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So, while the moonbats foam over the non-indictment of Karl Rove, watch for the MSM to start caterwauling about Bush’s secret trip to Baghdad. Reader Stephen C. writes: Care to make a friendly wager on how long it will take the Democrats to accuse the President of making the trip as a publicity stunt? Or, [...]

Assuming you’ve all heard the news. No Rove indictment in the CIA leak case. Remember this? Reuters’ wishful thinking, May 15, 2006 And this? And this? Let the gloating begin. And the Leftist teeth-gnashing. Mark Coffey presents: The Top Ten ‘Progressive’ Reactions to the End of Fitzmas. ABP. AJ Strata weighs in. Scott Ott chuckles. [...]

Real or clone? Scary headline of the day: “Gore to train 1,000 to spread word about climate” Al Gore hopes to train 1,000 messengers he hopes will spread out across the country and present a slide show about global warming that captures the essence of his Hollywood documentary and book. The former vice president, a [...]

***11am EDT 6/13 update: Mark Finkelstein e-mails that Al Jazeera Publishing has changed the photo*** On June 3, I called attention to a false photo in the Times of London that purported to show victims of Haditha slaughtered by US Marines. The photo was of fishermen executed in a Haditha stadium by terrorists six months [...]

This lioness has taught me much. Opened my eyes. Talk about speaking truth to power. Her trial in Italy for insulting Islam–for insulting Islam–commenced in Italy today. Where are the free-speech champions? The feminists? The human rights brigade? Come out, come out, wherever you are. *** Robert Spencer weighs in on the trial and provides [...]

***update: Ilario on the Today Show*** I couldn’t put down 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano’s new book, Warlord. Put it at the top of your summer reading list. Send a copy to your local troops-bashing columnist or cartoonist. The writing is riveting. The timing fortuitous. The message timeless. Pantano has give us more than just a [...]

President Bush likes to talk tough about how he supports the use of a “tamper-proof ID card” as part of his “comprehensive immigration reform plan” to ensure that illegal aliens are who they say they are. Ha ha ha. As I have noted many times, the Bush Treasury Department ignored the pleas and warnings of [...]

***update: video at FoxNews.com*** Fox News Channel sparkplug Julie Banderas went off on hatemonger Shirley Phelps-Roper this weekend. Watch the FNC host smack Phelps-Roper upside the head. WND has a partial transcript: Banderas: “The Bible says ‘the fear of the Lord is hatred of evil,’ [from the Book of] Proverbs. ‘Pride and arrogance and the [...]

YearlyKos is over. Lots of panting and cheerleading from the MSM. What you didn’t see: The Reynolds wrap was in full supply. Special Hot Air correspondent X, who provided fabulous coverage and survived (thanks for your service, X!), snapped this photo from a tinfoil hat-making contest held at the Kossacks’ Las Vegas convention. Not. Kidding: [...]

Hat tip: Reader W. Can al-Reuters photographers read English? *** The BBC goes ballistic over suicides at Gitmo. A human rights moonbat calls the detainees “heroes.” Yeah? Refresh your memories first. Meanwhile, LGF catches an AP jihadi rewrite.

I’ve been offline much of the weekend–a healthy thing every once in a while. The Haditha story continues to unfold. Allah Pundit is on top of all the latest developments, blog coverage of a possible “hoax,” Dem exploitation, new Marine revelations, etc. Start here. Continue here. More Haditha bookmarks: AJ Strata: AQ snuff films in [...]

Best wishes to Catherine Herridge, Fox News Channel homeland security correspondent, and her infant son, Peter, who underwent surgery this week. Catherine donated a part of her liver to her son, who has a condition aknown as biliary atresia. More info here from the American Liver Association. Via WaPo, “Officials with the cable channel report [...]

But don’t worry. He’s been sent to…Saudi Arabia! Great, just great: New Zealand has deported a Yemeni man identified as having direct links with the terrorists involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States who was taking pilot training in the country this year, the government said Saturday. Rayed Mohammed Abdullah Ali [...]

On Memorial Day, I blogged about Joey Vento, the 3rd-generation American of Italian descent who wants his customers to speak English–and immigration laws enforced. Now, he’s under attack from an open-borders, anti-assimilationist Philadelphia City Council member: A City Council member jumped into the debate over a sign at one of Philadelphia’s best-known cheesesteak joints that [...]

Hot Air Special Correspondent X has sent us new photos of the Kos Konvention. Apparently, the Left has a new emblem. He writes: “SWEET SASSY MOLASSEY! What in the name of Sauron’s eye is this? It’s like Tim Burton’s Night Before Independence Day…” Egad. Sen. Barbara Boxer, a Daily Kos poster and devotee, is scheduled [...]

