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January 5, 2005 Gonzales Nomination
The National Reviews Andrew McCarthy argues that those who oppose Alberto Gonzales for U.S. Attorney General are essentially suggesting that we should make a treaty with al Qaeda. Gonzales, McCarthy writes, is one of those sticks-in-the-mud who thinks we shouldn't treat al Qaeda terrorists as if we had a treaty with them, and that we shouldn't accord the privileges and immunities of honorable warfare to barbarians. For such positions has he been castigated by a hastily assembled group of retired military brass with a recent history of anti-Bush activism, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the usual cabal of human- rights activists who, though they've never met a terrorist they wouldn't coddle, don't seem to get particularly whipped up over humans whose work day is interrupted by hijacked jumbo jets crashing through office windows. Read
The Wall Street Journals James Taranto takes a similar tack: The Democrats' obsession with treating terrorists nicely bespeaks a dangerous moral vanity. They seem to think it is worth increasing the risk of another 9/11--or worse--in order for America to avoid the taint of being accused by the likes of the Red Cross of acts tantamount to torture, whatever that means. Read
Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, writes that Alberto Gonzales "deserves better than he's likely to get at the hands of Senate Democrats this week." Chavez dismisses questions about his commitment to human rights, saying "it's quite a stretch to blame Gonzales for the rogue sex and torture ring run by a handful of perverted American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison." Read
Tolerance
The American Family Association claims that childrens television characters are being used as a bait and switch to indoctrinate children to accept homosexuality" in the new DVD from the We Are Family Foundation. SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney the Dinosaur, Dora the Explorer and Bob the Builder are among those popular characters featured in a remake of the song "We Are Family" being distributed to public and private elementary schools to promote diversity and tolerance in the classroom. Read
Creationism
PBS station KNME-TV in Albuquerque, NM, has canceled a scheduled showing of "Unlocking the Mystery of Life, a documentary on the theory of intelligent design, eliciting charges of censorship from the Seattle-based Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. Read
January 5, 2005 Gonzales Nomination
The National Reviews Andrew McCarthy argues that those who oppose Alberto Gonzales for U.S. Attorney General are essentially suggesting that we should make a treaty with al Qaeda. Gonzales, McCarthy writes, is one of those sticks-in-the-mud who thinks we shouldn't treat al Qaeda terrorists as if we had a treaty with them, and that we shouldn't accord the privileges and immunities of honorable warfare to barbarians. For such positions has he been castigated by a hastily assembled group of retired military brass with a recent history of anti-Bush activism, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the usual cabal of human- rights activists who, though they've never met a terrorist they wouldn't coddle, don't seem to get particularly whipped up over humans whose work day is interrupted by hijacked jumbo jets crashing through office windows. Read
The Wall Street Journals James Taranto takes a similar tack: The Democrats' obsession with treating terrorists nicely bespeaks a dangerous moral vanity. They seem to think it is worth increasing the risk of another 9/11--or worse--in order for America to avoid the taint of being accused by the likes of the Red Cross of acts tantamount to torture, whatever that means. Read
Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, writes that Alberto Gonzales "deserves better than he's likely to get at the hands of Senate Democrats this week." Chavez dismisses questions about his commitment to human rights, saying "it's quite a stretch to blame Gonzales for the rogue sex and torture ring run by a handful of perverted American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison." Read
Tolerance
The American Family Association claims that childrens television characters are being used as a bait and switch to indoctrinate children to accept homosexuality" in the new DVD from the We Are Family Foundation. SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney the Dinosaur, Dora the Explorer and Bob the Builder are among those popular characters featured in a remake of the song "We Are Family" being distributed to public and private elementary schools to promote diversity and tolerance in the classroom. Read
Creationism
PBS station KNME-TV in Albuquerque, NM, has canceled a scheduled showing of "Unlocking the Mystery of Life, a documentary on the theory of intelligent design, eliciting charges of censorship from the Seattle-based Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. Read
