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Hearing’s over. Grass-roots Republicans are itching to give Sen. Voinovich a piece of their minds. But according to many readers, he has taken his phone off the hook. I’m getting a constant busy signal. Meantime, Beltway Buzz is printing letters from readers who need a place to vent. Here’s a sample: From John B: “Voinovich [...]

Two items from the MSM bloopers file: – Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Diana Griego Erwin has quit her post at the Sacramento Bee amid suspicions of making up several people in recent columns. The Bee has been conducting an internal investigation over the past 2 weeks. From the registration-only Bee site, executive editor Rick Rodriguez announced: [...]

145pm. Her main concern is the “polittle-ization” of intelligence. “I can never say that right.” And Bush gets the dumb rap…

100pm. No. He. Didn’t. Sen. John Kerry just pontificated about the importance of treating people well and the importance of credibility and the importance of telling the truth all in the same breath. “The record speaks for itself,” he says. Um, yeah. Flashback from my 9/29/04 column: Throughout the course of the campaign, Kerry has [...]

Beltway Buzz is liveblogging the Bolton hearing…reports that Sen. Voinovich “just announced he hopes Bolton will leave the Senate Foreign Relations Committee without a recommendation.” Honorable George V. Voinovich 524 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 (202) 224-3353 Fax: (202) 228-1382 TDD: (202) 224-6997 Online contact here. 1127am: Sen. Joe Biden is snarling about [...]

The self-righteous activists that harass parents and children for fishing have put thousands of dogs, cats, and other companion animals to death over the past five years. Check out Peta Kills Animals.

Just caught Sen. Kennedy this morning railing against the William Pryor judicial nomination as a “rush to judgement.” The Pryor nomination timeline: 3/12/2003 Pryor nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit by President Bush 7/23/2003 Passed out of Senate Judiciary Committee with favorable recommendation 7/31/2003 Democrats refused to allow vote on nomination [...]

There are appalling new developments in the cop-killer case in Denver. As reported by the Rocky Mountain News, Det. Donald Young’s suspected killer, 19-year-old illegal alien Raul Garcia-Gomez, was employed at a restaurant co-owned by the city’s mayor, John Hickenlooper. Garcia-Gomez worked for the Cherry Cricket for 10 months despite a federal notification sent to [...]

This just in… A Navy sailor turned anti-war activist was convicted Wednesday of missing his ship’s movement when he refused to board the USS Bonhomme Richard as it deployed to the Persian Gulf in December. A military judge deliberated about 40 minutes before finding Petty Officer 3rd Class Pablo Paredes guilty of the count. Lt. [...]

Blogger Mark Tapscott is the go-to guy on the Freedom of Information Act, a law bloggers tend to take for granted, but which is an invaluable tool for those who do original/investigative reporting on their sites. Tapscott reports on an important congressional hearing on FOIA reform today–and it looks like the Bush Justice Department is [...]

My new column is up, inspired by National Police Week as well as a number of news items involving cops this week. The intro: When was the last time you thanked a cop? And wouldn’t it be nice if, for just a brief moment, the mainstream media would hold a ceasefire in its incessant cop-bashing [...]

Pajamas Media blogger Roger L. Simon has done excellent reporting on the U.N. Oil For Food scandal. Now, U.N. Dispatch–the U.N. Foundation’s blog run by former John Kerry campaign aides–is lamely attacking Simon’s motives. They are outraged, outraged that Simon is not a shill for U.N. projects that have yet to be corrupted (just wait, [...]

Big buzz in the military community over The Base Realignment and Closure Commission, which is expected to release its recommendations for base closures on Friday. One media outlet calls it the “Mother of all BRACs;” others are referring to Friday as “Black Friday.” DOD release is here. So, which bases are on the list? Intel [...]

The Pew Research Center alerted me yesterday to its new report on political “typology”–the fourth attempt of its kind to categorize Americans “on the basis of a broad range of value orientations rather than simply on the basis of party identification or self-reported ideology.” It’s for hardcore political junkies only. Thankfully, the indispensable Gerry Daly [...]

