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Vote was 62-36.
Here’s the lowdown.
Any hope now rests with the House.
Start here.
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News coverage:

Bloomberg…
The Senate’s 62-36 vote sets up a clash with the House, which in December approved legislation that emphasized strengthening barriers at the U.S.-Mexico border and didn’t account for guest workers or undocumented immigrants.
The congressional debate on immigration has sparked demonstrations across the [...]

A trash magazine steals milblogger/war journalist extraordinaire Michael Yon’s poignant photo of Maj. Mark Bieger in Iraq.

Blackfive has details of whom to lean on. Do it now.
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Show your support. Buy Michael’s photo here.

If I were on the Senate floor, that’s what I would have done this afternoon when Sen. McCain shamelessly compared advocates of an amendment that would bar amnestied guest workers from the earned income tax credit to…racists during the Jim Crow era.
Sen. Jeff Sessions explained the rationale for his amendment earlier this week:
I would [...]

William Jefferson, Dennis Hastert, assphants, cluebats: Thwap.
Update: Bush orders Jefferson documents sealed.
Un-freaking-believable.
Glenn Reynolds asks:
Could Al Qaeda have slipped mind-altering drugs into the DC water supply? What’s gotten into these people? Or has some sort of deal been cut? Whatever it is, I don’t think I like it.

An extraordinary exchange just took place on the Senate floor over the last 40 minutes. It’s the most important debate of the year, in my opinion.
The questions are these: Who do we let into this country and how many?
On one side of the debate: Democrat Sen. Jeff Bingaman of N.M. and Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions [...]

For most people, the Beltway-area sniper case is a distant memory. Over and done. But in Montgomery County, Md., the pain and suffering caused by convicted killing spree murderers Lee Malvo and John Muhammad is as fresh and raw as it was three years ago when the pair terrorized the area–leaving 10 dead and [...]

***scroll for updates, questions for ABC…Dan Riehl says ABC’s story is four months’ old…***
ABC News’s Blotter blog reports:
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, is under investigation by the FBI, which is seeking to determine his role in an ongoing public corruption probe into members of Congress, ABC News has learned from senior [...]

John Kerry + Jesse MacBeth =

(Photoshop credit: Hot Air affiliate Sanctuary)
Yikes!
Vent spotlights the lies of Jesse MacBeth (featuring disgraceful clips from the MacBeth video that has been yanked from the Peace Films website).
My syndicated column today covers blogs vs. anti-war frauds.
Iowahawk brings the funny.
Jesse MacBeth on MySpace? McQ at Q&O has tons more.

***scroll for updates…958am EDT: Senate voting on whether to kill the McConnell amendment to the immig bill, which would require voting identification (hat tip: Nighthaven)…motion to table is not agreed to…1000am EDT: Here we go on cloture vote…clerk will call the roll…1020am cloture motion passes; Allah fills in details…Meese blogger conference call: “There are a [...]

Mary Katherine Ham compares their treatment.

Hot Air affiliate Flip Pidot of Suitably Flip, inspired by the Rep. William Jefferson case, has the photoshop of the day:

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Meanwhile, Roger L. Simon notes Newt Gingrich’s tin ear. Denny Hastert’s got it, too. Glenn Reynolds has more.
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Foiled again!

The Iraq Veterans Against the War bail on Jessie/Jesse MacBeth (hat tip: Nighthaven):
Iraq Veterans Against the War recently learned of a video interview with Jesse MacBeth that directs viewers to IVAW’s website and phone number. IVAW was not made aware of the creation of this video program and our input on it was [...]

My Vent.
Thanks to Marc Morano and CNSNews.com for use of their excellent video coverage of the D.C. premiere of Hoot.
Debbie Schlussel’s take.

***scroll for updates…Just Citizens blog reports that Army has no record of service from Jesse/Jessie MacBeth…more below…(hat tip: LGF )…12noon update: I just talked to the Army spokesman as well. Paul Boyce told me: “At a minimum, this appears to have been concocted” and “some sort of hoax.” Special Ops Command and State Department have [...]

What is wrong with these people?

