No Runny Eggs

Jeff Wagner expresses amazement that former President Jimmy Carter will be signing copies of his book at the West Bend Wal-Mart next Thursday. I’m not surprised that it would be a Wal-Mart (you go where the books are sold, after all), but West Bend? Which genius of a handler thought that going into the heart of conservativism in Wisconsin was a good idea? Of course, West Bend is undoubtedly safer than Milwaukee.

(H/T – Patrick)

In what has to be one of the most-despicable attacks on Christianity yet in this country, NewsMax is reporting that UW-Eau Claire (excuse me, somebody must have farted) has banned Resident Assistants from leading Bible studies in their own dorm rooms on their own time. Even if one can successfully argue that this does not violate the federal First Amendment right to “free exercise” of religion, it is a clear violation of the Wisconsin Constitution, Article I, Section 18 –

Freedom of worship; liberty of conscience; state religion; public funds. Section 18.   [As amended Nov. 1982] The right of every person to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of conscience shall never be infringed; nor shall any person be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry, without consent; nor shall any control of, or interference with, the rights of conscience be permitted, or any preference be given by law to any religious establishments or modes of worship; nor shall any money be drawn from the treasury for the benefit of religious societies, or religious or theological seminaries.   [1979 J.R. 36, 1981 J.R. 29, vote Nov. 1982]

Homer nod – fixed link; Internut Exploder kept the search term in the address bar.

Michelle Malkin brings us the latest attack on Maryland Lt. Governor (and candidate for Senate) Michael S. Steele (story in the Washington Times). She, the blogs she links to, and the ones that appear in the trackback to the post say it better than I could.

…I don’t think Gregory Stanford* wrote this editorial on Milwaukee County Board Chair Lee Holloway’s overreaction to Orville Seymer’s opening statement at a budget hearing the other day. The money quote – “What Holloway should be asking himself is how would he have reacted as a citizen if the shoe was on the other foot?”

It still isn’t enough to restore the main link to the local paint-catcher, but I do need to give credit where credit is due.

* The editorial board member who feels it’s okay to take racial shots if the target is conservative.

Sykes Writes has an extensive runthrough of the blogosphere’s reaction to the asterisk editorial* There’s enough links there to take up an entire day’s worth of blog-reading, but I highly recommend Don Surber’s take.

* Any semblance between a Racist Jentinel editorial and either reality or sanity is merely a coincidence and purely unintentional.

Revisons/extensions – More of Charlie’s round-up on the asterisk reaction here. Hey, we made the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, and yesterday’s OpinionJournal Best of the Web.

As Charlie pointed out, the Racist Jentinel did not even mention the fact that they touched off a firestorm with their racist editorial in today’s paint catcher (I wouldn’t sully a dead fish with the product, and it is considered animal cruelty to subject birds or dogs to it).

Jessica McBride takes a look at the racial makeup of the edit board. There’s a higher precentage of blacks on the Supreme Court than on the edit board. Of course, there is the same percentage of conservatives on the edit board as blacks (10%), and there’s a strong indication that Patrick McIlheran was only added as a token to the non-target audience of the edits at 4th and State.. Actually, Patrick is only a columnist and not a member of the idiotorial board. Substitute newspaper editor Marty Kaiser for him, and thus there are is a grand total of ZERO ONE conservative voices on the Racist Jentinel idiotorial board

Revisions/extensions – corrected the roster of the idiotorial board

Further revisions/extensions – Dean pointed out that Mabel Wong is something of a conservative. Thanks.