Girlie-man Rich Lowry has a competitor for Sharia Plain's affections, and he better butch up or he might be seeing starbursts from a rival's well-placed uppercut.

I like Sarah Palin, and I've heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is -- and quite frankly, I think the people who don't see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma. So she doesn't speak the King's English -- big whoop! There is a powerful clarity of consciousness in her eyes. She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist.

We need to encourage thinking like this among the Republicans.