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What a mess:
Detroit elections officials lost track of ballots in nine precincts — or almost 3,000 votes — in Tuesday’s election, and did not count them until two days after polls closed.
State Elections Director Chris Thomas ordered city officials late Friday to keep their hands off voting records until he meets with them today.
Thomas’ order [...]

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President Bush’s overdue speech last week is paying dividends, if the Sunday talk shows were any indication.
Read this from Glenn Reynolds, who watched John McCain on Face the Nation, and this from John Hinderaker at Power Line, who watched Jay Rockefeller fall flat on his face on Fox News Sunday.

Ed Morrissey weighs in:
How [...]

My friend Michael Fumento quells the hysteria in this week’s Weekly Standard cover story. Check it out.

Promised to do some trainblogging and am catching up on a deluge of e-mail. Several readers sent this disturbing story yesterday of a Brigham Young University professor named Steven Jones who believes that 9/11 was an inside job and that bombs, not the Islamist hijackers, are to blame for obliterating the Twin Towers and all [...]

I’m back at my hotel here in NYC after three wild and crazy hours with Fox & Friends, and will be taking off for WABC radio soon for a book interview with Monica Crowley at noon. Thanks for all the feedback on the show. You all know I am definitely NOT a morning person and [...]

President Bush takes on the Cindy Sheehan Left:
“While it is perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began. Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why [...]

I’m on a train to New York to do something new and out-of-the-box tomorrow morning–substitute co-host on Fox & Friends Weekend. The show starts at 7am EST on Saturday and runs for three hours. It’s fast-paced and fun, and (hopefully) you’ll get to see the lighter side of me (aided by a gallon of caffeine).
A [...]

To all of America’s men and women who serve and have served: Thank you and God bless.
Stars and Stripes marks the day.
Read the latest from Michael Yon.
N.Z. Bear has a Veteran’s Day round-up chock-full of links.
The White House Veteran’s Day page is here.
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This is a great day to donate to Project Valour-IT if you haven’t [...]

Ed Morrissey notes the American media’s loss of interest in the Muslim immigrant riots in France:
Does the American media suffer from ADHD and find themselves incapable of following an important story for longer than ten days? Or do they find themselves increasingly unable to explain the serious and continued violence despite the bribery and politically-correct [...]

Sen. Lindsay Graham has been irksome of late, but the amendment he sponsored to rein in the ridiculous panoply of legal rights granted to foreign enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay is a welcome dose of sanity. The Senate approved the amendment to a military budget bill, 49-42, last night:
If approved in its current form by [...]

You can read the National Rifle Association’s lawsuit challenging Proposition H–the San Francisco handgun ban passed on Tuesday–here.
The AP reports:
In 1982, a state appeals court nullified an almost identical gun ban here largely on grounds that the city cannot enact an ordinance that conflicts with state law that allows for the sale and possession of [...]

My investigative blog partner and friend Brian Maloney has the skinny on the latest industry news. Just surf over to the Radio Equalizer and keep scrolling.

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Reader reaction to the GOP cave-in on ANWR has been overwhelming. I’m reprinting just a small sample of letters that came in this morning from conservatives fed-up with Republican “leadership.”
Update 1120am EST. I’ll keep adding letters throughout the day.
Update 1145am EST. Many of you are asking for the list of [...]

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It’s the 230th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps. A new commemorative stamp series is being unveiled this week. Here are the honorees:
Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone
Basilone received the Medal of Honor during World War II for holding 3,000 Japanese soldiers at bay for 72 hours at Guadalcanal. He also destroyed a Japanese [...]

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I’m too tired to vent, but I think “Ugh” will suffice in response to this news item: House Drops Arctic Drilling From Bill
House leaders late Wednesday abandoned an attempt to push through a hotly contested plan to open an Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling, fearing it would jeopardize approval of a sweeping budget bill [...]

Deluded ex-CBS News producer Mary Mapes is still in denial about Rathergate.
Little Green Footballs offers a friendly reality check.
More clue-by-fours here and here.
And here.
And here.
800pm EDT update. Bill at INDC Journal highlights a typical unreality-based passage from Mapes’ book.

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Via Reuters/Yahoo (hat tip: LGF):
At least five people were killed and more than 52 others wounded on Wednesday in blasts at two international hotels in the Jordanian capital, Amman, witnesses said.
A blast at the Radisson hotel killed at least five and wounded more than 12, Reuters witnesses said. The blast was caused by a bomb [...]

San Francisco’s handgun ban passed yesterday:
The gun ban prohibits the manufacture and sale of all firearms and ammunition in the city, and makes it illegal for residents to keep handguns in their homes or businesses.
Only two other major U.S. cities — Washington and Chicago — have implemented such sweeping handgun bans.
With all precincts reporting early [...]

My latest column follows up on the lies of Jimmy Massey and his media enablers.
Doug Struck, the Washington Post reporter who covered Massey’s bogus testimony at Army deserter Jeremy Hinzman’s Canadian asylum hearing last year, has not responded to my e-mail inquiring about any follow-up.
USA Today reporter Rick Hampson, who wrote this March 2005 feature, [...]

Jason Smith looks at hysterical claims of “voter terrorism” in the Motor City.

Phin and Confederate Yankee are asking for your help for a good cause.

Severing the heads of three innocent Christian schoolgirls apparently wasn’t enough for the jihadists in Sulawesi. Tonight, Dog Pundit sends word of two more attacks. Catholic World News reports:
Jakarta, Nov. 08 (AsiaNews) - New violence has flared in Indonesia, in the town where three girls from a Christian school were decapitated on October 29, the [...]

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1006pm EDT update. The Dems may have claimed victory in NJ and Va., but I think it’s still too early to proclaim this the “Night of The Democrats,” as the Drudge Report headline is calling it. The Soros-backed election “reform” measures in Ohio look like they’re going down in flames. And [...]

John Derbyshire on the proper, p.c. term for the French rioters:
“Undocumented dismantlers.”

Stephen Spruiell reports on what the Washington Post isn’t telling you.
Amazing.

Via Bloomberg:
In a bid to help cool tensions, [French Prime Minister Dominique] de Villepin proposed boosting spending on training and education programs in poor neighborhoods…
De Villepin’s call for increased spending on training programs comes amid rising unemployment among immigrants. Last year, 17.4 percent of immigrants were unemployed, compared with 9.2 percent for non-immigrants, [...]

Left-wing billionaire George Soros and his tinfoil-hat brigade are spearheading a package of so-called “reform” initiatives on the ballot in Ohio today.
Red State has a useful backgrounder on the measures.
Paul Weyrich weighs in here.
Newsday reports: Angry Kerry Supporters Seek Ohio Reform
Ohio State Sen. Gary Cates writes:
The proposed amendments are backed exclusively by a coalition of [...]

Cafe Press, the online retail shop for customized apparel and knick-knacks, just e-mailed a new announcement for its latest hot items: Plamegate fashions. I kid you not.
Here’s a sample:

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A fashion “must” that defines today’s hip style, our Jr. Hoodie is a body-loving curve-hugger. From American Apparel, get into baby soft [...]

Marc Landers compares and contrasts U.S. and British accounts of the (once)-infamous road between Baghdad and its main airport.

Jim Hoft connects the dots between two anti-military smear artists.
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