And, of course, there was the petition to deport CNN talk show host Piers Morgan for "engaging in a hostile attack on the Constitution," after the British citizen called Gun Owners of America director Larry Platt an "unbelievably stupid man" in a televised interview.

That entreaty that has collected nearly 72,000 signatures since it was created on December 21. A new petition to keep Mr. Morgan in the U.S. because a) his anti-gun speech is protected by the First Amendment and b) "no one in the UK wants him back," has been far less popular thus far, garnering a scant 374 signatures, and indicating, perhaps, that whichever constitutional amendment Americans like best, they tend to agree with their British cousins on the subject of Mr. Morgan.