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This story deserves much more attention than it’s getting. Via VOA News (hat tip: Doug at Below the Beltway):
An Afghan man who recently admitted he converted to Christianity faces the death penalty under the country’s strict Islamic legal system. The trial is a critical test of Afghanistan’s new constitution and democratic government.
The case is [...]

Animator extraordinaire Doug TenNapel weighs in.
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Jason Apuzzo on Hollywood vs. the Heartland.
Newsbusters busts Hollyweirdo Richard Belzer. (Hat tip: Bob and PubliusForum.)

The phony who posed for the NYTimes:

Hey! Did someone let you-know-who back in the building? (Courtesy of the Pillage Idiot):

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While we’re on the subject of the Times and photo alterations, beware of posing for Times photographers. It seems even Dems aren’t immune to the paper’s distorted lens.

How do you draw a peace symbol?
Wrong:

Right:

Moonbat blooper flashbacks - thanks to Zombie:
San Francisco March 2004…

San Francisco Sept. 2005…

One more oopsy:

Via AP, Times Admits Incorrectly ID’ing Hooded Man
The New York Times acknowledged in Saturday’s editions that it incorrectly identified an Iraqi man in a front-page story as the hooded figure shown in a photograph from Abu Ghraib prison that became an icon of abuse by American captors.
An editor’s note accompanying a front-page story on Ali [...]

So, the MSM is slowly picking up on the historic release of thousands of documents from Saddam Hussein’s archives. But not without making a concerted effort to downplay and undermine the story. Readers are calling attention to the disclaimers included in this ABC News story. (Hat tip: Michael, Daniel, Lynne, and Coin.) Example:
“Osama bin Laden [...]

The latest on the Cartoon Jihad comes from the Pakistan Daily Times (hat tip: Sugiero):
Islamabad–The government has blocked all websites that carry caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) on the Internet, and the attorney general has been asked to explore legal avenues for implementing a global ban on these sites.
A three-member bench, consisting of Chief [...]

A tipster e-mails:
MOODY’S REVIEWS RATINGS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES FOR POSSIBLE DOWNGRADE
Approximately $1.6 Billion of Debt Securities Affected.
New York, March 17, 2006 — Moody’s Investors Service has placed The New
York Times’ A2 senior unsecured long term debt, and P-1 commercial paper
ratings on review for possible downgrade.
The review is prompted by Moody’s growing concerns about [...]

Artwork by Adri Eleveld
Among the upwards of 20 million illegal aliens currently in the U.S. are an estimated 50,000 from Ireland. They’ve joined the rest of the open borders lobby in pressing for the feds to grant them amnesty, citizenship, and other rights.
Leading the pack of St. Patty’s panderers are Sens. John McCain and Hillary [...]

A Terri Schiavo Blogburst has been launched (Hat tip: Crystal Clear):
On March 31, 2005, Terri Schindler Schiavo died of marked dehydration following more than 13 days without nutrition or hydration under the order of Circuit Court Judge, George W. Greer of the Pinellas-Pasco’s Sixth Judicial Court. Terri was 41.
It was nearly one year ago that [...]

You’ve probably heard that a judge tossed out the most of the prosecution’s case for the death penalty against al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, thanks to a Transportation Security Agency lawyer who provided trial transcripts to and briefed potential witnesses.
Now comes a credible-sounding allegation that the entire incident was orchestrated by lawyers for federal bailout [...]

Reuters headline today:
“Bush clings to pre-emptive force”
And a reminder again of Reuters editorial policy:
Reuters news operations are based on the company’s Trust Principles which stipulate that the integrity, independence and freedom from bias of Reuters must be upheld at all times.
Reuters has strict policies in place to ensure adherence to these principles. We are [...]

AP caption via Yahoo!: Operation Smile International Youth Ambassador Jessica Simpson, center, listens to Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., during an Operation Smile news conference on Capitol Hill, Thursday, March 16, 2006. Operation Smile has treated more than 98,000 children and young adults suffering with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities around the world. [...]

Betsy Newmark, one of my favorite bloggers who I’ve been honored to have guest-blog here, is down. I asked her what happened. She e-mails about her nightmare:
Evil Blogger has lost the page - server problems. They are the most unhelpful organization. You can’t reach any human being and all I get are form [...]

***scroll for updates…translations coming in***
If you read nothing else today, make sure to go to this site.
There will be a press conference about the documents today at 1:30pm EST:
TODAY, Thursday, March 16, Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, and Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on [...]

***updated with statement from Michael Steele below***
Finally, but don’t be too thrilled:
Federal prosecutors have decided to bring charges against a Democratic researcher accused of fraudulently obtaining a credit report on Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, now a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate.
Lauren B. Weiner, who has since resigned from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee [...]

