Sleep Tight

Melanie Philips asks, is America really going to do this?

There are, alas, many in the west for whom all this is music to their ears. Whether through wickedness, ideology, stupidity or derangement, they firmly believe that the ultimate source of conflict in the world derives at root from America and Israel, whose societies, culture and values they want to see emasculated or destroyed altogether. They are drooling at the prospect that an Obama presidency will bring that about. The rest of us can’t sleep at night.

Mark Levin has similar worries.

The question is whether enough Americans understand what’s at stake in this election and, if they do, whether they care. Is the allure of a charismatic demagogue so strong that the usually sober American people are willing to risk an Obama presidency? After all, it ensnared Adelman, Kmiec, Powell, Fried, and numerous others. And while America will certainly survive, it will do so, in many respects, as a different place.

I Do

think this is a pretty good spot.

There are signs in my neighborhood urging a no on prop 8, using the equality argument. That’s one of the main reasons to vote yes: If homosexual “marriage” is treated as a matter of equality, if arbitrary definitions of marriage can be incorporated into the law by fiat, then “equality” dictates that the state also sanction the following:

• A guy who wants to marry his cousin.
• A guy who wants to marry his sister.
• A guy who wants to marry his goat.
• A guy who wants to marry a lot of women at once.
• And, in California, at least, a guy who wants to marry his car.

That would be chaos, not equality.