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The subject of my latest column: Where in the world is Evan Montvel-Cohen? The former chairman of Air America Radio and disgraced development director of the Bronx-based Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club has been unavailable to the MSM. New York investigators will not comment on whether they have been able to interview him. And [...]

Did you miss The Cotillion today? Check out the blogging babes at A Mom and Her Blog, Townhall.com’s Mary Katherine Ham, and Not a Desperate Housewife–who points to a post on military podcasting from Soldier’s Angel Holly Aho that caught my eye. Check them all out. Chock full of new voices. And not a MoDo [...]

Unhingedness all around us. Some nutball drove his truck through an anti-war display of crosses down at Camp Cindy Sheehan. Nice to see the far Left finally outraged about the desecration of crosses. Don’t seem to recall their outrage about this or this or this, though. Or, of course, this. *** Update: A closer look [...]

A few weeks ago, I spoke to conservatives at the Young America’s Foundation annual student conference about immigration and national security. I noted that it was no longer true, as I had been observing over the last several years, that the only thing saving Republicans on the issue of border security was the Democrats’ stupidity. [...]

Austin Bay weighs in on the firestorm over AP’s biased war coverage. Power Line notes the vindication of journalist Mark Yost, the St. Paul Pioneer Press editorial page associate editor who was viciously attacked by thin-skinned colleagues for challenging MSM war reporting. (See columns by Mary Katherine Ham and Mike Fumento.) And Jack Kelly at [...]

Greg Ransom at Prestopundit has the story, via KFI reporter Eric Leonard.

The Associated Press is reporting this evening: The husband of Cindy Sheehan, the mother camped outside President Bush’s Texas ranch to protest the death of a son in the Iraq war, has filed for divorce, according to court documents. Patrick Sheehan filed the divorce petition Friday in Solano County court, northeast of San Francisco. His [...]

The Los Angeles Times reports: Health officials are investigating whether there are any links in the cases of four California women — at least two in Los Angeles County — who have died since 2003 of massive infection after taking the so-called abortion pill, RU-486, and a follow-up drug. The state and federal probe follows [...]

Ted Frank at Overlawyered has an update on the ridiculous case of the woman who cried “racism!” and sued Southwest Airlines because an airline attendant said “Eenie, meenie, minie, moe; pick a seat, we gotta go” over the intercom. Really.

The ACLU and other civil libertarians don’t seem to mind if a public swimming pool sets aside time for the exclusive use of Muslims. But they’ll scream holy hell if a city swimming pool enforces a dress code that requires everyone, including Muslims, to wear a swimsuit. Update: Reader Scott L. quips… Since this is [...]

Check this out. Law professor Jonathan Turley, one of the most personable and mild-mannered people I’ve met in Washington, lays the smack down on Sen. Dick Durbin in the Washington Times this morning. Hard. Hugh Hewitt believes Turley. Betsy Newmark wonders why the rest of the MSM isn’t paying attention: You would think that the [...]

While the MSM showers attention on Cindy Sheehan, Chrenkoff reminds us that not every parent who lost a child in Iraq opposes the war. Check out his list. He concludes: [B]oth sides can play the “grieving parents” game -– except that it’s not a game, and it shouldn’t be played. The right has not used [...]

The Committee to Protect Bloggers has the story.

Just read this. You won’t believe it. Here’s the intro… Aug. 22, 2005 issue – The grieving room was arranged like a doctor’s office. The families and loved ones of 33 soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan were summoned to a large waiting area at Fort Bragg, N.C. For three hours, they were rotated through [...]

Did you know that the #1 New York Times non-fiction best-seller this week is “The Fairtax Book,” by talk radio giant Neal Boortz and GOP Rep. John Linder? Congrats, gentlemen. Book tour info at Neal’s site.

The kill-me-first dress code is dead. It’s good news for air marshals who exposed this reckless bureaucratic idiocy last December. Via the Washington Post: The dress code for federal air marshals has been modified, apparently relegating a fashion spat to the back of the Homeland Security closet. The issue of what the marshals wear when [...]

