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Bad news tonight for Tribune Company shareholders: Shares in Tribune Co. tumbled Thursday after the media company reported a 6.1% drop in revenue last month on declines in both its newspaper and television businesses. Tribune, whose holdings include 26 television stations, 11 urban U.S. dailies and Spanish-language Hoy, said December revenue fell to $539 million [...]

It’s not just Internet crazies who think al Jazeera’s release of the Osama bin Laden tape is a White House plot. CNN’s resident codger, Jack Cafferty, poured on the paranoia, too. See Hugh Hewitt and video at The Political Teen for details.

I can’t think of a better way to illustrate feeble-minded 9/10 thinking than to memorialize this little exchange between Helen Thomas and White House press secretary Scott McClellan from today’s daily press briefing: THOMAS: Scott! Why do you keep linking Iraq and 9/11 and so forth? Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. And you [...]

Scott McClellan is holding his daily White House press briefing and VP Dick Cheney is speaking at the Manhattan Institute. McClellan: The president is fully committed to doing everything within his power to prevent attacks and defeat the terrorists. We are taking the fight to enemy and now we are working to advance freedom and [...]

Via the always eagle-eyed Little Green Footballs, check out the caption on the Associated Press photo of Osama bin Laden running today at Yahoo.com: Got that? Osama isn’t a mass-murdering terrorist mastermind. He’s just a poor, exiled dissident who disagrees with civilization.

***scroll for updates…check Link Mecca for moonbat monitoring and more…230pm EST CIA authenticating that voice on tape is bin Laden’s…must-read: Walid Phares’ tape analysis…text of tape…*** Via Breitbart/AP: Al-Jazeera aired an audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden on Thursday, saying al-Qaida is making preparations for attacks in the United States but offering a truce to [...]

I’ll be listening in on a blogger conference call with Rep. John Shadegg in just a minute. There are two more calls scheduled later today with Rep. John Boehner and Rep. Blount. The Corner and Hugh Hewitt’s blog have been Grand Central Stations for info on the House GOP leadership race. As Glenn Reynolds notes: [...]

First, she tried on body armor. Then, she tried on slave garb. And now, Hillary has a new costume: Tough-talkin’ cowgirl. In a speech last night at at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, Hillary accused the Bush administration of”downplaying” the Iran nuclear threat and criticized the White House for working with Europe on a multilateral [...]

This is Haleigh Poutre: Last fall, Haleigh was hospitalized after her stepfather allegedly burned her and beat her nearly to death with a baseball bat. Haleigh, in a coma, was kept alive by a feeding tube and ventilator. Doctors said she was “virtually brain dead” — in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of [...]

Here’s a very interesting story from Reuters: “Guantanamo prisoners tied to London bomb probe.” Excerpt: GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – Prisoners at the Guantanamo base in Cuba provided important information in connection with last summer’s London transit bombings that the United States shared with authorities in the United Kingdom, the general in [...]

I took a lot of heat (and will continue to get it) from many of my GOP friends for pointing out former FEMA head Michael Brown’s abysmal performance during and after Hurricane Katrina. Unlike many conservatives, I was unimpressed by his CYA testimony before Congress last September. He overpromised. He under-delivered. He assumed instead of [...]

A year ago this month, I blogged about a baby in dire need of a miracle. His name was Jordan Zane Trimarchi, born January 18, 2005, with a 3.5 centimeter tumor in his lower left ventricle. His dad, Jeff Trimarchi, a reader of this blog and many others, sent out an SOS to the blogosphere [...]

Debbie Schlussel, blogger/investigative writer/lawyer, is extending an invitation to citizens interested in intervening in the ACLU’s NSA lawsuit. She practices in Eastern Michigan, where the suit was filed. Also be sure to read Schlussel’s exposé of some of the shady plaintiffs in the ACLU’s suit. *** Stop the ACLU, which has stepped up to the [...]

