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Another one bites the dust.

It’s times like these we need a laugh. Allah Pundit always comes through. Click to watch:

Tim Chapman reported last week:
To qualify for full Social Security benefits, a worker must register 10 years of work. Under current law, illegal immigrants who obtain legal status can use their previous illegal work history to apply for Social Security benefits.
A compromise immigration bill pending right now in the U.S. Senate (sponsored by Chuck Hagel [...]

Did you catch the Drudge exclusive on the Beverly Hills teacher plying Al Gore’s Hot Air?
Coincidentally, today’s Vent features a moonbat montage of teachers unhinged.
Enjoy.

(Thanks to Hot Air affiliate Sanctuary for the photohop!)
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Debbie Schlussel spots another one.

Watch Gen. Hayden’s message this morning at his CIA confirmation hearing: “CIA needs to get out of the news.” Open thread here.
Meanwhile, Democrats have been screaming and pouting about not being briefed on the NSA’s terrorism surveillance programs. Nancy Pelosi complained:
Nancy Pelosi explained to a group of progressive journalists about a week before the latest [...]

Expose the Left has the video of Rep. Murtha’s verdict first, trial later condemnation of the US Marines. Here’s the partial transcript:
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Let me ask you Mr. Murtha to give us some details about that. Draw us a picture of what happened at Haditha.
REP. JOHN “JACK” MURTHA: Well, I’ll tell you exactly what [...]

Illegal alien activists secured a protest permit in Washington, D.C., for their ballyhooed May 17 Amnesty Rally yesterday. They expected 100,000 people to come.
Only 400 showed up.
I asked yesterday if the MSM would provide fair coverage of the demonstration.
Tim Graham has the answer. As expected.

WSBTV reports:
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who could face criminal charges for allegedly punching a Capitol police officer in Washington, D.C., has signed on as a co-sponsor of a House bill formally honoring Capitol Police officers.
The bill is House Resolution 756, which would officially “Express the gratitude and appreciation of the House of Representatives to the professionalism [...]

The Senate ignores the Windbag from Massachusetts and votes:
The Senate voted to build 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border Wednesday and clashed over citizenship for millions of men and women who live in the United States illegally.
Amid increasingly emotional debate over election-year immigration legislation, senators voted 83-16 to add fencing and 500 [...]

Windbag John McCain attempts to defend his amnesty sham:
The Senate labored to complete work by next week on immigration legislation that generally follows an outline Bush set out in a nationally televised speech this week.
The measure includes provisions to strengthen border security, create a new guest worker program and crack down on the hiring [...]

Ted Kennedy opens his mouth…
Allah sez:
Go, watch, laugh, and try to follow his logic when he comes out strongly in favor of a virtual fence — which, if it turns out to be a successful deterrent, logically should result in just as many immigrant deaths as the non-virtual version.

I went to a very infamous 7-11 convenience store in Falls Church, Va., yesterday afternoon. Behind me are day laborers, out of the shadows, waiting for a “willing employer” to come pick them up and ignore their immigration status. Lost in all the furor over the Bush amnesty abomination is a forgotten episode from 9/11 [...]

Remember Steve White, the creepy public school teacher who reportedly showed his students moonbat filmstrips in class?
He’s outta there:
After 41/2 hours behind closed doors Tuesday night, the Limestone County Board of Education voted to fire Steve White, accused of showing students a video referring to President Bush in profane terms.
In the closed hearing requested by [...]

Finally, a major liberal American publication takes the plunge and dares to print the Mohammed Cartoons in full. Better late than never (the conservative Weekly Standard published the cartoons in its Feb. 20, 2006 issue). Hat tip: reader O., who read about the story via Danish TV 2 Nyhederne.
Controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad [...]

Via AP, which refuses to tell you the convicted murderer’s citizenship status until the very end of the story–because the fact that he should have never been here apparently isn’t relevant–and instead refers to him simply as a “handyman” in its whitewashed headline:

Handyman Gets Life in Suburban N.Y. Murder
A laborer who raped and murdered a [...]

