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Via Drudge, I see that the folks at BBC planted hecklers at a Conservative Party rally two weeks before Election Day in Britain. Incredibly, the BBC defended itself, claiming the manufactured protesters were part of a “completely legitimate programme about the history and art of political heckling.” This is even worse than this disgraceful incident, [...]

You all remember Annie Jacobsen, whose article about Northwest flight 327 set the blogosphere abuzz last summer. Don’t miss her latest installment, in which she recounts a visit she got from four federal Homeland Security Department officials. Here’s the most interesting part: For the record, I explained, I had never heard of the James Woods [...]

Air America executives are furious about Brian Anderson’s op-ed in the Los Angeles Times. Here’s their spin. And here are the facts. (Hat tip: Brian Maloney.)

The Washington Times’s Valerie Richardson has a story out today that wins my p.c.- hell-in-a-handbasket award: DENVER — The students in Vincent Pulciani’s seventh-grade class were reciting the Pledge of Allegiance this week when they heard the voice over the intercom say something they’d never heard before, at least not during the Pledge. Instead of [...]

The New York Sun’s Josh Gerstein is following the trail of Hillary Clinton’s Hollywood fund-raising flim-flam men. He reported earlier this week on a mystery Demo witness who “has offered a guilty plea to bank fraud charges and is likely to become a government witness at the upcoming federal trial of a top finance aide [...]

Cassandra at Villanous Company has a moving tribute.

Indefatigable Mike Krempasky has an update on the Online Freedom of Speech Act. New bipartisan sponsors in both the House and the Senate. Good news. *** Previous: The FEC vs. blogs How big is the FEC threat to blogs? The Gray Lady covers the FEC controversy Sens. McCain and Feingold Volokh on optional free speech [...]

You’ve no doubt heard about this terrible story of a downed helicopter in Iraq carrying American, Fijian, and Bulgarian civilian security workers who were protecting U.S. diplomats in the area: Eleven people, including six Americans working for a North Carolina private security firm, were killed Thursday when a commercial helicopter was shot down by missile [...]

I bet nobody slept through this part of Berkeley professor Jasper Rine’s lecture. Update: Reader feedback from a computer security expert… Interesting speech from Professor Rine. And a total bluff. I…have extensive knowledge of data communications, radio communications, radio signal tracking, computer security, and so forth. There are several things that Professor Rine stated that [...]

This just in… A jury has unanimously found Sergeant Hasan Akbar guilty in the attacks on fellow soldiers just days before the Iraq war. Akbar was charged with two counts of first degree murder and three counts of attempted first degree murder. Two officers died and 14 others were injured. A sentencing hearing will be [...]

Finally, the open-borders ACLU has found a border-crosser it wants to crack down on: FOX News’s Sean Hannity, who broadcast live from the southern border on Monday and Tuesday night with excellent coverage of the Minuteman Project. Hannity stepped across a fence for a few seconds, and now the ACLU and a Democrat state legislator [...]

Via Fox News: Filmmaker and Michigan native Michael Moore has established a scholarship for students who defy the administration at California State University, San Marcos–the same school that canceled his talk last year. The Michael Moore Freedom of Speech Scholarship will award two $2,500 annual scholarships to Cal State San Marcos students “who have done [...]

John Kerry has a brand video: Giving voice to our values. Here’s how DNC chair Howard Dean gave voice to the Democrat value of compassion.

Check out today’s Daily Princetonian. At least they can spell. Meanwhile, here’s what teachers are up to in NYC’s public schools. (Hat tip: Reader Eugene F.)

Instapunk listens to the Harry Shearer show on NPR so you don’t have to.

Sri Lankans want to know where $425 million tsunami aid pledged by Canada went. Judi McLeod of Canada Free Press investigates. (Hat tip: Reader William B.)

Latest edition over at The Immigration Blog. Read it and weep.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has fired two senior employees who are involved in a long-running federal investigation of possible Israeli spying in the United States, according to a New York Times article: Officials have said Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman knew Lawrence A. Franklin, a Defense Department analyst who is suspected of giving [...]

Reader Matt Dekker points out that the Washington’s Lottery uses Pac Man and other cartoon characters to market its scratch games. The games are available in vending machines at grocery stores, where they can easily be accessed by kids. According to a Lottery-funded study cited by the Washington State Council on Problem Gambling, thousands of [...]

Heather Mac Donald has the scoop on The Immigration Blog. Related: – Democrats attack Bush immigration policies from the right – Froma Harrop takes on illegal immigration – Hillary Rodham Buchanan? Update: Hillary Calls for Border Security Czar Update II: Sen. Barbara Boxer says Bush’s amnesty plan would open the floodgates to illegal immigration! And [...]

My new column discusses the horrifying case of a disabled girl who was the alleged victim of a brutal sexual attack at her Columbus, Ohio, public high school last month–which administrators then tried to cover up, according to witness statements and the girl’s father: On March 9, according to press reports, a developmentally disabled girl [...]

Check out this excellent piece by Human Events’ Terry Jeffrey on fake ID woes at the Pentagon/DOD. Reading the Inspector General’s report Terry cites was on my miles-long to-do list, but Terry has done a fabulous job highlighting the important security/illegal immigration concerns involved. Not that the Pentagon seems to care much if illegal aliens [...]

Now, if we could just replace the lame Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with these elephants, we’d get somewhere.

The gubernatorial election mess in Washington state continues. According to a new statistical analysis conducted by professors from CalTech and the University of Washington, Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire would have lost the 2004 election to Republican Dino Rossi by about 100 votes–if ballots cast by felons, dead voters and non-citizens had been excluded. According to [...]

Jane Fonda gets spit upon by a tobacco-chewing nutball who stalked her at a book signing. Terrible move. The guy is a coward. We should never forget the disgraceful treatment Vietnam Veterans received from Fonda’s ilk. But engaging in the same tactics to protest her treachery is inexcusable. Start a blog. Write a book. Launch [...]

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) spoke at the dedication of the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, along with President Bush and others. Sen. Durbin mentioned that the new president of Ukraine recently spoke of a government “of the people, for the people,” or, as Durbin put it, “The words of the Gettysburg address still echoing across [...]

Beltway Buzz’s Eric Pfeiffer continues his excellent coverage of the Bolton crisis. Pfeiffer notes: The angry reader emails are pouring in fast regarding George Voinovich and yesterday’s Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Most of them are not fit for pint in a family-friendly publication. I’m getting the same reaction from readers. Judging from my mailbag, Sen. [...]

Chris Kelly has the details.

Tony Perry of the Los Angeles Times has a heart-warming article about local citizens in Bangor, Maine, who welcome soldiers returning to the U.S.: BANGOR, Maine — Tired and bleary-eyed, Marines of the 1st Battalion, 7th Regiment, based at Twentynine Palms, Calif., were finally back on U.S. soil after seven months on the front lines [...]

According to a yet another report, airline security is no better today than it was on Sept. 10, 2001: The report said there was a “lack of improvement” since similar tests were conducted at 15 airports in 2003. Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner told a Senate committee this year that TSA screeners “fared no [...]