oh the blogwatch comes stepping along

he don’t even break the branches

where he has gone…

InstaPundit: Anti-Patriot Act roundup. In case you somehow missed this.

Regions of Mind: “Christ is risen!” “Indeed He is risen!”

Rick McGinnis: Movies in Baghdad.

EDITED TO ADD: Sheep-Free Zone rightly provides a substantive slap upside the head to Oxblogger Patrick Belton, who wrote some really silly things about the whole Is-Daschle-Catholic affair. Long and link-rich post on Catholic politicians’ responsibilities.

How come The Corner calls Robert Mugabe “Chirac’s pal” but doesn’t talk so much about Bush’s pal, Prince Bandar? Wait, wait, the answer’s coming to me… hang on… (Note: NRO has done some good pieces on the Saudis, certainly, but they don’t bang the drums on this subject nearly as loud as I wish they did; and drum-banging on this topic is much more likely to do good than further Frog-bashing.)

Matthew Yglesias: “A lot of people question the motives of the Bush administration, and rightly so. Those people need to ask themselves, however, whether George Bush + Tony Blair + Vladimir Putin + The Communist Party of China + Jacques Chirac is any more trustworthy than George Bush alone. My spidey-sense tells me that the answer is ‘no.’ Chirac and Bush are two sides of the same oily nationalist-conservative coin, Putin is an authoritarian KGB operative, and the government of China has already brought the world such things as the government of China.” Heh. It’s just a short squib of a post, but tartly phrased.

Loving the Church in a Time of Scandal–haven’t read yet, but looks good.