Mark, when you find the place with true freedom of speech, please post! Many of us will want to go there. If enough of us go there, maybe the speech will stay free.

And wherever it turns out to be, I hope CAPTCHA will be illegal.

And what does "hold them accountable" mean to Graham if it doesn't mean censorship, repeated public scoldings?

Since you're so sick of it all, you should take a first-class flight to Rumsfeld International Airpot in Baghdad, get in a limo to take you down George W. Bush expressway to the rollicking clubs downtown.

The war was over in April 2003. Go party!

Utterly pathetic.

Mark, Graham and company feel no need for intellectual underpinnings to their little totalitarian enterprises. Note the word "feel." These tiny, pathetic men believe if it offends them, no rationale is necessary for speech to be banned. I actually think Reid, Graham, and their media allies jumped the shark on this one here in the United States. Graham and Reid may have been playing to a tiny left-wing audience of Sunday morning gabfests but their message got out to the greater public and it wasn't well-received. Of further service, they also have opened the eyes of fellow citizens as to the futility of sending troops among Muslim savages for any reason other than killing some of them.

I'm not as pessimistic about the remainder of the Western world as you are, either. As these emo-fascists continue further to beclown themselves with their "Human Rights Courts" and so forth they continue to be viewed with derision by most except those they purport to protect. Maybe you are right and the tipping point was reached so long ago in places like the UK that basic freedom has been killed on the altar of multi-culturalism, but I am not so certain. The demographic shifts have not been as rapid as the stupidity that emanates from these tribunals from what I can tell.

Here's hoping, anyhow.

And thanks for your great work this week. You've been on fire, man.

First they came for the people that drew pictures of the Virgin Mary with elephant dung, and I did nothing because I did not draw pictures of religious icons using feces.
Then they came for the flag burners and I did nothing because I did not burn flags.
When they came for the Koran burners, everyone was too afraid to offend the Muslims so we just gave them up.

...good on ya, mark....as old school Oz..jes' bloody ashamed of tossers like that...ol' diggers rollin' over in the grave....we all need to harken back to our forebears, who bequeathed these great lands to us... :=/

We're in a war and it is right that we curtail slightly some rights in order to insure the safety and goals of our soldiers.

I can't imagine how Mr. Steyn and his supporters would've reacted during WWI and WWII where civil liberties were also slightly limited in order to help make sure the right side won the war.

Lindsey Graham is the best example of the application of the Peter Principle I've ever seen in politics. In the house he was generally a reliably conservative Republican- at worst, in Douglas Adams' immortal characterization "Mostly harmless." As a senator, he's been fairly much a nincompoop. I forget who it was who once called Charles G-r-a-s-s-l-e-y the "dumbest member of the senate." Well, it's time for Chuck to pass on the crown.

D. Edgren

p.s. Spelled G-r-a-s-s-l-e-y because a little pink box appeared above my preview and informed me of the following (without, of course, the dashes):

"Your comment cannot be posted since it contains objectionable language (g-r-a-s-s-l-e-y). Please reword your comment."

Heh! -de

Blundering clod Graham?

Maybe you can get Christine O'Donnell to move in from Delaware.