At first glance, President Obama’s selection of this years’s winners of “The Presidential Medal of Freedom” seems bizarre. Lee Hamilton, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra, Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Mikulski, music entrepreneur Emilio Estefan, Gloria Estefan, Indian activist Billy Frank, Stephen Sondheim and Stephen Spielberg, Barbara Streisand, James Taylor, and Jap rights activist Minoru Yasui. Gee, what is warhawk Lee Hamilton doing with these freaks? The only other straight white male with a name ending in a consonant, James Taylor, is a drug-using mental patient. On second thought, perhaps it is perfect. This is the face of the new America–‘athaletes,’ entertainers,...