I just finished reading John Whitehead's riveting column about how we're living in a police state without knowing that we have been enslaved by a diabolical president and an equally diabolical, if perhaps inept, governing body.

This brought to mind a conversation I had with one of my right-wing, talk-radio-relatives I had on July 4. He, too, thought that our government was controlled by space people.

My relative was very long on opinions and very short on hard facts - as is Whitehead.

Why is the president brought to task when Congress gets an almost free pass to ignore the will of the people and act like idiot puppets of the lobbyists?

If we can't trust our government, who can we trust - Rush Limbaugh, Whitehead? Indeed, who are the good guys?