A round up of recent reporting and commentary by a few centrist, moderate, and independent bloggers.
Michael vdG comments on F. Thompson taking on CAIR.
David Adesnik looks at “two New Yorkers’ thoughts about Bloomberg.” I love this description of the Mayor: He “exudes competence.” Sounds like the polar opposite of someone else’s administration.
Dennis Sanders encourages anyone who considers his affiliations an oxymoron to “deal with it.”
Andrew Sullivan linked to and excerpted a CS post of mine earlier this week about why I’m still a Republican. That touched off a minor brouhaha, with Rod Dreher jumping into the mix, then Andrew responding, and Patrick Conlon offering his two cents.
Jim Martin is not happy with the Bush administration’s staffing of the embassy in Baghdad.
Daniel DiRito uses the occasion of GWB’s next stem-cell veto to revisit “the flaws of a faith-based presidency.”
Finally, Jason Steck looks at immigration and terrorism. Money quote: “In the case of the anti-immigration approach to ‘national security,’ it may well be not only that the cure is worse than the disease, the supposed cure might be part of the cause.”