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A moonbat organization called “World Can’t Wait” will be protesting across the country on Wednesday Nov. 2 to mourn the one-year anniversary of President Bush’s re-election. (Hat tip: Reader Scott S.) In NYC, the group’s members are warming up tonight with bizarre Halloween rituals including the following:
Presenting the Future of Horrors Under Bush
- Ominous-looking Promise [...]

Take it here if you haven’t yet.
It’s looking very good for the nominee.
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Ankle Biting Pundits reports on the blogger conference call on Alito with Ken Mehlman:
I asked Mehlman what if anything that the RNC was doing to ensure that the GOP members of the “Gang of 14″ would pull the trigger on the Constitutional Option [...]

Jim Hoft sees dead people…voting.
Everywhere.
More on the tainted Detroit ballots here.
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Speaking of election fraud, be sure to check out Stefan Sharkansky’s latest investigative blogging on shenanigans in Washington state.
And in Texas: A case of “legal” voter fraud.

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Keep track of the lard here.
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***scroll for updates…1030am EDT appearance with GOP Sens…1110am Schumer exploits Rosa Parks…gross…video at The Political Teen***
Via Breitbart/AP, we have a nominee: Samuel A. Alito, Jr. White House will make official announcement at 8am EDT.

Details from USNews:
Nicknamed “Scalito” for views resembling those of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito Jr. is a favorite son [...]

Fox News reporting tonight that the White House will announce its SCOTUS pick tomorrow.

Washington Post, A1 for Monday:
President Bush appears poised to announce a new Supreme Court nomination today, moving quickly after a weekend of consultations to put forward a replacement for the ill-fated choice of Harriet Miers in hopes of recapturing political momentum, according [...]

Following up on yesterday’s horrific news of the triple beheadings of Christian schoolgirls in Indonesia, here’s the latest via Reuters/India:
Indonesian police increased patrols on Sunday in the Poso area, plagued by sectarian violence for years, after assailants in black beheaded three teenage Christian girls.
At the Vatican, Pope Benedict offered his deepest sympathies to the [...]

Filming has begun in NYC. I know I’m not the only one who has a queasy feeling about this.
Background here.

In case you missed this from last week, via LGF:

Seattle moonbats photoshop Ward Churchill.
Before..

And after…

The doctored photo has now been removed by Shoreline Community College officials.
More at Marathon Pundit, The Bo’sun Locker, and Joe Kovacs.

The Right Place offers a Halloween movie viewing guide.
What should you be for Halloween? (via Blogthings)
Mark Steyn’s Halloween Horrors Movie Vault
My recommended pumpkin pie recipes (and photo) from last year.
Flashback: The Parade of Unfortunate Star Wars Costumes
Flashback 2: Al and Tipper Gore circa Halloween 1999…

Via Reuters/UK:
Three powerful bombs ripped through New Delhi markets packed with families and shoppers on Saturday ahead of the biggest Hindu and Muslim festivals of the year, killing dozens and wounding scores more.
Charred bodies, blood, glass and smoking debris littered the scenes as rescuers frantically pulled out the dead and injured while thousands of survivors [...]

And removes all doubt about his foolishness.
Again.
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Check out this video of not-so-peaceful union protesters in California–here (via the California Republican Party) and at The Political Teen–mobbing a lone pro-Schwarzenegger woman on Thursday who supports union reform initiatives on next week’s ballot.
Even the “security guard” (that’s her in the photo below in the middle of the screen with the orange vest) [...]

On Wednesday, the NYTimes published a 4,625-word opus on the “2,000 dead” milestone–a “grim mark,” read the headline–on page A2. Among those profiled were Marines from the First Battalion of the Fifth Marine Regiment, including Cpl. Jeffrey B. Starr. Here’s an excerpt from the Times’ passage about Cpl. Starr:
Another member of the 1/5, Cpl. Jeffrey [...]

***scroll for updates throughout the day…223pm EDT liveblogging Fitzgerald news conference…240pm EDT Fitzgerald: “We have not made any allegation that Libby knowingly/intentionally outed a covert agent…300pm EDT “This indictment is not about the war. Not about the propriety of the war…” 310pm EDT “We’re not quite done, but I don’t want to add to a [...]

