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Secretary of State Condi Rice says that, unlike her boss, she has no problem with the radicalized illegal alien national anthem:
Unlike President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is not upset or offended by hearing the U.S. national anthem sung in Spanish.
Asked about the issue, which has become a topic of outrage […]

The French philosopher who bucked the anti-American European trend has died.
Background: His 2002 book on anti-Americanism * Europe’s Anti-American Obsession

Have you been reading the advance coverage of tomorrow’s May 1 Illegal Alien Strike Day? “Mainstream” journalists are dutifully playing stenographers for the open-borders lobby. Check out the Dallas Morning News, which might as well turn over the presses to the boycott organizers and go home:
Dallas area protests and rallies
In addition to an all-day consumer […]

Watch video highlights of the White House Correspondents Dinner over at Hot Air.

The Bush impersonator is funnyman Steve Bridges. AP coverage here.
Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert, the featured comedian, fell flat. Allah Pundit writes:
In Colbert’s defense, he might not have been playing for laughs. The dissident posture is very important to our friends on the left; […]

From the anti-war demonstration in NYC today, a few reminders of just how batty some of our fellow Americans are (hat tip: Lawhawk):

Which doesn’t exactly jibe with this sign:

Finally, the stars of the show: Jackson, Sheehan, Sharpton, and Sarandon.

The 16th minute stretches on.
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More: Allah Pundit has fun with moonbat arts and crafts.
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Bob Owens issues […]

Thanks to AJ Strata for tipping me off to a Marine Corps Times article that reports our troops are hot on al Qaeda top thug Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s trail:
Just nine days before al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi released his latest video, a special operations raid killed five of his men, captured five others […]

Ed Morrissey, Frank J, and Freedom Dogs are leading the charge:

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In response to the “Nuestro Himno” illegal alien anthem nonsense, I thought it would be nice to celebrate the history of our national anthem–instead of rewriting it to pander to ethnic grievance-mongers who don’t respect Amerian laws or traditions.
Via Wikipedia, here’s a copy of Francis Scott Key’s original manuscript of the “Star-Spangled Banner” poem:

And here’s […]

The Internet Jihad has taken a turn for the worse. Hosting Matters blogs are down again. ***update: 1025pm EDT…back up for now***
I hope that federal law enforcement officials and counterterrorism agents are on the case.
This is a serious criminal attack on the blogosphere, free speech, and Internet commerce.
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1105pm EDT update from blogger Jeff Quinton:
My blog […]

First, the UC Santa Cruz thugs drive recruiters off their campus. Then, anti-war nuts target ROTC facilities in North Carolina. Now this via the Minneapolis Star Tribune (hat tip: reader David):

S-T caption: Three people were apprehended this afternoon by police after pouring paint on an Army recruiting station near the University of Minnesota during an […]

Credit: Strange Cosmos/Strange Politics
Reader Lynda sends along word that NBC News is soliciting one-minute farewell videos to commemorate Katie Couric’s departure from the Today Show.
Katie Couric is leaving NBC after 15 years on the “Today” show, and we want to give you, the viewers, the opportunity to say goodbye to her.
If you’d like to say […]

Asked about the Spanglish-zed version of the national anthem released this week in solidarity with the illegal alien protests, President Bush said today:
“I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English, and I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English and they ought to learn […]

***scroll for updates…1230pm EDT Looks like the problem may be resolved, though several blogs still down…Glenn Reynolds confirms the attack originated in Saudi Arabia, as I suspected…Mary Katherine Ham of downed blog hughhewitt.com is guest-blogging over at Wizbang…Hugh’s back up…looks like most are back up…update on Aaron’s CC below…513pm EDT update several blogs reporting they […]

***scroll for updates…Mexican govt supports the strike…***
Courtesy of an inside tipster at the LA Unified School District, I’ve obtained documents showing the public school teachers and officials’ plans in advance of the Monday illegal alien boycott. (Click on each page for full-size PDF).
The teachers’ union (UTLA - United Teachers of Los Angeles) gives out obligatory […]

***updated with reader feedback…Atlanta Journal Constitution story…see also the interesting e-mail below from a GM worker…CNN boo-hoos…Reader Chris quips: “I recommend the administration tune the press corps TV’s to the Cartoon Network.”***
Transcript of the hissy fit White House press corps reporters had earlier today about TVs being tuned to Fox News (sent by reader John…by […]

My frequent investigative blog partner and Hot Air affiliate Brian Maloney of The Radio Equalizer reported the news several weeks ago. Now, MediaWeek is trailing with confirmation: liberal talk network Air America is losing its flagship station, WLIB, in New York City, on Aug. 31:
Air America Radio will lose its New York flagship station, WLIB-AM, […]

…over the Jesus Cartoons.

