I've heard that question posed in numerous places, sometimes with anger and disgust and other times with bewilderment. The answer is "my kind," and I'd be proud to have ushers like George Tiller in any parish I serve.

How about we take away your right to work, Douthat? In truth, the NYT readers would benefit from that.

You are about to hear some folks on your TeeVee talk about FACE Act. That stands for the Freedom of Access to Clinincs Entrances Act. The man who shot Dr. Tiller may have violated it repeatedly, and the failure to prosecute him then, left him free to murder Dr. Tiller now.

Since the murder of Dr. Tiller in Kansas, I've struggled to speak up effectively about choice in this country. Feministe has some ideas about how to put your money where your choice is. But it seems to me there should be more we can do.

I'm not quite sure why Blitzer decided he had to preface this clip with the caution that it was "disturbing." I'm disturbed by freaks with plastic fetuses demagoguing abortion for the benefit of little kids and people in Iraq having limbs blown off, but I sort of figure that's what I'm getting when I turn on the news. We can't have a real conversation about the predicament of women seeking third term

George Tiller was assassinated by someone who opposed him on political and moral grounds. That's terrorism, according to the dictionary. . . .

Lord Salaten wastes many column inches at Slate trying to put distance between himself and George Tiller's murderer with the tasteful headline:Is it wrong to murder an abortionist? Last night, the "liberal" MSNBC had an all-male panel on Hardball discussing abortion, and on Olbermann, the guest was Andrew Sullivan. A reader writes: Uh...

Words do matter a whole lot, despite all the "I was only JOKING!" protestations to the contrary.

As expected, professional Ragebeast Michelle Malkin comes to the defense of the 24/7 Hatefest that is modern conservatism and provides a handy list of bullet points for the Solve A Problem With A Bullet crowd

photo by Per Ola Wiberg (Powi) It was the summer of 2001. The Operation Rescue people were back with a new name. The play book was the same but it didn't quite work. I learned a lot about Dr. Tiller's clinic that week and a lot about who was on which side.