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***breaking: California Supreme Court won’t block execution***
Everything you need to know about Death Row inmate/convicted murderer/Crips co-founder Tookie Williams is here, in the LA County District Attorney’s response to Williams’ clemency petition.
Read the whole thing.
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Continuing blog coverage…
Joanne Jacobs and Hube guest-blogging at La Shawn Barber’s scrutizine a “Tookie Teach-In” at an Oakland school.
John Hawkins at […]

***updated: Video is still there. Front page photo only has been pulled***
That clueless British camo ad has been pulled, reports CNSNews:
The liberal political group MoveOn.org has yanked a video ad from its website after being criticized for using images of British soldiers to represent Americans in Iraq.
The 30-second ad, which also began running on CNN […]

Charmaine Yoest live-blogged the scene earlier this afternoon outside the Supreme Court as the justices heard the conclusion of oral arguments in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood (the New Hampshire parental notification case).
Seems there was a bit of an altercation between Charmaine and and Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization of Women in The […]

She. Is. Mad.
I think you will get a kick out of my latest, Unhinged-themed column: “Who are you calling angry?”
Intro:
Janeane Garofalo, left-wing actress-turned-Air America radio host, is a miserable woman. Last week before the holidays, she turned up on cable TV. No, not to count her blessings but to rant against conservative journalist Bob […]

The president delivered a very necessary speech at the Naval Academy defending the war in Iraq. He also paid tribute to Cpl. Jeffrey Starr, whose memory was butchered by the New York Times, and read from his moving letter to his girlfriend.

You read about the NYTimes’ disgrace here first.
Good for the White House for fighting […]

***updated 12/1 below***
The crescent is gone. AP reports:
Designers of a Flight 93 memorial have made a bowl-shaped piece of land its centerpiece, replacing a crescent-shape design that some critics had said was a symbol honoring terrorists, officials announced Wednesday.
The new design for the memorial, to be built on the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, […]

***updated here.***
Lots of blog buzz over MoveOn.org’s latest, noxious anti-war propaganda. First, check out the video here (in Quicktime).
Notice this?

Best of the Web reported yesterday on a sharp-eyed Army captain’s reaction to that scene in MoveOn’s fund-raising ploy:
I just got back from my third deployment from Iraq on Friday, and I happened to […]

Been hearing rumblings all night about a controversial shake-up in Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office. Here’s what Capitol Weekly is reporting:
Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has hired Susan Kennedy, a top aide to former Gov. Gray Davis, as his new chief of staff, Capitol sources in both major parties said. The chief of staff’s position is […]

***updated with video link and more***
John Fund and Betsy Newmark have details. From Fund:
Is Senator Harry Reid all that swift when it comes to U.S. Intelligence matters? Last Wednesday, the Minority Leader appeared on KRNV-TV’s “Nevada Newsmakers” program and dropped a stunning revelation. He had been informed just that day that Osama bin Laden […]

On Nov. 18, U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie K. Couch released previously sealed records related to the FBI/Joint Terrorism Task Force search of Oklahoma University bomber Joel Hinrichs’ apartment, his e-mail account and nine OU computers.
I obtained the nearly 350 pages of unsealed court documents just before Thanksgiving last week and reviewed them over the weekend […]

My Pet Jawa has exclusive video and stills of American Thomas Fox of Clear Brook Virginia, Canadian Harmeet Singh Sooden, who resides in Auckland, New Zealand, British citizen Norman Kember, and a man identifying himself as James Loni (last name unclear) of Canada.
Keep them in your prayers.
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News coverage at Breitbart/AP.

Check it out:
Anti-war zealot Cindy Sheehan will receive $11,000 in student fees to speak at the State University College at Oneonta.
FOX News military analyst and Iraq war veteran Lt. Col. Scott Rutter, who will counter Sheehan in a separate presentation, will receive $600.

