Herman Cain says its time to go RINO hunting

In a pot-luck dinner at the Gwinnett County Chamber of Commerce just outside Atlanta, Republican candidate for Georgia Secretary of State Bill Stephens had this to say:

The secretary of state of Georgia ought to fight for Georgia, not apologize for Georgia all the time. When it comes to the Voting Rights Act, Georgia ought to be treated with the same dignity as other states in the nation. We’ve been punished for years now — allegedly, temporarily — for our sins in the ‘40s, 50s and 60s. “I will seek out and enforce Georgia laws. …without regard to race, creed color or persuasion. If Cynthia McKinney shows up again at a Dekalb County polling place with a bullhorn, screaming at people, I’m going to put her in jail.

Mr. Stephens, I think you just got my vote. Emphasis added.

It looks like the Chinese are taking a page from the French playbook, trying to protect the domestic film industry through soft censorship. I’m a little bit surprised, the movie has been over-hyped here already, and of course anyone who wants to can just buy it on DVD anyway. Unfortunately, the many antidotes available to us in the West to counteract Mr. Brown’s…err…imaginative version of history, are not so widely available.

The news of al-Zarqawi’s death came overnight. Coming alongside the swearing in of Iraq’s new ministers, today may be the best “news day” out of the Iraq in some time.