READINGS .......................

Today's Puritans attack Indian mascots.
The NCAA is on the warpath --oops-- a moral mission.

The ACLU thinks cops are a bigger threat than terrorists.

The head of the NYCLU, in turn, charged not only that the random bag searches didn't work but that they were also likely to lead to racial profiling. She explained how this would happen in a statement that would require, of those who read it, the deciphering talents of the Enigma codebreakers: "Although the NYPD claims that they are conducting searches that are purely random, the large number of people entering the transit system and the lack of control over that traffic result in people being selected for search in a discretionary and arbitrary manner, which creates the potential for impermissible racial profiling."

HeavyHanded says "Huh?"

Michigan's Gov. Granholm joins forces with a Trotskyite group to suppress democracy.

As at the national level, there is an intellectual void, a lack of vision, among mainstream Democratic leaders in the state [Michigan] --a vacuum that extremist fringe groups are filling.

Why the base--and some outside it--are standing by President Bush.
By Peggy Noonan

The Real World: The Volcker committee details $1.1 million in fraud--out of billions.
By Claudia Rosett