From PJ Media: Agora translates a news report from the Jyllands-Posten (notorious for the publication of the Mohammed cartoons) about an alliance of grassroots movements who have gone to the German courts to stop the dissemination of the Koran; they claim the Koran is not only religious but also a political book, which is incompatible with the country’s Constitution. Here’s the important bit from the translated article:

“Threat of 2 operations designed to bring Americans ‘to your knees‘“:

Outing himself as a Bush Kultist, WSJ editorial board member Bret Stephens takes issue with (running anti-lock step with the sanctified Bush rejecters, whose rejections are inviolable and unavailable for critique or counter, is the most prominent symptom of Bush Kultism&trade the highly-publicized Iraq reconsiderations of former arch-neocon Frances Fukuyama.  From “Fukuyama’s Pivot:  He urged the liberation of Iraq. Now he claims he had misgivings all along”:

Beats me.  But in light of Saturday’s Chicago Tribune story (one of several, incidentally), Tom Maguire has some ideas. Meanwhile, according to the WaPo’s famed Watergate editor Ben Bradlee, the Plame “leaker” (are we sure Google wasn’t responsible?) was Richard Armitage, Colin Powell’s Deputy Secretary of State—a supposition previously floated by Newsweek and drawn out by Maguire back in November. Clarice Feldman at the American Thinker has a nice summary

The making of a progressive hero?  Well, all the ingredients are present:  faux populist concern, opportunism disguised as sanctimony, and the continued—and intentional—misrepresentation of the target of his outrage. And so I give you Russ Feingold:  co-author of legislation to make illegal certain political speech of Americans; and now, author of a resolution that will attempt to censure President Bush for following Article II precedent and his mandate as CiC

     “Shit.  Shoulda brought my gloves.”

In keeping with today’s earlier discussions on progressivism and the “diversity” agenda, here’s a bit from the SF Chronicle on former exile Michelle Bachelet being named Chile’s president (h/t Terry Hastings): In her first official act as president, Bachelet swore in her 20-member Cabinet of 10 men and 10 women. She has promised to have equal numbers of men and women in some 300 decision-making posts. She plans legislation that

Here is the full text of the introduction (ultimately removed) of the no-confidence resolution against Lawrence Summers written by the Harvard faculty.  Notes The WS’s “Scrapbook,” “That introduction made explicit the infantile leftist agenda of Summers’s detractors. It is worth reading in full, and is reproduced below in all its politically correct glory:”

A long but very interesting article on the fall of Larry Summers by James Piereson, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.  Piereson frames Summers’ dismissal as Harvard president as “the triumph of the diversity faction” in the academy—particularly within the arts and sciences.  Because Piereson’s pieces touches on a number of issues I’ve been writing on over the last several weeks, I’m going to quote from it at length. 

Via Tom Elia, a Chicago Tribune report by John Crewdson that shows the CIA in a rather unflattering light when it comes to issues of state secrecy: