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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 you […]

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 Hope of Winning […]

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. John Kerry […]

***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 will cover […]

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 degrees, and the rest are
working on […]

***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 stuck […]

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 three days […]

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 Villepin said.
The […]

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 frame time […]

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 helicopter […]

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 we have to […]

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 she’s a […]

…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 sister publication, The […]

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 Hollywood […]

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 to […]

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 violence this […]

The College of William and Mary has decided to make its famous campus chapel less “faith specific” and more “welcoming” by getting rid of the cross on its altar.
Administrators huff that they’re not tossing the cross aside–just putting it away when necessary to prevent students from being offended:
In an e-mail to the college community Friday, […]

Just in time for Halloween, Fidel Castro makes a TV appearance:

Val Prieto takes a closer look at that ADIDAS track suit.

The Associated (with terrorists) Press reported yesterday on a lobbying campaign to free its Iraqi-based photographer Bilal Hussein, who has been in U.S. military detention since April (a fact first reported not by the A(w/t)P, but here on this blog).
Who is spearheading the Free Bilal lobbying campaign? Yup, the A(w/t)P:
The U.S. military’s indefinite detention of […]

Christopher Soghoian, a PhD student in the School of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington, created a fake boarding pass generator to expose flaws in airport security. A reader sent this link to the generator, but it looks like it has been taken down.
Looks like he could be in big trouble for blowing the whistle. Wired […]

Jerry Taylor: Targeted on a Tucson golf range
Lee Malvo, one of the convicted Beltway-area snipers, has confessed to another murder:
Convicted Washington-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo confessed to police that he and cohort John Allen Muhammad were responsible for the 2002 killing of a 60-year-old man on a Tucson golf course, Tucson authorities said Friday.
“He admitted […]

***see updates…Ed Morrissey comes forward with details about how the Allen campaign approached him to disseminate the Webb novel passages. He declined…***
I’ll be on FNC’s Big Story with John Gibson, 5pm Eastern, to talk about dirty politics and blabbermouths.
Update: Here’s the vid. I believe I garbled “ends” and “means,” but you get what I mean. […]

Find out whose “wickedness” Mark Steyn is talking about in part two of my interview with him on Hot Air TV. Yes, we talked about sex in part one. But nothing smutty. Just real issues. Remember them?
Update: Apropos of our discussion about the need for feminists rising up to challenge Islam, that Australian imam who […]

Don Murphy is the producer of Natural Born Killers, Apt Pupil, Double Dragon, and The Transformers movie. He was the former business partner of unhinged, trash-talking, blackface-endorsing left-wing blogger, Jane Hamsher.
These people can’t express themselves without sinking into the gutter. Here’s Murphy’s response to pro-life actors Patricia Heaton and Jim Cavaziel, posted on his website […]