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I'm in the process of moving so posting will be light for the next few days....

More on the New York Times' insistence on digging through John Roberts' ultra-personal adoption of two children, via Drudge. The National Council For Adoption puts it on the NYT's ass hard: ?NCFA denounces, in the strongest possible terms, the shocking...

Mark your calendars, because it sounds like Ace and Karol have scored Greg Gutfeld for their show....

The Hildebrand boys are whining about reports exposing their financial ties to the continuing Daschle campaign against John Thune. First Nathan Peterson claims his compensation has nothing to do with his blogging. I think that was what Jason Van Beek...

The National Education Association, which claims to care about education, is asking parents to boycott Wal-Mart during this back to school purchasing season. I never cease to be amazed at the left's concerted effort to demonize a company that employees...

Light blogging in the next day or two while I take care of some projects. See you later....

Mainstreamers have lost their way

A couple of opEds from the RC Journal here and here express some thoughts similar to a comment the Chief posted a while back on the same topic. Akers' double-barrel blast was especially on target in a number of respects.

Moderates accommodate evil (the mainstream coalition advocates "tolerance and compassion for all"). They avoid decisions. Whenever you hear a politician say we have to let the courts decide issues like abortion and gay marriage, you're listening to a moderate. Prior to the Iraq war and World War II, moderates sought to avoid decisions by giving sanctions or diplomacy more time to work.

The Mainstream Coalition was about as bold as you'd expect a bunch of moderates to be in crafting their list their principles. They're for human rights, religious freedom and quality education, against saying mean things about homosexuals and racial minorities, against candidates who lie about their beliefs, and against requiring office-holders to belong to a particular religion. This would only matter if anyone with power or influence were taking the opposite position on these things, and none are.

The Mainstreamers should add a little to their statement that a quality education is the cornerstone of freedom and democracy. Along with quality education, you need guns, a constitution, ammunition, private property, citizens who know how to use guns, judges who follow the constitution, gun factories and a separation of powers. And maybe a few more guns. You need one more thing. A moral population. A religious citizenry.

On target!

As far as the virtues of "moderation" go, two thoughts:
(1) Moderation in defense of freedom is no virtue, extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. (Goldwater)
(2) ref: Revelation 3:16.

A few weeks ago I questioned the media coverage of the events in Iraq. Now there is this item noted by Media Blog at NRO: Mark Finkelstein over at Newsbusters reported this morning that Matt Lauer got a surprise answer...

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