I think Republican Party elites should spend less time worrying about being snubbed by Jessica Simpson and more time worrying about being snubbed by their disgusted conservative base.
Don’t worry, though. Porn star Mary Carey is still planning to attend the GOP fund-raising event Jessica that is ditching.
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Oink, oink, oink.
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The White House has released the [...]

Reuters reports:
Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar vowed a ferocious offensive against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, saying on Thursday they would soon face unimaginable violence.
An insurgency that has killed more than 1,500 people since the start of last year has intensified in recent months with a wave of suicide bombings, including at least 12 this year.
Ten [...]

Wake up!
Must-read: Ruth Bader Ginsburg wakes up from her slumber to deliver a very alarming speech. Reports John Hinderaker:
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg gave a speech in South Africa last month, which, for some reason, is just now being publicized. Ginsburg’s speech was titled “A Decent Respect for the Opinions of [Human]kind.” In it, Ginsburg [...]

Some images leave an indelible mark on your heart and soul.
Like “The Falling Man” on 9/11:

Credit: Richard Drew, AP
His identity has not been confirmed, though many have speculated over the last 4 1/2 years. Tom Junod wrote an extraordinary piece for Eqsuire in September 2003 on “The Falling Man,” offering several possibilities. His piece ended [...]

Listen to Imam Umar Abdul-Jalil. As reported first by the New York Post, he’s the the head of Islamic chaplains in the New York City Department of Corrections who gave a speech to a Muslim Students Association meeting in which he said the “greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House.”
Little Green Footballs, in [...]

Remember that United for Peace and Justice announcement about a planned White House coup today?
Uh, it didn’t happen.
According to this site, it’s been rescheduled for March 20.
Marc Morano reports there’s trouble in moonbat paradise:
With new polls showing that more than half of Americans believe the war in Iraq is going badly and that Iraq will [...]

Newly crowned leader of the unhinged Left:
Via GOP.com…
Dem Leaders Have Embraced Sen. Russ Feingold’s (D-WI) Censure “Principle” “Ecstatically”:
“The Left Wing Of The Party Has Greeted Feingold’s Censure Call Ecstatically.” (Shailagh Murray, “A Senate Maverick Acts To Force An Issue, The Washington Post, 3/15/06)
“[C]alifornia Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA] Said That She Could Vote For The Resolution.” [...]

Katie Couric pays tribute to anti-gun, Bush-bashing zealot Mike Wallace, who is retiring from 60 Minutes. Giggled Couric this morning:
He’s “studly.”
Ick.

Download and watch the clip (.wmv file).
Hat tip: Allah Pundit and Newsbusters

Remember how much media attention those racist white nationalist teen singers received last fall? (Indeed, they’re still getting press. Here they are in the most recent issue of GQ.)
Well, here’s a little experiment with race, double standards, labeling, and MSM bias.
My column today is about Autum Ashante, a 7-year-old racist black nationalist poetry “prodigy.”

Autum, of [...]

Clinton Watson Taylor has a new blog focusing on Yale and its favorite Taliban student.
NRO has launched Phi Beta Cons.
Here’s Sen. John Cornyn’s letter to DHS secretary Michael Chertoff about the issue. Power Line says thanks to Sen. Cornyn.
Washington Times editorial today: Yale to world - No comment
Questions continue to mount for Yale University regarding [...]

File this under “Can’t take a joke:”
Thanks to hundreds of generous pledgers we now have enough money committed to launching a slander and libel suit against [Ann] Coulter for her remarks falsely claiming that I had entered Iran’s Holocaust cartoon contest.
Now I’m working with my lawyers on minutiae and legal research to make sure that [...]

***updated…Cori Dauber at Rantingprofs points to another missive from Taheri-azar to the Durham Herald Sun…***

Mohammed Taheri-azar speaks again–this time in a letter to local ABC TV affiliate 11 in Raleigh:
The suspect in this month’s attack on the UNC-CH campus has written a letter to ABC11 Eyewitness News. Eyewitness News received the letter Monday, in response [...]

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One of Denmark’s most widely respected and distinguished journalists, Samuel Rachlin, strikes back at 60 Minutes for its hit piece on the Danish people over the Mohammed Cartoons. An excerpt:
The picture of Denmark presented by CBS and its 60 Minutes magazine on American TV as a country of aggrandizing, arrogant bigots, blond [...]

…on the Senate floor:

Kathryn Lopez calls Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s stand “the anti-photo-op.”
Caption and photoshop contest over at GOP and College.
Reader Eric: “Say what you will about Sen Debbie Stabenow, at least she has the guts to stand in front of a big sign that accurately proclaims her
own capabilities. I mean, how many Senators would be [...]