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I've blogged previously about graphic novelist/illustrator Frank Miller's renegade commentary on patriotism and al Qaeda's jihad. The L.A. Times has a new profile of Miller today with news of his latest projects--and more fodder that will set the 9/10 Hollyweirdos' teeth on edge: MUCH has been made of Miller's politics in the wake of "300." The deliriously violent and stylized sword film is based on a Spartan battle in 480 B.C., and although Miller wrote and drew the story for Dark Horse comics a decade ago, in film form it was received by many as a grotesque parody of the...

Mr. SANTORUM. Mr. President, I rise today to talk about why I voted against Dr. Gates and lay out in detail the concerns I have about the security posture of the United States today and how I do not believe that Dr. Gates is the appropriate choice to confront them. While I think he certainly has a lot of positive qualities, and in normal times I would certainly defer to the President's judgment on this, we are not in normal times. I believe we need a Secretary--and I think we need leaders in this country, particularly the Secretary--who has insight...

When a great lawyer like John Roberts argues a case, does he do so out of the passion of his own conscience? Or is he merely a hired gun -- a legal soldier of fortune willing to muzzle his own convictions? That may be the key to deciphering the latest Supreme Court nominee, a jurist who has been on the bench for only a couple of years and thus has a slim paper trail of decisions. Within hours of the president naming John Roberts, activists seized upon briefs he signed as former President George Bush's deputy solicitor general -- particularly...