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Take an Antacid and watch the clip (.wmv file).

Brad Wilmouth at Newsbusters has the full transcript and more:
Olbermann: “Who has enabled this? I mean, in a perverse way, is it almost necessary to say that Bill Clinton paved the way for George Bush to conduct a kind of fingers-in-his-ears, shout la-la-la-la-la presidency?”
Dowd: “No, they’re [...]

It’s Mozart’s 250th birthday today! Celebrations are taking place around the world:
It’s a birthday bash being heard around the world. The cobblestoned and turreted city of Mozart’s birth was the focal point for Friday’s 250th anniversary celebrations – but the sound of the master’s music was being heard around the globe.
Orchestras halls and opera houses [...]

Sen. Robert Byrd took to the Senate floor earlier today to criticize the manner in which the Alito hearings were conducted. Watch this and file it under “Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”

Download the video (.wmv file)
(Hat tip: The Political Teen.)
Regardless of any Senator’s particular view of Judge Alito, I think we [...]

CNN reporting:
Sen. John Kerry has decided to support a filibuster to block the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, CNN’s Congressional Correspondent Ed Henry reported Thursday.
Kerry, in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum, was marshaling support in phone calls during the day, Henry said.
He announced his decision Wednesday to a [...]

Oprah Winfrey to author James Frey on this afternoon’s show:
I have been really embarrassed by this… My judgment was clouded… I feel that you conned us all.

Download the video (.wmv file).
AP coverage at Breitbart.com.
Justin Hart: This is par for the course for Oprah.
Newsbusters: “Never” been duped before?
Gawker live-blogged the live feed.
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What did Oprah know and [...]

I’m collecting photoshopped/altered Google logos by bloggers and others in response to the search engine company’s decision to kowtow to China. Let a thousand protest icons bloom!
Here was mine:

Murdoc:

Pam at Atlas Shrugs, who’s calling on you to divest from Google:

Point Five:

Dean Esmay:

Got more? Send ‘em in.
Meantime, Pajamas Media is tracking the story. And Thomas Lipscomb [...]

Liberal bloggers, fresh from mauling Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell and launching a boycott campaign against, snort, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, are now targeting Katie Couric for her “right-wing bias.” (Hat tip: Lorie Byrd at Polipundit)
Chuckle. Snort. Guffaw.
I’ve uploaded the exchange between Couric and DNC chair Howard Dean over Jack Abramoff and his associates’ donations to [...]

Ira Stoll at the New York Sun has the story of the day that the rest of the MSM won’t be covering. Intro:
The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein’s air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft [...]

Duh.

Big week here at Malkin Central. My five-year-old lost her first tooth:

Meanwhile, potty-training my son is like dealing with post-9/11 liberals. No matter how much patient educating and explaining you do to convince them to take responsibility for their actions and prevent future disasters, the end result is always the same: soiled pants.

Via Breitbart/AP:
Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito picked up his second Democratic supporter on Thursday, with Tim Johnson of South Dakota announcing he will vote for the conservative judge to become the nation’s 110th justice.
Johnson joins fellow Democrat Ben Nelson of Nebraska as the only members of their party to announce Senate support for the [...]

Paging the Department of Homeland Security. Hello? Hello?!
*New* via the San Diego Union Tribune : Two tons of pot found inside Mexico-U.S. border tunnel

Investigators discovered a sophisticated cross-border tunnel yesterday extending about a half-mile and found about 2 tons of marijuana on the Mexican end.
The tunnel begins about 85 feet below a small warehouse about [...]

***scroll for updates***
President Bush will address the Palestinian elections at around 10:15am EST.

Pajamas Media has a mega-round-up of news and opinion.
Jihad Watch covers the story here and spots media bias and cluelessness here. More at Newsbusters.
Jonah Goldberg has a few quick thoughts:
1. These were free elections and Fatah appears to be honoring their result. That [...]

I met journalist Mike Fumento 14 years ago in Los Angeles, when he worked at Investor’s Business Daily and I worked for the Los Angeles Daily News. We’ve been friends ever since. I’ve praised his work often, and we collaborated once on a monograph for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Mike is an iconoclastic investigative [...]

Very encouraging:
The sole survivor of a mine explosion that killed 12 fellow miners emerged from a light coma Wednesday but still cannot speak, his doctor said.
Randal McCloy Jr., who had been in a coma since his Jan. 4 rescue, is able to respond to simple commands and follow movements with his eyes, said Dr. Larry [...]

