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A P.R. offensive. Check out the photo that accompanies the article. Think it’ll work? Tony Blair’s reaching out too, agreeing this week to set up a forum with Indonesia to help resolve cultural “misunderstandings” between Islam and the west. Like this one, for instance. Or this one, in which Afghan clerics justify human rights violations [...]

Summit’s over. Apparently, illegals are just “guests” we forgot to invite. This isn’t the first time the president’s played fast and loose with labels in the context of immigration, either. Michelle nailed him on it a year ago. Elsewhere at the summit, Vicente Fox displayed some cojones of his own. From the WaPo article linked [...]

(Updated below with video) (Updated below with link to Glover/Belafonte video) You knew it was coming. Ace certainly did. She alleges, through her lawyer, that her real crime was “being in Congress while black.” I’ll try to have video later of her press conference with Danny Glover. Meanwhile, this morning’s post is here. UPDATE: An [...]

Just had to pop in for a brief moment to bring you a photo montage of Che Guevara cultists marching out of the shadows over the past week in L.A., Santa Cruz, Watsonville, and Salinas: Val Prieto is disgusted: Now, if you think you can criticize me for not supporting your protest while insulting me [...]

So says TV Newser of the Bush-bashing GMA producer recently made famous by Matt Drudge. UPDATE: The New York Observer’s saying it too. But here’s something that wasn’t in the Drudge article: On March 30, The New York Post’s “Page Six” quoted from another Green e-mail, this one about former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. [...]

I’d be seriously remiss if I didn’t link this. You’ll find two and a half hours of audio at the link if you scroll down a bit, and if you scroll down a bit more, a complete transcript. The Times also has a full report replete with graphics. The words of the callers were removed [...]

Terri Schiavo’s husband and parents marked the anniversary of her death fittingly this week, appearing nightly on cable news shows to (a) claim the moral high ground while (b) accusing each other of having helped cause her death. A video montage is below; it might take a minute to load, but it’s worth your time. [...]

Jacques Chirac is expected to take to the airwaves at 1 p.m. EST and inform France’s youth that, no, they’re not entitled to lifetime job security by age 26. French auto makers are already bracing for a spike in demand. Stay tuned to this post for updates in case protesters respond with insufficient “nuance.” Brussels [...]

Still on vacation, but wanted to bring you an update on the American flag vandal at Montebello H.S. (via the Whittier Daily News). He or she was from neighboring El Rancho USD: A student protest that resulted in a Mexican flag being flown on top of an upside-down U.S. flag at a local school has [...]

Well, potentially: Pirate’s Cove, quoting the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, says Capitol Hill police will seek an arrest warrant next week. UPDATE: Via Drudge, no apology. Serves the cop right for stopping someone he didn’t know from walking around the metal detector at the entrance to a federal building, I guess. UPDATE: Nancy Pelosi says the cop’s [...]

Howard Kurtz says something seems amiss. This is a courageous young woman. I must say, though, that I found her first interview yesterday rather odd. Carroll seemed bent on giving her captors a positive review, going on about how well they treated her, how they gave her food and let her go to the bathroom. [...]

Too good not to blog, not good enough to warrant their own post: links to tide you over until the a.m. · The hammer’s coming down on Iran … very, very gently. Iran is not an imminent threat and sanctions against the Islamic Republic would be a “bad idea”, the UN nuclear watchdog chief has [...]

The president’s in Mexico today and tomorrow to deliver a stern message to Vicente Fox: we’re not going to stand for any more illegal immigrants … so we’ll have to call them “guest workers” instead. Tom Tancredo: “I wish he’d think about the party and of course I also wish he’d think about the country.” [...]

He’s doing fine. He has to be filmed from behind during interviews, and he’s getting a new identity from the Italian government and so that the local jihadis don’t find him and cut his head off. But other than that, he’s doing swell. Spiegel reports on a day in the life of Afghanistan’s Christians: The [...]

Much talk in the blogosphere today about the refusal of Borders and Waldenbooks to carry this month’s issue of Free Inquiry because it reprints Jyllands-Posten’s cartoons of Mohammed. Not much talk, though, about another magazine’s brave decision not only to publish the cartoons, but to put the most provocative one right on its cover. Submitted [...]

The Democrats’ national security plan is out. And it’s looking damned good. Kurtz is happy that we might finally have a debate on the subject that involves more than one side stammering, “Bush knew.” Quote: The Dems have been delaying putting forth any sort of Contract with America because, well, why interfere with your opponents [...]

