Over on our blog, the editorial board of the

Dallas Morning News is duking it out on the Israeli-Palestinian question.

I’m getting e-mails from readers who agree with me (and you can well imagine

the side I’m taking), and who say they are stunned by the positions some of

my colleagues are taking, and by their reasoning. I’m hearing from my

colleagues that their e-mail is saying the same thing about that lunatic

right-wing, pro-Israeli Dreher. No matter which side you’re on, it’s useful

for readers to see the kind of thinking, and the kind of people doing the

thinking, that goes into the creation of the editorial positions of a major

American daily newspaper. This kind of transparency serves the reader, who

can see the ed board’s biases plainly. This might sound self-serving, but I

bet newspaper readers elsewhere in the country would benefit if their

daily’s editorial board did the same thing. Check us out and see what you

think — and please write to let me know.