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In Canada, six federal prisons are ignoring the safety concerns of security guards and setting up tax-subsidized tattoo parlors for convicts:
Inmates will be trained to operate the tattoo services, which are designed to stem the spread of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C.
Correctional Service Canada officials say prisoners have long used odd objects to give [...]

It’s found in the letters page of today’s Rocky Mountain News. Put down your beverage:
‘A bad case of fleas’
The act of war deliberately and thoughtlessly wounds, poisons and handicaps the life-sustaining womb of all mankind. The Earth reacts, as any living thing would, when attacked. Earthquake, tsunami, flood, tornado, hurricane, mudslide, and resulting loss of [...]

For those who have been following the story of Baby Jordan, here is the latest wonderful news sent to me from Jordan’s dad, Jeff:
BABY JORDAN RECEIVES A HEART!
Statement from Jeff and Sadaf Trimarchi
We are so happy to announce that a donor heart became available for our baby Jordan on Wednesday, January 26, 2005. Jordan underwent [...]

Wilbert Rideau is a cause celebre among death penalty opponents, NAACP leaders, and the MSM.
In 1961, he robbed a bank in Lake Charles, La., kidnapped three employees and made one of them drive the group to a remote spot. He shot all of them. Two survived. The other, Julia Ferguson, was stabbed to death [...]

Conservative students at the University of North Texas staged a protest of President Bush’s upcoming amnesty plan by conducting a “Capture the illegal immigrant” event on their campus:
Numerous NT students exchanged heated arguments Wednesday during the “Capture the Illegal Immigrant Game,” put on by NT’s chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas. The purpose of [...]

Two things that jumped out at me this morning…
A mourner responds to the tragic helicopter accident in Iraq that killed nearly 40 U.S. Marines:
“It’s terrible, but it comes with the territory,” said Carl Dreibelbis, 52, an Oceanside native who served in the Navy and said members of his family have fought in every U.S. war [...]

It’s a “simultaneous, co-ordinated posting by a large group of webmasters and bloggers on a given topic,” according to Israpundit.
Today, there’s a Blogburst on the liberation of Auschwitz. Amy Ridenour is a participant and you can learn more here.
Terrific idea.

Voter fraud fiascos in Wisconsin and East St. Louis are now on top bloggers’ radar screen.
Now, it’s time to turn the spotlight on the stink in Sacramento. California-based watchdogs have been hot on the littered trail of embattled Democratic Secretary of State Kevin Shelley. In a nutshell:
Besides allegations that he used millions of dollars in [...]

The Library of Congress has put an incredible online exhibit up on its site called the September 11, 2001, Documentary Project. Organized by the American Folklife Center, the project is modeled after a similar oral history compiled after Pearl Harbor called After the Day of Infamy.
Both sites are must-read, bookmark-and-revisit-often.
Among the drawings included in the [...]

Lots of readers want to know whether Juan Manuel Alvarez, the man being held in connection with the deadly Glendale commuter train derailment, is an illegal alien.
I called the Glendale Police Department, which I’m sure has been swamped, and am waiting for a call back. I also talked to Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca’s [...]

The deadly Glendale train derailment is one of today’s top stories.
Randy Townley asks: Are we now seeing the new face of terrorism?
Not in this specific case, but it’s certainly a concern in the wake of Madrid’s 3/11.
Josh Lefkowitz and Lorenzo Vidino had an important article in The National Interest on train terror plots last [...]

Time is running out for Baby Jordan, the newborrn in need of a heart transplant. The latest update on his condition is here. An excerpt:
As some of you may have seen on the Fox News Channel, our little Baby Jordan is quite a fighter. He approaches his 5th day on the heart bypass and [...]

I’m embarrassed to say I’m a Jersey girl.
First this.
Now, this.
There is definitely something in the water (or as we south Jerseyans say: “wutter.”)

Spirit of America, a wonderful humanitarian project started by Jim Hake after the 9/11 attacks, is organizing a network of Iraqi citizen bloggers who will offer on-the-ground coverage of the historic elections on Jan. 30. Here’s more:
Most of what we see are bullet-proof vested correspondents reporting from hotel balconies in Baghdad. In contrast, these Iraqis [...]

Read this gun owner’s account of her dealings with federal homeland security officials in Seattle. A snippet:
Once inside the police station I was taken to a small, windowless room with one chair and a steel bench. The faces of the officers I passed asked: “Is that the Gun Woman?”
Three or four officers came into the [...]

