Top White House anti-terror boss resigns. “Rand Beers would not comment for this article, but he and several sources close to him are emphatic that the resignation was not a protest against an invasion of Iraq. But the same sources, and other current and former intelligence officials, described a broad consensus in the anti-terrorism and intelligence community that an invasion of Iraq would divert critical resources from the war on terror.”

about the Washington protests the weekend before last. Mostly about how the media so drastically underreported the crowd – saying 30K while witnesses thought it was more like ten times that much.

from Meg Hourihan on the latest inanity from the Bush Whitehouse: Bush Declares Sanctity of Human Life Day. I wonder how much of a threat the vast chasm between people like Meg and the people who agree with this latest inanity (offensive inanity) from Bush represents to the US? I wonder sometimes if the chasm can be bridged at all.

in the Washington Post yesterday: Dead on the Money on the Bush tax cut. “Look, boychick, it’s always been this way. When the rich take from the poor, it’s called an economic plan. When the poor take from the rich, it’s called class warfare.” Thanks Michael.

from yesterday. “At the heart of all this is a profound assumption: that to intend a crime – to sin in one’s heart – is no different from committing it.”