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Hollywood actress Eva Longoria, most recently seen in a bikini on the cover of Shape Magazine, is mad that people don’t talk about her brain. So, what exactly is in her brain that’s so important to know? Read on (via Reuters): Eva Longoria is annoyed. The Latina beauty on hit television show “Desperate Housewives” is [...]

The MSM is buzzing about its favorite topic: itself. Pulitzer Prizes being announced here. Via Drudge: NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE comes up big for Katrina coverage (‘Breaking News’ and ‘Public Service’)… Nicholas Kristof of NY TIMES wins for commentary… Dana Priest of WASHINGTON POST wins for beat reporting on secret prisons and U.S. counterterrorism campaign… Robin [...]

Don’t turn away: Source: Yahoo! News Getty Images caption: Tel Aviv, ISRAEL: An Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Zaka volunteer picks out pieces of flesh from the scene where a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up, in the southern Neveh Sha’anan district, close to the site of Tel Aviv’s old bus station, 17 April 2006. Some eight people [...]

Jane Fonda explains why she has been AWOL from the moonbat protests. Download and watch the video (Windows Media file). From AP: Jane Fonda says she would like to tour the country and speak out against U.S. involvement in Iraq, but her controversial history of Vietnam War protests leaves her with “too much baggage.” “I [...]

There’s a new citizen campaign to protest Washington’s illegal alien amnesty plans called Send A Brick: The Send-A-Brick Project was created by concerned citizens to send bricks to Washington encouraging our Congressmen to stand tough on border security. Each brick sends a message to our Senators and Representatives that we want our borders secured before [...]

7 killed. The Jerusalem Post has a photo of the suicide bomber: *Graphic* photos at Getty Images (hat tip: Allah). Whole set here. JPost has details of the attack: This was the second suicide attack to take place at Falafel Rosh Ha’ir (Mayor’s Falafel) restaurant, which was targeted four months ago by a suicide bomber [...]

***update: ProLife Blogs reports that Sally Jacobsen has been put on leave…NKU Glenn Reynolds has more details…*** There’s much more on the story I blogged Friday concerning Sally Jacobsen, the Northern Kentucky University women’s studies professor who enlisted her students to wreck a pro-life display of crosses erected in memory of abortion victims. A state [...]

Look what the moonbats in Santa Cruz are up to now (via Santa Cruz Sentinel/hat tip – Brian Maloney): Vandals struck at least six sport utility vehicles Saturday night on the Westside, slashing tires and spray-painting politically charged messages such as “Oil equals blood” and “Guzzle” on the side of the vehicles, authorities said. One [...]

Yes, there are some out there. From the Euston Manifesto spearheaded by Norm Geras: We decline to make excuses for, to indulgently “understand”, reactionary regimes and movements for which democracy is a hated enemy — regimes that oppress their own peoples and movements that aspire to do so. We draw a firm line between ourselves [...]

***scroll for updates*** Update: Reader Andrew passes along a cartoon that he believes is the artwork published by Studi Cattolici. If anyone can translate the Italian captions to confirm, it would be appreciated. Note that Mohammed does not even appear in the cartoon: Lorenzo V. confirms this is it. More here from the Italian press. [...]

How did our “friends,” Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates, respond when we cut off and suspended $300 million in aid to the Hamas terrorist-controlled Palestinian Authority? They lined up against us: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have pledged $80m in aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian government, finance minister Omar [...]

Happy Easter and Passover to all my readers of the Christian and Jewish faiths. Pope Benedict XVI’s Urbi et Orbi Message: Dear Brothers and Sisters! Christus resurrexit! – Christ is risen! During last night’s great Vigil we relived the decisive and ever-present event of the Resurrection, the central mystery of the Christian faith. Innumerable Paschal [...]

Weekly steak dinners for wounded troops at Fran O’Brien’s restaurant Credit: Stars & Stripes Tied up with covering the illegal alien protests and other reporting duties, I’ve been gravely remiss in mentioning an extraordinary blog-driven action campaign. Milbloggers have worked all week to help save a time-honored tradition at Fran O’Brien’s, a restaurant that caters [...]

Send the LA mayor a message Earlier this week, open borders L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gave a divisive speech on behalf of illegal alien protesters in which he declared: “Today we say to America: We’ve come here to work: We clean your toilets. We clean your hotels. We build your houses. We take care of [...]

Horrible. Back story. More here. Support Bill Hobbs — tip jars here. *** 4/15 morning update: Bill Hobbs posts today… And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. – Romans 8:28 – Hang in there, Bill.

