The signers of the Manhattan Declaration are an interesting bunch. Whether they are Roman Catholics, evangelicals, or Anglicans, they share a strong bent for purity, both inside and outside the church. We're going to be hearing from them for a while.

Evangelicals like Chuck Colson, Roman Catholics like Archbishop Donald Wuerl, and the other religious leaders who signed the "Manhattan Declaration" don't seem to understand that justifying discrimination in the name of religious freedom is not a good idea.

Kit Bond seems to have forgotten his Missouri roots. Instead of letting the courts ask that most Missourian of questions -- Show Me -- of the government and of KSM, Bond would rather try something else. Sorry, Senator, but that's not how we do things around here.

Stupak and others want to outlaw abortion, but can't get that to pass, so they'll settle for making it available only to the rich. But before they preach about morality, perhaps they should go back and look at prophets like Ezekiel and Amos and listen to their words about separate rules for the rich and the poor.

With the time change, people get an extra hour tonight. Some will have fun, but others will work, like those at State, DOD, and the WH who are watching Afghanistan. But Marcy Wheeler's got new Plame materials to dig through, which ought to make for a scary Halloween for Dick Cheney and his minions.

The TheoCons are collecting signatures to put two anti-abortion state constitution amendments on the ballot in MO next year, including one that will define personhood "to be from the beginning of biological development." If this passes, will the pre-birth police be knocking on the door of every woman who miscarries?

Now we know what it takes to scare the top Pentagon brass: photos.

Religious leaders of all stripes are pushing for health care reform, rooted in the belief that health care is a basic right for all people, not a commodity. Not that you'd know this by following the TradMed . . .

My, how times have changed.