Lunchtime viewing: Another rocking musical tribute to the troops from Hot Air Films. Enjoy. It drives the Left mad. (Send to a friend or embed via YouTube.) *** Related: ABC News spotlights the “men in the shadow”–Task Force 145. Of course, if you’ve been reading Bill Roggio, you already know all about them. *** Karol [...]

They throw pies at their opponents. Salad dressing. Paint. Molotov cocktails. And now it’s…dog feces: Republican U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave’s re-election campaign was already heated, and it just got smelly as well: Her staff accused a Democratic activist Thursday of leaving an envelope full of dog feces at Musgrave’s Greeley office. Musgrave spokesman Shaun Kenney [...]

Hot Air has a special correspondent in Las Vegas for the “nutroots convention” convened by The Daily Kos. An excerpt from Dispatch 1: People here are largely, disappointingly, golf-shirted, short-haired, and white bread. Grooming and hygiene are up to western business standards. There is one dude wearing a pith helmet and another guy in a [...]

They’re trying to keep him on the ballot: The Texas Democratic Party won a temporary restraining order Thursday blocking the process that would name a replacement for Republican U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on the November ballot. State District Judge Darlene Byrne ordered Texas GOP Chairwoman Tina Benkiser not to convene party officials to decide on [...]

Expose the Left has audio of Berg’s interview and hang-up with FNC’s John Gibson. *** Related: Brian Maloney and Sister Toldjah survey the rest of the talk radio scene.

#2 most wanted terrorist Jamal Abu Samhadana: Killed by Israeli airstrike today Bam. Plus: 17 other raids. Will the Dems call them “stunts,” too? Wash Times: Some Democrats, breaking ranks from their leadership, today said the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi in Iraq was a stunt to divert attention from an unpopular and [...]

Allah Pundit is in the house! Yeah, baby. F-16s + Beastie Boys = Crazy Delicious. You can share/embed Allah’s Sabotage video at YouTube! God bless our troops. *** Update: Just got e-mail from reader Shelly: I logged onto YouTube and received the following message: This video may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, [...]

(Photoshop by Sanctuary) Zarqawi is dead–no thanks to the likes of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, who refused to deploy with the Stryker Brigade this week to protest the “illegal” and “unjust” war. Get the lowdown on Watada and his Bush-bashing father by watching the latest Vent. Previous: A deserter, not a “dissenter” More news coverage: [...]

Dumbest question from the WH press briefing: Will the Zarqawi success help the President on immigration? Snow’s response (with admirable restraint, but detectable contempt): “I don’t know.” The second stupidest line of questioning attacked the President for his somber tone at his morning announcement. If he’s too jubilant, he’s a cowboy. If he’s too subdued, [...]

***scroll for updates…video of Iraqi PM announcement added…oil prices drop after announcement…the Kos crazies are at it already…scars and fingerprints used to identify Zarqawi body…dancing in the streets…Bush transcript…official CENTCOM press release…the Left acts like the Left…MSM spins…Nick Berg’s dad bashes Bush…Berg audio here…Task Force 145/Bill Roggio told you…1015am White House briefing coming up…Snow: “We [...]

The p.c. reactions to the Canadian Muslim terror bust–and the swiftness with which the MSM has lost interest in the story (quick, get back to Brangelina!)– show we remain a doomed continent of ostriches. It’s the subject of my Vent: The jihadis among us. And from my column: Many clueless North Americans remain shocked, shocked, [...]

***update: Lucianne.com thread here*** You’ve read the story of the day, all day, on Drudge: Ann Coulter is antagonizing the Left with her comments about the liberal 9/11 widows known as “The Jersey Girls.” Hillary Clinton is going ape. TV producers of all partisan stripes are ecstatic. So are Ann’s publicists and publisher. Unfortunately, lost [...]

***scroll for updates…Watada support website registered by moonbat vet/Cindy Sheehan groupie Jeff Paterson of Not In Our Name…more below…*** 1st Lt. Ehren Watada: The face of a deserter The Seattle Times heralds the moonbat left’s new hero: In a rare case of officer dissent, a Fort Lewis Army lieutenant has refused orders to head out [...]

The Los Angeles public school system embraces its Aztlan charter school: Responding to allegations of discrimination, the school district has concluded that an elementary school catering to students of Mexican descent is following its charter, officials said Monday. The district sent observers after Sandy Wells, a reporter working for KABC-AM, was allegedly assaulted outside the [...]

Just received from Steve Huntley, editorial page editor of the Chicago Sun-Times: An Apology A cartoon by Jack Higgins in Tuesday’s Chicago Sun-Times incorporated inaccurate imagery to make a statement about the allegations that U.S. Marines killed Iraqi civilians in Haditha. Jack Higgins and the Sun-Times deeply regret the mistake and apologize to the U.S. [...]