It’s become quite the Republican talking point that all the Democrats want “free health care” for illegal immigrants.

I remember an innocent time when the word “troll” meant a mythical, cave-dwelling, and ill-tempered dwarf. But now trolling is considered high political art and a great way to spend your valuable time.

I’d just like to remind everyone that it was 10 years ago last month when the nation stopped because President Obama said something truly provocative, what many Republicans called “divisive” and even “racist”: he said police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, “acted stupidly” by arresting Henry Louis Gates Jr. for trying to enter his own home.