Uh, folks. I didn’t come to the defense of Carter , as piles of readers have complained over night. I posted a letter from a reader who did, specifically in the spirit of equal time. I think my record as a non-fan of Carter’s is pretty solid. Part of the confusion stems, I think, from this post at Lucianne.com, which makes it sound like I’m more invested in defending Carter than I am. My only reluctance about leaping whole-hog into the Carter-defended a Nazi thing is that these repatriation cases are notoriously ugly and hard to decipher and the charges and emotions involved sufficiently grave that I figured I’d take a go slow approach. Often when I write things like “I’m still not sure what to make of it” it means that I haven’t taken the time to study it as much as I would like before rendering a judgment. In the blogging biz you sometimes want to keep the site chugging, but you don’t want to lock yourself into a position in a complicated case without looking at it a bit more.

Also, a bunch of readers complained about this post about economic stats under Bush. I’ve updated it with a relevant complaint from a reader.

Lastly, I have to say this every few months: I don’t endorse every email I post.