1. Join Shauna Fleming’s campaign to send thank-you cards and valentines to our troops.
2. Support Operation Homelink to help provide computers to either parents or spouses of deployed service men and women in the ranks of E-1 through E-5, enabling email communications between families and their loved ones deployed outside of the continental United States. [...]

***update…watch video of Maloney/O’Reilly here***
Last year, I was privileged to work with Brian Maloney of The Radio Equalizer on an ongoing blog investigative series about beleaguered Air America radio’s finances. Brian has continued to dig and dig deep on the story.
He has a new report here and will discuss it tonight on The O’Reilly Factor.
Brian [...]

My latest column covers the Haleigh Poutre case and challenges Hollywood’s “Save Tookie” crowd to apply their “err on the side of life” standard to an innocent child for once.
Meanwhile, some sneering pundits seem quite upset that conservatives they disagree with are writing and talking about Haleigh’s fate. Cathy Young, for example, accuses me of [...]

***Galloway booted from Big Brother…The Political Teen has video***
The UK Sun has obtained exclusive video of global village idiot George Galloway chumming it up with murderous Uday Hussein, the late son of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, in 1999.

The video reportedly reveals that Galloway “revelled in meeting crazed torturer and murderer Uday more than once.” [...]

Jim Treacher pokes fun–and pokes hard–at the LATimes’ Gen-X Narcissus.
Instapunk examines Stein’s desperate humor.
And James Lileks weighs in:
Picking on an average Joel Stein column is like arranging your old Powerball tickets in chronological order; it’s something to do, but the effort seems misplaced. As far as I can tell he seems a nice [...]

Take a close look at the protest banner held up by a petulant bunch of Georgetown University kids who disrupted a speech by Attorney General Al Gonzales defending the NSA’s terrorist surveillance program yesterday:

Notice anything missing?

The Ben Franklin quote that has been so misused and abused by the civil liberties absolutists since Sept. 11 originally [...]

Did Oprah Winfrey know James Frey was a fraud before she put him on television? The NYTimes has the scoop:
[M]ore than three months before questions were raised about Mr. Frey’s memoir by the Smoking Gun Web site (www.thesmokinggun.com) — before, in fact, Ms. Winfrey first had Mr. Frey as a guest on “The Oprah Winfrey [...]

Ian Schwartz has video and a transcript.
Does the woman ever listen?
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I linked to Hugh Hewitt’s brilliant interview with punk LA Times columnist Joel Stein in an update to my post on Stein’s “I Don’t Support Our Troops” column below, but the interview is so, so good, I’m linking it again.
Here’s the audio and transcript at Radioblogger.
Here’s Hugh’s post on Stein.
A snippet of the interview:
HH: Let [...]

Babalu Blog has the scoop.
Here’s the ABC News write-up:
Hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched by the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana to protest a U.S. ticker tape flashing messages.
President Fidel Castro charged that the Bush administration was not only trying to torpedo relations but that the United States was also coddling anti-Cuban terrorists.
“The Bush administration, [...]

What will Google’s search engine logo look like tomorrow? Here’s my suggestion:

Via Breitbart/AP, Google capitulates to China’s censors:
Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in China, adhering to the country’s free-speech restrictions in return for better access in the Internet’s fastest growing market. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company planned to [...]

The Inland Daily Bulletin reports on the latest armed Mexican incursions on our southern border:
Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers had an armed standoff with nearly 30 U.S. law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Texas Monday afternoon, according to Texas police and the FBI.
Mexican military Humvees were towing what appeared to be thousands of [...]

Check out this must-read photo essay from Zombie, who attended the Walk for Life West Coast march and counter-demonstration in the Bay Area. You won’t see this pro-abortion zealot’s sign featured on any MSM front page:

***update: Hugh Hewitt interviewed Joel Stein today and posts his thoughts…transcript and audio at Radioblogger…***
Some website has named me the 49th most loathsome person in America. (I’m just ahead of Geraldo. Others on the list: 30) Hillary Clinton; 29) Terri Schiavo; 19) James Sensenbrenner; 13) God; 4) You.)
You want loathsome? I nominate LA Times [...]

***update – Alito passes the committee on a party-line vote – 10-8***
The Dems are gearing up on a party-line vote against SCOTUS nominee Samuel Alito. Here’s the latest from AP:
The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to approve the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito Tuesday, with the vote expected to be along party lines.
Chairman [...]