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Joel Mowbray has the scoop on John Kerry’s fable about meeting with United Nations ambassadors before the October 2002 vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq:
U.N. ambassadors from several nations are disputing assertions by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the U.N. Security Council [...]

Catching up on my blogroll reading, there’s a disturbing report from Julie at Drink This about her personal experience with voter fraud at the polls in Los Angeles. She’s looking for advice on how to deal with an apparent thief who used her name to register as a Democrat. The story is here.
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The gentlemen of Power Line are absolutely right: What happened to Ann Coulter last week was not funny.
Leftists greeted the news that two men attacked her during a University of Arizona college speaking event with glee, ridicule, and misogynist gloating.
(Dan Flynn notes that this isn’t the first time Coulter has been physically attacked.)
Now, can you [...]

Thanks to everyone who sent along birthday wishes and pumpkin pie recipes last week! We tried one with fresh pumpkin–using 1 medium sugar pumpkin–and another with canned pumpkin:

I preferred the taste of the canned pumpkin pie, but you can’t get into the spirit of the season without going through the ritual of scraping out all [...]

Thanks to David M for pointing out a rotten link in my Lawrence O’Donnell post. Apparently, the blogger at “Dave’s Blurbs” has a rude habit of filching other people’s blog entries and passing them off as his own. That’s not blogging. That’s plagiarism. Knock it off.
Update: The fake blogger’s site has been taken down.

John Kerry has been using the supposedly tragic plight of Lori Sheldon, a Pennsylvania mother of two daughters, to show us all how heartless and cruel the Bush administration has been to working families. Get out your hankies. Not.
The New York Times reports:
Ms. Sheldon took her husband, John, a ground crewman at the Pittsburgh airport, [...]

Better late than never, I guess.

Mommypundit has some invaluable insights on why Kerry is a dawg.

There isn’t one. The New York Times reports:
Most countries contract with several makers, in part to avoid critical dependence on any one supplier. And though countries other than the United States had placed orders with Chiron for a smaller part of their vaccine needs, no other country was so dependent on the Liverpool factory.
In England, [...]

Policymakers on both sides of the aisle are buzzing about the latest idea to expand the federal government’s role in health insurance (New York Times, “Momentum Builds for U.S. Role in Paying Highest Health Costs“).
Evidently, there is an emerging consensus among Beltway health policymakers that it’s not enough that the feds provide or subsidize health [...]

Something unbelievable just went down on MSNBC’s Scarborough Country. Lawrence O’Donnell screamed at John O’Neill for two segments as substitute host Pat Buchanan hopelessly tried to moderate. O’Donnell interrupted O’Neill every few seconds, repeatedly called the Vietnam veteran a “liar” and a “creep,” and sneered, scowled, and shouted at the top of his lungs about [...]

Here’s an article about the millions of Australians who were given a contaminated polio vaccine in the late 1950s and early 1960s (”Millions given infected polio vaccine“):
Australia’s leading experts on the virus, which is known as simian virus 40 or SV40, have found traces of it in human tumour cells and are calling for urgent [...]

There’s a new report quoting a Honduras homeland security official blowing the whistle on al Qaeda recruitment of Central American gang members, who can easily slip through our southern border. Oscar Alvarez’s critics say he’s concocting the threat to justify tough crackdowns on gangs and smugglers.
But as the article notes:
A spokesman for Mexico’s National [...]

More foreign support for John Kerry, this time an apparent endorsement from the Army of Ansar al-Sunnah.
He just keeps racking them up.
Update: Godless Americans give Kerry the thumbs up. (Someone tell me this is a joke!)

^&*$%#@$%^#!
Sorry for the spleen-venting so early in the morning, but read this from the AP, headlined “Bush wants intelligence bill free of immigration provisions:”
The White House yesterday asked Congress to reject an attempt in the House to place illegal-immigration measures in an intelligence reform bill.
The Bush administration wants “an effective bill that both Houses can [...]