The first of many abomindations to come:
Senators cast their first votes on immigration legislation this afternoon, just as President Bush vowed to work closely with skeptical members of Congress on a comprehensive bill to fix a system that does not work.
The Senate defeated, 55 to 40, a proposal by Senator Johnny Isakson, Republican of Georgia, [...]

It’s out today. Read it here (PDF file).
Pirate Ballerina, the blog that was central to pushing the story forward, has analysis and points to the bottom line of the report:
While we are unanimous in finding that Professor Churchill’s research misconduct is serious and that we should express the degree of that seriousness through a recommendation [...]

At 1pm today.
Allah has everything you need to know. *Updated with video*
From Judicial Watch, which filed a FOIA request that is resulting in the video release:
“We fought hard to obtain this video because we felt that it was very important to complete the public record with respect to the terrorist attacks of September 11,” [...]

***Update: Byron York reports on Leopold digging in…***
The Wall Street Journal has a piece today covering the left-wing blog storm over false rumors that Karl Rove was indicted and about to jump ship on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday.
We take a break from the border blues and have fun with the moonbats who’ve been [...]

Disgusting (hat tip: reader Larry):
A street in a Paris suburb has been named in honor of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer.
“In France, they see him as a towering figure,” said Suzanne Ross, co-chair of the Free Mumia Coalition of New York City, who was part of [...]

As bad as things are for grass-roots conservatives following President Bush’s “Read my lips: No new amnesty” speech, at least we’re not in the absurd rhetorical position of confused moonbats.
Bryan at Sanctuary, a photoshop wizard for Hot Air, perfectly depicts the quandary of the “Bring our troops home now” crowd. Bryan writes:
“Support the Troops [...]

11pm EDT update: Video highlights of tonight’s O’Reilly Factor in which I try to make O’Reilly see the light here.
1030pm EDT update:
The only good thing about watching the speech was getting to watch it in the Fox News green room with Colorado GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo, a stalwart immigration enforcement advocate. It was nice to [...]

There are a lot of rumors flying around the left side of the blogosphere about a Karl Rove indictment. (He’s among the top Technorati searches today.) The New York Sun reports otherwise.
But unhinged Democrats are already partying hard. The Detroit Free Press report:
Was it an improbable outside-the-Beltway scoop on the ultimate inside-the-Beltway story? A criminal [...]

**scroll for updates…100 million new immigrants over the next 20 years???…Sen. Sessions’ analysis of Senate sellout: up to 217.1 million new legal immigrants will be cleared to immigrate into the United States over the next 20 years, a number equal to 66 percent of the total current population of the United States.***
Watch my preview of [...]

US establishing full diplomatic relations with Libya…to be removed from list of state sponsors of terror. That’s what Fox News is reporting. Some sort of official announcement expected at 11am.
Debbie adds context.
Allah asks: Has something changed in the past six weeks that I’m not aware of?

Here we go again.
President Bush is continuing the homeland security dog-and-pony charade in his quest to deliver a massive “guest worker”/amnesty plan to the open-borders lobby. A few weeks ago, Bush’s Department of Homeland Security put on a bogus performance of Get Tough Theater with a series of politically timed immigration raids…which, as I predicted, [...]

Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

***scroll for updates…Verizon hit with $5 billion lawsuit…more on the lawyers suing Verizon…Heather Mac Donald: Information please***
Earlier today, Bryan Preston and I traveled to the National Cryptologic Museum in Fort Meade, Md. If you have a chance to go, you should. It’s a cool, cool place. The curator and staff were top-notch. The exhibits are [...]

Michael Schiavo is blogging at the Daily Kos. (Hat tip: reader Eileen)

***update: The professor hangs up on John Gibson***
A moonbat professor at Boston College quits over Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s scheduled graduation address:
An open letter to William P. Leahy, SJ, president of Boston College.
DEAR Father Leahy,
I am writing to resign my post as an adjunct professor of English at Boston College.
I am doing so — [...]