* This post from Ed Morrissey at Captain Quarters ought to give everyone pause. Whether it’s through legal means or the voting booth, if this country doesn’t wake up soon and see the so-called “progressives” on the Left as the anti-Christian bigots they are, we’re gonna be in a whole heaping amount of trouble.

* And it should come as no surprise that the so-called “progressive” Left is not just anti-Christian, but anti-Semitic as well. (And that goes for you too, Jimmy Carter.)

* What the heck is wrong with Coco Crisp? Not only does he seem lost at the plate (his bat speed looks slower than a Tim Wakefield knuckler), but he appears to have lost whatever emotional spark he had for playing the game. If he’s still in this funk a month from now, the Sox might do well to cut their losses and see what they can get for him, even if it’s for just a bag of balls.

* The homicide bomber who “got past” Iraqi security to blow himself up in the Iraq Parliament cafeteria should be a warning to to all supporters of the President’s “surge” strategy. Increasingly, it is difficult to distinguish between the good guys and the bad guys, and attacks like this will only make things worse.

* Speaking of Iraq and the concerns over who is really winning there, you can’t beat the reporting of the fantastic and courageous Michael Yon, whose latest dispatch tells of the challenges faced by British troops holed down in Basra. Gritty, first-hand reporting. (Hat tip: Hugh Hewitt)

* When will the mainstream dino-media finally see the so-called “Twin Reverends” Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for the charlatans and insufferable blowhards they are. Any African-American who truly believes these clowns represent anyone else’s interests except their own ought to get their head examined.

* At least I have no concerns when it comes to global warming. One question for those so-called “climate experts” who base their dire predictions on computer models: if the computer models used by meteorologists today can’t even accurately predict the weather three days hence, what makes you think they’re any more reliable for forecasts forty or fifty years down the line. Riddle me that!