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AP photo of a Secret Service officer covering the mouth of Wenyi Wang as she was escorted from the camera stand on the South Lawn yesterday.
Read this suberb editorial in Investor’s Business Daily about Wenyi Wang, the woman who shouted down Chinese president Hu Jintao yesterday. A snippet:
Even in a country that celebrates free speech, [...]

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See, I told you so. This morning I told you that the immigration raid dog-and-pony show would result in most of the illegal aliens arrested being released. The New York Times reports in tomorrow’ edition (hat tip Thomas Galvin):
The arrests took place just days before the Senate reconvenes with immigration laws on its agenda. Earlier [...]

AJC reports (hat tip: Buzz Blog):
A 21-year-old Georgia Tech student taken into federal custody last month has been charged with giving “material support” to a terrorist organization, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday.
The student, Syed Haris Ahmed, a mechanical engineering major who had become increasingly religious in his Islamic faith, was arrested March 23 [...]

Wow.
They really should just hire Patterico.
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The Washington Examiner editorial page, headed up by recently departed blogging newshound Mark Tapscott, issues a challenge to President Bush:
t received little coverage in the mainstream news dailies, but many bloggers highlighted the significant influence of “Reconquista” advocates and concepts in the recent pro-immigration marches across the country. Reconquista aims must be honestly confronted by [...]

Drudge flash:
FLASH: Chinese heckler disrupts Hu’s speech on south lawn at White House, ‘President Bush, stop him from killing’… one cameraman put a hand on her shoulder as she shouted… seemed to be trying to quiet her down… ‘Stop persecuting the Falun Gong,’ she yelled’… she is taken away by uniformed secret service officers… right [...]

I speak regularly with dedicated men and women who work for the Department of Homeland Security, and especially agents from across the country who work for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
I can tell you based on my reporting over the last five years that the Bush administration’s belated efforts to look tough on [...]

I mentioned Mohammed depicted in classical artwork earlier this week when the latest cartoon jihad erupted in Italy. Matthias Storme at The Brussels Journal posts photos of another depiction of Mohammed, a 17th century sculpture housed at a Belgian church, that is sure to set off the jihadists:

Writes Storme:
The person subdued by the angels and [...]

You just can’t win with the Democrats.
When President Bush leads the way and refuses to let Europe dawdle with dictators, he’s a war-mongering “cowboy” who “swaggers” too much and doesn’t do enough to allow our coalition partners to do the heavy lifting.
Now, the same bed-wetting Dem Senator–Harry Reid–who accused Bush of swaggering is swaggering about [...]

You know who you all are.
And if you think I’m going to stop blogging/writing/making a living because you’ve plastered my family’s private home address, phone numbers, and photos and maps of my neighborhood all over the Internet to further your manufactured outrage and pathetic coddling of a bunch of lying, anti-troops punks at UC Santa [...]

Here’s an update from Greyhawk on the ongoing battle to save Fran O’Brien’s, the D.C. restaurant that holds weekly free steak dinners for wounded soldiers.
A new charity is in the works to preserve the tradition (via WaPo):
The owners of Fran O’Brien’s Stadium Steakhouse in Northwest Washington have created a charity to help fund the Friday [...]

NKU professor and cross-destroying vandal Sally Jacobsen has now issued an apology. Tim at ProLifeBlogs.com has the details of her retreat and the university’s formal reprimand.

The cemetery of the innocents–restored–at NKU. Source: Northern Right to Life
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Latest on the police investigation from The Northerner Online:
Students involved in the removal of the crosses have the possibility of [...]

My column today connects the dots between Zacaraias Moussaoui’s apologist defense team and the excusers for the Tel Aviv bomber and more.
It’s here.

Terrible news.
Last week we stopped writing for a while and we apologized to our readers saying that we lost a close friend but we didn’t want to give more details as we were overwhelmed by an exceptional situation and a huge shock. We also were afraid from writing more about this subject for security [...]

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That’s the buzz. Tune in to Tony’s show starting now.
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Update: Scott McClellan resigning…
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Wednesday he is resigning, continuing a shakeup in President Bush’s administration that has already yielded a new chief of staff and could lead to a change in the Cabinet.
Appearing with Bush on the White [...]

