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Time magazine lauds and celebrates the overturning of the death penalty in New Jersey and hopes it will happen to the rest of the nation.

The long-range hope of death penalty opponents — and the reason why death penalty supporters were lobbying to save New Jersey's unused death penalty right up to the final vote — is that a trend toward abolition in the states might build into a Supreme Court ban on all capital punishment. No one believes such a step is imminent, but in recent years the high court has cited changes in state laws to justify bans on capital punishment for juveniles and mentally retarded prisoners. In those cases, the justices looked to state legislatures as harbingers of society's "evolving standards of decency," and leveraged the actions of a relatively small number of states into rulings that bind the entire country.

Instead of streamlining the system so that beyond-any-shadow-of-a-doubt serial murderers can be executed quickly, they prefer the killers out on the streets on a 'promise of good behaviour' or in prison pursuing PhDs on public funds.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1695334,00.html

Rabid anti-Christian author Sam Harris' next plan is to scientifically prove that the brains of faithful believers are running on fanciful belief and not logic.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1694723,00.html

Never mind the fact that if God wanted His creations to be able to experience faith, He would of course build the required system into us.

Once again, the MSM performs its classic 'cloud behind every silver lining' and blackwashes the peace and stability in Iraq as 'The Fleeting Success of the Surge'.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1694441,00.html

See how they add a note of dire doom to every piece of good news:

Thousands have returned to Iraq after a relative improvement in the security situation.

"If we had hope of some kind of life in Baghdad, I would walk all the way." Adnan, a physician, feels the tug of home too, but he keeps a check on his emotions. "If we had hope ..." he repeats after his wife. "But do we have hope?"

In truth, Baghdad is nothing like normal and still some distance from safe.

Baghdad may be safer than it was, but people like the Awadis worry that the gains of the surge are temporary and predicated on a massive American presence.

So while there's a trickle of refugees going home, many Iraqis continue to leave Baghdad.

Not that all the Sunni fighters want to join the Iraqi army or police. Many regard al-Maliki's government as a puppet of Iran--as loathsome as al-Qaeda or more so. In some Sunni neighborhoods, former insurgents who patrol the streets alongside U.S. troops regard the Iraqi forces as the enemy. When the Americans leave, they expect to be fighting against government forces.

The Moonbat feminists are so bewitched by the chance that Shrillary becomes the first female President (genetically female, if not behaviorally) that they're more willing to give Slick Willie's multiple counts of rape amnesty than forgive a Republican consenting tryst.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/12/17/2007-12-17_women_more_willing_to_forgive_monica_sca.html

Via Coulter.

That was so scary!
Suddenly, all the comparisons of Hillary to the Wicked Witch of the West don't seem so farfetched!

Forget waterboarding. Make someone listen to that cackle for 24 hours.

Can someone morph Senator Clinton cackling into Margaret Hamilton?

chsw

Cackle cackle cackle cackle

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2007/12/18/#a004414