Yesterday we noted that Paul Krugman, the New York Times's star columnist, had offered only one example to bolster his claim that "eliminationist rhetoric" is "coming, overwhelmingly, from the right." To quote Krugman's Monday column:

As we noted in yesterday's column, in October then-Rep. Paul Kanjorski, a Pennsylvania Democrat, mused about assassinating a fellow politician. Not only was he not ostracized; he was rewarded with a spot yesterday on the op-ed page of Krugman's newspaper.

But...