Jonah, about the conservative-journalist-for-life thing, my own example –

moving from conservative journalism to become the editor of the forthcoming

Sunday opinion section at a major mainstream newspaper — argues against the

view that you’re pretty much unemployable off the right-wing reservation.

Except for the fact that it’s damn hard for me to come up with other

examples. So I guess I’m the exception that proves the rule. The thing is,

in the year that I’ve been at the Dallas Morning News, I’ve had three top

editors at mainstream newspapers contact me for help in finding

conservatives to write for their pages. These guys are all liberals, too,

but they have enough sense to know that the survival of their newspapers

depends on serving their conservative readership. So maybe market forces, if

not professional standards, will open doors for more of us.