Bush wrote: ''The executive branch shall construe the provisions . . . that call for furnishing information to entities outside the executive branch . . . in a manner consistent with the president's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch and to withhold information . . . "

What is actually in the Constitution (Article 2, Section 3): "...he (the President) shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed."

Guess it all depends on the meaning of "take care" and "faithfully."

Healy argues that the "conservative" movement now rests, in essence, on virtually nothing more than a belief in endless, mindless militarism.

To which I would add, tax cuts and yellow ribbons. Conservatives want wars that they don't have to pay for and don't have to fight in. Abolish that "death tax" and display those yellow ribbons.

You ask, "So what comes next?

Simple answer (and hopefully everyone will know the source: "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

You write, "And please ignore that the Phoenix coaches did, in fact, control them, and no damage was done when the two left the "bench area," an ill-defined zone that could reasonably include the area where Diaw and Stoudemire reached before being herded back to their seats."

Thank you for pointing this out. All the other commentary on this, especially from Stern but also from the ESPN and TNT types, has been along the lines of, "who are you going to believe--me or your lying eyes."

Compare the following two passages. First, from Glenn's piece, Larry Kudlow:

What is Kudlow's view of all this?

The reality here is that all three al Qaeda branches -- in addition to its jihadist cohorts elsewhere -- are coming at us.

The question now becomes whether the U.S. government will stay on the offensive, maintain all of its Patriot Act tools, and beat down the bad guys.

Second, here is a passage from The Great Gatsby:

"Civilization's going to pieces," broke out Tom violently... "Have you read 'The Rise of the Coloured Empires'...? The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be--will be utterly submerged... It's up to us who are the dominant race to watch out or these other races will have control of things."

"We've got to beat them down," whispered Daisy, winking ferociously toward the fervent sun.

"I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice."

A candidate for the Presidency of the United States actually said this? Surely he was immediately laughed off the stage.

Roger Simon writes, "What we have on our Left is a culture of denial equal to, if not exceeding, the German Jews of the 1930s..."

Wow. So we live as a minority in a nation where the vast majority of people are Muslims.

When did this happen to the United States?

I somehow missed this development. And I don't even do drugs.

Simon says: "What we have on our Left is a culture of denial equal to, if not exceeding, the German Jews of the 1930s...

Because if we lose and fall under religious law,..."

OK, so this is a foreign threat comparable to the Nazis. To deal with that threat, didn't we have a draft which raised an armed force of about 12 million? Let's say 25 million today. And didn't we have big tax increases, with the top tax rate something like 90 percent?

Simon, Limbaugh, etc., are for a draft and a tax increase, right? They are serious about defending this nation, right?

Borger writes, "the man President Bush called the "architect" of his re-election..."

Isn't Rove the man Bush called "Turdblossom"? What, I wonder, is Borger's explanation of that?

Borger writes, "But when Rove speaks, the political class pays attention -- usually with good reason."

Isn't Rove the political genius who took the most unifying event in American history since Pearl Harbor, namely the attack on our homeland itself on 9/11, and turned it into the ruination of the Bush presidency and the discrediting of the Republican Party? What, I wonder, is Borger's explanation of that?