04/20/05

[W]e shouldn't be laughing. What's going on in the United States, crystallized for many of us more dramatically than ever in these recent weeks, is nothing to laugh about. It doesn't get much more serious. The country is in the hands of extremist zealots who want to merge church and state and do away with every piece of socially ameliorative [sic] legislation passed in the last 70 years. The recent trifecta of shame began with the Schiavo matter. Its importance was that it showed that utterly no principle ... retains any meaning at all when it bumps up against the hungers of the religious right. ... [W]hat's going on now is not just politics. On the surface, the Schiavo case looked like the principle of minimal federal interference in states' matters competing with the 'principle' of life. Nonsense." [editor's note: Apperarances to the contrary, this is more than just "leftist ravings" - SAT]

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=9558

from The American Prospect, by Michael Tomasky


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp