An ill wind is blowing from the extreme right in this country.  It is an evil wind that recalls one of the most shameful periods in American history.  Michelle Bachmann and her right-wing fringe are dangerous.  Her latest rant in a letter to President Obama, signed by four other Republican Congressmen, declares that the Muslin Brotherhood has infiltrated the highest levels of the Federal Government.  She specifically accuses a Hillary Clinton aide, Huma Abedin, of ties to the Brotherhood.  For those of you who don't remember or weren't born yet, this has eerie similarities to Senator Eugene McCarthy who, in the 1950s, charged that Communists had "infiltrated the highest levels of the Federal Government."  His congressional hearings destroyed lives, reputations and careers based on tenuous evidence at best.  It was a very scary period pitting Americans against Americans by fomenting hatred and fear and it seems Bachmann & Co. want to repeat it.  Unfortunately, she has a following.  I found these comments about her letter: "If you're a Muslim, you cannot be an American."  "All Muslims should be jailed or deported."  "Michelle Bachmann is on the right track."  But fortunately, some see her for what she is.  As Senator John McCain said: "When anyone, not least a member of Congress, launches specious and degrading attacks against fellow Americans on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance of what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation."