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Does one suppose the Southern Poverty Law Center is objective or maybe a little biased?

I was surprised to find today my heart is filled with hate, enlightened by this writer who finds all of my kind of the most vile of haters. Little puppies and kittens better watch out for me today!! I qualify as a plain old fashioned Catholic which is defined these days as a (gulp!) traditional!

Terri's Legacy must be getting to them.

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In one case, the simmering anti-Semitism of the radical traditionalists may even have affected the thinking of a serial-killing terrorist. A new book by Maryanne Vollers, Lone Wolf: Eric Rudolph: Murder, Myth, and the Pursuit of an American Outlaw, suggests that Rudolph may have been influenced by radical traditionalism, in addition to his known ties to the neo-Nazi theology of Christian Identity.

The movement also may be gaining influence on the larger political scene. A case in point is that of Christopher Ferrara, leader of the American Catholic Lawyers Association. Ferrara, who writes for the anti-Semitic, radical traditionalist journal The Remnant, was the lawyer for the family of Terri Schiavo and a key player, along with Republican and Christian Right leaders, in getting Congress to pass a law to keep the severely brain-damaged woman alive. It was later overturned.

The 'Synagogue of Satan'

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Still, pointing to long-term political success does not necessarily answer the charge that the Bush administration represents an egregious departure from or even a betrayal of conservative ideals and principles. This is precisely the contention of Jeffrey Hart, a longtime senior editor of National Review. Near the conclusion of his "The Making of the American Conservative Mind," a relaxed, chatty, anecdotal account of the past half-century through the lens of National Review's reporting and editorials, Hart comes down hard on Bush, a "transformative" President who in Hart's judgment is emphatically not a conservative one.

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Hart's criticisms, stated relatively mildly in his book, took on much more strident expression in his contribution to the pre-electoral Washington Monthly symposium. There, Hart described Bush as "a man who has taken the positions of an unshakable ideologue" on issues ranging from the Terri Schiavo case to supply-side economics. If conservatism is a "politics of reality," this President, wrote Hart, lives sheltered in delusion. No longer is the adjective "Wilsonian" sufficient to describe his disconnectedness from reality. Indeed, Bush's naïve belief in the universality of the human preference for freedom over tyranny makes "Woodrow Wilson look like Machiavelli" by comparison.

After Bush Is conservatism finished?

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>> Does one suppose the Southern Poverty Law Center is objective or maybe a little biased?

Careful. There are 100,000 Redneck Commies who will stop at nothing to impose their doctrine on you. They will even give you a WEDGIE!

Redneck Communism is a cult that follows the notorious "Protocols of the Learned Elders of North Korea." Its sick, sick rituals are widely practiced in Bolivia, Santa Monica, CA, and in covens of poverty lawyers throughout North America.