WHAT TURNING IS IT?

Matt Welch suggests that the return of late-Nineties follies to public life, the red state-blue state divides (remember, the colors switch for 2004,) and for that matter the fascination with Bennifer and the secular establishmentarians seeking to remove the crosses from the World Trade Center site is a good thing, a position that Outside the Beltway endorses.

Andrew Sullivan, Charlie Sykes (another newsie who has yet to discover permalinks, it's the 11 September post,) Power Line, Victor Davis Hanson, and Lawrence F. Kaplan beg to differ.

There are good roundups of the September 11 posts at Insta Pundit, Porphyrogenitus, (also scroll down,) Atlantic Blog, and Number 2 Pencil, who pointed to Sheila Astray, who has an extensive list of links of her own. There are general commentaries by Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson, made a widower by Al-Qaeda, and by Mark Steyn.

Jeff Jarvis is posting from the Trade Center site, John Hudock recalls watching it happen from midtown, and Daniel Drezner recalls learning about it from London, where he was delayed by the ground stop in an airport without CNN-Airport playing from each pillar.

Betsy's Page suggests that children might be discovering some of the ancient verities as a consequence, and Power Line proposes some hypotheses about the elusive Osama bin Laden, if he is in fact still alive.