Don't give an inch to the other political party. Wouldn't want a few democrats to start smelling a political victory - much better to prolong a useless war.

I don't think Clinton and Edwards should be invited to the next debate. They take attention away from the better candidates.

GB confuses religion with history: "There is really no such phenomenon as Christian-Hindu violence, or Buddhist-Jewish, or any combination that you might choose to create other than these: Christian-Muslim, Jewish-Muslim, Hindu-Muslim, Buddhist-Muslim. I think it is not at all the response of a bigoted mind to ask why this might be."

It's because your field of vision is so terribly narrow. Just this past century, there was no lack of Christian-Jewish violence in Europe (ever hear of the Holocaust? Pogroms?). Back up a few more years and you have centuries of Christian-pagan violence throughout the New World. In Asia, no lack of Buddhist-Buddhist violence (e.g. China in Vietnam), and Shinto-Buddhist violence (Japan in China). Gee, it seems that if your hateful obsession is focused on Muslims, all you see is Muslim violence. What a surprise.

Old states-rightsman that he is, he decided the federal government should prevent California from setting it's own pollution standards. Why? Because a supporter of his, Briggs-Stratton, didn't want to have to change their little polluting engines. Such a nice man.

I do admit to missing the good old days when Televangilists used to be in it for the money rather than fronts for the far right. I guess I prefer greed to hate.

"I'm pretty sure Malkin's other book didn't defend internment simply because someone was of a specific ethnicity but because they may have been sympathizers of a country with which we were at war. Perhaps lawyer/NYT best-selling author Glenn Greenwald might spend more time thinking these things through."

Or, perhaps lonewacko should spend more time thinking these things through. We did not inter the German-Americans, or the Italian-Americans. They are white, see, and that would be wrong. But because the Japanese-Americans are non-white, they are not quite all-American enough, so we lock them up.

(and I'm not sure you should, given some of the arguments here), perhaps you could allow registered letter-writers to create a single alternate ID that changes monthly (preventing tracking of identifying information) which people can use when they feel they need to. I could maintain one personna for reasoned, moderate commentary (The Professor) and my alternate ID (Jumpin Jehosephats, this month) for sharing personal information or snarky come-backs that would hurt my red-star stats.

I'm jumping in late here, but thanks for your contribution. The most important fact that needs to be pointed out about Lieberman isn't just that his desires represent the desires of only the extreme right fringe within Israel, but also that they are NOT in the best interests of Israel. With Hagee, he is buying into a narrative that involves Israel in endless wars with her neighbors, wars that she is 'pre-ordained' to lose. That is good for Israel, how? Criticizing that narrative makes one an anti-semite, how?

I get the sense that the RW Noise Machine is much more threatened by the idea of an Obama candidacy than a Clinton one. They know the polling data is with them for defeating her, but Obama's a wild card. They've got the racism card, and the "Chicago machine" card (he in fact rose to power outside the Chicago machine, and they haven't been comfortable with him ever since). After that they got nothing. They want Clinton for the same reasons I want Guiliani to win the repub nomination.

Meanwhile, how long before the MSM start regularly referring to him as "Hussein Obama"?

As some have already indicated, one by-product of the internet that scares many and delights me is the bottom-up effusion of artistry - music, video, animation, comedy etc. I think I prefer a world where everyone is a mediocre artist of some kind, rather than one where almost no one is, and we instead pay a special few to be artists for us. My son (13) makes little clay-mation videos, flash animations, and computer games and puts them on his website. They are universally crappy, but I would rather have him spending time producing crappy art than shelling out money for someone else's great art.

For example, many people I know (myself, mostly) work on a laptop and have conversations with friends and colleagues in coffee shops. If it can be shown that terrorists are also working and having conversations in coffee shops, we clearly need to respond by recording those conversations with hidden microphones. Coffee-tapping is needed to protect our way of life. We must keep up with these new ways of communicating.

I understand how the Senate democrats were stuck in a delicate dance a year ago with Lieberman - if they pissed him off too much he could have decided to conference with the Republicans, thus denying them senate. One could argue that it's too high a price to pay - better to be in the minority than play nice with Lieberman, but they did see that as their choice. Now, however, things might be different. If Lieberman switched parties now, would democrats still lose majority status till the 08 elections? One can only hope Senate democratic leaders are promising the world to Olympia Snow and Susan Collins to get them to switch, then we could give Joe the heave-ho.

"I wasn't writing about her breasts. I was writing about her nipples."

"I wasn't writing about his penis. I was writing about his package."

"I wasn't writing about his hair. I was writing about his hairstyle."

"I wasn't writing about his race. I was writing about how dark his skin is."

But not yet!! He's the best candidate Democrats can hope for, so cut him some slack for a few more months. Wait till he becomes the nominee.

Do something a bit impolite to a lone asshole to save the world. Hmm. That's quite the conundrum.