AP: After violent riots over an offensive cartoon officials in Tehran detained the cartoonist and chief editor of an Iranian newspaper, charged them and took them to Evin prison.

Compare and contrast…
In Dallas, a school district strikes the words “In God We Trust” from the photo of an enlarged nickel on a yearbook cover for fear of offending students of differing religions.
In California, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (the one that outlawed the Pledge of Allegiance for its reference to God) approved putting [...]

Watch: The air marshals mess, the Captain Queeg of homeland security, and my stewardess imitation.
I’m sifting through the draft House Judiciary Committee report on the safety threats to air marshals. It’s scheduled to be considered for adoption by the panel on Thursday. Mainstream outlets covered the gist of the report on Friday, but several key [...]

In the Stamford, Conn., school district.
Why? Mostly, it seems, because school officials and parents didn’t want the inconvenience of an extra school day in June. I’m not so crazy about all the days kids get off from school anyway, but the veterans have a good point in response to school officials who disingenuously argue that [...]

So much for the Dems’ attack on the GOP culture of corruption.
Now, they’ve got to contend with Democrat Rep. William Jefferson reportedly caught on tape accepting bribes in cold, hard cash. Emphasize on cold:
A congressman under investigation for bribery was caught on videotape accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with [...]

I don’t know how many times I’ve pointed out that amnesty for illegal aliens = amnesty for their employers. The Washington Times spells it out today in “Senate bill protects employers of illegal aliens from penalties”–and the Orwellian open-borders double-speakers huff and buff and try to bluff:
Among those who will be cleared of past crimes [...]

…with the story of the two lying Saudi men who boarded a school bus in Florida. And it is not racist to say so.

Just joy riders?
***scroll for updates… BAIL FOR SAUDIS REVOKED***
From Tampa Bay 10:
Two men from Saudi Arabia were arrested today after they boarded a public school bus taking students to Wharton High School, [...]

They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Today’s example of craziness: New Orleans reelecting Ray Nagin mayor.
They’re stuck on stupid.

In AP-speak, incompetent = “colorful.”
Reader Jim K. writes:
Evacuees were bused in from Atlanta and Houston to vote for a guy who refused to use school buses to bus [...]

“Cuba Nostalgia” is an annual event in Florida commemorating the best of the island nation before fidel castro destroyed it.
Val Prieto at the fierce and indispensable Babalu Blog had a booth at the expo and has extensive blog reports and photos from friends and readers.
Miami Herald covers here:
Cuban Independence Day, holds a special place in [...]

Pat yourselves on the backs, you tolerant liberal bastards.
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This is hardly
the first
time
liberals
have
made Asian whore ping-pong ball jokes about me.
But Wonkette has now mainstreamed it. And I’m sick of it. Are you proud of yourselves? Do you get a bonus from Nick Denton for scraping the bottom of the barrel?
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The writer [...]

Charles Johnson at LGF has the outrageous details: “The guards were lured into a cell by a staged suicide attempt, then ambushed by the prisoners.” He highlights this passage from the Reuters report:
“The detainees had slickened the floor of their block with feces, urine and soapy water in an attempt to trip the guards. They [...]

Two for your viewing entertainment:
My commencement address.
Lazy Ramadi (Back story here.)

Drudge siren up. Breitbart/AP reports:
Inmates at the US “war on terror” detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba tried to prevent US forces from helping one of four detainees who tried to commit suicide, a spokesman said.
One inmate tried to hang himself and three others took overdoses on Thursday.
All four were being treated and their [...]

Sins of omission
***scroll for updates…Americans lining up to do the job…***
Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times ran a piece of open-borders propaganda masquerading as journalism, which featured a Riverside, Calif., landscaper named Cyndi Smallwood who claims she can’t find workers to dig ditches even at $34 an hour.
The claim seems preposterous, but the Times assures [...]

***see update***
First they came…

More.

1220pm EDT update: Report may not be true.
255pm EDT: Allah investigates.

Jim Hoft highlights the Dems who voted against rescinding the ban on offshore drilling.
But it should be noted that the Dems were joined by 59 Republicans. Find ‘em here.
And remember this:
The GOP cave-in on ANWR
Letters to the GOP
Exposing the Mainstreet Republicans