“One caller from Oklahoma City said that ‘the questions

Noted whack-job Dennis Kucinich questioning George Bush’s mental health.

Steven Green:

I stopped voting Libertarian for local candidates, leaving lots of blanks on my ballot. Next year, I

Gee, maybe they need giant paper mache puppets. That always gets press coverage:

A group of 12 students chose to wear empty holsters to class this week at the University of Idaho as part of the nationwide protest.

Aled Baker, a junior, said he loses his constitutional right to protect himself and others when he steps on campus.

“It’s null and void when you go on campus,” the mechanical engineering student said.

Baker, a sportsman and hunter, has a license to carry a concealed handgun and hopes the protest will get people talking about the issue.

The Second Amendment continues to be the one that dare not speak its name.

And the Brady bunch stands in for Bull Connor and George Wallace.

“You don’t like the fact that you can’t have a gun on your college campus? Drop out of school,” said Peter Hamm, a spokesman for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Disarming law-abiding citizens today, disarming law-abiding citizens tomorrow, disarming law-abiding citizens forever.

Michael Barone says that it’s not 2006 any more.

“Crooks And Liars” lives up to its name. At least the “Liars” part.

Radley Balko wonders why Bush (and Cheney) haters would want Hillary!™ as president.

The 1990s, remember, weren’t exactly a decade of peace. Bill Clinton ordered more U.S. military interventions than any other post-WWII administration, and there’s no reason to think any of them were over Hillary’s protestations. She supported the U.S. military campaigns in Haiti, Kosovo, and Bosnia. She once boasted that as the tension in Kosovo mounted, she called her husband from her trip to Africa and, “I urged him to bomb.”

Hillary Clinton voted for both the Patriot Act and its reauthorization. She voted for building a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border. She voted to loosen restrictions limiting the federal government’s ability to wiretap cell phones. In the past, she has supported a robust role for the federal government in enforcing “decency” standards in television and music. She teamed up with former Sen. Rick Santorum on a bill calling for the federal government to restrict the sale of violent video games.

Leftists concerned about the entertainment industry’s increasingly imperial stand on copyright might take a cue from copyright guru Lawrence Lessig, who wrote on his blog for Wired magazine: “Of all the Dems, I would have bet she was closest to the copyright extremists. So far, she’s done nothing to suggest to the contrary.”

What about secrecy and executive power? It’s difficult to see Hillary Clinton voluntarily handing back all of those extra-constitutional executive powers claimed by President Bush. Her husband’s administration, for example, copiously invoked dubious “executive privilege” claims to keep from complying with congressional subpoenas and open records requests

Not that I’m a big Rudy fan, but this is one of the (few) reasons that I’m glad to no longer be in California.

California is one of the most blessed places on earth, in terms of climate and gorgeous scenery. It’s too bad that it was ruined by all the nutty (recent) Californians.

Mark Steyn:

Re: Harry Reid & Co matching Rush’s E-Bay take for charity, more than a few readers have suggested the easiest way for the Dem Senators to match the funds would be for Hillary to arrange for some itinerant in Chinatown to “bundle” a quick four mil.

There was a World War II charity campaign called “Bundles for Britain”. Senator Clinton needs to launch “Bundles for Harry”.

The real point, of course, is that Rush is donating his own money. The entire Democrat philosophy, though, is to do charity with other peoples’ money.

[Saturday morning update]

Harry Reid and the Letter of Doom.

Christopher Hitchens provides his thoughts on the subject, and some reviews of books about it.