On the heels of the assassination of Dr. George Tiller on Sunday, some wondered about what they see as relativism, and complained that radical actions from the extreme Left don’t get the same treatment. As a commenter to my Chron post on the subject asked “Where’s the outrage over extremists from the left?”
Leaving aside the obvious immediate answer (the Tiller story was a current event and the extremist left was not), there’s a valid question there. Because the radicals on the extreme Right and Left have some crucial commonality. More at Polimom Too.
Read Next
It’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted, but yesterday’s murder of Dr. George Tiller — one of only two or three medical practitioners in the entire country who performed “late term” abortions –caught my attention in a way nothing has …
Could there be a ray of hope, at last, in Iraq? (from CNN) Iraq finally has names for its top jobs — more than four months after its historic general election. Jawad al-Maliki was asked to be prime minister-designate and …
When I grow up, I wanna be an ideologue — a card-carrying member of a group that issues bumper stickers and blinders to its members in exchange for unthinking blather within a clear, easy framework. Just think of all the …
When this ruling came out yesterday, I didnât get it. Today â several analyses (and a full nightâs sleep) later, Iâm still seeing this as bad: Fla. Voucher System Struck Down Basically, kids who are in underperforming public schools in …
