What the Heck was I Thinking!?

The Anchoress posts about the tolerance and open-mindedness of the Left.

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Leftist students and professors at La Sapienza in Italy have basically shouted down Pope Benedict VXI, who canceled his plans to talk there, rather than deal with them or give them more airtime. This tendency on the left to silence what they do not agree with is getting pretty troubling.

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It wasn’t just that McCain’s group failed to get more judges approved, which was true.

It’s that it completely undercut the efforts of the Republican majority and the leadership in the Senate by doing so. It took away the power of the majority that they had earned.

Then John McCain organized a back-room deal with six other Republicans to undermine the Bush-Frist strategy of returning the Senate to its old rules. The fig leaf was the confirmation of Judges Brown Owens, and Pryor and a promise not to filibuster judicial nominees through the end of the session absent extraordinary circumstances, which were undefined.

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When you can’t get the regular police to do the job.

This from a Pajamas Media post about Ezra Levant’s confrontation with Islamisists:

On the very day that the Western Standard with the infamous cartoons was being printed, Levant appeared on Calgary radio to debate Syed Soharwardy, an imam trained at an anti-Semitic Saudi university, who advocates Sharia law in Canada. The debate centered around the cartoons and all the accompanying shouldas, wouldas and couldas. Soharwardy did not know that Levant was about to publish the cartoons (a.k.a. offend Mohammed), but that did not matter. Levant was the clear winner in the debate and that offended Soharwardy, who marched down to a Calgary Police station and demanded that they arrest Levant for offending him during the debate and simply discussing the cartoons in the media.

Pajamas Media: The Suicide of Reason in Canada