The American Language:
Only in America are restrictions on smoking at home considered
"
ultraliberal"; presumably that's from "liberal" meaning "left-wing", which would
make Stalin and Mao liberal extremists. All rather amusing; sort of like the
way anti-gentrification protesters in San Francisco were calling the
stock-optioned, SUV-driving exponents of dot-com hypercapitalism
"dot-communists". (Undoubtedly derived from "communist", meaning
"unamerican, having alien values; an evil invader".)