Here’s a charming quote to ponder:
The New Mexico Republican Central Committee has voted to censure the Sandoval County clerk, who issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The resolution says Republican Victoria Dunlap has brought disgrace to the party. “Other than assassination, all we can do is censure her,” said committee chairman Richard Gibbs.
Other than assassination?
MEMO TO ZAPATERO: “If a nation once establishes and proclaims as its rule of conduct, that any sacrifice of interest is preferable to war, it had better at once abdicate its independence and place itself under the protection of some less Quakerlike state; for to that condition of subjection it must come at last, and it is better to get to it decently and at once than to arrive at it painfully after successive humiliations, and all the the losses and sufferings resulting from repeated spoilations” – Lord Palmerston.
ANTI-SEMITISM IN BRITAIN: The Independent runs a story about growing Jew-baiting in Britain. It doesn’t seem to have occurred to the editors of that virulently anti-Israel paper, that they might in some ways have contributed to it.
WHY NOT TEAR-GAS IN FALLUJAH? Tom Palmer asks a simple question. I guess Iraq’s hideous history of dealing with real chemical weapons is one reason the coalition is reluctant to use non-lethal weaponry in such a situation.
The Dish 