In a last-ditch bid for battleground votes, John Kerry got a hunting makeover.
Here’s the AP photo of his goose hunting trip in Ohio hot off the presses:

He wisely ditched the bright orange vest…

…and the one-eyed stance…

But gun owners and outdoorsmen in Ohio still aren’t buying it.
“I like my guns, and I think Kerry has [...]

“I will bring my faith with me to the White House and it will guide me.”
– John F. Kerry, Oct. 20, Xenia, Ohio
Where are the church-state separatists now?

In the Washington Post:
The Kindness of a Stranger
My husband, an Army captain who was in uniform, our young daughter and I went to a restaurant near Potomac Mills for dinner Oct. 15. When it came time to pay the check, our waiter informed us that another patron had picked up our tab. I was blown [...]

Well, Teresa Heinz Kerry’s subdued act didn’t last long did it? By now, you’ve all read Her Highness’s condescending remarks about our First Lady Laura Bush. Teresa’s boneheaded ““apology” was even worse than the initial comments. Teresa managed to snub not only millions of teachers and librarians and Mrs. Bush’s 22 years of work as [...]

John and Ken of KFI radio in Los Angeles have posted an op-ed by Rep. David Drier on their web site in which Drier states,
It should also be recognized that Matricula Consular cards have been issued by the Mexican government since 1871, are not available to illegal immigrants, and are not accepted by any federal [...]

The Kerry campaign is getting more and more desperate.
Now comes word that a Kerry spokesman is criticizing top Republican officials for getting flu shots (”Cheney Got Flu Shot, Aides Say, Citing Heart Issue“). Reuters quotes the Kerry campaign as follows:
The Kerry campaign accused the Bush administration of “telling Americans to keep calm” while top [...]

Today’s my birthday (34 in case you and Chris Matthews were wondering). It’s funny how your own birthday becomes of less and less consequence when you have kids, or at least that has been my experience. My four-year-old daughter asked yesterday why we weren’t having a big party. (Birthday=Party).
“Mommy, don’t you need to go [...]

The tough, can-do spirit of Rosie the Riveter is dead. My latest column looks at the pathetic women who took who took her place. Here’s an excerpt:
Rosie the Riveter has given way to Sally the Sniveler.
During World War II, young Rose Will Monroe was the face of American women in adversity: strong, supportive and resolute [...]

Orin Kerr, engaging in “amateurish speculation,” raises the scary prospect of Al Qaeda attacks on voting locations on Nov. 2:
I think the more likely Al Qaeda move would be to try to destabilize the U.S. political system. A weakened United States government might mean a government less likely to pressure Iran, more likely to [...]

The NY Times weighs in on the flu shot shortage in its lead editorial this morning (”An Influenza Vaccine Debacle“). It is the most shallow editorial I’ve read in months. After devoting several paragraphs to the FDA’s failure to prevent contamination at Chiron’s Liverpool plant, the editorial finally gets to the root problem:
Underlying this crisis [...]

Caught a few minutes of Teresa Heinz Kerry on ABC’s The View earlier this morning. I’ve been tough on her and she has been as unhinged and unraveled as I said she would be during most of the campaign. But today she just seemed pitiful. She said she “winced” when her husband joked about [...]

From the Dems…
…and the Pubbies.
These guys crack me up.
(Note to CBS: The documents are FAKE.)
Update: Another secret document unearthed!
(Note to CBS: This one is FAKE, too.)
Update II: And another!
(Note to CBS: Keep your Emmy dreams in check. This is also FAKE.)

Chalk it up to sleep deprivation, but I honestly feel a wee bit sorry for John Edwards. This video of him fussing with his feathery Breck hair before a TV interview will undoubtedly be the laughingstock of the blogosphere and beyond today.
Yeah, he’s prissier than most. Waaayy prissier. But if you secretly taped almost any [...]

Andrew McCarthy smacks down the New York Times editorial board’s anti-Patriot Act pablum. Here’s a tiny sample:
It boggles the mind how little the Times and its 9/10 allies have absorbed about the perilous realities of our 9/11 era. How irrationally circular, how suicidal, is their view of how we should confront these challenges. Or, more [...]

AP: Johnny Depp Says He’s No Heartthrob

For once, I agree with him.