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Depressing reality check via Neal Boortz today:

The death of fiscal conservatism is illustrated in further brutal detail here, here, here, and here.
See also the Heritage Foundation’s 2005 Index of Dependency.
Can’t say you didn’t know what we were getting.
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Topping things off: Here’s new word that President Bush has dropped individual personal accounts from his Social Security [...]

There is no escaping Ed Klein’s much-buzzed-about book on Hillary Clinton. It’s being sold at my local Safeway grocery story, for Pete’s sake, at the checkout aisle, atop the Altoids and Reese’s Peanut Butter sticks.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to wade through this rehash (maybe the book would have been more [...]

My latest column, bringing these arguments to my newspaper readers, is up. I’ve phoned both Sen. McCain and Sen. Graham’s offices for comment, and will report back any reaction of interest.
Meanwhile, Lee Casey and Darin Bartram, who have written cogently on this topic, shared the following thoughts with me:
The bottom line is that the [...]

Here’s your regular, gasoline-drenched reminder of the latest MSM-induced desecration that won’t be getting front-page coverage:

Pakistani Sunni Muslims burn U.S. and Israeli flags during a rally in Lahore June 17, 2005. Almi Tanzim-e-Ahle Sunnat or World Sunni Muslims Organisation held the rally in reaction to a Newsweek magazine report, which was later retracted, of U.S. [...]

Hawk-eyed blogger Tom Maguire notices two important omissions in the New York Times’ coverage of the Dick Durbin “apology.”

CPT Charles “Chuck” Ziegenfuss, a MilBlogger, has reportedly sustained serious shrapnel wounds to his legs and arms from an IED. Click here to read more and to leave a message of support for Chuck, his wife, and his two children.
(Hat tip: reader Terry R.)
Update: Background info about IEDs at Winds of Change.

How bad is AP’s political coverage? Read the headline and first couple of grafs of this article and see for yourself:
Clinton, McCain ‘Gorillas’ of 2008 Race
by Ron Fournier, AP Politcal Writer
WASHINGTON - If you want to be the next president, it’s time to start running — unless your name is Hillary Rodham Clinton or John [...]

Once in a blue moon, the Associated Press does something right. Props to Shelia Byrd for mentioning the affiliation of the slain civil rights workers who got justice yesterday. All three brave young men were field workers for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a conservative — yes, conservative — civil rights group. Small wonder [...]

According to the Wall Street Journal (subscription only link), Republican and Democrat Senators have reached an agreement to permanently boost the amount per person that is exempt from estate taxes to more than $3 million per person. While this falls short of full repeal advocated by House Republicans, it is a major improvement over the [...]

Remember Foleygate? Boston journalist Hiawatha Bray, who launched a write-in campaign to unseat Newspaper Guild president Linda Foley over her reckless smears against the U.S. military, sends along this propaganda piece from the Guild attacking Foley’s critics.
It’s titled “Right-wing attack-dogs savage TNG president for comments on Iraq deaths” and sneers at Fox News, Sinclair Broadcasting, [...]

Was away from the computer/TV this evening, assembling this Weber grill and breaking in a new Hi-5 CD with the kids. So, I just watched the Durbin non-apology apology (video and transcript available at The Political Teen) and caught up on the news stories (here, here, and here).
Looks like the Console George folks are going [...]

Via Gerry Daly and Ankle Biting Pundits, here are the latest poll numbers on how Americans view the Bush administration’s operation of Guantanamo Bay:

- As you may know, since 2001, the United States has held people from other countries who are suspected of being terrorists at a detention facility in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. [...]

Add Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to the list of those who think Senator Dick Durbin should apologize for his comments comparing Gitmo interrogators to Nazis. Associated Press reports:
Daley says Durbin — a fellow Democrat — is a good friend. But he says it’s wrong to evoke comparisons to the horrors of the Holocaust or the [...]

This is a doozy.
Some people just can’t seem to Move On…even after they’ve moved on.
Hat tip: Reader Frank A.

Ed Lasky at The American Thinker chronicles them.

Ed Driscoll has a reminder of Durbin’s national security utterances in 1998.
Reader Pat T. sends word that Durbin supports the troops…as long as they’re in his district.
Cassandra at Villanous Company rips into Richard Cohen.
David Limbaugh says don’t let him off the hook.

Who is it? The Discovery Channel wants you to vote.
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Reader feedback…
Jonathan in Jackson notes: “I find the Discovery channel greatest American thing quite interesting. Did you notice that B. Franklin “did”, MLK “did”, Lincoln “did”, and Washington “did”, but Reagan is “credited for doing”? They’re not even trying to hide it any more.”
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On the opposite [...]

Earlier this month, columnist Bob Novak discovered “surprising and substantial opposition” among Democrat elites to nominating Hillary Clinton for President in ‘08. But at least she still enjoys the overwhelming support of grassroots liberal activists, right?
Maybe not.

Power Line has them up now. Take a look.
Update: More here and here.

JunkyardBlog spoofs the Sorry Left.
The latest, top-quality IMAO podcast is up, with special guest Laurence Simon.

The Political Teen takes Democrats to task for sponsoring a private relief bill–which I’ve covered before here.
Mary Katherine Ham asks: Where have all the good spines gone?
Daniel Glover, Managing Editor of National Journal’s Technology Daily, has a new column on [...]

Here we go again. Senate debate on the nomination of John Bolton for the U.N. ambassador’s post is scheduled to begin tonight at 5pm EST. RedState reminds you that there’s still time to contact some of the swing/squish votes.
It’s not clear whether President Bush would give Bolton a recess appointment in the (likely) event of [...]

It’s the Sesame Street Memo. Scrappleface has the scoop.

The U.S. military didn’t stock up enough Cheetos for Saddam Hussein. Denied this vital sustenance, Hussein turned “grumpy.”
No doubt Ramsey Clark is already on the line with Amnesty International, Dick Durbin, and the U.N.
How much unconscionable repression by American forces can the world take?

You already know how I feel about Mark Steyn. His latest instant classic column on the Gitmo-bashers is hanging on the home office wall. A few highlights if you haven’t already read it:
Nobody complained at Auschwitz that the guards were playing the 78s of The Merry Widow (the Fuhrer’s favorite operetta) with the volume knob [...]

Wish there were more protests like this on college campuses…

So, I received a mass e-mail from Anne Lewis of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee on Friday. It was titled:
“Right-Wing Implosion.”
And these folks think they are members of the “reality-based community?”
Who’s imploding?
You.

Tell.
Me.

John Hawkins at Right Wing News has posted an interesting list of the 100 greatest Americans. I have one name to add to his list: William F. Friedman.
Friedman is known as the godfather of modern U.S. cryptology. His team of brilliant codebreakers cracked Japan’s highest security codes prior to World War II.
As Roberta Wohlstetter noted [...]

Tom Maguire of JustOneMinute wants to know why the New York Times hasn’t reported on the anti-Israel, anti-semitic comments made at a recent Democratic event hosted by John Conyers:
Can it be that anti-semitic pamphlets being distributed inside DNC headquarters during a DNC event is not of interest to Times readers? Even though it prompts a [...]

Proponents and opponents of illegal immigration squared off yesterday at a Home Depot in Alhambra, Calif. Chris Kelly has the details at The Immigration Blog. Photos here.
Related:
- Home Depot picketed over illegal immigrant allegations
- Illegal immigrants protested (Home Depot Rally)

CIA director Porter Goss told BBC he has an “excellent idea” where Osama Bin Laden is hiding. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.)