It’s a gorgeous, sunny day here in the greater Washington, D.C., area. And like another gorgeous, sunny day I’ll never forget, fighter jets are flying overhead. As you’ve probably read, there was a scare at the Capitol about 20 minutes ago when a small unidentified plane violated D.C.’s no-fly zone. The all-clear has already been [...]

Future special correspondents for Air America’s Pyongyang bureau… North Korean children play a shooting game with a toy gun aiming at a portrait of U.S. President George W. Bush at Namjun kindergarten in Shinwiju, Pyongan-Budo, North Korea. The photo was released by Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 9, 2005. (Reuters) (Via Yahoo Photos [...]

I just obtained a May 2, 2005, memo (after the jump, below) from a Department of Homeland Security source. Bottom line: They’re moving around some bureaucratic furniture and getting rid of some dead wood. But it’s not all good news. The document reveals that Robert Bonner, Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, has been asked [...]

Sergio Khorosh, the Russian man who was charged yesterday with possessing and attempting to sell more than 1,000 fake FBI, Secret Service, DEA, and NYPD badges, was apparently finding (or trying to find) sellers via the the Internet: As if the badges aren’t enough trouble, immigration officials who searched Khorosh’s apartment say they also found [...]

Steve Rosen, recently fired as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s policy director in the wake of Larry Franklin’s arrest, expects to be indicted for passing classified information to Israel, according to JTA: Rosen expects that a trial could begin as early as January 2006 and already is preparing for a long defense, according to [...]

Kudos to Matt Miller for telling the truth about President Bush’s Social Security indexing proposal: Under today’s system of “wage indexed” benefits, every new cohort of retirees is guaranteed a higher level of real benefits than the previous generation. Workers retiring in 2025, for example, are scheduled to receive payments 20 percent higher in real [...]

“Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” — George Orwell While our heads hit the pillow, our troops in Iraq continue their raid on insurgent strongholds near the Iraqi-Syria border as part of Operation Matador. Milblogger Chester is late-night, liveblogging the [...]

The Navy is investigating a troubling stowaway incident (blogged about here last month): The Navy is investigating how a man was able to sneak on board an American aircraft carrier in port in England last month. On April 9, the man made it past British and American security at Portsmouth, then apparently onto a liberty [...]

Lots of advice these days on blogging. Blogress provocateur Ambra Nykol has been doing a series on “how to blog like a rock star.” Here’s her latest entry and here’s audio of a radio interview she did with blogger/talk show host Dave Lucas of Capitol Region People. Check ‘em out. And in case you missed [...]

Another one for the Count Every Bogus Vote file. Incredible, but no surprise to bloggers who’ve been on this from the get-go: About 4,500 more ballots than registered voters were cast in the election last November in Milwaukee, investigators said Tuesday [ed note: see Correction below] . Also, more than 200 felons voted improperly in [...]

Tim Lambert has the goods. *** Related: -The other Lott controversy -Lott’s response to Michelle Malkin’s op-ed

About to do Rightalk’s new show, Hoist the Black Flag. Tune in if you have a chance.

This is choice: A jury found Greenpeace guilty Monday on two misdemeanor criminal negligence charges that were filed after the group’s ship entered Alaska waters for an anti-logging campaign without required paperwork. Greenpeace’s ship came to Alaska to conduct an anti-logging campaign in the Tongass National Forest. The ship was carrying more than 70,000 gallons [...]

(Bumping this to the top with updates.) 947am. We watch quite a bit of Nickelodeon with our kids–Jimmy Neutron, Spongebob, Avatar–but I missed this (Nickelodeon slavery claim outrages Alamo keepers): The latest shots in the Battle of the Alamo are being aimed at an unlikely target — the children’s cable TV network Nickelodeon. Keepers of [...]

Just in… Appeals Court Sides With Cheney in Lawsuit: The Sierra Club and Judicial Watch alleged that energy industry officials had in effect become part of Cheney’s 2001 task force and that the panel was a federal advisory committee with an obligation to provide public disclosure about its operations. The appeals court disagreed, saying “There [...]

Must-read of the day, on how political correctness has corrupted the Los Angeles Police Department is in The American Enterprise online. An excerpt: Los Angeles County averages 1,000 murders every year, two thirds of them carried out by gangs. Most of the victims never make the papers (though every charge of “racial profiling” by an [...]