Ashcroft Invokes Religion In U.S. War on Terrorism; I thought the Bush administration worshipped only at the altar of the War Machine these days, but evidently I’m wrong. The official state religion they’re setting up is multifaceted; as well as Might making Right, there’s apparently an Almighty behind our superiority too. Washington Post Tom Tomorrow, from whence this blink arises, comments, in part:

Think about this: the Attorney General of the United States of America has publicly declared that the freedom of our nation is not derived from the Constitution, the work of that group of Deists and freethinkers who gathered one sweltering Philadelphia summer to lay the cornerstone of a government based on the rule of law –but is, rather, a miraculous blessing bestowed upon us by some supernatural entity.

In a sane world, that statement alone would be grounds for impeachment.