the way that sober-sided commentators like Will and Krauthammer, not to mention Jeb Bush, respond like Pavlovian Chihuahuas, yipping about all the serious issues being ignored and how Trump, whom they dismiss as a circus clown, is destroying the hallowed GOP brand.

Perhaps they could take their own advice and concern themselves with all the issues, from a $19 trillion national debt and a nuclear Iran to inexcusable Supreme Court appointments and a lousy trade agreement that the Republicans are doing precious little about. In fact, Obama’s trade deal only passed because the Republican cavalry rode to its rescue.

It should also be noted by those out to bury Trump that among Hispanics who are here legally, illegal immigration is very low on their list of concerns. Like all sensible Americans, they care about jobs, education and national security. It’s only a bunch of race-baiting Hispanic politicians like Xavier Becerra, Linda Sanchez and Luis Guiterrez, who are looking to increase their potential supporters through porous borders and sanctuary cities, that pretend that Hispanic Americans are eager to welcome drug dealers, gangbangers and those looking to steal their jobs, with open arms.

Fortunately, not every state is as anxious as California, New York and Massachusetts, to roll over for this administration. Texas has had enough of school lunches mandated by Michelle Obama, but paid for by taxpayers, being dumped in trash cans. Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Sid Miller has belatedly come to his senses and is lifting the ban on deep fryers in school kitchens.

Every so often, it seems, the Texans have to remind the rest of us that, all evidence to the contrary, this isn’t the United States of Obama, and our flag doesn’t consist of 13 stripes and 57 stars.

Still, while we may not be the United States of Obama, we are no longer the United States of America. We’ve been Balkanized by our political divisions. By now, I despise the blue states even more than I do Russia, China or North Korea. That’s because I regard them as far greater and more immediate threats to the America the divinely-inspired Founders created and passed down to us.

Finally, we have all grown up and grown old hearing that great minds think alike. While it’s true that great minds may agree about many things, I’m not convinced they think alike.

What I’ve come to believe is that really great minds are great because they think differently.