A round up of recent posts by a few centrist, moderate, and independent bloggers.
Booker Rising’s “Quote of the Day” (yesterday) re: the flaws in Bush’s argument against funding ESC research. [In short: Bush doesn’t want the federal government to fund this research because it would destroy embryos already slated for destruction.]
Andrew Sullivan spotlights a very articulate reader on “Jesus vs. Christianism” (though I think the title of the post would have been more accurately stated as “Jesus vs. Socialism and Christianism”).
So, did you wake up this morning asking yourself, “Hey, whatever happened to Tom DeLay?” Sean Aqui offers an update. Apparently, we may all be dead before this case goes to trial.
Michael Totten argues that the surge can’t yet have failed because it’s only just now starting. On a similar note, McQ challenges Juan Cole’s doom-and-gloom assessment of Operation Phantom Thunder.
Justin Gardner updates us on the remarkably resilient Ron Paul … and Justin again, this time on a Department of Homeland Security no-bid contract.