The SPLC has labored long and tirelessly documenting and exposing religious and political hategroups and their word can be considered authoritative … abhorrent views on many other issues too.From an Andrew Sullivan readerWhy is it a ‘personal’ opinion

Amid all the impressive sleights of hand that defined first the Obama campaign and now the Obama presidency, … at least for the pundit class, came later via composite/transcendence fetishist Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan says people should blog in the tone that they talk, but I don’t think I’d be any better off with a blog entry that just said “Bill Kristol is a shit-eating neocon scumbag murder

vruz: by Jane Mayer, The New Yorker via Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish / The Atlantic Saniity Prevailed During the transition period, unknown to the public, Obama’s legal, intelligence

by James Hudnall If you read part one of this essay, you know I hate clichés and stereotypes. They’re the products of hack writers, lazy minds, and innate bigotry.  Part one was about how Hollywood looks at “conservative America.” That is, anything to the right of them is “conservative.” Part 2 is mostly (

David Bergman made a panorama shot of the inauguration. It is on display at gigaplan. HT to Andrew Sullivan. Mr. Sullivan is guilty of period abuse. The photograph is remarkable

Bill Kristol, who has been a guest on this show many times, will no longer write a weekly column for The New York Times … some replacements: Peggy Noonan, Michael Gerson, and Andrew Sullivan, to name a few. What do you think? Who should