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***bumping back to the top…Webb responds…AUDIO….*** Remember how pathetic it was when the Left tried to make scandals out of books written by Lynne Cheney and Scooter Libby? Cheney wrote a pulpy novel, “Sisters,” about a frontier woman that included graphic sexual passages and lesbian lovers. (A conservative-bashing site reprinted excerpts here.) Libby wrote a [...]

Coming to Berlin The Mozart opera cancelled in Berlin because of fear that Muslims would react violently to an added scene that included the decapitated head of Mohammed (along with the heads of other religious figures) is headed to the stage. BBC reports: The Deutsche Oper in the German capital said the production of Idomeneo [...]

NBC’s Baghdad reporter, Richard Engel, declares: “I think war should be illegal…I’m basically a pacifist.” *** In other news, a BBC reporter embeds with the Taliban. Well, it’s not really news, is it?

The NYTimes spotlights moonbats who have nothing better to do with their time. Like Bryan said last week: These are the people who are going to build a nuclear Google bomb and drop it on the GOP? For some reason, I feel less threatened by this than I guess I should. Their cyber nuke will [...]

The stalwart Robert Spencer, author of yet another best-selling book the MSM doesn’t want to talk about, reports on continued death threats against Afghanistan apostate Abdul Rahman. Watch and learn. Meanwhile, the Jyllands Posten has prevailed in a Danish court, which dismissed a lawsuit by Muslims offended by the paper’s publication of cartoons depicting Mohammed, [...]

***update: Michael J. Fox responds on CBS: he was overmedicated, not acting*** Brian Maloney has a thorough round-up on the Rush Limbaugh vs. Michael J. Fox battle. As expected, the MSM is going bananas over Limbaugh’s pointed commentary. Liberal celebrities stride onto the political stage with an imperial sense of entitlement–expecting to fling barbed criticism [...]

President Bush signed the Secure Fence Act this morning. (Video here.) Efforts to water it down, such as it is, are still underway: Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison, both Texas Republicans, had wanted to amend the fence bill to give local governments more say about where fencing is erected. They lost that battle, [...]

Well, I guess the Jihadist News Network does have some standards: Major U.S. news outlets CNN and National Public Radio will not air paid ads or sponsor announcements for a controversial film depicting the assassination of President George W. Bush, citing the film’s content, network spokeswomen said on Tuesday. The film, “Death of a President,” [...]

Thanks to Michael Barone, whose excellent US News.com blog is a model for dinosaur MSM journalists who are still stuck in the 20th century, you can listen to an hour-long discussion President Bush had with eight conservative columnists. It’s a terrific public service to post the entire on-the-record conversation. More mainstream media outlets should do [...]

Breaking news you won’t find on Google’s Chinese search engine: A Chinese court on Wednesday jailed a dissident for three years for inciting subversion with an Internet essay praising pro-rights protests in Hong Kong, a human rights group said. Li Jianping was sentenced in Zibo, in the eastern province of Shandong, the Hong Kong-based Information [...]

NYTimes ombudsman Byron Calame: (Not) looking out for you A few days ago, I asked NYTimes public editor Byron Calame to explain exactly what he meant when he complained about the Bush administration’s “vicious criticism” of the newspaper’s reckless decision to expose a top-secret terrorist banking data surveillance program. I received a response this afternoon. [...]

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Mary Katharine Ham says “Boo!”

Don’t measure your drapes yet, lady A few weeks ago, while blogging on the road (always a somewhat risky thing to do), I glibly mentioned the possibility of sitting at home for the midterms over heated disagreement with the Bush administration on immigration. Many grass-roots conservatives have grievances with how the White House has handled [...]

Bryan Preston digs deeper in an interview today with author Paul Kengor about that reported translated memo from the KGB archives, dated May 14, 1983, that describes an offer made to the KGB on behalf of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) by former Senator John Tunney (D-CA), a fellow Democrat and close friend of Kennedy’s. [...]

Unhinged A follow-up on my continuing series tracking Peace Activists Gone Wild: A New Zealand peace activist has been jailed in Britain for eight months for attacking a rock singer leaving him in a coma. Christiaan Briggs, who acted as a human shield in Iraq, admitted punching 19-year-old singer Billy Leeson following an argument on [...]

Coming up in 15 minutes. Allah will have vid at Hot Air and I’ll have more to say after it starts. Stay tuned. Rich Lowry thinks Bush will “help himself” with this appearance. Will it help Republicans? John McIntyre examines: “How Bad Will Iraq Hurt the GOP?” *** 10:36am. “As the enemy shifts tactics, we [...]

Paul Greenberg has a hilarious syndicated column out today about Paul Krugman’s ridiculous record of prognostication: It started out as a gag here on the editorial page of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and soon became a superstition: Every time the stock market took a little dip, we’d reprint one of Paul Krugman’s dour columns from the [...]

Charles at LGF sends word that left-leaning Google has now registered a political action committee. The Guardian writes: Google’s PAC will be run by a five-person board of directors who will be guided by the recommendations of an advisory committee made up of Google employees. It will raise its funds through voluntary donations from staff. [...]

A soldier and his family in need Dave Logan writes that a milblogger who served in Afghanistan, SPC Reid Stanley, needs help: For those of you who haven’t seen or heard about SC EAGLE: SC’s a milblogger stationed overseas with his family. Originally, Afghanistan, now Germany. He has a wife, Ellicia, and 3 little ones. [...]

Howie at The Jawa Report points me to Juba Online, an apparent jihadi sniper site that glorifies the murder of our American soldiers. They’ve been around for a year. The site affiliates itself with the Islamic Army, which happens to be the same group that supplied CNN the Global Sniper News Network with its terrorist [...]

David Zucker is back with The Taxman Ad. Michael J. Fox is back. First, Missouri. Now, Maryland.

When are ethnic insults by politicians okay? When the politicians are Democrats, of course. Here’s the audio.

Bethany takes on political poseurs making calculated church appearances.

Here’s a bit of a report by Candy Crowley at the Jihadist Sniper News Network putting people to a Democrat word association test (here’s the link, but you don’t need to click): On the cusp of an election that could overturn the Republican majority on Capitol Hill, I jokingly asked a senior Democratic aide whether [...]

Moonbats disrupt the Connecticut Senate debate. Three men (and one useless journalist wincing on the side) are on the stage. What do they do? Democrat Ned Lamont sits on his hands. Independent Joe Lieberman pouts. Moderator George Stephanopoulos wheedles. Republican Alan Schlesinger shows ‘em all how it’s done. Watch the video and learn. *** The [...]

As you can tell from my O’Reilly appearance tonight, I am not in a good mood. I am not in the mood to hear about how CNN is justified in broadcasting “great footage” of American soldiers getting picked off by Iraqi snipers because it’s “great footage.” I am not in the mood to hear about [...]

Get a load of the BDS-infected Agence France-Presse caption accompanying a screenshot of the Republican National Committee website. I am not making this up (hat tip: reader Joe M.): Reminding Americans of the ever-present dangers of jihad is resorting to “utter fear?” Here’s another one accompanying a photo of President Bush: Can you imagine them [...]

Dammit. Watch this story and pray for the translator and his family (caveat below). Hat tip: Bob Owens. Reuters reports: A U.S. soldier was reported missing in Baghdad on Monday, the military said. The soldier, part of a multi-national division in the Iraqi capital, went missing at about 7:30 p.m. local time, the U.S. military [...]

Glenn Reynolds has a poll running on how the midterms should go. Go vote.