Two bills -- one in the Senate and one in the House of Delegates -- have been introduced to legalize gay marriage in Maryland, guaranteeing a contentious fight on the floors of both houses.  There are over 40 sponsors -- almost 25% -- in the House, and nine in the Senate.

Personally, I think this argument will generate much more heat than light.  But even more, I think it is a waste of time.

Does Mike Huckabee hate free speech?  I think he just might.  This is what Huckabee had to say about push polls made on his behalf:

I personally wish that all of this was outlawed. I think that every candidates should speak for themselves, and that every thing that involves the candidate's name or another candidate's name should be authorized and approved by that candidate, otherwise it shouldn't be spoken....

Hmmm... let's look at what our Constitution says.

Katherine Cottle of Glen Arm has published her first collection of poetry called "My Father's Speech", available through http://apprentice.house.com and Amazon.com.

You can also read her work at http://katherinecottle.blogspot.com/.

If you are fan of JRR Tolkein and The Lord of the Rings, you'll love this:

Minas Tirith in Candy

When I posted "Who I Will Not Vote For in the Maryland Primary, Part I", declaring why I would not vote for Ron Paul, I was not aware of how ugly some of his deeper philosophies go.

Today I found this story on The New Republic about his pamphleteering from a few decades ago.  All I can say is, I am glad I got it right.  Since Mr. Paul has failed to adequately separate himself from some of the beliefs espoused in the pamphlets bearing his name in the Masthead, I can only believe that they are his thoughts and feelings.

I will definitely not vote for him for anything.  And I am glad I said so early.

Over at National Review Online, Jonah Goldberg has an excellent column this weekend on the left's never-ending quest to get more people to vote.

I think he makes a valid point toward the end, but I would take a different tact.

There is a lot of talk in the blogosphere as of late that there is a great schism coming in Evangelical circles because of the Republican primary endorsements of people like the Rev. Pat Robertson (Giuliani), James Dobson (Huckabee) and the NRLC (Fred Thompson).

Liberal commentators are in a state of bliss, as this supposed "dismemberment" of the Christian Right is one of their chief goals.

Conservative commentators wonder if the influence of the Christian Right is waning because the "movement" has become more of a big-government, seize-the-power, impose-their-agenda movement akin to, well, liberal orthodoxy.  Over at National Review Online, they even use the term "Social Gospel" and "Religious Progressives" to describe the movement.

But I think there is something more afoot here from a different perspective.

Michael Medved has an outstanding article about the failure of Hollywood to grasp what its audience wants -- demands -- when it does war movies.

Make sure you read it.

Do we really need California?  The Associated Press reports that San Francisco is preparing to open the nation's first "safe injection" room.  Yup, that's right-- the San Francisco city government is opening a government funded, government run facility to help drug addicts and hopheads to "inject safely".  Guess what:  they are even going to provide nurses!

David Frum over at National Review highlights part of his column for today's National Post.

It's a much deeper exposition on the complete assinity of who gets this prize sometimes, and how Al Gore is a perfect recipient.