Reading the photo propaganda (photoganda?) over at Mr. Right's blog, I think I'll put my kickstand down to comment briefly on national affairs -- beginning with a new term: Wing Dinger.

A "Wing Dinger" is a knee-jerk ideologue representing either political party or wing (as opposed to a "New Winger," a purpose-driven pragmatist seeking honest, competent leadership at all levels of civil government. Like the Dingers, New Wingers can also be from the left or right wing of the political spectrum.)

The RCP Blog: "if this country gets hit with a small nuke and 30,000 or 100, 000 Americans die, all of the debating will be over. The ensuing crackdown will be massive, and the loss of REAL civil liberties will become very, very possible."

(Like something out of Alex Jones, Bloggy.)

and this diversionary piece:

Byron York on Bill Clinton & No-Warrant Searches on National Review Online:

"In the end, Congress placed the searches under the FISA court, but the Clinton administration did not back down from its contention that the president had the authority to act when necessary."

and this by the father of all pundits, William F. Buckley Jr. . . . on George W. Bush and Intelligence Interceptions:

One way to vest mystique into the Constitution is to plead its inscrutability, or else suggest that only the high priests of the legal profession are equipped to interpret it. The secretary of state informed Tim Russert no fewer than four times on Meet the Press that she was not a lawyer.

. . . since Condoleezza Rice is a very smart lady, one had to acknowledge that she simply did not want to argue the meaning of Article Two of the Constitution. She didn't want to be the first secretary of state to pass down word that it's okay for a president to bug your phone because that's what the Constitution says!

Mr. Right thinks we know what he thinks: that he supports whatever Mr. Bush is convinced of, without Congressional authorization -- to save us from his Poster Boys for Terrorism..... Poster boys who were created by the actions of Precedent Bush.

Looking at National Review online, I noticed that the 2006 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, with its $500,000 cash award will be presented to the former prime minister of Estonia, Mart Laar on May 18 at the Drake Hotel in Chicago by The Cato Institute. Laar was main architect of his country's remarkable economic transformation into one of the world's freest and most dynamic economies.