Reader Jim e-mails: Check out these reports on Ahmadinejad’s Friday speech at the Conference on Palestine in Tehran. Here’s the AP’s report (via Breitbart): Headline: “Iran Leader: Israel Will Be Annihilated.” Money quote: “Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation,” Ahmadinejad said at the opening of a conference in support of [...]

Source: Free Copts AP reporting multiple attacks on Christian Coptic churches in Egypt today… A man with a knife attacked worshippers at two Coptic churches in the northern Mediterranean city of Alexandria during Mass on Friday, killing one person and wounding five before he was arrested, the government said. The Interior Ministry identified the attacker [...]

Patterico takes on an open borders propagandist at the Los Angeles Times. Tim Graham takes on the open borders coverage at the Washington Post. Ben Johnson decodes the MSM’s immigration doublespeak. The New York Times recycles old news to decry law enforcement officials trying to–gasp!–enforce immigration laws. John O’Sullivan examines “No Illegal Alien Left Behind” [...]

Turned out a column for the NYPost published today on Cowardly Central. ***update: Jim Lindgren at The Volokh Conspiracy has an intriguing report on his interview with a South Park executive producer. Excerpt:*** In an interview Thursday evening, South Park Executive Producer Anne Garefino revealed to me that the show was faced with two options: [...]

My nominee for the most sycophantic media columnist of the year is Yvonne Wingett of The Arizona Republic. Here’s the lead paragraph of her profile of CNN’s Soledad O’Brien: “If you’re anything like me in the morning, you race around to make espresso and straighten your hair, with one ear on your cellphone, the other [...]

***update: new photo of unhinged professor caught on camera*** Northern Kentucky University professor Sally Jacobsen tears the “Cemetery of Innocents” sign on Wednesday evening. Photo credit: Sarah Loman, The Northerner Online Look–liberal “tolerance” at work again! An unhinged feminist professor tells her students to wreck a pro-life display of crosses (via Cincinnati Enquirer): HIGHLAND HEIGHTS [...]

Milbloggers John and Charlie, formerly of The Officer’s Club, have a cool new home: OPFOR. Which is military slang for Opposing Force. Check ‘em out!

***scroll for new entries and updates*** Blogger Jay Inman e-mails his submission: Damian Penny dubs the network: “Cowardly Central.” From Patrick at Clarity & Resolve: From reader Ray: From almighty Allah Pundit: Another from Allah Pundit–and the frontrunner, IMO: From Dan Riehl: Chicago Ray has another. *** Meanwhile, Shawn Wasson has a video clip of [...]

***Update: Stephen Spruiell reports at The Media Blog…”I just got off the phone with a Comedy Central spokesman. I asked him about last night’s episode of South Park in which, at a moment right before the prophet Mohammed was supposed to make a cameo, the words, “Comedy Central has refused to broadcast an image of [...]

Wade Zirkle, war vet who served two tours in Iraq with the Marines before being wounded in action, takes on Rep. John Murtha in the Washington Post today (hat tip: Allah and readers): Murtha undoubtedly knows full well that the greatest single thing that drags on morale in war is the loss of a buddy. [...]

Two days ago, I reported on an idiotic math question crafted by a Bellevue (WA) Community College professor that took a racist swipe at Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Today, the Seattle Times follows up: Bellevue Community College President Jean Floten apologized Wednesday at an emotional open-campus meeting called after students complained about what they [...]

Where is Bilal Hussein–and who is he working for? A year ago, I blogged about a controversial, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo taken by an unidentified Associated Press stringer in Iraq. More background from the blogosphere here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Do take the time to re-read them all. The context is [...]

Bill Roggio investigates. (Hat tip – Instapundit) Also a related must-read at The Jawa Report: Bilal Hussein and the Continuing Saga of Insurgent Propaganda via the Media And Neil Munro’s investigation of phony MSM war photography at The National Journal: Real Or Fake? Stay tuned…

As I noted earlier today, UC Santa Cruz–which allowed radical, anti-troop punks to force military recruiters off campus–received a reported $80 million in federal funding last year alone. My friend William Perry Pendley sends word that his organization, the Mountain States Legal Foundation, has formally requested that tax money be cut off from the school [...]

A reader from Virginia e-mails: “On the Washington Post’s online discussion, I had the following exchange with Joseph Elbert, their Assistant Managing Editor, Photography. At least he recognized that he was ignoring the question:” Dunn Loring, Va.: When covering a story with political implications, how does The Post decide which pictures to print? For example, [...]