It's for moments like this: Photographer Jennifer Corbett caught this reaction from a group of Delaware second-graders. An educator from the Philadelphia Zoo had just introduced the kids to a great horned owl and the owl had just spread its wings. But it doesn't have to be an owl. Read more

This is one of those stories where what is being said is less interesting than who it is saying it. Peter N. Letang was one of those law-and-order, tough-on-crime prosecutors. He was a Republican deputy attorney general in the state of Delaware from 1974 to 1980, and from 1986 until he stepped down Friday. Now that he's in private practice, what does this tough former chief prosecutor have to say? The "war on drugs has failed." Letang … said it... Read more

Thought about it some more and I'd like to revise and extend my remarks. If your goal in life is to be a power player in the GOP machine, then you really need to get your degree. Not for reasons of learning, understanding, paideia or self-improvement — you can get by without all that. But you will need that degree. As a GOP power player you will frequently be required to inform your listeners/readers/constituents/dittoheads that poverty is purely and solely... Read more

I never weighed in on the whole Ben Domenech affair. This was mainly because when I first read that the Washington Post had hired him as its standard-bearing partisan conservative blogger, my reaction was Ben who? In short order I learned that he was a former blogger for RedState, an intemperate cad who called Coretta Scott King a "communist," a 24-year-old college dropout, a sometime GOP speechwriter, an editor for the execrable Regnery Publishing, and — most amusingly — a... Read more

Fascinating piece last week in the St. Petersburg Times on Katherine Harris' faith-based approach to her Senate campaign, "Harris puts her faith in religion." (That headline seems both accurate and an intentional barb, her faith seems to be in religion itself.) Here's the Times' Adam C. Smith and Anita Kumar: Harris has been aggressively campaigning for support among religious conservatives, hitting large churches and headlining a "Reclaiming America for Christ" conference in Broward County last weekend. She told hundreds of... Read more

Crooks & Liars brings us Bill Maher's New Rules: My Pet Scapegoat": If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war, or torture, or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the earth, or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs. Amen. And the bit about Andy Card's resignation is pretty funny too. Oh, and by the way — The New York Mets are in first place, half a game... Read more