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Quote of the morning comes from the sports page. I’m not a baseball fan, so I hadn’t heard about the slapping incident involving a Houston Astros baseman’s wife at Chicago’s ballpark on Sunday night. The wife of Astros second baseman Craig Biggio was smacked by a male fan who cut and run. Biggio’s wife chased [...]

Watch this video (9MB/Quicktime):
Click here. (There may be a bit of a pause before it starts.)
It’s a clip of the last few minutes of an exclusive promotional sales pitch for Al Franken’s new book, “The Truth (with jokes),” featured at Amazon.com. (Thanks to my web guy, Mark Jaquith, for the technical assist.) The video skit [...]

A civil rights pioneer passes. Via Breitbart.com/AP:
Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday. She was 92.
Mrs. Parks died at her home of natural causes, said Karen Morgan, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.
Mrs. Parks was 42 [...]

From the chancellor’s office at North Carolina State University:
Dr. Kamau Kambon’s remarks have received widespread coverage on various websites, blogs and in the media. In some cases, it has
been incorrectly reported that Kambon is an employee of NC State. Kambon sporadically taught at North Carolina State University on an as-needed basis. He has not [...]

Just received from my favorite Senator’s office:
Dr. Coburn to Hold Hearing Examining Congress’ Efforts to Escape its Constitutional Boundaries
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, chairman of the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, will chair a hearing Tuesday, October 25 at 2:30 p.m. entitled “Guns and Butter: Setting Priorities in Federal Spending in the [...]

So, Hurricane Cindy is going to blow back into Washington as soon as the 2,000th soldier in Iraq dies:
Cindy Sheehan, the military mother who made her son’s death in Iraq a rallying point for the anti-war movement, plans to tie herself to the White House fence to protest the milestone of 2,000 U.S. military deaths [...]

They buy it. Meant to note this late last week:
New Jersey Sen. Jon Corzine, a former Wall Street executive with a portfolio worth $261 million, has been giving some of his money to black churches, raising questions about whether it’s generosity or politics.
The Democrat, who is in a tight race for governor, donated or loaned [...]

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Sign of the times from the Florida Keys:

Photo: AP/Yahoo!
Landfall is expected at dawn. She’s back up to Category 3:
The center of the storm was expected to hit the Florida coast at dawn Monday with the eastern edge of the eyewall arriving about two hours earlier. Surf was already pounding the beaches Sunday [...]

Tim Worstall explains.
More background here.

The Left had a field day over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s remarks on NBC’s Meet the Press this morning in which she downplayed possible perjury and obstruction of justice indictments this week in the Rove/Plame/Miller/Libby/God-knows-who-else leak case. I watched the rebroadcast of the show tonight and have to say that I found Hutchison’s pooh-poohing more [...]

Am scheduled to appear on Fox News Live today at around 12:40pm EDT to talk FEMA and possibly immigration/border security.
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Update: Video at The Political Teen.

Hurricane Wilma battered Mexico’s Caribbean resorts yesterday. Six are dead. She is now picking up speed and heading to Florida. The storm’s outer bands are already causing flooding in the Sunshine State. Evacuations have been under way all weekend. The Storm Track has all the latest on Wilma’s movements. Weather blogger Jeff Masters watches Tropical [...]

N.Z. Bear has set up a tracking system for bloggers to register their position on the Harriet Miers nomination.
Here’s the tracking page.
Check it out and make your stand.
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Joe Gandelman has a giant round-up of all the latest Miers news, opinion, rumors, etc.
Make sure to see this and this as well.

***1/30/06 update. Click here for the latest and for all 12 cartoons.***
Brussels Journal reports on how a Danish newspaper and its cartoonists are being threatened by Muslim extremists for publishing cartoons about the prophet Muhammad deemed offensive (hat tip: Paul B.):
The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten is being protected by security guards and several cartoonists have gone [...]

If you’re in southern California, check out the Liberty Film Festival for fair and balanced entertainment. Looks like there are some very interesting films, documentaries, and panels on tap for tomorrow. Also visit the Libertas blog for more info.
Congrats to Jason, Govindini, and the rest of the organizers and sponsors.
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These features looked especially intriguing:
“Broken [...]

