First, according to Box Office Mojo, Expelled is already ranked the #12th top grossing documentary after only 3 weeks out:

Expelled should break the top 10, although Moore fans can rest easy it will never beat any of his his top 3 atrocities. (Did not know Roger and Me was a Moore film until corrected by a reader Bystander.)

The highlighting was Mojos, indicating films currently out. So Expelled is beating the Rolling Stones, and I see another rock icon, John Lennon, at #21.

Speaking of, Yoko is suing Expelled's makers for using 15 seconds of John's song Imagine without permission....

But on May 1, Stanford Law School's Fair Use Project announced it would defend Expelled, seeing Yoko's suit as an infringement of the fair use doctrine. From Stanford's press release:

"The right to quote from copyrighted works in order to criticize them and discuss the views they may represent lies at the heart of the fair use doctrine," said Anthony Falzone, executive director of the Fair Use Project.

In other news the Boston Globe today included an op ed hit piece against Expelled with a stealthy jab at Christians:

American science is in trouble, and if you wonder why, just go to the movies. Popular culture is gradually turning against science, and Ben Stein's new movie, Expelled, is helping to push it along.

This was to say science and religion can't coexist. That's sometimes true... when science is wrong. For instance, when scientists said the world was flat:

Sometimes it takes science awhile to catch up.

Phyllis Schlafly wrote a great op ed on Expelled, btw.

[Graphic courtesy of web.mac.com]

I got a little misty eyed at the end. I think all mothers will. From The Today Show, May 6...

According to an email from Bella's promoters, Bella was the #1 selling dvd in Amazon's love/romance category yesterday and #5 on the entire Amazon site. That's great.

Promoters are encouraging store buyers to get Bella at Walmart because it's the largest dvd retailer in the world.

The plot thickens.

I wrote in this week's WND column that a group of KS pro-life leaders paid KS U.S. Senator Sam Brownback a surprise visit in his Washington, D.C., office May 3 to ask him to rescind his endorsement of Steve Howe for Johnson County District Attorney.

Pro-lifers have asked incumbent Phill Kline to reconsider running to retain the seat, because Kline is in the throes of a 5-year-long investigation against Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, which operates an abortion mill in JoCo, for illegal late-term and minor abortions and fraudulent documentation.

The powers that be are now simply trying to run out the clock on Kline's tenure by stalling the investigation until after the November election.

It has now been learned on high authority that someone(s) secretly left cell phone(s) on in the vicinity of the pro-lifers' meeting with Brownback and piped the conversation to his offices in Wichita and/or Topeka, most likely both....

In addition, Howe campaign committee member Karl Hansen has admitted that an unnamed Brownback staffer called him and gave him the names of the people attending the meeting, at least 1 of which he called within minutes after the meeting ended.

Pro-lifers do not think Brownback knew their conversation was being secretly audited. He did not know they were awaiting him until he nadvertently walked by the windowed room in which they sat.

Many questions...

Yesterday WorldNetDaily.com covered the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point incident, wherein pro-abort Student Government Association member Roderick King vandalized a display of memorial crosses placed with permission by the campus group Pointers for Life.

The WND article included commenters to my post on King from TexasRed Bobby Bambino and Rae Patricia from Canada...

But worse is the fact that despite the students' complaint, the Student Government Association has declined to take action.

"So much for choice..." wrote TexasRed on Stanek's forum page.

"Wow! All I can say is welcome to the abortion debate Canadian-style," wrote Rae. "We can't protest or debate abortion in Canada because it's considered a basic human right (since when?)." Never mind that the human baby doesn't have even the basic human right to life.

"This man has serious anger problems. I wonder how many unborn baby skeletons he has in his closet...?" she wrote.

Actually, I was thinking the same thing Rae.

WND included more background info on the story:

The campus group Pointers for Life had put up the Cemetery of the Innocents display last week, then spent the next morning repairing the damage from someone who had vandalized the field of rows of white crosses representing the victims of abortion.

Then they were trashed a second time, only this time the pro-life campaigners were armed with a video camera.

As students looked on, King led a group of angry students by walking through the rows of crosses and plucking them from the ground and tossing them.

Campus security was summoned, and when an officer arrived, most of the students left. King did not.

See video of King's illegal temper tantrum here.

The Wausau Daily Herald also has more coverage here and here, as does Michelle Malkin.

[Photos courtesy of the Wausau Daily Herald]