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Bloggers on the job…
Mark Tapscott takes down clueless professor Chris Hanson of the University of Maryland’s Phillip Merrill School of Journalism.
The Mudville Gazette takes down the Washington Post.
Red State takes down the HuffPost.
Blogger Dawn Eden of The Dawn Patrol now writes a column for the NY Daily News. (Hat tip: Alarming News)

Must-read of the morning comes from Keith Thompson, a northern California liberal–or rather, ex-liberal, who has a long essay in the San Francisco Chronicle today on why he left the Left. His day of reckoning was Jan. 30, 2005. Here’s the intro:
Nightfall, Jan. 30. Eight-million Iraqi voters have finished risking their lives to endorse freedom [...]

Howard Dean on Meet the Press this morning claims abortions have gone up “25 percent since George Bush was president.”
The bogus numbers have been cited by Hillary Clinton and New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, among others. Tim Russert did not bother to challenge Dean’s assertion.
The truth?
See here, here, and here.

Tom Maguire at Just One [...]

The Contagious Media Showdown is on.
My favorite entries:
Crying, while eating
Blogebrity
Delivr

Remember this embattled cross?

When last I blogged about the beloved war memorial on a mountaintop in the San Diego area, a local atheist seemed on the verge of winning a protacted legal battle to tear the cross down.
Now, it’s headed for a citywide vote.
After an emotional six-hour hearing in which veterans pleaded with the City [...]

You’ve seen the photos of poor old Saddam in his skivvies, but there are some other interesting details in the New York Post’s account of Saddam’s jail life that aren’t getting as much attention.
The terribly abused tyrant gets hair dye, example, “to keep his mane youthful-looking.”
He gets three squares a day, a fluffy pillow, and [...]

Tonight I’ll be substitute-hosting for Bill O’Reilly on FOX News’ The O’Reilly Factor. Tune in if you don’t have a date.
Update: Video here via The Political Teen.

I received an interesting e-mail recently from Jory Weitz, the casting director of Napoleon Dynamite. Haven’t seen that movie yet, but my hubby loved it. Anyway, Weitz is now making a documentary all about the word “f**k” and “its effect on our everyday lives.”
Yes, “F**k.”
The Sundance people and elite movie critics are going to love [...]

Sizzling hot stories breaking out of the blogosphere:
- Pepsi falls flat. My friends at Power Line have done an absolutely fabulous job reporting on the insipid, America-bashing commencement address of Pepsi exec Indra Nooyi. See here, here, here, here, and here. Hugh Hewitt has some sage advice for the company, whose damage control efforts are [...]

When last Gwynnie Paltrow’s husband, Brit musician Chris Martin of the band Coldplay, put foot in mouth, he was proclaiming apocalypse:
“We are all going to die when George Bush gets his way.”
The planet survived, so Martin has found a new enemy to pass the time: his own record label, EMI. In New York to promote [...]

“Ward Churchill” has really outdone himself this time.
Update: Another recently discovered Churchill masterpiece here.

Tom Maguire has a good question for WaPo’s Anne Applebaum.

An update on the national security scandal that few seem to care about: According to JTA News, AIPAC is paying for the legal costs incurred by two former AIPAC officials who are suspected of passing classified information they allegedly got from Larry Franklin to Naor Gilon, an Israeli diplomat.
Related entries here.

*See update.
Hey, remember when The Nation magazine ran this tasteless anti-Bush take-off of Goya’s “Saturn Devouring one of his Children” last summer?
The Left cheered the bloody cannibalism imagery as inspired and profound.
But when a conservative uses similar rhetoric in a far less inflammatory way, all of a sudden it’s unacceptably “extremist.”
Earlier today, in attempting to [...]

My new column is up, filled with many reminders that “It’s not just Newsweek.”
Like this.
And this.
And this.
And this.
And this.
And this.
You get the picture.

The Wednesday edition of CBS’s 60 Minutes, the program that brought us Rathergate, is dead.
Coincidentally enough, the feature story on tonight’s show is titled, “Who’s gonna get whacked?”
More here and at TV Newser.

Fireworks scheduled to begin at 9:30am.
The latest headlines…

Wash Times: Nominees head to Senate
ABC: Senate Debates Bush’s Judicial Nominee
Washington Post: Senate Talks Continue As Fight on Judges Nears
LA Times editorial: Nuke It, Already
Best places to watch/listen to the showdown…
- NRO’s latest new blog, Bench Memos.
- The Daly Report. Beginning at 1pmEST, Kay Daly will be simulcasting [...]

AP reports the chilling news:
The FBI on Wednesday said a grenade found amid the crowd during last week’s speech by President Bush in this former Soviet republic was capable of exploding.
The statement by agent Brian Parmen contradicted initial reports by Georgian officials that the grenade either was not in condition to explode or that it [...]

Juan Mann at The Immigration Blog has the depressing scoop.
You were warned here first.

And why is it taking so long? Just wondering.

Joel Mowbray asserts that the MSM badly botched their coverage of the Larry Franklin investigation last fall. He says “almost every story” had a headline or subhead that contained the words “espionage” or “spying.”
There is some truth in this. Many headlines, especially those in newspapers published abroad, did say that the FBI was investigating Franklin [...]

I mentioned on Monday that the online errata page for my last book had been updated and that I would have more details. Before I get to them, I invite those of you with ample time on your hands to read the entire e-mail exchange in chronological order between retired law professor Peter Irons and [...]

What’s Arianna up to? Scott at SlantPoint snaps the pic. You do the rest.
Update: More (animated) fun with Huff from Dan Riehl.

Must-read from Blackfive.

It just doesn’t end. Barcepundit has the scoop:
Shortly after March 11, ABC had a world exclusive: a photograph of the only backpack that hadn’t exploded and which had ‘m[y]steriously’ appeared the night after the blasts in a police station, in a room where all personal belongings that had been recovered were carried to. The problem: [...]

Drudge has the siren spinning over Newsweek’s refusal to accept reporter Michael Isikoff’s resignation. The magazine is making all macho-like in standing up to supposed White House bullying:
“Mike was told he would not be sacrificed, we are standing behind him 100%,” a top magazine source told the DRUDGE REPORT. “We do not, I repeat, do [...]

Harvard U.’s Larry Summers pays penance for his politically incorrect remarks about women and science:
Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, under fire for comments on women in the sciences, said the school would spend $50 million over 10 years to promote diversity on its faculty and reform the way women in science and engineering are treated.
The [...]

Ankle Biting Pundits reports on the MSNBC host’s meltdown over the Newsweek debacle. He’s accusing the White House of treason.
Olbermann Watch–”reality-based news for the belligerently uninformed,” heh–has more.
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Related:
Lawrence O’Donnell and liberals unhinged

A small stand against Hanoi Jane:
The owner of Hardin County’s two movie theaters is refusing to show the nation’s top-grossing movie.
Like many veterans, Ike Boutwell has an issue with “Monster-in-Law” star Jane Fonda. On the ticket window at the Elizabethtown Movie Palace is a sign that tells movie goers the cinema will not show the [...]

The Chicago Tribune discovers a line of man-hating clothing for children of lesbian parents born by artificial insemination.
Dawn Eden covered the story–with photos–over a year ago.