Global News: March 2008 Archives

The New York Sun: Attorney General Gets Emotional In Calling for Surveillance Power

Attorney General Mukasey puts my mind at ease: "So far as focusing investigations, we investigate where the threat is coming from. The threat is coming from Islamist extremism. It's not coming from Calvinism. We'd be out of our minds not to mention the waste of resources to look everyplace simply in the name of being correct." (Via Founders Blog.)

Mikhail Gorbachev admits he is a Christian - Telegraph

As a kid, I always wondered what might happen if a Christian could secretly work his way up through the Soviet hierarchy. I guess we found out. "It was through St Francis that I arrived at the Church, so it was important that I came to visit his tomb.... I feel very emotional to be here at such an important place not only for the Catholic faith, but for all humanity." (Via Peter Robinson at The Corner, who notes that Reagan suspected that Gorbachev was a secret believer.)