From the United 93 discussion website
Lots of buzz about the United 93 movie. Readers have been asking for my thoughts. Yes, I will go see it. Yes, I support Hollywood finally coming through with a movie that celebrates the heroism of the passengers and crew. Yes, it’s time for this movie.
But there is a side […]

The anti-military punks are at it again. Reader Nora. A. e-mailed me photos of vandalism yesterday at UNC-Chapel Hill’s ROTC armory taken by her son, an ROTC cadet on campus:

This has got to stop. (Hat tip: Sister Toldjah) Via the Raleigh News and Observer:
Vandals staged attacks early Wednesday on the buildings used by the Reserve […]

Cincinnati Enquirer reports this morning that Northern Kentucky University professor Sally Jacobsen and her band of cross-destroyers have been criminally charged:
A professor and six students at Northern Kentucky University were charged Wednesday with misdemeanors related to the April 12 destruction of an anti-abortion display on campus.
Sally Jacobsen of the literature and language department, has been […]

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Folk singer Neil Young wants to “Impeach the President.” FOXNews has the lyrics (hat tip: Andy McCarthy) It’s standard-issue, anti-war claptrap.
Now, if he had said something about Bush’s open-borders insanity, I might have been more sympathetic…

Not that this is a surprise to anyone who has actually listened to President Bush’s open borders-sympathizing over the last five years, but here’s the “news” from AP tonight:
Privately, Bush Says He Favors Citizenship
By DAVID ESPO
The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 26, 2006; 7:54 PM
A more accurate headline: Privately, Bush Says He Favors Amnesty
More:
WASHINGTON — President Bush […]

Listen to the new national anthem, Spanglish-ized, over at Hot Air.

Remember those unhinged Dem operatives in Milwaukee who slashed the tires of GOP get out the vote vans on Election Day in 2004? Finally, some justice:
Four Democratic presidential campaign workers were sentenced to jail time ranging from four months to six months Wednesday for puncturing the tires of Republican vehicles on Election Day 2004.
The men […]

The open-borders lobby has been phenomenally successful at getting the Beltway elite in both parties and in the media to embrace its blanket overgeneralizations and platitudes about the illegal alien population.
“They just come here to work.”
“They’re all Americans, too.”
“Illegals aren’t criminals.”
And so on.
Those who impertinently challenge such characterizations in an effort to bring the […]

Rep. Alan Mollohan, the senior Dem on the House Ethics Committee who resigned last week amid a corruption probe, is the subject of today’s Vent.

So reports Byron York:
A source with knowledge about the matter confirms to National Review Online that Rove will testify this afternoon before prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s grand jury in the CIA leak investigation. The testimony is said to be about matters that have arisen in the investigation since Rove’s last appearance before the grand jury in […]

AP reports on the twisted nursery rhyme hummed by an alleged jihadist in NYC and caught on tape:
Jurors at the federal trial of a Pakistani immigrant accused of plotting to bomb a subway station heard secret recordings on Tuesday of his angry _ and sometimes strange _ rants against America.
On the tapes, recorded by a […]

S.O.S.
Contact the White House. Send a message: No amnesty. Clean our own house first.
The looming White House open-borders deal is the dictionary definition of amnesty.
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It’s here. The bipartisan amnesty disaster is coming, as I have warned many times. I promise you: This is not going to be forgotten (via the Washington Times):
President Bush and a […]

***Video of announcement over at Hot Air***…transcript…AP…USA Today round-up***
***update: Fox News confirms announcement coming Wednesday morning…more…Lucianne G.: “Tony’s courage in the face of the horror he has endured for the last couple of years sets an example for us all. Take heart from it. I will miss doing his show every Monday. I will love […]