Do you hear that? It’s the sound of an adult crying over nothing. So yes, the following is exceedingly superficial, but that’s sort of the point.
Lee Seigel just penned one of the most asinine editorials I’ve read in quite some time. The topic? Baseball caps. And I don’t even wear baseball caps!
In particular, note [...]

With no big surprise, the Senate rejected cloture on a vote for a constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage. During this whole debate, I keep hearing people who are against the ban that this is a distracting issue and that government should focus on more important issues like immigration or health care.
I’d like [...]

So if John McCain took heat from moderates for going to Liberty University, what punishment ought to be meted out to Howard Dean for his appearance on the “700 Club?”
A natural political step, courting an important segment of the voting population, keeping the party’s doors open to everyone. Yes, yes, but what he said …

Dean [...]

Not. JFK has been sent to the dunce’s stool — again — this time for quoting Thomas Jefferson in praise of dissent — with a quote nobody has ever found in Jefferson’s actual writings.
Eh, I’m willing to give him a pass for this. A great many quotes attributed to the Founders or to Lincoln were [...]

From the Associated Press:

A small Easter display was removed from the City Hall lobby on Wednesday out of concern that it would offend non-Christians.
The display - a cloth Easter bunny, pastel-colored eggs and a sign with the words “Happy Easter’’ - was put up by a City Council secretary. They were not purchased with city [...]

I’m agreeing with Tim F. that the panic over Arabs running our ports is an over-reaction. I’ve said that from the start. It would seem the Bush Administration held the high ground here: Can you imagine the outrage if it had been the federal government that said, “Hey, we can’t let a bunch of A-rabs [...]

I know the title seems to overstate the situation, but it doesn’t. Seriously.
This recent ruling certainly seems like you can’t be sexually liberated in Italy and expect protection from the police and the government.
From CNN:
Sexually abusing a teenager is less serious a crime if the girl is not a virgin, Italy’s higher court said on [...]

First, the NAACP Chairman calls the GOP a bunch of Nazis. Meanwhile, Donald Rumsfeld compares Chavez’s rise to power with Hitler’s rise to power.
Excuse me for a moment…yawwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnn….
In other news, Justin Gardner likens radishes to cauliflower, chaos follows.

Tim Russert asked Barack Obama a question yesterday on Meet The Press, and frankly I thought it was just plain dumb.
The question concerned Harry Belafonte’s ridiculous, recent comments about Bush being the biggest terrorist in the world. After watching the Meet The Press clip (linked above), I can only imagine what Obama was thinking [...]

I appreciate his service in Iraq, but this is ridiculous…
Hackett said in a Sunday column in The Dispatch: “The Republican Party has been hijacked by the religious fanatics that, in my opinion, aren’t a whole lot different than Osama bin Laden and a lot of the other religious nuts around the world.”
And no…he’s not backing [...]

This is ridiculous:
WALLACE: Now, the President never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn’t it Jay Rockefeller?
SEN. ROCKEFELLER: No. The â€â€? I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I’ll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I [...]

This is INCREDIBLE.
Hugh Hewitt recently said the following:
With a nomination made, I prefer to press to the desired outcome, and support the president and recognize that the defeat of a nominee is a calamitous political consequence, no matter what other people say.
It may come as a shock to people, but I am a Republican, who [...]

Like Bill Bennett, I probably should just keep my mouth shut.
I confess, I’ve completely lost track of what “racist” means in contemporary American political discourse. I know what I think it means, but evidently I’m one of the people who are disqualified from knowing anything about it because I am a racist.
That is, I get [...]

So to address some major points:

Are blacks, on average, convicted of more crimes than any other race? Yes.
Did Bennett disagree with author Steven Levitt’s theory that higher abortion rates = lower crime rates? Yes.
Did Bennett agree that higher black abortion rates = lower crime rates? Yes.

I blogged about the Bennett’s Black Babies Theory story yesterday. [...]

Media Matters For America captured a conversation Bill Bennett, author of The Book of Virtues, had on his show Bill Bennett’s Morning in America. The program is said to reach an estimated 1.25 million listeners each week.
Are you ready?
Okay, here we go…
BENNETT: you know, one of the arguments in this book Freakonomics that they make [...]

This is truly amazing, and no, not the good kind of amazing.
From Washington Post.
Former Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael D. Brown said yesterday that it was not his job to take over the evacuation of New Orleans and rescue the drowning city from Hurricane Katrina, blaming Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, New Orleans Mayor [...]

Ridiculous.
Listen, I think our election system is as such that we’ll never truly know who had the most votes in Florida in 2000. Did Bush win? I don’t know. Did Gore win? I don’t know. But Carter says he has “no doubt” that Gore was elected.
No doubt? Really?
Listen to him say it himself at [...]

Totten has collected some that were printed on a leaflet and handed out before the Hitchens/Galloway debate last night.
Here are a few and then you can go over there and read the rest.
“If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think [...]

I like Garrison Keillor….when he’s not being a litigious whiner.
From the blog being sued, mnspeak:
I have no doubt about where I stand legally. Parody typically falls under Fair Use (or sometimes, the First Amendment), and this is clearly an instance of parody. There are a series of factors involved in the definition of parody, including [...]

MLB strike zone
Senator Joe Biden of Delaware said this during Judge Roberts confirmation hearings yesterday:
[BIDEN] As you know, in major league baseball, they have a rule. Rule two defines the strike zone. It basically says from the shoulders to the knees. And the only question about judges (ph) is: Do they have good eyesight or [...]