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 [...]

This is truly sad.
Tom Tancredo, the man who called for the bombing of Mecca, says he doesn’t think the federal government should get involved give the state or local governments the money.
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., asked House Speaker Dennis Hastert not to send federal disaster aid to officials in Louisiana, calling state and local [...]

Here’s the actual quote:
“And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this — this [she chuckles slightly] is working very well for them.”
Now, I’m sure she didn’t mean anything vicious by it, but that’s kind of the point. Anybody who says that the flood is actually working [...]

Since I’ve been focusing quite a bit on the good stuff about John Roberts, I figured it’s only fair to take a look at some of the more suspect stances he has taken.
Recently a memo was discovered that exposed Roberts’ views about unequal wages between the sexes. That’s right. He wasn’t in favor of fixing [...]

“The president and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is ‘okay’ to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is.”
Howard Dean, getting it really wrong on the KELO decision
A bunch more over at Patterico.

When I first read this story about a flag burning incident involving a family’s tribute to their fallen soldier son, my gut told me that it would be blamed on liberals.
Regrettably, I didn’t have to wait long to find out I was correct. The most popular blog I found that indulged in the “whodunit” guessing [...]

Apparently the Tancredo effect is being felt around the right-wing mediasphere.
This next to liken all of Islam to a terrorist organization is talk show host Michael Graham, who was promptly suspended by his station indefinitely.
From the Wash Post:
Graham, 42, said on his mid-morning program on Monday that the fault for recent acts of terrorism lies [...]

The missing piece might finally be filled in

The International Herald Tribune is being a little too kind to Chirac with this headline:
Battered Chirac defends France on all fronts
President Jacques Chirac, upping the stakes in Paris’s verbal jousting match with London, said Thursday that the French were better than the British in many domains: They have more children, they spend more on [...]

Marc Schulman is one of my blogfriends who is keeping an eye on the work of Stephen Hayes and Thomas Joscelyn, patiently piecing together the evidence for a connection between Saddam and al Qaida. Here he quotes Claudia Rosett (of Oil-for-Food fame):
Since the fall of Saddam, the U.S. has had extraordinary access to documents of [...]

Partisan hacks are back at it.

Protein Wisdom once did a tasty send-up of Molly Ivins:
Well howdy, this here’s Molly Ivins, nationally syndicated pain-in-the-ass, Official State Hemorrhoid of Texas, warning track liberal, & all-around hoot & a holler. In case you’re wondering why I sound like Minnie Pearl, that’s my schtick, okay? I been flogging it for 50 years, I cain’t [...]

Tit for tat

A leading blog thinks Ann Coulter is an ally in the coming SCOTUS nomination process

A trio of statements made on Fox News have caused an uproar.

Karl Rove gone craaaaaaazy!!!

“We put warning labels on cigarette packs because we know that smoking takes one to two years off the average life span, yet we ‘celebrate’ a lifestyle that we know spreads every kind of sexually transmitted disease and takes at least 20 years off the average life span according to the 2005 issue of the [...]

Dick Durbin likened U.S. solider’s interrogation tactics to the Nazis. Bad move.

LA Times columnist argues that Nazi comparisons are appropriates…sometimes…