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The FEC vs. blogs controversy has been overshadowed by other news the past week or two, but Mike Krempasky of Redstate has an important update:
To step back a moment, remember – on March 3rd, Commissioner Bradley Smith warned of some real potential problems with the upcoming rulemaking process. In return for ringing the alarm bell, [...]

Mary Dombrowksi is the brave woman who challenged Bainbridge Island’s biased Japanese internment curriculum. She has now produced a half-dozen DVDs that relate to Japanese internment.
I just watched the first episode, an interview with Jack Klamm, a Naval radioman who was stationed at Fort Ward’s Station S during WWII. It was excellent. (See [...]

KOA reporting: From Denver, live right now, CU-Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano will hold a news conference regarding the review related to Professor Ward Churchill this afternoon at 3:00 p.m. (5:00pm EST)
I’ll liveblog anything newsworthy…ROUGH TRANSCRIPTION
DiStefano: [This is] an important moment in the university history…CU has been the focal point of intense public debate…I personally [...]

Canada rejects American-in-name-only deserter Jeremy Hinzman’s asylum bid.
Loser.
Where will he head next? Your suggestions?
Update: Several votes already for Iceland, where Bobby Fischer will be taking refuge.

For those of you who have been following the Seattle anti-war school spectacle we’ve been blogging about for the past week (see here and here), there are new developments. I just got off the phone with Maj. Terry Thomas, who was in attendance at the moonbat assembly at West Seattle High School. He’ll be meeting [...]

A guy who used a peer-to-peer file-sharing system inadvertently publicized a lot more on his hard drive than music files, WTOC 11 reports:
Don Bodiker uses a popular file sharing program to swap music and other information over the internet. He also uses his computer to prepare his taxes.
He never thought the two had anything to [...]

This is cool.

It has been a busy news day, but I can’t let President Bush’s appalling comments about law-abiding, pro-immigration enforcement Americans pass without comment. As reported in the Washington Times:
President Bush yesterday said he opposes a civilian project to monitor illegal aliens crossing the border, characterizing them as “vigilantes.”
He said he would pressure Congress to further [...]

Not a surprise: Supreme court petition denied.
At noon today, Judge Greer will rule on the State of Florida’s petition to gain custody of Terri Schiavo.
The clock is ticking. From the L.A. Times/AP:
“She has to start getting hydration; if she doesn’t, she’s not going to be with us much longer,” Bob Schindler said. The Schindlers’ lawyer, [...]

I do a lot of radio interviews, but this one today at 3pmish will be extra special. Bloggers Bill Ardolino and Jeff Goldstein are debuting a new show called “The Citizen Journalist Report” on Rightalk (one of my fine advertisers). Tune in. Call in (1-866-884-8255). Should be fun!
My favorite pie, by the way, is sweet [...]

John Hinderaker of Power Line got this quote from an ABC News source (via Josh Claybourn) on the fishy Schiavo memo first disclosed by ABC News reporter Linda Douglass:
the memo discussed a republican bill and was distributed to repulbican senators. That’s what we reported. we are obviously not going to divulge our multiple sources. [...]

Jeff Weise, the 16-year-old Minnesota high school gunman who killed nine people before committing suicide, left a strange and scary trail on the Internet. In addition to his now well-publicized Nazi website rantings and the macabre animated slay cartoons (via The Smoking Gun), Weise posted to several other sites under various aliases, including “Blades 11” [...]

A few months back, I blogged about a rash of laser beam incidents. Today, one of the suspects in a New Jersey case who was accused of pointing a green laser beam at a small passenger jet, temporarily blinding the pilot and co-pilot, was indicted under the federal anti-terror Patriot Act:
David W. Banach, who claimed [...]

Today’s outrage from the New York Post:
Police are outraged that a protester will not go to jail for beating a plainclothes detective unconscious during last summer’s Republican National Convention.
Jamel Holiday, 20, got the plea bargain, announced yesterday, after he admitted he pulled the cop off his scooter, then punched and kicked him.
The startling assault was [...]

