Excerpts from Gov. Palin’s interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson, who tries hard to turn a “soccer Mom” into, well, Ahmanidinejihadiwhatever: GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war? PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote. GIBSON: Exact words. PALIN: But the reference there is a

Can “justifiable homicide” be far behind? RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE!

Looking back to that horrible day, seven years ago: We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the

Janet Albrechtsen, WSJ: For left-leaning elites outside the United States, the nomination of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate is a case of “only in America” — a sneering phrase foreigners use to explain a weird or distasteful American phenomenon. For them, the emergence of a small-town conservative Christian woman with a large family and a beehive hairdo, who talks about the small-town American values of faith, family

In response to questions I posed in the previous thread, thor chides: This thread is about the evil radicalism that hibernates in Obama’s dark heart. We all know it’s there so we remind ourselves of his inner-evilness just so we know we know. Cartoon it all you’d like, but the thread is about how much of Obama’s early ideological training — bolstered and finessed by his associations (Wright, Ayers, et