Current Affairs

So you don't have to do all the work, here are the most obnoxious Katrina quotes . . . so far.

You certainly have to give Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee credit for keeping the focus on their agenda, no matter what John Roberts says. Under questioning from Sen. Kyl of Arizona, Roberts said it was not the court's job to choose sides in pursuit of some vision of "progress" or "liberty." The Constitution envisions that those goals will be met when people and their representatives duke it out in the legislative process. That was followed almost immediately with a question from Sen.

Most of the people who are against the war in Iraq seem to be leftists who think we should have been satisfied with our victory in Afghanistan, as if that would have been enough to send all the terrorists scurrying away in fear.

If we allow one theory of "intelligent design" of the universe into science classrooms, wouldn't we then have to let other theories in as well?

The latest dispatch from libertarian correspondent Mike Sylvester:

It is hard to believe that four years have passed since the Twin Towers were destroyed by terrorists.

Inch by inch, row by row. You usually hear that sentiment about peace and love and nurturing Mother Earth and all the other stuff that romantics think you can just feel into existence. But it also applies to the stuff that's hard work, such as planting the seeds of freedom in the Mideast. They now have a taste of democracy in Egypt.

Unbridled passion from an editorial writer in Alabama who calls New Orleans home. He is angry "at the whole conglomeration of incompetents that failed to anticipate the easily anticipatable disaster, failed to respond well or at all to the disaster once it befell, and failed to report and analyze and comment on it with fairness or understanding once the disaster metastasized." His conclusion:

Tonight's lead editorial is about the need to be prepared to take care of yourself for three days if disaster strikes the area. In doing some research for the piece, I discovered that September is National . . . well, you won't believe it. See for yourself.

I've tried to convey the idea in several posts that President Bush is not solely to blame for the poor execution of post-Katrina relief -- not that he is blameless, but that plenty of others at all levels made mistakes as well. But perhaps I'm wrong if even God is a Bush-basher.

You remember our old friend Fred Phelps, who has brought his vile Westboro Baptist Church members here and lately has been picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq (including Indiana ones). He's at it again.