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***update: Eric Shawn has a theory about the U.N.’s attack on the U.S. and Fox News…audio at Johnny Dollar’s*** The United Nations is complaining that Americans are undermining it with criticism–you know, because the actions of its own corrupt, incompetent officials have nothing to do with its squandered credibility. Rush Limbaugh and Fox News (which [...]

The London Times is getting praise for issuing an apology over falsely captioning an April 2005 picture of fishermen executed at a Haditha, Iraq stadium by insurgents as depicting victims of Marines in the Nov. 19 incident still under investigation–which I reported over the weekend. [And yes, as I noted, we all know the Times [...]

California Conservative is blogging it. Record low turnout expected. Two big government initiatives on the ballot: universal preschool and a library bond. Watch that CA-50 special election. Will Francine “You don’t need no stinkin’ papers” Busby pull it off? Update: Bilbray wins.

And one “Defeat Hillary” t-shirt.

Ann Coulter’s latest: Godless. Matt Lauer tries to keep up.

The eminent domain case on New London, Connecticut that galvanized the blogosphere is back in the news. And it’s not good: City officials voted Monday night to begin eviction proceedings against residents who refuse to leave their riverfront homes, signaling the end may be near in an eminent domain dispute that reached the U.S. Supreme [...]

I obtained the unsealed March 2006 affidavit detailing charges against Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, one of the two Georgia-based Muslim men tied to the Canada terror bust. There are many interesting tidbits included–note the encrypted CD that FBI technicians are unable to crack and the court-authorized electronic surveillance on a phone conversation between one of the [...]

Debra Burlingame exposes the squandering of 9/11 memorial funds: The American people, watching the horrific scenes in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania, voiced nary a peep of dissent when the federal government handed over $21 billion in disaster relief–$18 billion in rebuilding bonds and tax credits, and $2.8 billion in immediate cash grants–to the state [...]

Bloggers remember D-Day.

Not good: Islamic militias declared victory today over Somalia’s traditional warlords in the battle for control of Mogadishu, quelling months of fierce fighting in the lawless capital but raising new questions about whether this regime, which American officials have accused of sheltering terrorists, will steer the country down an extremist path. “We want to restore [...]

Scheduled to appear on The O’Reilly Factor at around 5:40pm EDT. Oops, that’s 8:40pm EDT. Long day, been distracted, sorry.

Fashion designer Marc Jacobs has a tony boutique in San Francisco. The SF Chronicle’s Leah Garchick noticed something big in the store’s window–a literal sign of Bush Derangement Syndrome: The newish Marc by Marc Jacobs store has three big glass window panels facing Fillmore Street at the corner of Sacramento. The latest window display went [...]

We name the top five MSM heavy-breathers over at Hot Air. The NY Slimes earned the Number 3 spot (thanks to Sanctuary for the photoshop): Unfortunately, we finished this show before Andrew Sullivan labeled America a “rogue nation” today. Yeah, he did. Someone get him a paper bag. (Hat tip: Allah Pundit) *** Update: Jeff [...]

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that the grand jury investigation into Rep. Cynthia McKinney’s alleged assault on a Capitol Hill police officer is now in month three. (Hat tip: Lucianne.com) The message sent to Capitol Hill cops is clear: “Right from the start this U.S. attorney has handled this case differently from every other case,” [...]

Tom Lipscomb at RCP shreds the revisionism of John Kerry and the NYTimes. Power Line has more. David Holman in the American Spectator examines Kerry Yellow. Patterico reports on a liberal blogger meeting with Kerry in which he reportedly called Supreme Court Justices Alito, Scalia, and Roberts “idiots.” According to lefty bloggers, Kerry also agreed [...]

Thousands of public school students across the country walked out of their classrooms this spring on multiple occasions to protest immigration enforcement proposals in Congress. Few were punished. In many cases, teachers and school officials encouraged their political activities. Why didn’t you hear about students organizing counter-demonstrations on behalf of strengthened borders? Here’s a clue: [...]

