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I’m still following the case of Lt. Ilario Pantano, the Marine who may be charged with the death penalty for killing two Iraqi insurgents in the heat of battle in a terrorist-infested town near Baghdad. Today was the first day of a preliminary hearing known as an Article 32 investigation to determine whether there is [...]

Jeralyn Merritt at TalkLeft asks an interesting question: “Why is Laci Peterson more important than Lisa Eatmon?”
Eatmon, 33, was 8 months pregnant when her body was discovered in the Hudson River earlier this month. Yesterday, the father of Eatmon’s unborn child was charged with her killing:
Mr. Glinton, a sanitation worker, was arrested on Friday after [...]

Sens. Reid, McConnell, Schumer going at it re. judicial nominations on CSPAN-2 now.
Sen. Reid: “We’re willing to compromise..”
Sen Reid re. up-and-down votes: “That will not happen.”
429pm. Back to the highway bill.
I missed the top. Trackback if you saw/liveblogged it.
459. Sen. Kennedy launching into a diatribe about Abu Ghraib.
Update: More from Arthur Chrenkoff [...]

You know that story about minority students being evacuated from a university because of racially motivated hate mail? Jesse Jackson even showed up to harangue college administrators.
Well, a student has been arrested–A black female student who faked the threat because she wanted to go home:
A student who was apparently homesick was arrested and confessed [...]

Worldly blogger Andrew Sullivan descends into RFK baseball stadium and has just discovered “a new foodstuff known as dippin’ dots.”
It’s ice cream. Shaped like dots!
Wait ’til he hears about the new foodstuff known as Pretzel Stix (best with hot fudge topping). They’re pretzels. Shaped like sticks!
The wonders of mall food innovations, eh?

I could write whole treatises on how American sovereignty is being undermined by our own open borders capitulationists and stability fetishists. But these photos say it all for me:

(Source: ALIPAC)

(AFP/Jim Watson)
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Background/related commentary:
ALIPAC blows the whistle
At least it’s not “Alta California”
L.A. Now in Mexico?
Byron York on the hand-holding photo-op
Saudi persecution continues
Nina Shea: The religious tyranny in [...]

Good reads…
Deroy Murdock on how terrorists heart libraries.
Tom Sowell: Race doesn’t hold back America’s “black rednecks.” Nor does racism.
Ed Lasky performs a “Colinoscopy.”
Matt Rosenberg and Ambra Nykol explain why victim-card feminists are hanging red panties in their windows.

Just found out about this. From Laura Ingraham’s website:
You know I hate Drama Kings or Queens, but I am asking for your prayers today and for the forseeable future. On Friday afternoon, I learned that I have joined the ever-growing group of American women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. As so many breast [...]

The same folks that gave us a misleading poll about Terri Schiavo are now reporting the results of a poll that asks, “Would you support or oppose changing Senate rules to make it easier for Republicans to confirm President Bush’s judicial nominees?” Not surprisingly, given the wording of the poll, a huge majority of respondents [...]

The CEO of Advanced Micro Devices says $100 laptops may be available in less than three years. UC Berkeley professor Jasper Rine should be relieved.

How do you know when an air marshals’ spokesman is spinning? When his lips are moving. Here’s Federal Air Marshals Service spokesman Dave Adams on the reinstatement this week of air marshal whistleblower Frank Terreri, who filed a civil liberties lawsuit against the agency after being suspended for criticizing FAMS director Tom Quinn last October [...]

Oft-cited Census data apparently overstate the number of uninsured because they undercount the number of people covered by Medicaid. Turns out the true number of uninsured may be closer to 36 million than 45 million. That’s still a lot of people. For a more detailed discussion of the statistics, see here.

This just in…
Military deserter and anti-war Left poster boy Pablo Paredes has been denied conscientious objector status. His request for Other than Honorable discharge in lieu of a court-martial trial has also been denied. In a press release e-mailed this morning by his brother, the Paredes family reported:
Massive support activities for Pablo Paredes are being [...]

Brian Maloney takes a look at Air America’s dismal performance in the most recent Arbitron ratings, which were released last night:
[In New York City,] WLIB’s tiny 1.2 audience share, for all listeners 12 and older, is the same as for Fall 2004. The audience is actually smaller now than when the station first flipped to [...]

