Barone salutes Captain Morrissey, skewers FAIR law profs

Maybe I'm the last blogger to know about it but I'm very happy anyway to tell you Michael Barone has a blog.

Now we'll have not just Barone columns, but blog posts too. Thoughtful Americans are lucky.

Here's the last part of a post concerning the recent 8-0 Supreme Court decision in FAIR v. Rumsfeld :

The military policy that the law schools object to is the ban on homosexuals in military service.

As Roberts's opinion points out, that policy was the result of legislation passed by Congress and signed by the president (President Clinton, in fact). The law schools' real beef is not with the military, which rightly follows orders, but with Congress.

A serious argument can be made that that policy should be changed; here such an argument is presented by Ed Morrissey of the Captains Quarters blog.

"Let's end the hypocrisy and admit that gays have made good soldiers, sailors, and airmen in the past and present and could contribute to our national defense in the future," Morrissey concluded. "Addendum: I expect to get pilloried on this one, so feel free to fire away in the comments section."

I took a look at the comments section and found many commenters agreed with Morrissey and that those who disagreed seem to frame their arguments respectfully, basing them in many cases on personal experience. Not the sort of flaming hatred you find in so many comments on www.dailykos.com.

Meanwhile, while the law professors at Yale, among other universities, preen themselves on opposing the evil military for giving homosexuals no harsher a penalty than a general discharge, Yale College has admitted as a student a former spokesman for the Taliban, which threw homosexuals into ditches and then had concrete walls bulldozed over them.

The hypocrisy of the academic elite is repulsive: The only common theme is a dislike for America.

There's a lot I want to say about Barone's post but as most of you know I'm still recovering from a major support failure by Blogger. Tomorrow I'll comment further on Barone's post.

Barone's post is here.