... but I try to do it anyway. In this case, it's Eric Dondero of Libertarian Republican, whose views I generally find both ideologically repulsive and factually challenged. In the entire Sonny Landham case, Eric has consistently held to the belief that it is not only acceptable, not only OK, but actually desirable to come up with derogatory epithets like "jap," "gook," or "camel-dung shoveler," and that to call people out on this language is panty-waist political correctness run amuck. I have already explained--both here and in the comments section of Eric's own blog --precisely how venal and idiotic I find such a stand. But then, on Third Party Watch , someone using the handle Rudi Dekkers attacks Eric not because of his views, but because of his military service: Oh yeah, Dondero: Did you know that Thomas Jefferson and many of the founders opposed the establishment of a professional government military? In a letter to Francis Hopkinson Jeffer...