File this under Party of Tolerance follies: A Democrat candidate for governor in Virginia is apparently mocking how people in his state talk.
Virginia blogger John Behan writes…
I think these attacks are blatantly prejudiced and clearly elitist. Kaine should be ashamed.
For what it’s worth, however, if Kaine apologizes, I promise never to make fun of his [...]

…not a hate crime? When the attackers are black junior high school girls shouting “Black power!” and “White crackers!” and “Martin Luther King!” as they pummel white Catholic school girls on a New York City basketball court.
Cops initially refused to charge the alleged assailants with a bias crime, but city lawyers have now overruled them.

Iraqi police have detained a Reuters television cameraman and the cameraman’s father. (Hat tip: OpiniPundit via Jawa Report.)
Earlier this month, a CBS camerman was detained in Iraq on suspicion of insurgent activity.
Hmm.

As many readers suspected, Jasper Rine, the biology professor whose pilfered laptop was the buzz of the blogosphere last week, “exaggerated” in an effort to scare the thief into returning his stolen computer. Says Rine:
Although I have unlimited respect for facts, and delight in their discovery and appreciation, I have come to the obvious yet [...]

Last week, this site broke the news that Sergeant Hasan Akbar stabbed an MP with a pair of scissors. Now, Associated Press has confirmed the story:
Akbar took a sharp item from an office where he was meeting with lawyers and attacked the M-P who was assigned to escort him to the men’s room.
The judge in [...]

Go read Tom Bevan at Real Clear Politics on one nation, under therapy. Excellent diagnosis.

Gil Reavill, a former writer for Screw, Penthouse, and Maxim, has an interesting new book out titled Smut: A Sex-Industry Insider (and Concerned Father) Says Enough is Enough. He’s a card-carrying ACLU liberal with a young daughter and he’s blowing the whistle on his industry’s sins. NRO has a book excerpt.
As an insider, the guy [...]

From the Columbia Tribune in Missouri:
Rita Preckshot went to a peace rally, and a fight broke out.
It started out as a typical Wednesday for Preckshot, a 49-year-old who stands about 5-foot-2 and has hearing aids in both ears. She was standing on her normal spot on Providence Road, holding her signs in support of American [...]

You and me, according to Jeff Johnson at CNSNews.com:
The Open Society Institute, a private foundation controlled by liberal billionaire and political activist George Soros, received more than $30 million from U.S. government agencies between 1998 and 2003. Last year, Soros donated at least $20 million of his own money to such liberal groups as Moveon.org, [...]

N.Z. Bear, who publishes The Truth Laid Bear ecosystem that ranks blogs, is looking for a new logo designer. Deadline is May 13. Get to work!

La Shawn Barber tells off liberal black politicians who oppose reasonable voter ID requirements:
Requiring photo indentification to vote is a small but important step toward securing our homeland. While fake IDs are readily available, the more we require this means of indentification, the harder it is (in theory) to produce a convincing phony one, in [...]

Today is the launch of an extraordinary grass-roots lobbying campaign in Washington. “Hold Their Feet to the Fire”, led by veteran conservative San Diego radio talk show host Roger Hedgecock, is putting pressure on lawmakers in both parties to secure the borders and enforce immigration law. A rally at Lafayette Park and lobbying on Capitol [...]

Two Seaworld penguins walked into an airport…

Click here for the whole slideshow.
My question: Why is it that TSA is allowed to use its metal detectors for a little photo-op fun, but the rest of us are subject to criminal penalties for making inappropriate jokes in an airport?
(Hat tip: Bruce Schneier)

In the MSM thesaurus, you call him a “maverick:”
A ‘maverick’ move in Senate

Ohio maverick makes waves over Bush pick
GOP maverick holds off vote on Bolton
Maverick Ohio Sen. Voinovich again clashes with the Bush administration over U.N. nominee

The maverick George Voinovich
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Related:
How can they be mavericks if there are so many of them?

Author Jason Berry in the New York Times spotlights Pope Benedict XVI’s evolving role in the “notorious case of the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, a powerful Mexican priest who founded his own order and lives in its seminary in Rome.” Berry’s somewhat optimistic assessment:
Historians will debate why the politically visionary Pope John Paul II, who [...]

The Denver Post has the latest Ward Churchill installment:
A previously unreported allegation of intimidation by University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill surfaced during a committee’s initial review of his work, but, like other threat complaints, it was not addressed by administrators.
The complaint was included in more than 150 pages of documents released Thursday that stemmed [...]