Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical. ~ Jonathan Swift

Right Wing News (John Hawkins) Mohammed And South Park — “If we don’t have the guts to post these cartoons here in the United States because we’re afraid of extremist Muslims, how can we ask moderate Muslims living in the midst of these radical Islamists to stand up to them on other issues?” [John also has two great quotes in this post on free speech. Read the whole thing. Jim]

Iowa Voice (Brian) This Is Why We Should Secure The Border First PT II — “You start talking amnesty or guest worker (same thing, as far as I’m concerned) and what do you get? A horde of people trying to get into the country so they can be a part of it.” [Ed Morrisey looks at the same story here. -- "Just as with the amnesty program that Simpson-Mazzoli gave us in 1986, the Senate's plan to track guest workers into American citizenship has had an effect on illegal immigration, but not the one the Senate intended. MS-NBC reports that border crossings have jumped in the past few days as people attempt to get into the country in time to take advantage of this latest flavor of amnesty."]

In the Bullpen (Chad Evans) Ahmadinejad Calls on West to Bow Before Iran — “Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is at it again, this time saying the West “must bow down to the greatness of the Iranian nation.” I beg to differ on Ahmadinejad’s version of the word ‘greatness,’ but let us not let semantics get in the way of a good debate.”

Blogs for Bush (Mark Noonan) The Politics of Global Warming — “Global warming is just another object lesson in why the left must be purged from any sort of political power – they are just too irresponsible, too mean spirited and too wedded to a particular ideology to be rational enough to have a say in how we are governed.”

TMH’s Bacon Bits (DL) What’s Wrong with Illegal Immigration? — “By now there have been over a gazillion words written in reaction to, or support of, illegal immigration. Most of those in support of illegal immigration have conveniently chosen to ignore the most important word –“illegal.” They have focused upon what every red-blooded American respects, supports, and desires – “immigration,” and have deliberately written in a manner to confuse legal with illegal immigration in hopes that Americans will not notice their deception.”