March 9, 2005 by s.z.

Nuts From All Over 1.  Rev. Mark H. Creech explains in a column at Agape Press that it was a big mistake for the Supreme Court to rule that we can't exectute juvenile offenders, because that's just what the  little monsters WANT, so that they can kill you in cold blood and get away with it.  But there's one person who they can't fool: the devil! For all those who believe juveniles are never culpable enough to deserve capital punishment, consider this: Not everyone in hell is over the age of 18. 2.  Over at www.JeffGannon.com, Jim Guckert seems to believe that it's an abuse of power for members of Congress to request an investigation into matters that involve a journalist.  And that's not the strangest thing!  He also thinks that this investigation into a journalist would somehow involve him (well, I guess it could, if the journalist knew something about why the White House kept admitting JimJeff to press conferences). March 8, 2005 Rep. Louise Slaughter is accusing House Republicans of 'abusing their power."  What does she think investigating a journalist is?  STORY   12:05 am Oh, and JimJeff is also mad at Editor & Publisher for getting a quote fromJohn Aravosis of Americablog, the guy who was the "lead" on JimJeff's "political assassination."  But my view is that if you have advertised your services as a prostitute on the internet (complete with nude photos), what John did could more accurately be termed "asssisting a political suicide." March 9, 2005 [...]STORY  Editor & Publisher quotes a Lefty blogger who was the lead on the my political assassination to make a point about national security and Rep. Louise Slaughter gives a quote to RAW STORY, as if it was a legitimate news service.  Nice unbiased work, E&P!    12:05am Well, if anybody should know about illegitimate news services, it would be JimJeff. BTW, this is the Lefty blogger's point: John Aravosis of Americablog, who has been prominent in the current uproar, asked: “If Gannon's day pass was effectively equivalent to a 'hard pass' given to long-term White House reporters, why didn't Gannon get a more thorough background check?” In his view, Gannon/Guckert “posed the same potential risk to national security as any hard pass reporter,” yet he was “never forced to get a hard pass, and thus never required to get the hard pass three-month FBI background check.”  3.  And over at FrontPageMag, the very wingnutty Jamie Glazov holds a symposium on "Ward Churchill: A Symbol of Higher Education?"  Here's how Jaime sets the stage: Ward Churchill’s vilification of the 9/11 victims “as little Eichmans” crystallized, once again, the agenda of the hard Left in the terror war. It also served as a reminder of how the academic campus is full of radical professors who browbeat their students with their extremist views and stifle any possible dissenting voices. Was the real lesson behind the Churchill incident, therefore, that educational standards need to be restored to our college campuses and that diverse viewpoints need to be allowed to flourish? Or was the real lesson behind the incident (which involved one obscure professor who apparently never shared his essay with his students) that David Horowitz should be given power over the nation's universities before the hard Left kills us all?  While the first two guests refuse to play along with Jaime, eventually guest Ben Shapiro gets his chance to explain that he's seen worse than Churchhill during his years among the enemy, and that speaker Tim Wise was a big stupidhead for saying, "Ward's words no more indict the left than Ann Coulter's inherently indict the right. Yet last month she said we should nuke North Korea because it would be 'fun'  Of course the right is not distancing itself from her, so I guess this means all conservatives endorse the incineration of innocent civilians." Shapiro:  There’s a big difference between arguing that all leftists agree with Churchill that September 11 victims were “little Eichmanns” (which no one here has claimed), and arguing (as the moderator has done) that the basic anti-Americanism inherent in Churchill’s words represents something larger for the left.  There is no denying that a broad swath of the left is anti-American -- the “blame America first” crowd (Mr. Wise seems to be a member).  Here’s what Ann Coulter’s acceptance says about the right: we don’t think a military solution in North Korea should be unthinkable.  Here’s what Ward Churchill’s acceptance says about the left: we sympathize with the enemies of America.  And it's GOOD that the Right can consider nuking North Korea, while it's EVIL that the Left tries to understand where the enemies of America are coming from. 8:41:03 AM

Swank o' the Day A new feature wherein we choose our favorite bit from one of Pastor Swank's latest columns.  Today's selection is from BUSH: COMBAT MURDERERS WITH FREEDOM (emphesis in original): If only the mainline media fellows were in the driver’s seat they could see through all global agendas past-tense in perfect form. Of course. That’s why mainline media is made up mainly of a collection of fools. So much so as to force the sane grassroots into total frustration because of the illusionary lunacy of mainline media liberals. Mr. Bush holds to keeping the faith in an eternal postulate that has proven its workability for it’s lodged in the Creator. Mr. Bush has kept the patience for he knows that we inhabit a spiritually flawed world that waits for the divine move to reveal itself. Indeed. Well, indeed about the part of the illusionary lunacy of mainline media liberals.   However, I don't know if I agree with the part about Mr. Bush lodging postulates in the Creator -- that sounds kind of blasphemous to me.  3:25:15 AM