hmmm.

http://freedomdemocrats.org/node/3377

 Click the link, to see what protest looks like in the US as compared to Iran.

...F'ing nightmare!

"This amounts to the largest tax increase in American history under the guise of climate change..."

As you may not know, I am not only a supporter of Mark's, I am his neighbor as well. He and Jenny live on Sullivan's Island and we are on the Isle of Palms, the two are one community really connected by a small inlet overpass. We often see Jenny at the market and our kids play together on the stretch of beach between our houses.

So, as you can imagine, as it would with any couple facing this situation we were saddened and shocked by the news. My thoughts are with Jenny and the kids.

Though I do not know Mark Sanford well, I have spent some time with him, and I will be the first to tell you this is not a man prone to adolescent flirtation or imprudent motivations, so it took me particularly by surprise when this all came to light.

Then I read the emails for myself, and discovered they revealed a side of the man I had not known. He writes eloquently and with profound honesty about what his life was like and what was happening between the two.

The more I read, the more I got the sense this was not some random fling, not some passing infatuation, but rather a man who was profoundly unhappy, and had found love.

I would never defend his foolish behavior surrounding the whole thing, I do certainly grant the man the right to be human.

Let's face it, ultimately it boils down to nothing more than that;

They weren’t quite Petrarch’s sonnets to Laura, but South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s emails to his Argentine friend reveal a man both tortured and in love.

As such, he doesn’t fit the template of more familiar fallen men in America’s political arena. He didn’t hire a prostitute. He didn’t send lascivious emails to underlings. He didn’t behave oddly in a public restroom or solicit sex online. He didn’t hear those three little words—“You’re so hot”—and lose his senses. He didn’t plunder whatever was handy and try to parse the definition of sex.

I wish Jenny and the boys well, and though I am sad he jeopardized his career and behaved recklessly, I still strongly support Gov. Sanford's political philosophy.

Will The Supreme Court Pull the Trigger?

This headline wins the award for the most crassly insensitive description of eliminating (the black threat) affirmative action. The Supreme Court will rule on the much discussed Ricci case today.

 To think that the folks at Powerlineblog consider themselves to be the intellectual heavy weights on the right while using this eliminationist, 'pull the trigger' rhetoric. What are they thinking?

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/06/023922.php

Yet in both cases, the Supreme Court did not pull the trigger. In the Voting Rights case, it ended up ducking the constitutional issue. In the school cases, only four Justices would flatly endorse the view that race-based assignments cannot be used to achieve a particular racial balance for its own sake.