Quote of the Week.

By now I'm sure that most of you have read Keith Thompsons's San Francisco Chronicle piece, Leaving the Left. If you haven't, you need to. Too much crunchy goodness to excerpt even a teaser. But that's not where the Quote of the Week comes from this time. Mr. Thompson has his own web site, and on that site is another of his essays, Busting the Moral Equivalence Racket. In it he quotes author Sam Harris from his book The End of Faith:

(S)o many Muslims are eager to turn themselves into bombs these days because the Koran makes this activity seem like a career opportunity

But we're not in a religious war, you understand. Words like "Crusade" must not be uttered.

Mr. Thompson has a blog, too: Sane Nation. I think I'm going to have to spend some time there. He says things like this:

Spot quiz. Who made the following statement:

“The free use of private property is just as important as ... speech, the press, or the free exercise of religion.”

A. James Madison
B. Thomas Jefferson
C. Adam Smith
D. Bobcat Goldwaithe

Answer: none of the above. Janice Rogers Brown made that statement. But it sounds a lot like Madison or Jefferson. So what is it that has "progressive" opponents of Brown's nomination to the D.C. Court of Appeals screaming like Bobcat?

Here's what: Brown had the audacity to declare that courts have the responsibility not run roughshod over groups that are unpopular or lack political power.

Yup. I definitely need to read more of what this ex-Leftist has to say.