Is That SOOOOO Hard?

And Also: Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War by David Williams, whose own ancestors were involved, was interesting, but mighty repetitive and a bit exaggerated. It also makes the home front portrayed in Cold Mountain look benign at points.

Ted Olson, whose wife died on one of the planes:

I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices or structures, places of religious worship or study where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing. And that we don’t want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith. And I don’t think it should be a political issue. It shouldn’t be a Republican or Democrat issue either. I believe Governor Christie from New Jersey said it as well, that this should not be in that political partisan marketplace.

Contra "let's compromise" Dean. Some sanity though.