Oops, I left out a line. For a full report with much more polite language, check out Joshua Claybourn's blog.

BRAVE OR STUPID?Presidential contender Joe Lieberman gave a speech at a conference of the Arab American Institute. What was he thinking? He was booed, hissed, and reviled. Maybe these Arabs went to school at Roger Williams University. They seem to have a problem with diversity of opinions also. And, Nazis don't like Jews as I remember.

IT'S A GOOD DAY TO LIVE.Good news today if you value life. The Florida senate approved a law authorizing Governor Jeb Bush to order the reinstallation of the feeding tube of Terri Schiavo. Governor Bush did so immediately and it has been done. Legal challenges await, but for now, the State is not starving this young woman to death.

Further good news is that the U.S. Senate passed a ban on partial birth abortions and is sending it to our pro life president who will sign it. Today the barbarians have been beaten back from the gate.

NOT YOUR CHURCH'S SHEPARD. Judy Shepard, mother of slain homosexual Matthew Shepard, is speaking against churches at speeches she gives at college campuses. She says"Churches are damaging us as a society." This is because they do not support the homosexual agenda.

Even more extreme, she gave this speech at Roger Williams University at an event freshmen were required to attend. When the campus Republican Club opposed, the University took away the club's funding and closed their award winning newspaper. You can read a first hand account here.

College campuses have become entrenched in leftist ideals. As more young adults wake up to conservatism, they feel threatened and have reacted with all the force and opposition of Nazi Germany. Free speech is not allowed. Freedom of assembly is removed. Freedom of the press is squelched, all while the university president mouths platitudes of diversity. He does not want diversity and should be honest enough to admit it. What he wants is lock step conformity with leftist ideals, and what he is willing to do to get it is use the jack boot of authority to stomp the opposition.

CELEBRITY LAW.Cases involving celebrities, or high profile events, create havoc in the justice system. Judges preen, lawyers prance, defedants pose, it all becomes a mess. The judge in the Kobe Bryant case is the latest example. Although he bound Bryant over for trial after the preliminary hearing, he took the occasion in his ruling to dump on the prosecution's case. Normally a judge rules without comment on such a matter. So why do it now? Just to be on the talk shows? If so, it worked. The morning shows were full of shots of the judge taking the bench. Is it for a future book deal, the "I told you so" book? Bad judge, bad judge.

Then you have the box cutter guy. He was on the news today also. I caught Diane Sawyer stumping for the guy. She needs a law license, she was working so hard to defend him. She castigated a federal official saying should they prosecute him for an act that was obviously "just civil disobedience". Just civil disobedience, Diane? Do we need a dictionary? Civil disobedience means breaking the law to make a point, usually a moral one. When you break the law, you get prosecuted. That is kind of the point of prosecution. And the point of civil disobedience is that you say you are willing to suffer the consequences because of your moral beliefs. This is what Operation Rescue does. The get prosecuted for trespassing at abortion clinics, trying to stop abortions. Then, the docs got a law passed that made gathering at an abortion clinic a crime. (This by the way is the golden rule. Those with the gold rule.) But, the resuce folks feel that abortion violates the moral law, so the break the law to protest it. It would be hard to imagine old Di defending them on national t.v. So, somebody get the poor girl a dictionary, maybe a copy of the Thoreau essay, and bring her up to speed. It is painful to watch her embarass herself. I'll make it a point not to do that in the future.

DEATH WATCH.For an excellent article on Terry Schiavo, killing the disabled, and related topics, go here.

POLLS REDUX.After my own rant about polls, I enjoyed seeing Armstrong Williams write about them. He makes a good point. Most pollsters use the telephone. So, they do not account for busy people who are not at home in the early evening, or those of us who do not answer the telephone. I would still like to see every poll come with a warning label that tells who paid for the poll and who conducted it.