Lots of readers are writing about a graphic used on Google’s search page yesterday. It showed the word “Google” half full of water, dripping into a bowl. Readers have interpreted the graphic to be an anti-Terri Schiavo commentary.
IT’S NOT.
I checked into it yesterday. If you clicked on the graphic, Google took you to a [...]

Reader Greg Terry writes: “If left to fend for themselves, advanced stage Alzheimers patients will starve just like Terri S. Is that an acceptable course, if the husband says so now?”

Power Line wants to know who wrote and circulated an amateurish unsigned memo about the Schiavo case that was circulated to Senate Republicans last week.
Thanks to Power Line, we now know that the memo was written on paper without letterhead and contained no identifying information as to who sent it or who it was distributed [...]

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube. A copy of the ruling is here (.pdf file).
Associated Press reports:
In its 2-1 ruling, a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said the woman’s parents “failed to demonstrate a substantial case on the merits of any [...]

Just when the Jessica Lunsford murder case couldn’t get any worse, it does.
Read this St. Petersburg Times piece if you haven’t already on how Lunsford’s confessed killer/convicted sex offender John Couey was able to get work at two elementary schools despite his rap sheet–including Jessica’s school:
HOMOSASSA – For five months, convicted sex offender John Evander [...]

Ace of Spades gives word of the latest evidence that the tipping point has been reached in Iraq.
Previous: Iraqi Villagers Fighting Back

There has been plenty of TV coverage of the school massacre in remote northern Minnesota. Tons of stories at Google News and Yahoo. Plus full Drudge treatment.
But that hasn’t stopped some grievance-mongers from complaining that racism against Native Americans is somehow affecting news coverage. Check out a few of the letter-writers to TV Newser (here [...]

The Marine Corps Times has a story on a new effort to clear 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano’s name:
The North Carolina congressman who represents Camp Lejeune introduced legislation that would dismiss all charges against 2nd Lt. Ilario G. Pantano, the Marine who allegedly wrongfully shot two Iraqis while deployed to Iraq a year ago.
House Resolution 167, [...]

Early this morning, a federal judge denied the request from the parents of Terri Schiavo to reinsert a feeding tube into the brain damaged woman, the Washington Post reports:
U.S. District Judge James Whittemore wrote that Terri Schiavo’s “life and liberty interests” had been protected by Florida courts, the Associated Press reported. Despite “these difficult and [...]

9News has the scoop. (Hat tip: Anthony J.)

Associated Press reports on a World War II-era Japanese submarine discovered in waters off the shores of Oahu:
The submarine is from the I-400 Sensuikan Toku class of subs, the largest built before the nuclear-ballistic-missile submarines of the 1960s.
They were 400 feet long and nearly 40 feet high and could carry a crew of 144. The [...]

Lefty blogs are making hay out of two other tragic end-of-life cases in Texas (see here and here) in order to tar conservatives as hypocrites over intervention in the Terri Schiavo matter.
Tom Maguire beats me to the punch in dissecting this popular new meme. Read his entire reality check.
Tom points to another blogger, LeanLeft, who [...]

You remember the West Seattle High School anti-war student assembly we blogged about last week. Sound Politics has a follow-up, posting a firsthand account of the appalling event from Maj. Terry Thomas, USMC, who sent a letter to the Seattle School Board. Here’s an excerpt:
Upon entering the theater at 12:30 PM, approximately 15 minutes prior [...]

Jim Geraghty at TKS catches Jonathan Klein–the sneering MSM news exec who inspired the term “pajamahadeen”–changing his mind about blogs.
Well, well, well.

New, horrid details are being reported on the Jessica Lunsford kidnapping/murder.
Suspect John Evander Couey was a registered sex offender who lived across from Lunsford’s home.
Here is an online guide that provides links to every available state sex offender registry. Use it.
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Update: Couple of readers and bloggers remind me that Couey was visiting his sister-in-law, whose [...]

Lots of buzz about this:
MANILA, Philippines — Two of the most dangerous al-Qaida-linked groups in Southeast Asia are working together to train terrorists in scuba diving for seaborne attacks, according to a recently captured guerrilla.
The ominous development is outlined in a Philippine military report obtained Thursday that also notes increasing collaboration among the Muslim militants [...]