In case you missed it, Michelle showed up on Fox & Friends this morning with a few choice words for deejay/illegal-immigration-protest-pusher Eduardo Sotelo. Words like “thank you.” Click for video Lots more eye-opening going on this afternoon courtesy of Drudge. Recent eye-openers from Michelle are here and here. Elsewhere, VDH recommends a “one-time exemption” for [...]

Excellent news. Jawa‘s the place for all your Jill Carroll needs. Raw footage of her interview on Baghdad television, via CNN, is here. Updates are coming in intermittently to CSM, too, so stay tuned. Nathan Goulding of NRO’s Media Blog questions the timing: “No media outlets have picked up on this: that perhaps the rescue [...]

Many thanks to Michelle for letting me take the helm of the Millennium Falcon for the next few days. It’s an honor to play Chewbacca to her Han. Got a few things in the works for this afternoon. In the meantime, here’s amateur zoologist Zombie with the latest dispatch from utopia. All the stars in [...]

Hey readers – I’m taking a few days off for an overdue family mini-vacation. While I’m away, I’m pleased and honored to hand over the keys to the one and only Allah Pundit as guest-blogger. If you followed his brilliant work over the past few years–especially during the 2004 campaign–he needs no introduction. For the [...]

Search Google News for the term “undocumented.” You’ll get thousands of hits like these: And on and on and on. Is there any clearer illumination of the agenda-driven mainstream media than the infiltration of this open-borders euphemism into the supposedly objective news coverage of the illegal immigration debate? As I’ve said many times, “undocumented workers” [...]

***1050pm EST update: McKinney responds…”Earlier today I had an unfortunate confrontation with a Capitol Hill Police Officer….I was urgently trying to get to an important meeting on time to fulfill my obligations to my constituents. Unfortunately, the Police Officer did not recognize me as a Member of Congress and a confrontation ensued. I did not [...]

Scripps reports in Florida: The Stars and Stripes have been replaced by the Mexican flag at Chasewood North, and residents of the condominium community off Central Boulevard are puzzled as to who made the switch. “I woke up Sunday morning and looked up from my patio and then realized that the American flag wasn’t on [...]

Just in: An Afghan Christian convert, who had faced the death penalty in his country for abandoning Islam, has arrived in Italy which has offered him asylum, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Wednesday. “He is already in Italy,” Berlusconi told a news conference in Rome. But others have been left behind at the [...]

***scroll for updates…new photo added below of a student in Dallas screamed at by an angry mob for carrying an American flag…plus fence-hopping at Montebello H.S…unreality-based Ted Kennedy gets the Clueless Blowhard of the Day Award…chanting in Las Vegas: “La raza unida jamas sera vencida,” or “The united (Hispanic) race will never be defeated.”…protests turn [...]

Former FEMA director Michael Brown, Fashion God, appeared on The Colbert Report tonight. He sure seemed to be having a good time talking about how government at all levels presided over a hurricane disaster that killed more than 1,000 people. Ho, ho, ho. Download and watch the video clip (.wmv file). Colbert: What happened? Five [...]

Received from the Ayn Rand Institute, which is conducting college campus forums on the Mohammed Cartoons across the country, including an event tomorrow at NYU: NYU’s Surrender Underscores Need to Display Danish Cartoons Irvine, CA–”In a seemingly mundane decision, New York University has sacrificed the principle underlying its flourishing and the survival of civilization–free speech,” [...]

Via AP, Zacarias Moussaoui wanted to testify against himself: Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui offered last month to testify for prosecutors against himself at his death-penalty trial and told agents that he did not want to die in prison, according to last-minute testimony Tuesday. The bizarre testimony capped a trial that has seen more than its [...]

Alec Baldwin can’t take the heat. (Radio Equalizer has the back story.) Sean Penn plays with dolls. More on the moronic Morgan Spurlock. Star Jones is alive. And here’s video of Sharon Stone, who thinks Hillary Clinton is too sexy. (Thanks to Allah Pundit) The wisdom of Sharon Stone: “Hillary is a hot babe.” Download [...]

This morning, I linked to press accounts of Afghan Christian Abdul Rahman’s release and vanishing. Truth & Terrorism and Allah Pundit e-mailed this afternoon with an update. Rahman is reportedly safe for now, but the lynch mob is still thirsting. AFP says: Abdul Rahman, released from a maximum security jail outside Kabul late Monday, was [...]