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Via Breitbart/AP:
Europeans and Americans browsed rows of booths lauding President Hugo Chavez’s socialist revolution while Venezuela welcomed tens of thousands of activists to a massive event Tuesday protesting globalization and the war in Iraq.
Activists gathering for the six-day World Social Forum in Caracas include anti-war protests, Indian leaders, campaigners against free trade and environmentalists. But [...]

My state’s Dems are lobbying hard to give all felons the right to vote immediately upon release:
Democratic lawmakers, who have long pushed to restore voting rights to Maryland felons, say racial politics and election-year considerations make this the year they open the polls to every ex-convict.
“This law seriously disenfranchises a large number of African-Americans,” said [...]

The New Orleans Times-Picayune has a snort-worthy article about how Mayor Ray Nagin’s “Chocolate City” remarks have revitalized the city’s economy (well, the t-shirt market, anyway) and its sense of humor:
The man selling the “Chocolate City Police” T-shirts at Cooter Brown’s bar on a recent night looked, and dressed, remarkably like a New Orleans [...]

Glenn Reynolds has a wrap-up of the conservative win in Canada. The liberals’ long reign is over.
Mark Steyn’s scorecard:
5.10am EST
Final score:
CONSERVATIVES 124 (my prediction: 138)
LIBERALS 103 (my prediction: 71)
BLOC QUEBECOIS 51 (my prediction: 58)
NDP 29 (my prediction: 40)
Independent 1 (my prediction: 1)
In other words, I overestimated the appeal of the right, the left and the [...]

The Globe and Mail reports:
Polls in most of Canada closed their doors Monday evening, signalling the start of a night of ballot counting which could lead to a dramatic shift in this country’s political landscape.
Stations in Newfoundland and Labrador closed their doors at 7 p.m. EST. Stations in the rest of Atlantic Canada followed half [...]

Haleigh Poutre, 11
The latest on Haleigh Poutre: Gov. Mitt Romney has announced an independent investigation into the state’s abominable handling of the case.
Here’s Romney’s full statement (via the Boston Globe):
“One cannot look at the life of Haleigh Poutre without being overwhelmed with sadness. My heart goes out to her.
“Now I ask the question, what could [...]

Much has been made of the rabid Left’s online swarm that shut down the Washington Post’s blog comment section. The comments seemed comparatively tame to me. Maybe I’ll copy off Chapter 6 of Unhinged and send it off to the WaPo ombudsman and her editors to help them feel better.
Meantime, the moonbat manipulation of Amazon.com’s [...]

Good:
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — A peace activist was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for splattering human blood at an upstate military recruiting station.
Daniel Burns, 45, was the first of four activists sentenced for the March 17, 2003 incident at the Army and Marine Corps recruiting station outside of Ithaca. They splattered their [...]

Code Pink, the radical anti-war guerilla group that has hounded wounded troops outside Walter Reed Army Hospital, won’t be monopolizing its street corner for quite some time. Seems they forgot to renew their permit.
Oops.
The permit now belongs to the DC chapter of Protest Warrior.
Andi’s World, The Redhunter, Gunn Nutt, and FR have all the details.
Best [...]

***scroll for updates***
After the 2004 election, so many American liberals came down with depression that medical professionals coined a new phrase for their unhinged condition: post-election selection trauma (or PEST).
One wonders what malady Canadian liberals will contract after they lose at the polls in today’s election. Meddling Michael Moore is already in the throes of [...]

Things that make you go hmmm:
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Yup, I let my guard down and fell for the feel-good holiday angle. I hope all the MSM outlets that spread it are going to take a second, harder look at Farris Hassan and his father–and broadcast the rest of the story.

I stopped watching Saturday Night Live a long, long time ago. But The Political Teen has a laugh-out-loud clip of last night’s SNL, which took on the demagogic trio of Jesse Jackson, Hillary Clinton, and Ray Nagin.
Darrell Hammond’s Jesse Jackson is dead-on:

Go watch and enjoy.

Many security experts believe that the success of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan is vital to our security here at home. Not Sen. John Kerry. Here’s what he said to George Stephanopoulos on This Week earlier today:
Yes, we have not been attacked here. Many people surmise that one of the reasons we haven’t been [...]

Bill Roggio reports.

