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So, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd writes that America is heading back to the Dark Ages, as the Bush Administration rushes to replace science with religion:
W.’s presidency rushes backward, stifling possibilities, stirring intolerance, confusing church with state, blowing off the world, replacing science with religion, and facts with faith. We’re entering another dark age, [...]

Many pundits have been trumpeting President Bush’s success among Hispanics as one of the keys to his victory last week. Dick Morris, for example, wrote in the New York Post:
GEORGE W. Bush was re-elected on Tuesday because the Hispanic vote, long a Democratic Party preserve, shifted toward the president’s side. The USA Today exit poll [...]

Here’s the “news quote of the day” from Chris Matthews, which is featured on Don “Execute the Swift Vets” Imus’ website:
“When you lose an election, it’s horrible especially if you have been President for four years. Can you imagine being President for four years, living in the White House, thinking that you are part of [...]

In 2000, Al Gore carried New Jersey by 16 points. Now Bush and Kerry are dead even, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll.
Update: An LA Times poll shows Bush up by 8(!) in Florida, down by 6 in Ohio, and even in Pennsylvania. If Bush takes Florida and holds on to Bush-leaning states, [...]

9PM last night: After I finished reading Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus to my daughter, she pleaded for me to read Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business. After which came prayers and 20 minutes of “Mommy, I’m thirsty…Mommy, I’m hot…Mommy, I have to go potty…Mommy, Dark Heart is in [...]

My pre-debate column is here. Snippet:
This isn’t a race for prom king or “Jeopardy!” champion. It’s a race for leader of the free world.
For other perspectives before tomorrow’s big event, see Keith Burgess-Jackson on style/substance. He also has interesting thoughts on liberal frustration. David Limbaugh dissects Kerry’s unlikeability and examines Al Gore’s advice column. Right [...]

A year and a half ago, I wrote a column questioning the decision to give much-sought-after organs to Jesica Santillan, an illegal alien. Now comes word from the New York Times of a new Jesica named Isidoro Jimenez:
Mr. Jimenez, 47, has been hospitalized on and off for two years. He has congestive heart failure [...]

Teenage golf phenomenon Michelle Wie shared her Deep Thoughts on global warming with Golf Digest:
Global warming is a huge problem. Al Gore talks about it all the time. Have you seen “The Day After Tomorrow”? The huge hole in the ozone layer. Something has to be done about it.”
Michelle’s vacuous eco-musings prompted a wry member [...]

Former Vice President Al Gore cheers the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Botox for reduction of underarm sweat.

Al Gore, June 24, 2004:
“Whenever a chief executive spends prodigious amounts of energy in an effort to convince the American people of a falsehood, he damages the fabric of democracy.”
Al Gore, March 3, 1997:
“My counsel advises me that there is no controlling, legal authority or case that says that there was any violation of [...]

Debra Saunders’ book on Al Gore is the best dissection of the mind of the Unhinged One.