Sierra Faith

And Tony LaRussa introduces him! Tony LaRussa: “All [the critics] need to do is listen to what is happening here,” La Russa says. “They probably came in with some preconceptions. But this is all about real values and it has nothing to do with politics.”

Andrew McCarthy explores the rampant obfuscation: Still, even Kringle’s desultory case for the mosque paled in comparison with his adamant refusal to answer the question, “Is Hamas a terrorist organization?” You can watch the short debate for yourself here. There are long pauses, shucks, jives, and gibberish — but no answer.

Servants v Rulers: The resisting-arrest conviction last week of Felicia Gibson has left a lot of people wondering. Can a person be charged with resisting arrest while observing a traffic stop from his or her own front porch? Salisbury Police Officer Mark Hunter thought so, and last week District Court Judge Beth Dixon agreed. Because [...]

In Missouri: A writer for a St. Louis alternative newsweekly tells The Daily Caller he does not regret speculating in a story that the suspect of an attempted arson of a Democratic congressman’s campaign office was a Tea Party activist. It turns out that the suspect in this week’s firebombing of Democratic Rep. Russ Carnahan’s [...]

Steve Chapman: President George W. Bush’s policy allowed research only on stem cell lines that had already been established. The idea was to facilitate studies without creating incentives to destroy additional embryos. Obama, by contrast, took the view that the destruction of additional embryos (those “left over” at fertility clinics) is essential to the march [...]

Oy vey: Reader Lawrence Loretoni emails: “Re the NRSC helping out Murkowski – it’s as if they didn’t learn anything from 2006 and 2008…or don’t care about any possible lessons imparted by us unwashed, stupid masses. Hope not, but if that’s the case – then maybe they shouldn’t get too optimistic about their chances this [...]

Literally! OK, he Celts. . . .

Indeed vulgar: