Alas:

It was a culinary rebuke that echoed around the world, heightening the sense of tension between Washington and Paris in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. But now the US politician who led the campaign to change the name of french fries to “freedom fries” has turned against the war.
Walter Jones, the Republican congressman for North Carolina who was also the brains behind french toast becoming freedom toast in Capitol Hill restaurants, told a local newspaper the US went to war “with no justification”.

It appears much of that irrational wartime exuberance is drying up. Perhaps we need some new SUV magnets and country music songs to keep the fire burning.

A Baptist church sports a sign which reads “The Koran needs to be flushed.”
Regardless of what you think of the Koran, this is an ineffective way of doing anything other than stir people up.

Free speech? Are you kidding? We’re at war!

A congressman says comedian Bill Maher’s comment that the U.S. military has already recruited all the “low-lying fruit” is possibly treasonous and at least grounds to cancel the show.
Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., takes issue with remarks on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, first aired May 13, in which Maher points out the Army missed its recruiting goal by 42 percent in April.
“More people joined the Michael Jackson fan club,” Maher said. “We’ve done picked all the low-lying Lynndie England fruit, and now we need warm bodies.”
. . .
“I think it borders on treason,” Bachus said. “In treason, one definition is to undermine the effort or national security of our country.”
. . .
“I don’t want (Maher) prosecuted,” Bachus said. “I want him off the air.”

It’s great we have these kind of people running the country. I didn’t see the aforementioned comment, but the Michael Jackson reference pretty strongly suggests that the statement was made in humor–or treasonous humor, if you will.
I’m getting tired of rightists breaking out the “treason” card whenever someone says something too critical of America or the “war on terror.”

I wouldn’t want to be a male police officer charged with enforcing this law.

Josh Marshall gets at the crux of why yesterday’s heralded compromise probably isn’t a long-term solution:

And the main issue isn’t resolved so much as it’s delayed. The moderate Republicans agree to preserve the filibuster so long as the Democrats use it in what the moderate Republicans deem a reasonable fashion. And yet the use of the filibuster, by its very nature, almost always seems unreasonable to those whom it is used against.

Exactly. From what I’ve seen, there’s no definition for “extraordinary circumstances.” So what does it mean? In practice, it apparently will mean whatever these 14 “moderate” senators say it means. And there’s no guarantee the consensus shown yesterday will withstand the stiff winds of a Supreme Court confirmation fight.
Moreover, as Mr. Marshall notes, the agreement fails to include a White House commitment not to select far-right nominees which would be the basis for another filibuster fight. My hunch is that this episode merely serves as a flashing red cape, emboldening the Dobson/Frist/Bush coalition to send an even more radical appointment when they have the chance. You gotta maintain the tough guy appearance to keep the red meat crowd happy. And that won’t happen through compromise.