SPEAKING OF THE KASS COMMISSION
Ron Bailey's devastating deconstruction of Leon Kass's claim not to know the views of the council's new members is a must read.
It's tacky to say it, so no one to my knowledge has. But I'll risk noting that in the head counts that characterize such commissions, Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson is probably not the replacement for Elizabeth Blackburn, as Kass maintains, but a more relevant and eminent substitute for Stephen Carter. The Bush administration is not colorblind, and the council needs to have a few public Christians among all the Straussians.