Kathryn: My heart skipped a beat when I saw that subject line. What–a colleague is coming out to join me in the let-her-die corner? Oh, disappointed.

But it’s time for a collective acknowledgemnt to the many readers who’ve emailed in to say (usually before expressing an opinion one way or the

other) what fun it is to see Corner folk taking contrary positions. Thank you! — that’s the acknowledgment. That’s it.

NR/NRO isn’t that broad a church, and shouldn’t be. You won’t find anyone here standing up for (say) Fidel Castro, welfare-on-demand, massive tax increases, judicial definitions of marriage, or unilateral nuclear disarmament. I think and hope it’s generally true, though, that when American conservatives are divided, as they surely are on this issue, we are divided too. If that’s self-congratulatory, and institutional self-congratulation get up your nose… too bad.