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…”Republican Dirty Tricksters” for this new America Coming Together flyer aimed at scaring black voters.
Update: Several readers make this good point (obvious to everyone except for ACT):
It’s worth noting that, by my count, all Missouri governors from 1945 to 1973 were Democrats. (Via The Political Graveyard: http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/gov.html). Segregation — and violent resistance [...]

AP reports:
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (AP) � Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that terrorists are aiming to derail President Bush’s chances at re-election through their attacks in Iraq…
“I consider the activities of terrorists in Iraq are not as much aimed at coalition forces but more personally against President Bush,” Putin said at a news conference after [...]

James Joyner highlights CNN’s attempt to spin a survey showing overwhelming troop support for President Bush.

The U.N. blames John Kerry for the deaths of 50 Haitians. The BBC reports:
The commander of the UN peacekeepers in Haiti has linked a recent upsurge in violence there to comments made by the US presidential candidate, John Kerry.
Earlier this year Mr Kerry said that as president he would have sent American troops to protect [...]

Both the NY Times and Washington Post have long pieces this weekend explaining the reasons for the flu shot shortage. Skim them, then read this.
More on the flu shot below.
Update: Check out this clueless Eleanor Clift op-ed in Newsweek. Here’s my favorite part:
If the free market can’t provide flu vaccine, the government should [...]

Last week’s issue of People magazine has a brief article about Liliana Plata, an illegal alien from Mexico who allegedly entered the Air Force by pretending to be Cristina Alaniz, a student at Texas State University. According to news reports, Plata was able to join the Air Force using identity documents she had purchased on [...]

A couple of readers and at least one blogger have called into question my assertion that the flu shot shortage might lead to more deaths than the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. My statement was based on official CDC statistics–36,000 deaths per year–and my assumption that a flu shot shortage could increase that number [...]

More disturbing evidence of al Qaeda operatives exploiting lax student visa policies (via AP):
TRENTON, N.J. — A senior al-Qaida operative accused of conducting surveillance on U.S. financial buildings as possible terrorist targets got into the United States on a student visa, according to the FBI.
FBI spokesman John Conway said Thursday the agency is trying to [...]

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Yesterday my pediatrician informed my husband that our 11-month old son probably will not be able to get the two vaccines that would protect him the most this winter–a flu shot and Prevnar–due to shortages. I can try to get a flu shot at our local supermarket, but to do so I’ll probably need to [...]

From top liberal blogger and “Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America” Duncan Black, a.k.a. Atrios, commenting on President Bush before the debate:
I think someone asked in comments recently something along the lines of “Who are we going to see tonight? The angry frat boy or the retarded chimp.”
I think the answer is, “angry retarded [...]

Thanks to all the readers who sent me their e-mail and phone exchanges with the Condoleezza Rice-hating Jeff Danziger. While he defended his sophomoric racist cartoon to tons of you over the past day (”Think for yourself,” he admonished in his insulting boilerplate response to you), he has now removed the offensive cartoon from his [...]

John Kerry stooped to the lowest of the low with the shameless, invasive line that will be played over and over again on the news in the next 24 hours:
And I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney’s daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she’s being who she was, [...]

9:45ish: Finally, finally! Bob Schieffer asks about illegal immigration…but both candidates bomb.
Bush’s perfunctory reference to how he has sprinkled a few more Border Patrol agents across the southern border glosses over the horrendous policies instituted under his Department of Homeland Security that have resulted in undermining those agents. As I noted recently:
When a mobile [...]

My new column gives an overview of the campaign epidemic of anti-GOP hate spreading across the country. Here’s the intro:
How many hate crime anecdotes does it take before the mainstream media spot a trend? If the victims are politically correct, all it takes is one or two.
One alleged name-calling. A few alleged acts of vandalism. [...]

Another scoop from Bill Gertz of the Washington Times. He cites an intelligence report indicating that 25 Chechen terrorists entered the United States illegally via our southern border with Mexico:
The Chechen group is suspected of having links to Islamist terrorists seeking to separate the southern enclave of Chechnya from Russia, according to officials familiar with [...]

