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Thursday, April 19, 2007 05:41 PM

So tell me again why the schools should be hosting the moral debate over homosexuality?

Apart from who is right or wrong.

Why should the school in any way "host" an activist group or program promoting homosexual rights?

If you say, "the schools aren't 'hoting' or 'promoting' anything, that's fine. So it's a free speech issue. I'd hope that Christian/conservative organizations are afforded the same free-speech rights. (And by the way, since when did Christians become the bogeymen of the homosexual-rights activists? Aren't there some more serious homosexual rights issues in the Muslim world?)

If you say, the Day of Silence isn't about any political activism or advocacy, it is only about protesting the harassment of homosexuals, that's fine too. Respectable conservatism doesn't advocate harming or harassing homosexuals. Nor does the Roman Catholic church, nor does James Dobson. So that one's a wash too. The Day of Silence proponents say, "Protect the safety and security of homosexuals," and others say, "Our faith and morals inform us that homosexuality is wrong and destructive." Neither side's position is mutually exclusive. They pass each other like ships in the night.

Thursday, April 19, 2007 05:50 PM

I get it, Rosenkavalier.

Christians who have a different point of view from you should just shut up, and by the way, you question the basis and quality of their true faith.

Did you accidentally leave out the part about questioning their patriotism?

Good to know where you stand. Thanks for sharing.

Friday, April 20, 2007 06:27 AM

In stark contrast to Sidney Blumenthal's ravings, here is some informed writing on the subject of Mr. Wolfowitz and the World Bank:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009965

Friday, April 20, 2007 11:29 AM

A challenge to the Salonistas:

Let us presume the following, all of which appears to be supported by the facts.

1. Senior DOJ staff decided to can the eight USA's for "political" reasons. Those "political" reasons include; not aggressive enough with vote-fruad investigations, not aggressive enough with death penalty cases, political advantage in having a new face in office, and just not being in tune with the White House on any number of snaller issues.

AND

2. No ongoing investigation or prosecution was stopped or hindered. And no particular investigation or prosecution was started by any USA.

QUESTION: What 'crimes' should a special prosecutor be investigating?

Look, I think I know what people like Sen. Jeff Sessions, himself a former USA, are thinking right now, and it is this; "Gonzalez is not doing a good job of representing the things I believe in. I no more want him to be the Attorney General, than I would want Harriet Miers to be a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Notwithstanding the favored personal position they might enjoy with the President. We are much better off with Justice Alito than with Miers, and we will be better off with a new AG than with Gonzalez. But I don't have the slightest concern, and there is not the slightest hint, that the USA dismissals were in any way unlawful."

So to the extent that any henchman like Joe Conason thinks that a Gonzalez resignation will be a policy victory for the Democrat party, I say knock yourself out, Joe.

Friday, April 20, 2007 11:48 AM

Hahahahahaha!

...Eliot Spitzer proposing wind and solar power as an answer to New York's energy needs... Gimme a freakin' break! Geddouddahere!

I am surprised he isn't asking Gene Roddenberry for a schematic on how to build fusion power with dilithium crystals.

Someboady wake me when Eliot Spitzer says that New York needs 3 new nuclear power plants. Then you might have my attention.

Friday, April 20, 2007 12:23 PM

mattielisbon...

I guess you've never seen an election in Cook County, Illinois.

Friday, April 20, 2007 12:39 PM

I'm wondering...

...are all of the feminists at Salon comfortable with Joe Conason's snarling reference to Wolfowitz's "girlfriend"? After all, irrespective of one's political views, Shaha Riza is a woman with a considerable record of professional accomplishment in Mideast affaris and is herself a noted feminist.

Is it okay to downgrade Ms. Riza with a mildly sexist pejorative just because of her and/or Mr. Wolfowitz's politics?

Friday, April 20, 2007 01:00 PM

That's my point, Barnaby!

The White House is within its rights to treat the USAs in a politcal, backstabbing manner! Heck, we have had Attorneys General APPOINTED in political, backstabbing manners. (See: Robert F. Kennedy, Ramsay Clark.)

You think that Kyle Sampson and/or Alberto Gonzalez, testifying voluntarily, committed perjury in talking about these events which were never crimes to begin with? (Yawn...sorry.)

The challenge remains. Show us evidence of a crime, of any unlawful act, in this whole politcal witchhunt.

Friday, April 20, 2007 02:47 PM

So what, Rusty Austin?

I mean, so what if Gonzalez resigns? He's not "my boy." My defense of Gonzalez's performance is largely lukewarm. No better, certainly, than my support for the SCOTUS nomination for Harriet Miers. I'm not so sure about how preserving the position of Attorney General for Alberto Gonzalez is so important to any core conservative goal...

Friday, April 20, 2007 02:52 PM

Luminous

Please, for me, just hold your breath until any one of those "theorized" crimes (I won't even call them "alleged" crimes, since no one has had the temerity to allege such a thing) is proven.

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