Cox and Forkum weigh in on the Haditha smear campaign. Meanwhile, the Blame Bush-Fire Rumsfeld drumbeat rolls on. Steyn says it all: For three years, coalition forces in Iraq behaved so well that a salivating Vietnam culture had to make do with the thinnest of pickings: one depraved jailhouse, a prisoner on a dog leash [...]

LGF notes that a leading Muslim leader blames Canada for not spending enough money buying off “vulnerable Canadian Muslim youth.” It’s always the West’s fault, isn’t it?

It’s Sunday and we could all use a respite, however brief, from the churning and clanking and endless roar of the news cycle. Gerard Van der Leun, bard of the blogosphere, posted this exquisite poem a few days ago at The American Digest. I loved it so much I’m sharing it here: Into the Silence [...]

Oh, dear Lord. A jihadist plot, possibly of global scale, possibly imminent, unravels in Canada…and what do law enforcement officials do? Try to whitewash the obvious jihadi profile from the public’s mind. At the press briefing held by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police today, the suspects who appeared in court–all sporting traditional Muslim male beards [...]

***keeping this post on top…click here for full Canadian terror bust coverage…update: photo removed…*** Look very carefully at the photo featured in the UK Times’s report from June 1, 2006 titled “Massacre Marines blinded by hate:” (big hat tip – Joe G.) If you are left with the impression that the dead bodies on the [...]

***scroll for updates*** Blogosphere and ‘net have full coverage of the jihadi terror ring busted in Toronto. Get informed: Pajamas Media rundown. Jeffery Imm at The Counterterrorism Blog has massive link/analysis. Allah is tracking. Threats Watch breaks down the details, including this stunner: 3 tons of ammonium nitrate found–three times that used in the 1995 [...]

***update: Of course, she says she misspoke*** Oh, yes, she did. Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate in Tuesday’s CA-50 special election has been caught on tape telling a Spanish-speaking audience “You don’t need papers for voting.” Responding to a question from a translator about how to help her campaign, Francine Busby also told non-English-speaking volunteers [...]

Down Under, an Australian Katie Couric wannabe got busted by a Brigadier General who didn’t go along with her MSM stage managers. Background here. I’d like to see more of that pushback here in the U.S. Anyway, the face-off between the general and the bubblehead is my video clip of the week–along with some classic [...]

This is a new billboard that went up in Denver this week. (Hat tip: Slapstick Politics) Like most major metropolitan cities from NYC to Los Angeles to San Francisco, Denver is a de facto sanctuary city for illegal aliens. It’s an open secret. Might as well advertise it in black and white. Here’s more on [...]

Call the wah-mbulance! Move over, Jon Klein. Washington Post “humorist” Gene Weingarten (that’s pronounced WHINE-garten) wants to claim the MSM blog-haters’ throne. Greg Sheffield has the scoop at Newsbusters: Washington Post humor writer and journalist Gene Weingarten, who writes a regular commentary called Below the Beltway, gave a commencement speech to graduating journalism students at [...]

BBC News (as always, consider the source) made a splash with its report claiming to have “uncovered new video evidence that US forces may have been responsible for the deliberate killing of 11 innocent Iraqi civilians” in the town of Ishaqi. Like I said. Consider the source: The video tape obtained by the BBC shows [...]

The first Friday in June is designated National Donut Day. You know which kind to get.

Pajamas Week in Review podcast. Glenn and Helen interview Peter Beinart, who I ran into briefly at the Fox News D.C. green room. Got a free copy of his new book, which I’ll peruse over the weekend. My Hot Air colleague Bryan Preston was not impressed with his recent WaPo op-ed. Gadgetell points you to [...]

Allah’s got comprehensive coverage on a raid involving 250 British police officers on a suspected chemical bomb-making factory. One man shot. Via Sky News, a photo of the scene where tents have been erected: Allah highlights this graf in The Guardian, which interviewed neighbors of the suspects: Dimple Hirani, a 21-year-old student, described how the [...]