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The Supreme Court’s recent divination of a right to have gay sex seems to have created a baklash:

Americans have become significantly less accepting of homosexuality since a Supreme Court decision that was hailed as clearing the way for new gay civil rights, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll has found. After several years of growing tolerance, the survey shows a return to a level of more traditional attitudes last seen in the mid-1990s.

Asked whether same-sex relations between consenting adults should be legal, 48% said yes; 46% said no. Before this month, support hadn’t been that low since 1996. (Related item: See poll numbers)

In early May, support for legal relations reached a high of 60%-35%.

Of course, the recent decision is only the latest in a long line of Supreme Court idiocies.

The Note on that gender gap poll I pointed out yesterday:

“…Mark J. Penn, who conducted the poll, said that theparty’s image has regressed since former president Bill Clinton left office and that those weaknesses put Democrats in a weakened position.”

Regressed, in other words, to the wilderness of Michael Dukakis (tank boy) and Walter Mondale (who wasn’t exactly weak on defense but was perceived as being soft and pro-tax).

At the Campaign for America’s Future conference in early June, we were a bit astounded to hear boos

Dennis Boyles has some glaring examples of the BBC’s baldfaced lies during the Iraq war. Here’s an excerpt:

I set up my little test. I watched the TV while listening to the World Service on my hand-held radio. It was a startling multimedia event. I could listen to the BBC’s Paul Wood telling me once again that there was no sign of the American incursion into Baghdad. Yet on the screen in front of me there was the 3rd Infantry. They were cruising through Baghdad, driving down the highway, turning into the streets. Look! Along the sidewalks, there were waving children and adults, cheering them on. Men in passed by in trucks and cars crying out, “Saddam down!” and giving the soldiers big smiles and waves. I finally turned off the World Service and turned up the television. At the airport, a correspondent was asked about the Iraqi claim that the Americans had been driven out of the airport and were being “pounded” by Republican Guards. He looked around, mystified, then replied that he’d been at the airport for two days, that it was securely in Coalition hands, and that the only Iraqi challenge he had noticed had been a couple of small skirmishes that were quickly quelled by Coalition forces. “Maybe that’s what he meant,” he said, generously. Behind him, soldiers lounged around like the stranded tourists they were.

On the BBC News channel, the anchors got Wood on camera and very gently pointed out to him that they were getting a lot of video in showing the Americans had indeed taken a drive deep into Baghdad and that the information minister’s odd claims didn’t seem to be holding up. Wood was kind of chubby, younger than I expected. He seemed obviously pained. But he had his story

Howard Dean now leads his Democratic rivals in three key polls - a national poll and two New Hampshire polls.

Thanks to the PoliPundit readers who helped make this happen by taking up my suggestion and contributing to the Dean campaign when it mattered! If Dean becomes the Democratic nominee, voters in the general election will finally have the opportunity to weigh in on an honest-to-goodness liberal agenda. Somehow I suspect they’ll overwhelmingly choose patriotic Republicans over America-hating Democrats.

Paul Gigot has the truth from Iraq:

Just ask the 20-some members of the new city council in this [Najaf] holy city of Shiite Islam. Their chairs are arrayed in a circle to hear from Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, who invites questions. The first man to speak wants to know two things: There’s a U.S. election next year, and if President Bush loses will the Americans go home? And second, are you secretly holding Saddam Hussein in custody as a way to intimidate us with the fear that he might return? Mr. Wolfowitz replies no to both points, with more conviction on the second than the first. But the question reveals the complicated anxiety of the post-Saddam Iraqi mind.

Most reporting from Iraq suggests that the U.S. “occupation” isn’t welcome here. But following Mr. Wolfowitz around the country I found precisely the opposite to be true. The majority aren’t worried that we’ll stay too long; they’re petrified we’ll leave too soon. Traumatized by 35 years of Saddam’s terror, they fear we’ll lose our nerve as casualties mount and leave them once again to the Baath Party’s merciless revenge.

We turned a profit on the deaths of Qusay and Uday, even though we’re paying out a $30 million reward:

The raid actually more than paid for itself: Qusay and Uday had with them roughly $100 million in Iraqi dinars and U.S. dollars.

Polls taken in the last few days are showing the president’s job approval rating recovering from the dip of the previous two weeks.

What does this say about Democrats:

Independent pollster Jim Kane, publisher of Florida Voter in Fort Lauderdale, earlier this year predicted that “most of these ex-felons would register as Democrats and vote as Democrats in any election and most likely in the next presidential election.”

Ron Brownstein laments the coarsening of political tactics used by both sides.

At therisk of sounding partisan, it’s all Democrats’ fault. Republicans are still far too nice to describe Democrats as the treasonous leeches that they are.

Republicans still suffer from Battered Republican Syndrome. For example, no Republican holding major elected office will describe Democrats as treasonous, even if said senior Democrats make it a point to hobnob with America’s enemies.

32 House Democrats, including the ranking members of the Judiciary and Ways and Means Committees, opposed a congressional resolution supporting our troops. Did Republicans question their patriotism? Not a chance. Democrats, on the other hand, routinely describe Republicans as evil racists who want to starve children and destroy the world.

Democrats hate our country and everything it stands for. They’re aided and abetted in their quest to destroy the American Ideal by the lying socialist treasonous liberal media. It’s about time Republicans began to tell the American people these facts.

What if the lying socialist treasonous liberal media had covered the aftermath of World War II the way they’re covering Iraq today? Well, you need wonder no more. (link viaInstaPundit.)