In response to my post yesterday on the German Koran indictment case, Some Guy in Chicago writes: I’m struggling to understand the nature of your question “about whether or not we should place the Koran in the category of ‘book’ or ‘text’ at all” I mean, I don’t think you honestly believe that the Koran is merely a tool to incite violence against non-muslims (as you have quite throughly argued

Espressopundit Greg Patterson emails: How’s this for an example of bias from the Associated Press? WASHINGTON (AP) Republican Legislators did not rebel against George W. Bush when he justified the Iraq war with false intelligence information.  Neither did they do so when they learned that the NSA was spying on American citizens without warrants.  But an apparently insignificant measure provoked a mutiny in the ranks:  authorizing a Dubai company to

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