Why not wait until the dust settles and the FBI comes out with its report and any more arrests rather than jumping to conclusions based on anonymous sources?

Maher has his own mind, like most of us.

The Iraqi prisoners had nothing to do with 9/11

Someone I know who was involved in interrogating captured Viet Cong would agree with you -- particularly that the prisoners might choose to say whatever they think their captors want to hear.

So in your view the Confederate states were justified in seceding in order (in their own words) to protect and even expand slavery

"A few days ago, we were hearing that the Boston Marathon bombers COULD BE conservative, which proved that the Right is evil." It is one thing to speculate about who might have committed this act at a time when the culprits were not known. There are extremist groups on both the political right and left, as well as religious extremists. But of course, if the culprits had turned out to be right wing extremists such as Timothy McVeigh, that would not reflect on conservatives who have no affinity for such extremism.

I do not know who "Don" is, but the pope and his predecessors oppose both the death penalty and abortion and they would seem a better model on this issue than Don

I did not live in the south during the 1960s, my impression is that south Florida, particularly the Miami area, would be more liberal on this issue than north Florida, and that the Methodist church, which was my church growing up, was more liberal than the (white) Baptist church. A black friend of mine who grew up in north Florida told me of the racism he encountered. Southern attitudes changed gradually, but how to explain the entire system of segregation and racial injustice in the south if it did not have the support of the white church leaders?

Only on Townhall would these remarks expressing support and empathy be politicized

Obvious to you and others on the far right

"Interestingly, the New Dealers most strongly for black rights were former Republicans -- Vice President Henry Wallace, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt." Obviously yhey were no longer Republicans. Wallace ran in 1948 as a third party candidate to the left of Truman