Mike Fumento takes a look at the botched Bochco production, “Over There,” and also shares photos of his trip to Iraq. Michael Yon’s latest dispatch from over there, “Jungle Law,” is a compelling read, as always. Bill Roggio has a new report on Red on Red incidents between al Qaeda and Sunni insurgents. Wretchard at [...]

Read the post at Shrink Wrapped, who has coined the best new nickname for the Danger Enablers on the 9/11 Commission who neglected to inform the American public about Operation Able Danger: The 9/11 Omission. Excerpt from Shrink Wrapped’s analysis: There are really only a few possible explanations for the Able Danger story. One possibility [...]

As Heather Mac Donald notes, the abuse of the 19-month-old toddler who was shot by Los Angeles police last month preceded her father’s decision to use her as a human shield.

Should the U.S. make amends for war atrocities perpetrated by Japanese soldiers during World War II? Believe it or not, some people think so. I’m still waiting for my reparations checks…

New York Times Public Editor Byron Calame once again ignores the Times’ abysmal coverage of the Air Amerca scandal. Fortunately, the story continues to get attention on the editorial/opinion pages of smaller papers. Doug MacEachern, the Arizona Republic columnist who wrote about the Air America loan scandal last week, revisits the issue today. An excerpt: [...]

*see update* Like it or not, the dispute between Cindy Sheehan and some of her family members is news. According to a Solano County court document unearthed by Dang if I Know, there may be a new development in that rift: Assuming this report pans out, it will be interesting to see if Cindy Sheehan [...]

The Los Angeles Times graciously admits it was wrong when it said I disdainfully called activists supporting Cindy Sheehan “grief pimps:” An article in Thursday’s Section A about war protester Cindy Sheehan said conservative blogger Michelle Malkin had called activists supporting Sheehan “grief pimps.” Malkin’s blog carried the headline “The Grief Pimps,” but it referred [...]

Tigerhawk examines fallout from NARAL’s aborted smear ad against SCOTUS nominee John Roberts. The group’s communications director has “resigned”, and as Tigerhawk notes: I find it hard to believe that NARAL’s communication director would quit in the teeth of a nomination battle without having been pushed out. It is a virtually certainty that NARAL gave [...]

You have to scroll all the way down to the 18th paragraph in this front-page Washington Post article, but there it is–an acknowledgement that Cindy Sheehan has changed her account of her first meeting with President Bush, which occurred two months after her son’s death in April 2004: After the meeting, [Cindy Sheehan] was quoted [...]

Despite liberals’ insistence that the Air America / Gloria Wise story is “undersourced” and “appears to be phony,” the AP article by David Caruso is being carried by dozens of MSM papers, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Baton Rouge Times Picayune, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Myrtle Beach Sun News, Kansas [...]

As I reported here on Thursday night, New York Times reporter Alan Feuer botched the Al Franken quote in his article about the Air America loan. To its credit, the New York Times has run a correction acknowledging the error: An article yesterday about state and city investigations of a loan made by a Bronx [...]

From Mohammed at Iraq the Model. Must-read. And from Varifrank, who posts a very powerful and personal essay, “The Call.” Others blogging… – Michael Fumento on Mrs. Sheehan’s complaint that she’s not getting enough media attention. Really. – Vicious moonbats–mad about the firing of one of my hate-mailers from the law firm he sent his [...]

According to Emily Gest, a spokeswoman for the New York City Dept. of Investigation, the “transcript” of Al Franken’s remarks cited by the New York Times in this article apparently does not exist. “There is no official transcript,” Gest informed me. “You should expect to see a correction in the Times.” As I noted last [...]

Liberals say they want women to be taken seriously in the arenas of government and public policy. They claim they want women to be judged based on their ideas, not their physical appearance. Unless, of course, those women are conservative. Case in point: the continued leftist mockery of GOP Rep. Katherine Harris, who is serving [...]