Category: The Dish

That’s the new GOP moniker for supporters of Ron Paul. Classy.

That’s according to the Concerned Women For America. The rationale for vetoing a bill that would give gays the same federal protection from job discrimination as countless other minorities:

H.R. 3685 is inconsistent with the right to the free exercise of religion as codified by Congress in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The Act prohibits the Federal Government from substantially burdening the free exercise of religion except for compelling reasons, and then only in the least restrictive manner possible. H.R. 3685 does not meet this standard. For instance, schools that are owned by or directed toward a particular religion are exempted by the bill; but those that emphasize religious principles broadly will find their religious liberties burdened by H.R. 3685. 

If you ban employers in large firms from firing employees just because they’re gay, you are violating their religious freedom. Christianity, it seems, is reflected in punishing gay people for no other reason than their sexual orientation. The Christianity of this president, anyway.

"Actually, just look at what Osam, uh, Barack Obama, said just yesterday. Barack Obama calling on radicals, jihadists of all different types, to come together in Iraq. That is the battlefield. That is the central place, he said. Come join us under one banner," – Mitt Romney.

This is actually bizarre. He got it right the first time and then switched so that he describes Obama as the head of al Qaeda, fomenting Jihadist opposition to US troops in Iraq. The campaign apologized. But I have a feeling this wasn’t entirely accidental. And will happen again.

Hillary Clinton is obviously the GOP’s last hope for keeping the White House next year. But is she enough to compensate for the lack of new ideas, aura of nastiness, stench of corruption, and intellectual incoherence that festoons the right? Dave Weigel is skeptical. James Joyner thinks pure negativism doesn’t work. Drum disagrees. Dreher quips:

Do Republicans have new arguments? I hadn’t noticed.

They want him out of the party now altogether.

Hewitt endorses. So does K-Lo. No, I’m not making it up.

How do you measure it? The web can help.

Bees do it. And snails can do it to the tune of Sexy Boy by Air. Actually, I found the whole video totally gross.

Only a lawyer could write a sentence like this:

In the balance of this column, I will explain why James Madison is no more of an authority on the meaning of the U.S. Constitution, than J.K. Rowling is on Dumbledore’s sexual orientation.

More signs of legal desperation here:

As someone whose middle name begins with "Vlad," I may be blogging in the future about my own interests in vampires and the law — what Buffy has to do with property law and the law and economics insights of Angel.

Beats torts, I guess.

Ponnuru and I are on the same page re: Huckabee:

He seems to combine some of Pat Buchanan’s bad ideas with some of George W. Bush’s. He’s the protectionist compassionate conservative. No thanks.