I never thought I’d see the day (or the nightmare) when I’d be siding with Michelle Malkin—Ann Coulter without wit, and lethal injector to what remains of ethical journalism. But ideology never ought to trump principle; the fact that it so often does is what has us now in the no-exit mires of politics for self-destruction’s sake. And as a matter of principle, anyone willing to defend the right of that Dutch newspaper to publish the Mohammed cartoons in September 2005 has to take Malkin’s side in her little spat with YouTube. [See the full piece at Pierre Tristam's Candide's Notebooks.]