Riding Sun takes a look at anti-American “art.”

The free-speech-curtailing effects of McCain-Feingold are still at work in Washington state, where my old friends, conservative radio talk show hosts Kirby Wilbur and John Carlson, are feeling the chill.
In via the Seattle Times:
Comments made by radio talk-show hosts this past summer supporting anti-gas-tax Initiative 912 should be considered in-kind political contributions, a Thurston County [...]

…with oil sands, say Mike Fumento.

***1/30/06 update. Click here for the latest and for all 12 cartoons.***
Muslim leaders are still having a major snit fit over the so-called Muhammad cartoons published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten earlier this month. Paul Belien sends an update at Brussels Journal:
Eleven Muslim ambassadors to Copenhagen, who had protested to Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh [...]

Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, a black Republican and rising star in the party, is running for Senate here in Maryland. Yesterday, I noted Robert George’s blog post blowing the whistle on a despicable left-wing smear of Steele.
Now, a Democrat official has done the right thing. George reports that Tim Kaine, running for governor in Virginia, [...]

What a relief. Sad, pensive, what-a-waste relief. Not happy-joy-joy relief.
First Breitbart/AP dispatch 858am EDT:
Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to be a Supreme Court justice Thursday in the face of stiff opposition and mounting criticism about her qualifications.
Exit strategy hinged on refusal to release privileged White House documents. (Ed Morrissey and Charles Krauthammer called it.) Whatever. [...]

…on the Harriet Miers SCOTUS nomination. My post last night noted some ominous signs. This morning, the New York Sun has more:
At least two Republican senators are poised to call on the White House to withdraw the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, a highly placed Republican Senate staffer told The New York [...]

The Political Teen has the full video of Kamau Kambon’s murder-minded remarks at the Million Moan March a few weeks ago.
He also has video of a Howard University law grad who appeared on The O’Reilly Factor last night justifying Kambon’s genocidal thoughts.
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On a related note, John Hinderaker at Power Line notes the Iranian president’s call [...]

***Update: AP/Yahoo! photo filed approx 930pm EDT…***

Readers are sending word that the woman who fashions herself the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement was arrested tonight outside the White House. Here’s a brief story:
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and 25 other protesters were arrested Wednesday night in front of the White House. The protesters had staged [...]

***updated…Wash Times reports Leonard Leo quitting pro-Miers lobbying effort***
SCOTUS nominee Harriet Miers was supposed to turn in more detailed questionnaire responses to the Senate Judiciary Committee today. Kathryn Lopez reports that as of 8pm EDT tonight, Miers had failed to turn in her answers.
Hmmm.
Meanwhile, there have been some significant shifts to the oppose column in [...]

MoveOn.org has no shame.
Hat tip: AJ Strata, who notes that the ad is running on CNN.
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Dave at The Paladin Blog sends word that at least one group of anti-war activists behaved appropriately. Glad to hear it.

***scroll for updates, reax, and spoofs galore…plus another explanation from USA Today with new details…***
Hat tip: Tony J
The doctored photo of Condi Rice has been removed from USA Today’s website with this editor’s note:
Editor’s note: The photo of Condoleezza Rice that originally accompanied this story was altered in a manner that did not meet USA [...]

Via Breitbart/AP, the federal grand jury investigating Plamegate met for three hours today with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald and adjourned for the day without announcing any action.
Tom Maguire, who has covered every twist and turn of the story, posts his predictions. He thinks there will be no Karl Rove indictment.
If so, Chris Matthews’ [...]

***scroll down for updates…345pm EDT flash: THE PHOTO HAS BEEN REMOVED from USA Today’s site with an editor’s note…reax from readers here…I’ll be talking about more unhinged examples of Condi hatred next week. More details here.***
Check out the photo of Condoleezza Rice that was published by USA Today last week:

Notice anything peculiar about her [...]

***10/26 update: My new column, “2,000: A bogus number, a bitter cause,” is here***

Read what Lt. Col. Steve Boylan has to say. Spread the word.
More at LGF and Ipso Facto Cartoon Blog.
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AP’s latest “grim milestone” dispatch.