The self-righteously PC dogmatism with which it was responded to and moderated were, of course, utterly predictable.

• A somewhat interesting thread sprang out of my last Journal Entry as well. I'll probably devote some more journal space to this one in the next day or two.
• In this thread, we get a

It's been two years. Last I remember you were quite a Bush defender. Any political stuff you'd care to talk about that didn't turn out quite like you expected?

``Another year older and no wiser'' category

These guys seem to be carrying on pretty much where we all left off:

Thought for the day:

``In the perfect world, the schools would be held to the same standard of excellence that our military is, and the teachers unions would have to hold a bake sale when they want to buy a Senator.''

Discuss.

I'm gaining a lot of respect for Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game and other novels. Some time ago, I had pointed people here, in several posts, to this piece he wrote on Iraq and North Korea, and ellem and others have pointed out his recent piece, picked u

This gem comes via NewsHax:

Bush Endorses Dean for Democratic Nomination

Two more threads, both fun ones:

In this thread, we get a look at correct and incorrect use of the term `Orwellian' before diving into a look at the cold war and how it was won.

In 1999, Fr. Thomas Hopko (OCA) wrote:

It has long been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression (although I do not choose to put it into a newspaper, nor like a Priam in armor to offer myself as its champion), that the germ of dissolution of our Federal Government is in the constitution of the Federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little to-day and a little to-morrow, and advancing its noiseless

Every thread should have a punchline as good as the one I've been linking to in the past two JE's does.