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The Washington Post Book World section has a lot to answer for–see Scott Johnson at The Daily Standard and follow up from John Hinderaker at Power Line.
FYI, the WaPo Book World editor is Marie Arana. Contact her at aranam@washpost.com.

Tuesday quick links:
-Dan Rather has a crocodile tear-shedding, lip-quivering meltdown. Dry-eyed comments from Penraker, the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Roger L. Simon, and Steve J.
-Robert Spencer on The Hijab That Wasn’t.
-FEC sues the Club for Growth. FEC statement here. Club for Growth response here. RedState, BizzyBlog, and Jack Lewis sound the alarm.
-More ungrateful critics of the [...]

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Another disastrous crony appointment in the making
This is Julie Myers, President Bush’s nominee to head the the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security.
Her nomination is a joke. A bad joke: (via WaPo)
The Bush administration is seeking to appoint a lawyer with little immigration or customs experience to head the [...]

The moonbats are going wild over reports that Cindy Sheehan was hassled by the NYPD during a protest today in Union Square.
The Village Voice decries, “NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan; City’s Finest pulls move even Bush wouldn’t have tried:”
Cindy Sheehan may be the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement. But that didn’t stop members of the [...]

Watch it at The Political Teen.

***Updated below: Nagin retreats…NHC forecast…***
As if thousands of Katrina evacuees hadn’t already seen enough miserable bad weather, Tropical Storm Rita is headed toward the Florida Keys, Texas, and possibly Louisiana.
Houston blogger Jason Smith writes: “Say a prayer for us, this looks like it’s gonna be nasty.”
Galveston has announced voluntary evacuations.

Oil companies are pulling out of [...]

Cindy Sheehan isn’t just a thorn in the side of the White House. Now, she’s threatening Hillary Clinton–and the moonbats are eating it up. Via the NYSun:
War protester Cindy Sheehan came to New York last night with a blunt warning for Senator Clinton: End your support for the war in Iraq or else.
Visiting New York [...]

From the “We support the troops by smearing blood all over their offices” file:
The infamous “St Patrick’s Four” anti-war zealots who “poured their blood” all over a military recruiting center in Ithaca, N.Y.–on the walls, windows, doors, and smeared on an America flag–are back in court today for a re-trial:
Four anti-war protesters who spilled their [...]

Michael King of Ramblings’ Journal is pulling the plug on his MuNu blog, which I’ve linked to often.
He recommends you check out the rest of the Conservative Brotherhood, as well as The Dead Pool and Blogcritics.
Farewell, Michael and best of luck in your new endeavors.

The NRA wants to help:
If you have personally had a gun confiscated in Louisiana since Hurricane Katrina hit, please call (888) 414-6333. Be prepared to leave only your name and immediate contact information so we can get back to you. Once again, we are seeking contact information from actual victims of gun confiscation in Louisiana [...]

The Guard The Borders Blogburst is up.
More at TMH’s Bacon Bits on a planned merger between U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
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Background:
5/11/05 Special Report: Shake-up at DHS

Some of you longtime readers may remember that way back in 2000 I had a website (a pre-blog, if you will) called Porkwatch dedicated to blowing the whistle on the forced redistribution of public dollars to targeted special interests.
So, I love this new blogger initiative from Glenn Reynolds and N.Z. Bear to find money for [...]

Reader e-mail of the morning from Jeanne M.:
The latest photo of Bill Clinton looking very angry and wagging his finger as he criticizes Bush is the exact pose he struck when he said he ‘didn’t have sex with that woman.’
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Update: John Hinderaker at Power Line dissects Clinton’s attack.

Sen. Mary Landrieu reiterates her threat to punch President Bush.
And Bill Maher says Republicans need anger management?

Earlier this month, Bruce Ramsey of the Seattle Times reported on a document that he says casts doubt on my argument in In Defense of Internment that the evacuation of ethnic Japanese during World War II was based primarily on legitimate military concerns rather than racism and wartime hysteria.
The document was called to Ramsey’s attention [...]

