Seth Masket, Denver Post: "Do Dems Need A Message?"

Kerry Howley, Newsday: "All The World's Not A Wal-Mart Stage"

Meghan Daum, Chicago Tribune: "Bigger Breasts, More Testosterone"

Jon Henke, A Chequerboard of Days And Nights (blog): "Output Inequality"

AskMom (Seattle blogger): "Fear And Pandering In Seattle"

New York Sun, editorial: "'Lone Individual'"

King County Journal, editorial: "No Answers To Senseless Acts, Only Grief"

Two little boys, a young mother and her sister, slaughtered and burned in their Kirkland (WA) home...A young man who lived across the street is suspected of the murders. He says he doesn't remember, he blacked out after heavy drinking....Six women apparently selected at random were gunned down in the Seattle Jewish Federation office. One woman died, five others injured, including one who is pregnant. A man who identified himself as a Muslim American angry at Israel surrendered at the scene. Some reports say he had suffered from a bipolar condition. We can expect in both situations the perpetrators' attorneys will claim that their clients are innocent — not because they didn't do the deeds, but because they were, or are, mentally impaired and therefore should not be held accountable. In the rhetoric of a courtroom, the lives that were lost will be overshadowed by the endless posturing and excuses.

Jeremy Lott, American Spectator: "Why Not Kill This Man?"

David Mamet, Chicago Tribune: "Bigotry Pins Blame On Jews"

Gerard Van der Leun, American Digest: (Seattle blogger) "The Weaponization Of Children"

Nadav Morag, Christian Science Monitor: "A Tale Of Two Failed Mideast States"

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Los Angeles Times: "Israel's Way Out"

Barbara Lerner, National Review Online: "We're Losing World War IV"

Nurse William (Seattle-area blogger), "Let's Get Something Straight"

George Weigel, Los Angeles Times: "No Tears For Fidel, Please"

William Ratliffe & Roger Fontaine, San Francisco Chronicle: "Change In Cuba Must Come From Cubans"

TECHNORATI TAGS: DEMOCRATS, WAL-MART, DOPING, SOCIAL JUSTICE, SEATTLE SHOOTING, NAVEED AFZAL HAQ, ISRAEL, PALESTINE, LEBANON, IRAN, HEZBOLLAH, CUBA, FIDEL CASTRO

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at August 8, 2006 08:47 AM