Month: February 2006

So says Jay, whose blog, The Radical Centrist (a longtime favorite of mine), is hosting this week’s RINO Sightings Carnival. Jay does a great job with all the posts; here are a few that stood out: Dean Esmay has a very thoughtful post on commenters. Tom Rants argues that abortion is worse than terrorism. I…

John Beck of Incite (who was kind enough to guest blog here while I was on vacation) is hosting the 4,897th Carnival of the Vanities. Wow! I didn’t know there had been that many, and I feel like Rip Van Winkle because of the many thousands I’ve missed. Great carnival! There are so many posts…

If there’s one moral crusade I can get behind, it’s free speech. So I’m all too glad to support the growing movement urging people to buy Danish! (Via Glenn Reynolds.) I can’t think of a more worthy cause right now, and I’m adding this icon. By way of disclaimer, I should point out that not…

I’ve long been fascinated by the fact that in their haste to condemn what they call “the gay agenda,” a lot of social conservatives forget the political opportunity this creates to mainstream the very thing they condemn. (The major push for gays in the Boy Scouts, for example, does not come from gay activists, but…

By cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship, Google has (as Glenn Reynolds says), “lost a lot of moral capital.” This makes it very tough for bloggers like me who might otherwise defend them against the use of copyright laws to thwart the free flow of information: The WAN, which represents 18,000 newspapers and 73 national newspaper…