Reynolds: […] I don’t think that America is in danger of being taken over by religious Zealots, constituting an American Taliban and bent on establishing theocracy. I think that […] the people that Mickey Kaus is calling “pro-tubists” are well-meaning, sincere, and possessed of an earnest desire to do good. I don’t think that they’re nascent Mullah Omars, and I think that calling them that just makes the problem worse.

From The New York Times: A federal appeals court panel in Atlanta refused early today to order that the feeding tube of the brain-damaged Terri Schiavo be reinserted, saying her parents had “failed to demonstrate a substantial case on the merits of any of their claims.” “There is no denying the absolute tragedy that has befallen Mrs. Schiavo,” the judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th

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”…Sean Hannity Sean Hannity Sean Hannity Sean Hannity Terry Schiavo!  Sean Hannity Sean Hannity Sean Hannity Sean Hannity…” **** update: for those of you interested in the Schiavo case, allow me to point you to these links:  James Joyner’s Outside the Beltway round-up; INDC Journal’s discussion thread; this heated discussion thread at Dailypundit; Michele Catalano’s thoughts, Robert Hayes’ editorial for the Blogger News Network; Dean Esmay’s take, Secure Liberty’s /a>

A: You don’t generally point and laugh at a pitbull. — Oh, and maybe lipstick, too — though that’s just me speculating. Cole, writing for Salon: […] the values of [John McCain’s] handpicked running mate, Sarah Palin, more resemble those of Muslim fundamentalists than they do those of the Founding Fathers. On censorship, the teaching of creationism in schools, reproductive rights, attributing government policy to God’s will and climate change,

Because my stepfather was a bastard. George Will (via Instapundit): In 1997, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) adopted a surreptitious political agenda in the form of a new code of ethics, enjoining social workers to advocate for social justice “from local to global levels.” A widely used textbook — “Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skill” — declares that promoting “social and economic justice” is especially imperative as

Who writes of yours truly: Some quick thoughts. First (and I’m doing my best here): my name isn’t Andy. Second: Goldstein seems to be advancing the notion that there are two teams, and I’m now “aligned” with the homophobic one, i.e. the team Goldstein isn’t on. But what if someone’s approach to politics does not devolve into a moronic question of whose “team” you’re on? I know this is a

From the WSJ (subscription only): If Republicans lose control of Congress in November, they might want to look back at last Thursday as the day it was lost. That’s when the big spenders among House Republicans blew up a deal between the leadership and rank-in-file to impose some modest spending discipline. Unlike the collapse of the immigration bill, this fiasco can’t be blamed on Senate Democrats. This one is all

Interesting take on the modern legacy media from the WSJ’s Daniel Henninger (subscription only, so I’ll quote at length):