A front-page story in this morning’s New York Sun by Thomas Lipscomb points to a document indicating that John Kerry initially received a less than honorable discharge from the U.S. Naval Reserves:
An official Navy document on Senator Kerry’s campaign Web site listed as Mr. Kerry’s “Honorable Discharge from the Reserves” opens a door on a [...]

How much more Democrat hate can you take? First, Jeff Danziger strikes out at Condi Rice with the most heinous political cartoon of the year.
And now this disgusting campaign flyer from Tennessee Democrats (hat tip: Traditional Values Coalition):

Maureen Dowd no doubt approves.
Update: According to TVC, the person responsible for the flyer is Democrat Craig Fitzhugh. [...]

I thought the bigoted Ted Rall was repugnant enough. Now along comes left-wing political cartoonist Jeff Danziger with another sick, racist shot at Condoleezza Rice.
In case you feel like giving him and his syndicate a piece of your mind, here is Danziger’s contact information:
Danziger Cartoons are syndicated by the New York Times Syndicate. [...]

Believe it or not, they’re out there. Here’s the scoop, buried in a Los Angeles Times article on homeless voter registration drives:
On a recent overcast morning at a small park at 5th and San Julian streets, Burton and other volunteers attempted to entice the assembled men and women to register, using posters, loudspeakers and voting [...]

For the first time since he began writing for the London Telegraph, Mark Steyn had a column pulled. He explains here. I’m taking the liberty of reprinting the full, unpublished piece. It’s important:
Whether or not it is, in the technical sense, a “joke”, I find myself, with the benefit of hindsight, in agreement with Billy [...]

Smashing windows.

Smashing more windows.
Stealing money.
Storming buildings.

Issuing death threats.
Can you spell U-N-H-I-N-G-E-D?
Part I
Part II

As far as the MSM is concerned, rumors are only rumors when
they’re about Democrats. Rumors about Republicans are just “all the news
that’s fit to print.”
-John Hawkins, Right Wing News, at a weekend online blogger symposium (great read)

Kudos to Robert Samuelson, who adds insight on the economic consequences of unrestrained immigration in this must-read piece.

The elephant in the room, part I

Maj. Bud Day (Bert V. Goulait, Washington Times)
The Washington Times and RedState have previews of the latest devastating ads from the Swift Boat Vets, which will feature 90 veterans who oppose John Kerry, including Medal of Honor recipient Bud Day.
I wonder if Newsweek writer Susannah Meadows will smear these noble war heroes as “curdled [...]

This is Jonathan Borofsky’s “Walking to the Sky,” on exhibit at Rockefeller Center until Oct. 18. Several figures, including a businesswoman, a grandmother, and a child, ascend the 80-foot-pole. The artist says he didn’t have Sept. 11 in mind when he created it, but rather childhood memories of stories his father told him about walking [...]

In case you missed it, the New York Times Book Review finally got around to slamming Unfit for Command.
Two quick comments–one about the reviewer and one about the book review section:
1) The reviewer is Susannah Meadows, who is covering the Kerry campaign for Newsweek. In the second paragraph of her screed against the Swift Boat [...]

For every Goliath, God has a David. For every Calvary’s cross, God has a Christ Jesus. To bring our country out of despair, discouragement, despondency and disgust, God has a John Kerry.
-Pastor Gaston E. Smith, preaching from the pulpit yesterday during a campaign event with John Kerry at his Baptist church
Related commentary on the media [...]

The man in the middle: Peter Paul (more photos at Judicial Watch)
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Reviewhas new developments in the Peter Paul story:
The Justice Department says it has evidence that Hillary Clinton’s 2000 campaign for the U.S. Senate deliberately low-balled costs associated with a fund-raising event in an apparent attempt to free up more money for electioneering.
Peter [...]

If you haven’t already done so, put Chrenkoff on your daily reading list.
On a related note, Army reservist Steve Kiel is headed to Iraq and has launched a site dedicated to spreading news about the reconstruction. It’s Iraq Files.