Slippery Slope Toward Theocracy? Um… No….

Dean at Dean’s World debunks rather neatly, the argument about how we’re slipping toward this horrible Theocracy….

It’s a visual, so I won’t bother quoting it.

Drezner last night decides to take on the task of reading and arguing Andrew Sullivan’s TNR peice. Glenn’s been commenting on this one too.

The two of them do a far enough job of trying to argue with him as

Speaking of Jason, he notesa report in The Globe and Mail that Paul Martin has used taxpayer money to hold onto power.

Essentially it works like this:

In exchange for agreeing to the New Democratic Party’s demands for more

At Musing , Jason notes that the Canadian government thinks anyone earning over $51k (USD) /yr is rich.

Jason calls this claim pathetic, and he’s right.

But what this really is, is a Canadian government trying to make the citizens

Outside The Beltway passes on some good news;

Laura’s breast cancer surgery yesterday “couldn’t have gone better,” in the words of her surgeon Dr. Katherine Alley. Initial sentinel node testing done during surgery showed no signs of cancer involvement in

Says C-Net;

Microsoft came under renewed criticism from gay- and lesbian-rights groups on Tuesday after an online report indicated that the company is using former Christian Coalition chief Ralph Reed’s lobbying firm.

Ah, yes… the politics of Personal Destruction,

So says Slashdot.

They’ve got pics, too.

In answer to the repeated questions from readers….

Yes, I have seen the Drudge Flash. I even heard the event on air. But I didn’t comment on it here for several reasons.

First and foremost; Err America engaging in

Remember under Reagan the rich actually paid more in taxes than everyone else? Odd, the Democrats never gave him credit for that, still claiming that the irch were not paying their fair share, whatever the hell that was supposed to

Pravda West, otherwise known as the WaPo is amazingly reporting something positive about President Bush. Only reason I can think of that they’d do such a thing is that they don’t consider that it’s all that positive a thing…. (Actually

AP- WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Tuesday rejected compromise offers that would allow minority Democrats to continue to block judicial nominees, saying all of President Bush’s past and future court choices deserve confirmation votes from the GOP-controlled

Captain’s Quarters note this morning that there’s a rather large hole in the report we were all fed yesterday about there being no weapons sent to Syria.  As I noted on OTB yesterday… seems to me they’d forgotten about that

Austin Bay Blog notes a report at the CBC which pases on some quotes from Canadian ambassador to Denmark Alfonso Gagliano, who says in part:

“The separation of Quebec from Canada is not stoppable,’ Alfonso Gagliano told Radio-Canada. “He’s going

Tim from Portland west, reminds me of another cancer survivor…Tony Snow is back on the radio… this being his second day. Says he’s feeling fine.

That pleases me no end… I’ve always rather liked that chap.

I’m seeing (thusfar unconfirmed) rumblings that Voinovich will now vote for Bolton and that the ads against him have been pulled.

Speculation: This is beginning to sound like he wanted some stroking.

More as I find.