Canadians Vote to Throw Out Government:
Canadian politicians will hit the campaign trail this holiday season after opposition parties seized upon a corruption scandal to bring down the minority government of Prime Minister Paul Martin in a vote of no confidence.
Monday’s loss means an election for all 308 seats in the lower House of Commons, likely […]

Mike Fumento, Clinton W. Taylor, and EU Rota tackle the moonbats meme.
Excellent background/round-up from Jeff Goldstein in case you missed it.

Scott Johnson at Power Line and The Daily Standard dissects Bush Derangement Syndrome sufferer Mary Mapes’ fraudulent tales.

…of thought. (Thanks, Jeff!)

Check out my chat with John Hawkins of Right Wing News about book-writing, blogging, racism, sexism, and more.

The White House is webcasting the President’s speech paying lip service to immigration enforcement now.
Liveblogging…
Most ridiculous line so far: Introducing his temporary “guest worker” plan by saying we need to “bring workers out of the shadows and reject amnesty.”
More tough talk: Those who enter our country illegally violate the law. To keep the promise of […]

From the unhinged cartoonist/columnist who sneers at our volunteer troops as murderers for Halliburton and derided Army Ranger Pat Tillman as an “idiot” and a “sap,” comes this new slander of the troops:

Conservative Dialysis takes aim at Rall’s odious moral equivalence.
But we mustn’t question the Left’s patriotism, right?

The “Main Street” Republicans, who I criticized earlier this month for sabotaging conservative House efforts to open up ANWR for drilling, have sent a letter accusing me of “libelous statements.” I’ve uploaded the letter from Danielle Graham, counsel for the Republican Main Street Partnership, here. (As you’ll see from the letter, it appears there are […]

…and Ramsey Clark is there to hold his hand. From Breitbart/AP:
The trial of Saddam Hussein for alleged crimes against humanity resumed Monday in a heavily guarded courtroom, with the former Iraqi president trying to take command of the proceedings and angrily complaining about having to walk up four flights of stairs in shackles under foreign […]

So, President Bush is at the border this week paying lip service to new “immigration reform”–even as he pushes his same old, enforcement-undermining amnesty plan.
Back at the Department of Homeland [In]Security, crony nominee Julie Myers has may be given a recess appointment to head up the Immigration & Customs Enforcement agency, reports Debbie Schlussel. And […]

An image you probably won’t see on your newspaper’s front page or on the network news (via Yahoo! News/AP):

Caption: Protesters burn a dummy representing the ousted dictator Saddam Hussein during a demonstration in Najaf, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005. The Saddam Hussein trial is scheduled to resume Monday, Nov. 28. The banner in background reads: […]

The Sunday Times of London follows up on Bruce Willis’ plans to make a film about the heroes of Deuce Four, based on the reporting of embedded journalist/blogger extraordinaire Michael Yon:
ANGERED by negative portrayals of the conflict in Iraq, Bruce Willis, the Hollywood star, is to make a pro-war film in which American soldiers will […]

I missed this one while traveling last week. Check out the p.c. photo doctoring story involving the illustrator of the famous children’s book, Goodnight Moon (hat tip: Michael Valois).
KANSAS CITY (AP) - A recent change in the photo of a well-known children’s book illustrator to remove a cigarette from his hand has drawn criticism […]

Convicted murderer Stanley “Tookie” Williams, the co-founder of the violent Crips gang who is on Death Row in California, is Hollyweird’s current cause celebre. He is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 13 after 24 years of legal wrangling. The San Francisco Chronicle reports today that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has decided to hold a clemency […]

Warren County Community College adjunct English professor John Daly, who advocated fragging American soldiers in an e-mail bullying conservative student Rebecca Beach over a speaking event she had organized, has resigned.
Here’s the official college statement. An excerpt:
The College became aware of the impact of the instructor’s comments when it was inundated with local and national […]

Just sick.
More from Power Line in case you missed it.

It’s about time.
Debbie Schlussel has been on the case.
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