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The world needs more Hornitarians!

The RINO Sightings Carnival is being hosted by J.D. at Evolution, who has titled this week's Carnival the "Hornitarian Jihad."

J.D. begins with a great description of RINO-dom:

In this round-up alone, you will find a great deal of rational discussion of issues — moral, ethical, scientific, and political. You will find two RINOs who utterly disagree on a topic, yet neither has called the other any sort of name. You’ll find issues discussed here that are discussed nowhere else. You’ll find both a sense of humor and a sense of duty. These are the forgotten people of American politics — the ones the polls don’t count, the ones the TV cameras don’t point at, the ones the media ignore.

RINOs are ignored because their honesty is too threatening to those with agendas.

Here are a few favorites from this week:

SayUncle confesses to a life of crime, and his link to Gunner's discussion of the "Gun Free School Zones" outrage (more here) reminded me that a leading cause of crime is not citizens but tyrannical laws.

Letters from the Bostonian Exile has a fascinating, detailed analysis of the Newdow Pledge of Allegiance case, which you will not find anywhere else. He concludes that the trial judge

may well have prolonged litigation to make a point about his disdain at the state of the law, effectively compelling both sides to suffer increased legal costs.

This is the only legal analysis I've seen which seems to have identified the problem.

Dean Esmay looks at the war in Iraq, and is unimpressed by Johnny-come-lately claims that it's suddenly too "expensive":

it is far, far too late to start bringing up questions about funding priorities now, except maybe in the sense of bringing them up if another war is proposed. For this war, the die is cast. Furthermore, there is no denying the truth: if we pull up stakes and abandon those people in Iraq, we will have done something more immoral and more terrible than we ever did by going there in the first place. The power vacuum we would leave behind would result in a crushing blow against human rights. It wouldn't just be a great shame to the United States, it would be a great shame to the entire human race.

Dean has been making a sound moral case for the Iraq war for a long time, and he's never been more right than he is now. Well done.

Respectful Insolence exposes more Katrina mythology, this time in the form of an urban legend that doctors were resorting to mercy killings of their patients. (And of course, even though it didn't happen, it might as well have, and it's all Bush's fault anyway.)

Louisiana Libertarian (a great blogger I'm glad to see making it through the Katrina disaster) offers on the scene reporting of some very tough times -- as well as suggestions on where donations would most help right now. Based on his advice, I have just donated to Convoy of Hope, and I urge readers to do the same.

Finally, this post at phin's blog supplies an excellent reason for donating more money: Ted Rall is against charity for hurricane victims. (I'm thinking about whether Rall's remarks about Ronald Reagan turning crispy brown in Hell might have a rebound effect.)

I wish I could list them all, but that's J.D.'s job, and he did it well!

Read 'em all!