My friend Mike Fumento is back in Iraq. He’s headed to Ramadi. Read his dispatches here.
The indispensable Michael Yon is back in Afghanistan. His dispatches are here. Michael sent me a lovely photo of an Afghan contemplating his new door:

Click for full-size.
And Bill Roggio will be embedding in Afghanistan some time in mid-May. He [...]

Good morning read: Howard Kurtz’s very fair, very thorough profile of Fox News Channel’s Brit Hume. Last line:
“Am I going to be able to get devoted readers of the New York Times to watch Fox News? Maybe, but it would be heavy lifting,” he says. “We are in some respects the antidote.”
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Speaking of the NYTimes, [...]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has obtained the “event report” of Rep. Cynthia McKinney’s alleged assault on Capitol Hill police officer Paul McKenna:
The official police report on Rep. Cynthia McKinney’s clash with a Capitol Hill police officer three weeks ago says the DeKalb County congresswoman struck the officer “in his chest with (a) closed fist.”
The “event report” [...]

It’s called “The Lost City” and it’s an anti-Castro film directed by and starring Andy Garcia:

Roger L. Simon endorses:
Last night I attended the premiere of Cuban-American actor/director Andy Garcia’s The Lost City (trailer here), which opens next week. The movie is an epic about a Cuban family in the time immediately before and after the [...]

From the Santa Barbara News Press, some not-so-peaceful, open borders students wreak havoc on an elderly couple’s home:
A peaceful school-sanctioned protest march in support of illegal immigrants turned ugly Monday when students from Santa Barbara High pelted the home of an elderly couple with rocks and eggs.
The incident took place at the home of Joel [...]

Nordish reports on our “friends” in Pakistan, where the country’s high court is going after Internet service providers, foreign newspapers, and publishers who have displayed the Mohammed cartoons:
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered that a case be filed against the chairman of the country’s telecommunication authority and other officials for failing to block the showing of [...]

A former Democrat senator blames the Jews. Who else?
MSM math: terrorist bombing=fatal blast.
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LGF reports: 70 more attacks planned.
Meryl Yourish writes on the mechanics of suicide bombs and concludes:
Shrapnel is what killed Phillip Balhasan, who stayed alive long enough to realize his children had survived, and to hug them tightly before he collapsed.
But even this is [...]

May 1 is the date of the illegal alien boycott. Nationwide planning is underway. A reader sends a mass e-mail from plotters in Los Angeles, who aim to shut down Los Angeles International Airport and the Port of Los Angeles by coordinating a work stoppage of truckers and cab drivers.
Here’s the e-mail:

———- Forwarded message ———-
Date: [...]

Greg Kane at Real Clear Politics skewers racist smear merchants in the Maryland Democrat machine.
Alicia Colon in the New York Sun asks: “Are liberals the worst bigots of all?”
Well, they’re certainly the most profane.

God bless them and their heroic son.

The NYTimes milks the sob story of Zacarias Moussaoui’s defense team.
Headline: Moussaoui’s Childhood Is Presented as Mitigating Factor
Nausea-inducing excerpt:
Lawyers trying to persuade a jury to spare the life of Zacarias Moussaoui began presenting testimony about his childhood on Monday, to show that he grew up in a neglectful household in France where his father beat [...]

Via AP:
After Hamas defended a deadly suicide bombing Monday,
Israel’s U.N. ambassador warned that recent statements by the Palestinian government, Iran and Syria “are clear declarations of war, and I urge each and every one of you to listen carefully and take them at face value.”
Ambassador Dan Gillerman cautioned that a new “axis of terror” — [...]

The anti-troops brigade at UC Santa Cruz has now called in the left-wing blogosphere’s kings of hate to attack me. For what? For linking to a Students Against War press release bragging about booting military recruiters off campus and for re-posting publicly available contact info for the SAW press machine.
See here and here for background.
The [...]

Since Washington can’t get its act together on immigration enforcement, the state of Georgia is taking security into its own hands (via Reuters):
The state of Georgia approved a sweeping measure on Monday to crack down on illegal immigrants and the people who hire them as a passionate debate on immigration heats up in the United [...]