Some Midday Quick Shots

Even the best of us get it wrong sometimes...from the latest from Hitchens:

The Roman Catholic Church claims the right to legislate on morals for all its members and to excommunicate them if they don't conform. The church is also a foreign state, which has diplomatic relations with Washington. In the very recent past, this church and this state gave asylum to Cardinal Bernard Law, who should have been indicted for his role in the systematic rape and torture of thousands of American children. (Not that child abuse is condemned in the Ten Commandments, any more than slavery or genocide or rape.) More recently still, the newly installed Pope Benedict XVI (who will always be Ratzinger to me) has ruled that Catholic politicians who endorse the right to abortion should be denied the sacraments: no light matter for believers of the sincerity that Judge Roberts and his wife are said to exhibit.

Christopher, Christopher...Ratzinger said no such thing, although he did lay out some circumstances where that could be considered...

At Red State, Erick-Woods Erickson highlights the fundraising success of Evan Bayh...

Also from Red State, Leon H spotlights some Roberts-related fearmongering at the Washington Post...