Ed Morrissey: According to the First Amendment and the Establishment Clause, the government has no business dictating to religious organizations how they should structure themselves. In Connecticut, though, some lawmakers seem to have skipped over the Constitution. A new bill will require Catholic parishes and dioceses — and only Catholics — to organize their parish leadership in a way that pleases the Connecticut legislature . . . . Don’t say

Being worked up at the urging of Geppetto Soros. With commentary by Warner Todd Huston, here.

So why do newspapers pay so much for theirs? If you missed yesterday’s mild brain infarction from Dowd, who was riding in a cab with David Brooks when the subject for this latest cogitation on the parlous state of the Union whupped her upside the head like an anti-cluebat, you might want to consider that.

There are numerous posts on this long-anticipated film based on a critically acclaimed graphics novel at Big Hollywood and elsewhere, and I haven’t read the source, so I’m not going to see it until then, unless my kids force me to buy it on DVD before I do that, I suppose. David Thompson’s carefully wrought review may help guide your own decision: So, is Watchmen ‘unfilmable’, as Moore insisted? Well,

Two bits of information regarding Jeff’s doings tomorrow. First, Michelle Malkin’s going to give Jeff the opportunity to respond in his own post at Hot Air. I’m not sure what time that will go up. Second, he’s going to be at Breitbart.TV again, at 4 pm Eastern, to talk about the brouhaha and intentionalism. So, this is an early heads up. I’ll be back with details tomorrow. Keep in mind

allegedly some kind of rough-sex alterasphixiation freakaziod.

Gee, it’s really terrible the way Eric Holder’s statements on race have been taken out of context and twisted: President Barack Obama has waded again into the fractious issue of race relations in America, this time to tamp down a firestorm over remarks by his top law enforcement officer.”I’m not somebody who believes that constantly talking about race somehow solves racial tensions,” the president said in an interview with The

over Rush, and of the recent unpleasantness, is available at the Sundries Shack. At Cold Fury, Noel’s post goes through some of the memorable arguments from the principals. Also soliciting recipes for a Stern (or Stiff, if you prefer) Cockpunch, so that Jeff can serve that up for y’all in Chicago. Rahm Emanuel: Stop them, with every means in my power! Donald Douglas has a post up with a link

Dodd makes Emanuel look like a piker: It takes considerable political skill for a U.S. senator to win a presidential pardon for a friend without the traditional review by the Justice Department. Sen. Christopher Dodd moved the furtive levers of power in 2001 for Edward R. Downe, convicted of tax and securities fraud eight years before. A man will do a lot for a former real estate partner. It was

because they were exhausted. Burning the candle at both ends, while Rome burns, our new Preznit Narcissus really puts the party first. Mark Steyn on related. (h/t Hot Air headlines) Smoke ’em while you’ve got ’em, I guess. So here’s a link to Stacy McCain’s Rule 5 Sunday, which itself contains a link to our very own Serr8d. Caleb at RedState: Doubling Down on Rush Related: US Treasury Secretary Timothy