Just a glib thought on President Bush’s apparent willingness to use race as a factor in the Social Security reform debate:
So, the Bush administration thinks it’s okay to use racial profiling to hand out government retirement benefits, but it’s not okay to use racial profiling to prevent terrorists from getting on planes?
Crikey.

Eugueni Kniazev (Dec. 11, 1954-Sept. 11, 2001)
My latest column, which is also a special news feature in today’s New York Post, is dedicated to the memory of the man pictured above. The story exposes how our behemoth, $34 billion Department of Homeland Security sent a green card approval notice on Jan. 15, 2005 to [...]

…over Democratic voter fraud just keeps getting more and more toxic. The go-to guy is Jim Hoft at GatewayPundit, who will give you the lowdown on:
The Swamp Dog
Cash, Crack, Dead People, Forgeries- ESL Voter Fraud
And the voter who said she lived at The Casino Queen
Phew. You’ll feel like taking a shower after you get through [...]

You all know how I feel about the Bush administration’s media “pay-to-pander” scandal. (Go here and here and here for a refresher.) In two words: absolutely disgusted. When I first blogged about the Armstrong Williams payoff, I wrote this:
Any other pundits who accepted [...]

This hate crime at Louisiana State University–not to mention the cops’ lax attitude about the vandals–is outrageous:
Outraged pro-life advocate Mary Higdon sat on the Parade Ground on Monday afternoon to guard the now-defaced tribute to aborted babies. Police recommended she get some kind of security to prevent further vandalism of her exhibit — she said [...]

KGTV San Diego reports on an arrest in the alleged Boston “dirty bomb” plot. The brief article notes:
Mexican police arrested Jose Beltran Quinones in Mexicali, Mexico, Monday. Beltrans claimed that he helped a group of Chinese nationals illegally cross into the United States from Mexico.
According to his tip, they were intent on detonating [...]

Tinseltown is putting pressure on Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to allow illegal aliens to obtain legal driver’s licenses.
Blogger Lonewacko’s reaction is dead-on:
Since these Hollywood stars have so much money, why are they unable to hire legal workers? Why do they want the rest of us to foot the economic and social costs of illegal immigration?
Do [...]

Did you see the new children’s marijuana book? I wish I could tell you it’s an Onion spoof. But it’s not.
(Hat tip: Law and Sausages)

In response to my post about the plane of suspected illegal alien Chinese in San Antonio forced down by homeland security officials last night, this tip just came in:
The co-owner of the plane, Afzal Hameed, is president of Alpha Tango Flying Services in San Antonio, which trains pilots and mechanics.
Guess who trained at Alpha Tango [...]

If you are wondering about the video of American hostage Roy Hallums that was released today by Isalmists, the place to go is War on Terror blogger Rusty Shackleford’s place. He broke the news of Hallums’ capture last November, has been in contact with Hallums’ family, and has details not available elsewhere in the MSM. [...]

Last night, feds forced down a plane of suspected illegal aliens south of San Antonio who they say were illegally flying in American airspace. The suspected were reportedly Chinese. This detail caught my eye:
Online records of the Federal Aviation Administration show that the 20-year-old plane is co-owned by Afzal Hameed of Dover, Del. The other [...]

One of the most buzzed-about stories on the web yesterday was the N.Y. Post’s feature on super-skimpy prom dresses. My son’s onesies use more fabric than some of these designs.
It’s often mortifying being a mom of a young daughter these days. Can the Girls Gone Wild culture get any wilder? Some jaded folks will dismiss [...]

Guess who said this:
Although not all Muslims are terrorists, unfortunately, in today’s world, most of the terrorists are Muslim.
It was Shohreh Aghdashloo, the lovely Iranian actress who plays a controversial role in FOX’s hit TV series, 24. The Council on American-Islamic Relations launched protests over a plot line involving a Muslim family of terrorist sleeper [...]

In her brazen quest to move rightward, N.Y. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton attacked President Bush’s record on abortion, claiming at a Washington, D.C., march today that:
In the (first) three years since President Bush took office, eight states have seen an increase in abortion rates and four saw a decrease.
But is it true? LifeNews.com reports the [...]

The brutal murders of the Armanious family, whose members were devout and outspoken Coptic Christians from Egypt, are getting scant MSM attention. The stories that do get published have a P.C., “can’t we all just get along?” bias:
“Killing of family shatters religious harmony,” reads one headline. What about the family that was shattered?
“Jersey City slayings [...]