Measured Rebuttal
A while back as I was adding the Volokh Conspiracy to my blogroll I said this about Eugene Volokh: ". . . what I really enjoy about his writing is that he does it so well, and yet so dispassionately."
Here's a good example. Instapundit collects his usual compendium of blog comments on Sen. Ted Kennedy's recent speech, in which Kennedy said:
Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam, and this country needs a new President. . . .
Kennedy has been roundly criticized for comparing Iraq to Vietnam (see the Instapundit links) and a few have come to his defense. Read Eugene Volokh's measured rebuttal to that defense to get an idea of what I meant way back then.