Guess the NYTimes couldn’t stand to see the Associated Press doing all the water-carrying for Kerry and the Dems. Here’s the Times’ contribution to the save-Kerry’s-backside campaign available tonight on the Times website. The headline? Nope, not “Kerry scorns troops, Bush defends military.” This: You have to read 15 paragraphs down into the story before […]

Guess the NYTimes couldn’t stand to see the Associated Press doing all the water-carrying for Kerry and the Dems. Here’s the Times’ contribution to the save-Kerry’s-backside campaign available tonight on the Times website. The headline? Nope, not “Kerry scorns troops, Bush defends military.” This: You have to read 15 paragraphs down into the story before […]

Here’s your Halloween grab bag for the night (scroll for updates): Reader Daniel K. digs up and sends along his 2004 Halloween Kerry Pshop–still handy two years later: The left side of the blogosphere is not happy with Lurch, reports Dean Barnett. The Associated (w/t) Press continues to carry the Democrats’ water tonight: Democrats Increase […]

Video: Aren’t you glad he is our president? Now, I’m taking the kids trick or treating.

Take a tour with me. My costume this year: Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

He never, ever does. It’s a life-long congenital condition. Here’s the full transcript.

***update: Kerry to speak at 2pm press conference…I expect nothing less than full-throated indignance, condescension, and blame avoidance…great news for the GOP…see, what did I tell ya: Kerry: “I apologize to no one for my criticisms of President Bush…” ***update: American Legion asks for apology: The National Commander of The American Legion called on Sen. […]

***12:30pm update.***Kerry adviser admits to National Journal’s Hotline that Kerry’s smear came out “mangled.” McCain to repeat demand for apology on camera at 1pm. Here’s Kerry’s non-apology: Digging in, blaming conservatives, condescending as ever. 11:57am update. Drudge: McCain calls on Kerry to apologize. Well now that their favorite maaaverick has spoken, I guess the MSM […]

Feedback continues to pour in this morning: Michelle, I’m a reserve Army officer, currently employed as a professor overseas. The DoD contracts with several universities to offer undergraduate and graduate degrees to servicemembers, either online or face-to-face, in darn near every corner of the planet. Many enlisted soldiers have graduate degrees; many more have bachelor’s […]

Feedback continues to pour in this morning: Michelle, I’m a reserve Army officer, currently employed as a professor overseas. The DoD contracts with several universities to offer undergraduate and graduate degrees to servicemembers, either online or face-to-face, in darn near every corner of the planet. Many enlisted soldiers have graduate degrees; many more have bachelor’s […]

***10/31 7:35am updated with more reax below… …909am update San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Pasadena Star News reports on the Angelides campaign event at Pasadena City College where Kerry trashed the troops…”Kerry then told the students that if they were able to navigate the education system, they could get comfortable jobs – “If you don’t, you get […]

***10/31 7:35am updated with more reax below… …909am update San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Pasadena Star News reports on the Angelides campaign event at Pasadena City College where Kerry trashed the troops…”Kerry then told the students that if they were able to navigate the education system, they could get comfortable jobs – “If you don’t, you get […]

Bush Derangement Syndrome fizzles in movie theaters: The provocative film “Death of a President,” which imagines the assassination of George W. Bush, bombed at the North American box office with a meager $282,000 grossed from 143 theaters in its first weekend. The pseudo-documentary played at 91 U.S. theaters and 52 Canadian cinemas during its first […]

Headline: France prepares new anti-riot law French PM Dominique de Villepin has pledged to toughen anti-vandalism laws after a woman was severely burnt in an arson attack on a bus in Marseille. Existing laws would be broadened to punish all those who are “involved in and encourage” such attacks, not just the perpetrators, Mr de […]

I tuned in to CNN to watch conservative blogbabe Mary Katharine Ham debut on Larry King Live, but it’s been stuck on this for nearly half an hour: Similar glitch on CNN Headline News, which has been stuck on this for the last 15-20 minutes: Santorum’s opponent, Bob Casey, is going to demand equal freeze […]

Been meaning to get to this all day: It’s about time… At least 80 militants have been killed in an air strike by Pakistani forces on a madrassa (religious school) used as a militant training camp, the army says. The army said the madrassa in the tribal area of Bajaur bordering Afghanistan was destroyed by […]

My nominee: Bill Maher as Steve Irwin.

They imagine racism where there is none, and then think nothing of employing blatant racist imagery to attack those who aren’t liberal enough for them: As I noted in my column last week, there are no grown-ups on the other side of the aisle. Flashback: Netroots vs. Rightroots: left-wingers love blackface Flashback: The vile bile […]

Silly season: House candidate Deb Eddy was unrepentant Friday in the wake of Republican Party charges that she’d violated the law by taking their campaign signs, which accuse her of backing higher taxes. “She just completely lost it and took the law into her own hands,” said King County Republican Party Chair Mike Young. “And […]

…without tearing each other’s throats apart: here’s part of my conversation with an old lefty college friend, Bill Scher of Liberal Oasis. Extremely misguided and dead wrong on so many issues, but one of the nicest people I met at Oberlin. Sometimes, especially now, it’s good to remind ourselves that we can disagree vehemently over […]

Melanie Phillips looks at global warming hysteria and “airconomics” across the pond.

Mainstream newspapers continue to bleed: The Los Angeles Times reported that daily circulation fell 8% to 775,766. Sunday dropped 6% to 1,172,005 The San Francisco Chronicle was down. Daily dropped 5.3% to 373,805 and Sunday fell 7.3% to 432,957. The New York Times lost 3.5% daily to 1,086,798 and 3.5% on Sunday to 1,623,697. Its […]

Michael J. Fox has gotten all of the attention, but the entertainment industry is trying to sway the elections in many other ways on the ground and on the airwaves. Eco-activist Robert Redford is pushing Prop. 87 in California–a $4 billion oil tax increase in the name of environmental do-goodism. The initiative is funded by […]

This is Capt. Robert M. Secher of the 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force. He was killed by a sniper on Oct. 8 in Iraq while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Anbar Province. Capt. Secher was 33. These are his e-mails to family and friends leading up […]

One year later: France is still burning The “youths” in France–mostly young African and Arab Muslim immigrant men–are at it again: France’s interior minister sent riot police to patrol the southern port city of Marseille on Sunday after a group of marauding teenagers torched a bus, gravely burning a young woman. French police braced for […]