Via Link Mecca comes very good news about one of the al Qaeda terrorists killed in last week’s strike in eastern Pakistan. ABC News reports: ABC News has learned that al Qaeda’s master bomb maker and chemical weapons expert was one of the men killed in last week’s U.S. missile attack in eastern Pakistan. Midhat [...]

Via Reuters: The governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency will hold an emergency meeting on Iran’s nuclear work on Feb. 2 at the request of European Union powers, an IAEA spokesman said on Wednesday. France, Britain, Germany and the United States are expected to push at the session to have Tehran referred to [...]

My column takes on Monday’s Day of Demagoguery led by Hillary Clinton and Ray Nagin. Intro: The freaks come out at night. The demagogues came out on Martin Luther King Day. Democrat N.Y. Sen. Hillary Clinton perhaps looking to distract attention from those pesky Code Pink protesters who’ve been dogging her over the Iraq war, [...]

Philly, my place of birth, celebrated Ben Franklin’s tercentary yesterday. Check out this wonderful Ben Franklin 300th anniversary website. Hat tip to Mister Snitch, who thinks Ben would have been a blogger. So does Chris Christner. I agree.

Forgot to note this the other day: The five-year suspension is up. Bill Clinton is eligible to practice law again.

Dafydd at Big Lizards has an excellent diagnosis of the Dems’ failed approach to the War on Terror: The DemoWOT Understanding — it sounds like a Robert Ludlum title; and that’s appropriate, because it strikes me as quite childish, a way of minimizing and trivializing the very real war we find ourselves in, of turning [...]

The Brussels Journal notes a new art exhibit: Saddam the Shark.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper can’t find the mayor of Chocolate City. Watch the video (.wmv file).

Nebraska’s Ben Nelson announces his vote for SCOTUS nominee Sam Alito. Via Reuters: Ben Nelson of Nebraska, a moderate voice in the U.S. Congress, on Tuesday became the first Senate Democrat to announce his support for conservative Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, who is expected to be confirmed later this month by the full Republican-led [...]

Everything you need to know about hostage Jill Carroll is over at The Jawa Report. It doesn’t look good: Al Jazeera, never missing a beat, chooses to play up the angle that Carroll was against the war. Presumably the video mentions which group took Jill Carroll hostage, but al Jazeera does not give the public [...]

New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin has inspired the blogosphere: I’m Not Chocolate: Willy Nagin and the Chocolate Factory Right Winged: Hershey’s – the official sponsor of Hurricane Katrina *** Meanwhile, reader J. M. notes that Nagin used the same description of New Orleans as a “chocolate city” in an interview with Tavis Smiley last week. [...]

***Video update: Check out Ray Nagin’s chocolate milk recipe at WDSU.com*** The always-on-the-ball Scrappleface spoofs: Nagin Recruiting Hershey to Rebuild New Orleans I’d laugh, but I’m too disgusted. *** Nagin’s “apology:” “I apologize to any resident in this city that may have been offended,” he said. “That was not my intention. If I could take [...]

Mad Mikey, a Navy vet, father, and MuNuvian blogger, suffered a stroke over the weekend. He needs prayers and help. Please offer them if you can. Get well soon, Mike.

…if you don’t collect them. Watch this. Read this. Digest this. And be sure to familiarize yourselves with the ACLU lawsuit filed today to stop the dot-collecting NSA program. The plaintiffs, who have no idea whether they have been surveilled under the program, but are claiming standing because they think they might be among the [...]

Via the Boston Herald: U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy — who ripped Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito for ties to a group that discriminates against women — says he’s going to quit a club notorious for discriminating against women “as fast as I can.” Kennedy was outed by conservatives late last week as a current [...]

***11/17 800am EST updated with video link and more*** Via Link Mecca, Hillary gets down with the racial demagogues. It’s her reverse-Sister Souljah moment. Next up: A duet with Kanye West? *** The Political Teen has video. *** Reacting to Hillary’s comparison of House GOP leaders to slave plantation owners, political observer Larry Sabato said: [...]

Watch George Clooney make a fool of himself with an insipidly crude Jack Abramoff joke.