QUOTE OF THE DAY - AT 9:16 P.M. ET:  From Cal Thomas, lamenting the new Justice Department probe into tactics used after the 9-11 attacks:

The Justice Department wants to apply new interrogation rules to methods that were used and approved during the George W. Bush administration. This is like lowering the highway speed limit to 55 mph and giving speeding tickets to people who drove 65 mph when the higher speed was legal.

What is to be gained from going after CIA interrogators who thought they were operating within the law and defending the country? Doesn't the white-wine-and-Brie set understand that a terrorist won't discriminate between people with jelly for a backbone and those with backbones of steel? Do they really think they will escape death by being nice to killers who use our laws against us in order to replace those laws with theirs? Islamic terrorists repeatedly say this is their goal, and they have demonstrated it enough by their actions that only a fool would doubt them.

COMMENT:  Problem is, there are a lot of fools on the left.  But invitations to those white-wine-and-Brie parties are cherished, and we have to understand that it is the social structure of the left that often fuels some of these crazy crusades. 

August 30, 2009