News From The Left

Just a few short items on what's going on over on the Left side of things.

First, Michelle Malkin's column in today's WorldNetDaily is on Senator Hillary Clinton's attempted transformation into a centrist war hawk for the 2008 Presidential election (which she denies she's running for). She's jumping on the body armor bandwagon in the hope of appealing to voters who support the troops and the war.

Unfortunately (but typically), her call for lots more body armor for our troops runs against what the military wants or needs.

Hillary bashed President Bush and Vice President Cheney for callously letting troops die and said she was "just bewildered as to how this president and this vice president continue to isolate themselves from different points of view."

You want different points of view? Listen to soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's 3rd Brigade, who must don some 40 pounds of protection and gear while fighting in the desert heat. Capt. Jamey Turner, 35, of Baton Rouge, La., a commander in the 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment bluntly reminded the Associated Press: "You've got to sacrifice some protection for mobility. If you cover your entire body in ceramic plates, you're just not going to be able to move."

Second Lt. Josh Suthoff, 23, of Jefferson City, Mo., said: "I'd go out with less body armor if I could."

Yep, Hillary is in tune with our military.

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Next, Dr. Ted Baehr, of the Christian Film & Television Commission, discusses the Left's deranged criticisms of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe in today's WorldNetDaily.

The criticism has been unremitting from the liberal elite. The books have been derided for their positive depiction of Christian spirituality and Western virtues. In the Dec. 4 issue of The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Laura Miller calls Lewis' insertion of Christian metaphors in his "Narnia" books "a terrible betrayal." In her Dec. 7 review of the movie, Carina Chocano of the Los Angeles Times made snide comments about the movie and the book's Christian metaphors, calling it "a medieval vision of Christianity for another dark age."

Philip Pullman, an author whose "Golden Compass" fantasy trilogy explicitly seeks to encourage children into faith of materialist atheism and rejection of traditional morality, has called the books, "so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the "Narnia" books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt."

Be sure to read the whole column, if you're a Narnia (book or movie) fan.

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Finally, Heather Mac Donald has an eye-opening look at the legal clinics that are extensions of university law schools. This is in today's OpinionJournal. She exposes the liberal-agenda, social activism of these professor-run clinics that do little or nothing to provide real-world legal experience to law students.

Today's clinical landscape is a perfect place to evaluate what happens when lawyers decide that they are chosen to save society. The law school clinics don't just take clients with obvious legal issues, such as criminal defendants or tenants facing eviction. They take social problems--unruly students in school, for example--and turn them into legal ones. Florence Roisman, a housing rights activist at the Indiana University School of Law, has inspired clinicians nationwide with her supremely self-confident call to arms: "If it offends your sense of justice, there's a cause of action." (emphasis added)

This article is both excellent and worrisome at the same time. Not only are the law schools turning out liberal-activist lawyers, at some point down the road many of these lawyers will become our nation's judges.