A while ago I read “The Family,” by Jeff Sharlet, who researched and lived among the malignant movement known as The Fellowship, or The Family. In a presumably unintentional twist of irony, Doug Coe, the Family’s current Führer, has professed admiration for the Mafia, a.k.a. The Family, as well as Hitler, Mao, Stalin, and Ho Chi Minh. The Fellowship was started by Norwegian immigrant Abraham Vereide, a Eurofascism sympathizer. Since then, the movement has metastasized to include some of the scariest members of Congress—e.g., Jim Demint, Tom Coburn, and John Ensign. Also, Ensign's fellow philanderer Mark Sanford, gov. of South Carolina, has had Family connections. It’s not just paleoconservative crooks either—The Family also has its hooks in Hillary Clinton, for example. One of the many Family con jobs is a mansion on C Street in D.C. in which Ensign and other members have lived at way-below market rates. The group, whose political influence is pervasive and deep, has been able to get this building classified as a "church." So even though most of this is old news now, I decided to post it.