Today, FYI, is National Sanctity of Human Life Day. Here’s the text of President Bush’s proclamation:
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
Our Nation was founded on the belief that every human being has rights, dignity, and value. On National Sanctity of Human Life Day, we underscore our commitment to building a [...]

R.S. McCain at Donkey Cons sums it up: They’re “guilty as hell, free as a bird.”

I just received an e-mail from Warrant Officer Michael Fay USMCR, currently deployed to Iraq as the official combat artist for the Marine Corps. He started a blog four months ago called Fire and Ice, with daily posts of art, photography, and commentary from the front lines.
A few samples (click on images for more):

I’ve added [...]

Joshua Sparling, the injured soldier who received that disgusting death-wish greeting card before Christmas last month, is on the road to recovery. Doctors have given him good odds that his leg will be saved. The Political Teen has the latest and also has posted audio links to Pfc. Sparling’s radio interviews on the Sean Hannity [...]

Link Mecca has the latest on Iran’s plans for nuclear testing.
Israel is watching.
Winds of Change weighs in with the case for invading Iran.
Rhetoric round-up at RWV.
More at Regime Change Iran.
And Ed Morrissey takes on the Hillary-parroting NYTimes. (See also Hillary’s New Costume.)

Haleigh Poutre, 11
Here’s the latest in Haleigh Poutre’s fight for her life: The Massachusetts Department of Social Services, which last week won court-ordered authority to remove Haleigh’s feeding tube, is now under fire for failing to detect and act on signs that Haleigh was abused:
Even as the Department of Social Services defended its supervision of [...]

Yes, blogging has been light. Among many other duties, I’ve had my hands full trying to potty-train our two-year-old son. It’s a losing battle so far, although Spongebob has been helping.
Meantime, there are lots of good reads ’round the Internet.
*Belated congrats to Rusty at The Jawa Report on his two-year blogiversary. One of my favorite [...]

Please help out this terrific cause.
Background at Michael Yon’s.

Reuters reports:
A former Pentagon analyst was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison on Friday for passing U.S. defense information to two pro-Israel lobbyists and for sharing classified information with an Israeli diplomat.
Lawrence Franklin, 59, who previously worked as an analyst in the office of the secretary of defense, was sentenced by U.S. [...]

***updated…I’ve uploaded the indictment here ***
Because Islamist terrorists aren’t the only terrorist enemies within. Via Breitbart/AP:

Eleven people were indicted in a series of arsons, claimed by the radical groups Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, in five Western states, the Justice Department said Friday.
The 65-count indictment said the suspects are responsible for 17 [...]

Good lunch-time surfing…
John Noonan at The Officer’s Club reflects on the 25th anniversary of the end of the Iran Hostage crisis:
While the Iranian regime was still taking its baby-steps, we revealed to the Ayatollahs our greatest weakness: upsetting the American public is our Achilles heel. Two years later, Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists twice bombed US [...]

A.M. Mora y Leon at Publius Pundit catches anti-war extremists Code Pink perverting a photo of brave women in Iran protesting the nation’s Islamic leadership before the presidential elections last summer, which the moonbats altered for use on a Code Pink banner to recruit terrorist-enabling women activists.
Before:

After:

Let Code Pink know what you think of their [...]

The anti-Alito brigade makes one last stand.
Teddy Kennedy led the charge last night with a speech to the Center for American Progress.

Download and watch this video clip (.wmv).
Transcript:
KENNEDY: In another area of controversy, his views on issues of particular concern to women should give every woman pause, from his role in striking down the key [...]

I mentioned the other day that blogger/investigative writer/lawyer Debbie Schlussel was seeking citizens interested in intervening against the ACLU’s lawsuit to sabotage the NSA counterterrorism program.
Stop the ACLU is stepping up to the plate as the first intervening party, and is organizing individuals who want to join. I’ve signed up and you can find [...]

The food police are going after Bikini Bottom!
An advocacy group wants companies to stop marketing junk food to children. They’re targeting two titans in a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
They’re going after the companies behind Tony the Tiger and Spongebob Squarepants: Kellogg foods and Viacom, owner of Nickelodeon TV.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest says [...]

Dale Franks of Q and O, who participated in today’s blogger conference calls with the House GOP leadership candidates, lets it rip:
I would rather lick fire ants off a stick than see Roy Blunt as Majority Leader. I’m not at the point of making a firm endorsement of either Reps. Shaddeg or Boehner, but the [...]