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A number of us in the blogosphere have been catching wind of rumors that a surface-to-air missile was fired at an America West flight originating out of New York. Here’s a post at Little Green Footballs, where many commenters are wisely skeptical but wanting more info.
I just got off the [...]

The HuffMobile
Reader Doug, who posts at FreeRepublic.com, sent this photo, which he took while covering the Sierra Club’s national summit in San Francisco last weekend. The handsome, full-size sport utility vehicle pictured above is a Chevy Suburban. It was sent by the anti-SUV environmental puritans of the Sierra Club to pick up fellow, eco-zealot Arianna [...]

I mentioned this story below, but think it deserves a stand-alone post as more disturbing details come in from Memphis, Tenn. Via AP:
MEMPHIS, Tenn. A federal magistrate has ordered a University of Memphis student held until trial.
Prosecutors say F-B-I agents found an airline pilot’s uniform, a chart of Memphis International Airport and instructional D-V-D’s. One [...]

Cox & Forkum say it all:

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Dimitri Vassilaros of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review says “Kill the crescent.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer calls critics “blind.”
The Johnstown Tribune Democrat supports altering the memorial and cites the second-stage jury’s own words:
“Consider the interpretation and impact of words within the context of this event,” the jury wrote in its report. “The ‘Crescent’ should [...]

Get it from Tony Snow.

Remember this guy:

Well, we finally sent him back to Canada. (Don’t know what took the State Department so long, though.)
Anyway, good riddance. Yikes.

Lunchtime reading assigment on Katrina and race: Heather Mac Donald nails it…
The racial victocrats and left-wing agitators won’t change their behavior after the Katrina charity outpouring, but opponents of “benign” racial discrimination will have new weapons against it. When the New York Times and other mouthpieces of the elite media blame racism for segregated housing [...]

Two of the liberal radio network’s hosts, rapper Chuck D and Rhodes Scholar Rachel Maddow, can’t bring themselves to condemn Louis Farrakhan’s nutball claim that white people blew up the levees in New Orleans.

Take the Instapundit poll.
My vote: All of the above.
And more.

Hurricane Katrina victims are being welcomed into homes across the country. Now, homeless people in Washington, D.C., are hopping mad:
Advocates say the homeless have noticed — and many resent — the difference in perception and treatment. “Local homeless people are saying, ‘Nobody cares about us — we were here all the time,’ ” said [...]

The Newark Star-Ledger reported yesterday that three mice carrying plague are missing from a bioterrorism laboratory in Newark, N.J., run by an outfit called the Public Health Research Institute:
Officials said the animals could have been stolen from the center or simply misplaced in a colossal accounting error at one of the top-level bio-containment labs [...]

Address on Katrina begins in five minutes. CNN previews.
AP previews.
Lorie Byrd at PoliPundit has advice.
Ace of Spades:
“I won’t be liveblogging this; I’ll be watching Survivor, currently being recorded.
Prediction for the speech: Bush will do what he always does when he feels political heat. Spend, baby. Spend like the wind.
Update: Low point of the address: [...]

Some of my good friends on the right side of the blogosphere say that ex-FEMA chief Michael Brown has been unfairly maligned for Katrina-related problems caused by state and local officials in Louisiana. John Hawkins of Right Wing News says Brown lost his job because Louisiana Gov. “Kathleen Blanco is an idiot.” Bryan Preston [...]

AP reports that former members of the Sept. 11 commission are dismissing assertions that the DoD intelligence unit known as Able Danger identified Mohammed Atta as a potential terrorist long before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Earlier this month, AP reported the results of a Pentagon investigation which concluded that five people involved with Able [...]

New York Times columinst Paul Krugman corrected the strange correction to his August 22 column. NRO’s Donald Luskin notes that the latest correction “was never published in the print edition of the Times.” He also points out that “archival versions of the three prior Krugman columns bearing his falsehoods about the consortium’s results remain uncorrected [...]