They support the troops…by partying over their deaths.
Sick.
But it’s par for the course.
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Charles Johnson at LGF responds to critics:
They obviously don’t like it when their sick plans are exposed.
Yup.

Blackfive remembers. So should you.
Alan Gray has more.

Here we go again. Australian moonbat journalists accuse American soldiers of abusing corpses in Afghanistan.
The rest of the blogosphere has it covered. See Euphoric Reality for a giant round-up of news and opinion on all sides.
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In related news, James Joyner at OTB points out that our friends in Canada are moving forward with a [...]

I received a bit of flak from some of my conservative friends for highlighting FEMA’s inadequate response–particularly former FEMA chief Michael Brown’s embarrassing performance–during Hurricane Katrina. This week, Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff and FEMA official Marty Bahamonde confirmed FEMA’s failures once and for all. Bahamonde’s testimony yesterday was especially damning. He [...]

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Vaughn Ververs has a follow-up on Mike Wallace’s appearance at an anti-gun Brady Center event late last month. Ververs responded to an inquiry from NRAnews.com blogger/radio host Cam Edwards, who blew the whistle. Ververs was initially quick to back up Wallace and CBS, but now he is less satisfied:
We were asked what CBS News [...]

Mike Adams blows the whistle on a murder-minded liberal racist in academia. His name is Dr. Kamau Kambon, an affiliated faculty instructor at NC State University.
E-mail the school’s Africana Studies department at afs@social.chass.ncsu.edu.
If that doesn’t work, try this: chancellor@ncsu.edu.
Jon Sanders at Carolina Journal has more:
Prior to his call for genocide against white people, Kambon, who [...]

AP issues a headline correction.
Here’s an update on paramedics attacked by Toledo thugs. (Video of the attack here).
The mayor of Toledo, Jack Ford, is running for re-election and using the riot in his campaign ads to demonstrate his leadership skills.
Hmmm.
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What happened in Toledo?

Lots on the ballot in the Golden State. Haven’t had time to keep up with it all, but Dafydd at Big Lizards has the lowdown.

Sorry for the light blogging today. I have a really good excuse. It was my birthday today and I celebrated by staying away from the computer. I didn’t get the Scooba I’ve been wishing for (to supplement the Christmas Roomba). But I did get a comfy pair of Care Bear fuzzy slippers–great for blogging in.
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I have stayed away from the depressing and divisive subject of Harriet Miers for a few days. It was a healthy little respite. But things have taken yet another grim, embarrassing turn–and it is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine that this nomination will make it to the scheduled Nov. 7 Senate hearing date.
First, if you [...]

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Watching C-SPAN right now. Rep. Curt Weldon is on the House floor blasting the Defense Intelligence Agency and vigorously defending Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer. He says he will resign from Congress if it refuses to investigate the government’s smear tactics against Able Danger [...]

An American sailor reports that the suffering in Darfur has gone from bad to worse.
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The rape jihad
The new Potemkin villages

Sandy Berger has been hired as an adviser on ABC’s “Commander-in-chief.” Better put the scripts under lock and key.
Sen. Tom Coburn moves to defund the bridge to nowhere. The Club for Growth has details.
Maryland Lt. Gov Michael Steele will announce his Senate plans next week. Stay tuned.
Bill Nienhuis is blogging from Dachau.
Bloggers are keeping [...]

NBC News canoe girl, Michelle Kosinski, is defending her staged-news stunt of last week. She blames her producers for last week’s drippy embarassment in which she intrepidly paddled through a few inches of New Jersey waters in an estimated $1,500 canoe while passers-by sloshed in front of the camera. Via the NY Observer:

Streets were flooded. [...]

The trial has begun. A “combative” and “defiant” Saddam Hussein pleaded not guilty to charges of crime against humanity. Via AP:
Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of premeditated murder and torture Wednesday, arguing with judges and challenging the legitimacy of the court as his trial opened under heavy security in the former headquarters of his [...]