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Newsmax reports on Teresa Heinz’s speech at Stanford U. at the Whole Earth Symposium complaining about the media coverage of her eco-unfriendly jet, yacht, SUVs, and energy-guzzling mansions. How dare they!

The bloggers encounter more weird behavior from the Wall Street Journal. Red State’s Adam Doverspike graciously says: “No big deal.” La Shawn says it was all her fault.

Today is the 60th anniversary of Iwo Jima. Blogger tributes here and here. See also Power Line, Ace, and LGF. It’s also the 63rd anniversary of Executive Order 9066, the West Coast evacuation order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. We’ve seen plenty of stories and op-ed pieces leading up to [...]

We made it. Barely! Still feeling queasy and exhausted (thanks for all the kind get-well e-mails), but was glad I held out long enough to meet so many nice, cool people at CPAC yesterday. Hubby and kids had a great time wandering around the cavernous Ronald Reagan building, a behemoth, federally-subsidized architectural irony which I [...]

I’m loaded up on Theraflu and headed down to CPAC. Regular blogging will resume when the chills and aches subside…

The Seattle Times has an interesting story about staunch anti-Communists in the Vietnamese-American community who are protesting a Vietnamese government-sponsored art exhibit at the University of Washington.

Any way you read it, this is a weird, weird story. Hat tip: Reader Peter K.

James Joyner reacts to Vice President Dick Cheney’s speech last night. Wizbang has a round-up of Day One. La Shawn Barber is photo blogging. Aggregated CPAC coverage here. I’ll be dragging my flu-ridden self and family down to the conference later this afternoon for a book signing and brief chat with college students. Come say [...]

…but not of Eason Jordan’s remarks. It’s the Larry Summers brouhaha. Bowing to pressure from his faculty, the president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, on Thursday released a month-old transcript of his contentious closed-door remarks about the shortage of women in the sciences and engineering. The transcript revealed several provocative statements by Dr. Summers [...]

Hey kids, check out my nifty new tagline above. (Thanks to my web guru, Mark Jaquith, for the design.) You like? I think it’s a keeper. If you don’t get the allusion, click on the asterisk for a refresher and then come on back here and read on. I’ve got a calm, cool, and collected [...]

The Reporterette and Blackfive take note of Scott Ritter’s new writing gig.

New kid on the blog block, Eric Pfeiffer at NRO’s Beltway Buzz, says President Bush will name the Director of National Intelligence today. AP story here. Among those thought to be in the running are White House homeland security adviser Fran Townsend, Army Gen. Tommy Franks, the retired commander of U.S. Central Command, National Security [...]

Source: Albany Times-Union Raven Furbert, 12, made headlines last month when she blew the whistle on her Schenectady, N.Y., school district, which banned her from wearing a pro-military beaded necklace and bracelet. Raven has an uncle serving in Iraq and crafted the jewelry during Christmas vacation. School officials told her the jewelry was “gang-related.” The [...]

She gets it. Update: And thank you, too, Sissy. Bill Quick likes the Noonan piece. Commenter Lastango asks: “Is this in part a WSJ climbdown?” Hugh Hewitt follows up. Meanwhile, Dan Abrams can’t make up his mind.

In an interview with the New York Times, Williams repeated his apology for his work for the Education Department but expressed bitterness over the criticism he has received since news of it broke. He said he had revised two chapters of his book “The New Racism,” to reflect his belief that “the liberal elite despise [...]

The New York Times reports: New intelligence information strongly suggests that Al Qaeda has considered infiltrating the United States through the Mexican border, top government officials told Congress on Wednesday…. Intelligence that “strongly suggests” that Al Qaeda operatives have considered using the Mexican border as an entry point was cited in written testimony by Adm. [...]

Reader Joe L. reminds me that today was a significant day in the War on Terror–back when the Islamists had been waging the war, but most of us had failed to see it yet. Writes Joe: It was on this date, 16 Feb 1989, that investigators announced that the cause of the 1988 crash of [...]

Am scheduled for Fox & Friends tomorrow at around 6:50am to talk about U.N. rot.

Via the NY Post and Jeff Quinton, we learn that “poet” Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones has been spouting off against President Bush and Condoleezza Rice (“What kind of sleaza is Condoleezza?”). I wrote about how your tax dollars help keep Baraka afloat a few years ago: Amiri Baraka hates America. Yet, in the land of the [...]

Doing a little homeland security catch-up, here’s a depressing story about the continued post-9/11 information-sharing problems at the FBI. From CNN: FBI Director Robert Mueller promised a Senate panel late Thursday that he will decide within two months whether to scrap special computer software for FBI agents after a report sharply criticized the program. Whatever [...]

My new column today focuses on the United Nations’ continuing rape scandal. In addition to the crisis in the Congo, I remind readers of the rampant sex crimes uncovered in Bosnia: In 2001, American whistleblower Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska policewoman who worked for U.N. security in Bosnia, uncovered scores of sex crime allegations and prostitution [...]

Embarrassing, yes. But good for them. Previously: The Los Angeles Times’ weak correction

You’ve seen the NY Observer piece on CBS’s meltdown. Blog powerhouse Power Line first highlighted the Thornburgh report’s silence on the role top execs played in the memo fiasco here. Maybe Josh Howard and his lawyer were reading! (While we’re talking Power Line, see also Paul Mirengoff’s piece in the Weekly Standard: Inferring the Obvious.) [...]

Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Times has an update on the legal status of the Marine who was charged with premeditated murder after he killed two Iraqi insurgents: The Marine Corps has issued what seems to be conflicting statements on the legal status of an officer who fatally shot two Iraqis, leading his attorney to [...]

The New York Times finally admits it: “At present, illegal immigrants often work off the books, paying nothing in taxes.” That will come as news to many Open Borders Lobbyists, such as Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, who lectured me on this biased show that illegal aliens deserve the right to vote(!) because they pay taxes [...]

In the wake of Eason Jordan’s comments in Davos, Al Jazeera’s English web site has published an animated cartoon (flash format) by Shujaat Ali showing a journalist seriously wounded or killed in the midst of a shootout in Iraq (“The Price of Iraq Policy,” Feburary 15, 2005). It is strongly implied that American soldiers, depicted [...]

President Bush is calling for renewal of the Patriot Act. The ABA will attempt to hold a series of non-hysterical debates online at Patriot Debates. Summaries of key sections are already up and the back-and-forth will commence shortly. Brilliant idea. Check in frequently. Contributors include: Stewart Baker David Cole James B. Comey James X. Dempsey [...]

Steven Warshawsky goes after Dick Morris with a provocative piece in The American Thinker: Beware the Condi bandwagon. Check it out and see if you agree.

If the MSM can’t beat bloggers, they’ll sue ‘em. Check out what the The Tulsa World is doing to Oklahoma blogger Michael Bates for “inappropriately link[ing my] website to Tulsa World content.” Bates reproduces the threatening letter he’s received from his local paper. An excerpt: The reproduction of any articles and/or editorials (in whole or [...]

Public health authorities often give the impression that flu shots are extremely effective at preventing the flu. Except when there are shortages, they urge as many as people as possible to get vaccinated, particularly the elderly. But a new study, published in a top-tier medical journal, suggests that flu shots are far less effective among [...]