Here’s a round-up of interesting links around the blogosphere:
— Buck has been busy. Check out his guide for web site creation for bloggers.
— Josh Claybourn and Hugh Hewitt discuss: “What American not in government has the most influence — James Dobson or Oprah and Limbaugh?”
— Steve takes on NRO columnist John Derbyshire on the intelligent design issue. Evangelical Outpost also has an open thread on this topic.
— Erick corrects the ACLU: the first freedom is the “free exercise of religion,” not freedom of speech.
— John Hawkins interviews Victor Davis Hanson, author of Mexifornia.
— Baldilocks is righteously indignant about people who send racist, misogynistic hate mail. Ed Brown wants to know, “What makes her [Malkin] special?…Putting this off on Armstrong Williams is low.”
– The Oxblog fact-checks Newsweek’s “death squad” story.
— Take Wizbang’s Rathergate Pop Quiz.
— David Limbaugh comments on the Rathergate Report.
— Myopic Zeal’s Senior Coffee Discount at McDonald’s: Is this for real? (Funny guy!)
— Ann Coulter: “Admittedly, Juanita Broaddrick’s charge against Clinton — that Bill Clinton raped her so brutally that her clothing was torn and her lip was swollen and bleeding, hence his parting words of ‘you’d better put some ice on that’ — was not a story on the order of Augusta National Golf Course’s exclusion of women members. But, unlike the Bush drug-use charge, which remains unsupported to this day, Broaddrick’s allegations had been fully corroborated by NBC News — which then refused to air Lisa Myers’ report until after Clinton’s acquittal in the Senate.”
Related item: See Jesse Jackson’s Hobby
— Dean doesn’t like Ann Coulter.
— Funny man Scott Ott: “Michael Chertoff, President George Bush’s nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security, said today that if he’s confirmed by the Senate his ‘job number one’ will be to protect the civil rights of illegal aliens suspected of terrorist activities….We’ve been over-eager in the past to detain men whose crimes consisted of little more than breaking our laws,’ said Mr. Chertoff, currently a judge on the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. ‘Protecting Americans from death and dismemberment is important, but it must never stand in the way of guarding the civil rights of illegal aliens.’”
It’s comedy, but not far from the truth.
— Samantha addresses the role of women in Battlestar Galactica.
— Discriminations links to an article about the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which would ban skin color preferences in government hiring and admissions. A record 508,000 signatures have been collected.
— Jerry McClellan on racial profiling.
— Welcome to the blogosphere, Steve Johnson!
— Power Line links to a columnist who extends a “warm” welcome to bloggers.
— No more war! Is somebody building nuclear weapons? See Ron Wright.
— More A.W. references over at Back of the Envelope. (Disclosure: Doc Rampage is not paying me for this linkage. Not much, anyway.)
Bloggers, trackback to this post if you have an annoucement or interesting post to share. HaloScan users, try Simpletracks. If you don’t have a blog and would like to suggest a link, leave a comment or e-mail me.
It’s also Open Thread Thursday, so there’s no such thing as “off-topic.” 
Suggested topics:
1) Who is else is tired of talking about Armstrong Williams?
2) Who else is tired of Ted Kennedy’s bloviating?
3) The war in Iraq: Was it worth it?
4) What’s more important to you: time or money? Why? (For me, time is more important than money, but then again, money can buy you time.)
5) Feds tell the District of Columbia to use its homeland security funds to pay for part of the inauguration (Also this AP story). Fair or unfair?
6) Servicemen and women on trial, during a war, for “torturing” terrorists who are bound and determined to cut off their heads. I think it’s atrocious. Is there a precedent for this? Were any Americans on trial during WWII for embarrassing or hurting the feelings of Nazi or Japanese prisoners? (Related link)
7) Blogger’s (Blog*Spot) commenting system stinks. There’s no trackback feature and you have to sign up for Blogger to leave a comment, or go “Anonymous.” Attention Blog*Spot bloggers: GET HALOSCAN! It’s much more flexible, and they insert the code for you.
Addendum: If you’ve e-mailed me in the past week, I’m experiencing a backup. I read all my e-mail, and I usually answer all of it, too. I’m not as big as Michelle Malkin. Yet.
Update:
Correction from a fan:
You idiotRush was not disclosing that he “was an unpaid consultant for the
Bush campaign.” Someone refered (sic) to him as a consultant to the campaign and he was repeating it. He often stated, just after uttering the above comment, that it was news to him that he had that status.please get it right.
That’s not the way I heard it, but OK. (At least he didn’t call me a wh***.)
