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Michael Steele: Smeared again When I first read that House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, had apologized for accusing GOP Senate candidate Michael Steele of “slavishly” supporting the GOP, I thought it might be a case of political correctness run amok. I have criticized his unhinged Democrat attackers before for their obnoxiously over-the-top racist comments. [...]

Support Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Michael Freund at the Jerusalem Post reports on a travesty. Where is CAIR? A Muslim journalist facing charges of sedition for advocating ties with Israel was recently attacked and beaten by a crowd in Bangladesh that allegedly included leading officials of the country’s ruling party, The Jerusalem Post has learned. [...]

Brian Maloney looks at the latest liberal talk radio pipe dream venture involving Joe Trippi, John Zogby, and the shady Drobnys: Nova M Radio. It should ring a bell. Brian also excoriates MSM apologists for the failed libtalk campaign and concludes: No matter how much spin is applied, there’s simply no honest way to disguise [...]

Richard Landes reports on the al Durah fake fauxto trial in France for TNR. The truth matters. *** Previous: The father of all fauxtography When pictures lie Fauxtography archives at LGF

Australian blogger Tim Blair sends a photo tribute to our American population milestone. Now, go forth and multiply. Demographics, as they say, is destiny. *** Contemplating genetic destiny vs. technological advance.

Did you miss “America Alone” author Mark Steyn on Hannity & Colmes last night? No problem. Watch it here. I’d like to see Steyn on Fox every night.

What is it with Reuters cameramen? Via Arutz Sheva: On Tuesday, a Reuters cameraman was remanded to prison until trial for his part in rock-throwing attacks on security forces in Bil’in, where the separation fence is a constant target of protesters. The cameraman, Imad Muhammad Intisar Boghnat, was arrested and charged as a result of [...]

Bethany of realVerse hands out comedy awards on this week’s episode of Press Play at Hot Air TV.

She finally admitted her ridiculous story isn’t true: For more than a decade, one piece of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s informal biography has been that she was named for Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Mount Everest. The story was even recounted in Bill Clinton’s autobiography. But yesterday, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign said she was not [...]

This is a very ominous development–not just for fledgling Internet video networks like 18 Doughty Street , Rocketboom, and Hot Air, but for any blogger who incorporates video into his/her site: EU plans threaten new media development European Union plans to regulate moving images that will threaten new services such as online games and mobile [...]

The Washington Times takes up the fight. The dynamic Brigitte Gabriel talks about YouTube and jihad here. Ragnar at the Jawa Report is doing battle. Noel Sheppard reports on YouTube, Google, and the Liberal Bias Virus. The good news: The conservative YouTubers group now numbers nearly 4,000. The bad: We still are trailing the Bush [...]

Check out tonight’s O’Reilly Factor segment with my sparring partner Kirsten Powers on Oprah, liberal bias, and a special shout-out to the women of The View. (If you’re new to the site and wondering about the new Internet show Kirsten and I were talking about, watch here and read more here.) More on Oprah’s hour-long [...]

The big buzz out of the Lieberman-Lamont debate today was generated by……GOP candidate Alan Schlesinger. Yup. Greg at The Political Pit Bull thinks he was a bit over the top, but agrees Schlesinger made the most of the debate. He’s got video highlights. The New York Times notes that nobody talked much at the debate [...]

Allah’s monitoring the nail-biting voting rounds at the U.N. Security Council. After six passes, it’s a tie between Venezuela and Guatemala. Previous today: Will Hugo Chavez buy a U.N. seat?

Jim Hoft has details of an outspoken Christian pastor assassinated in Indonesia. Rusty Shackleford calls on bloggers to take a stand: There is something that you can do to show your solidarity with Indonesia’s persecuted Christians. Boycott Indonesia. Write your Congressman. Write the Indonesian embassy or call (202) 775 – 5200 Write the consular section [...]

His statement: “Last month, Republicans openly boasted that they would engage in a campaign of personal attacks and smears to hold onto power in Washington. In recent days, we witnessed their latest attempt to do just that. “Republicans may believe in cover-ups. I believe in ensuring all facts come to light. “Last week, a highly [...]

Listen to Cindy Sheehan explain how she buried her “parts” in Texas. Really.

Mary Katharine Ham compares and contrasts campus reactions to the Minutemen and the Mullah man: An Iranian president who can’t unequivocally condemn either Holocaust denial or the death penalty for homosexuality, who lauds Hezbollah, and whose administration jailed hundreds of students for doing the same protesting American college students so treasure? He gets a polite [...]

WSJ editorializes: To understand why so many Americans dislike the U.N., consider that Venezuela, of all countries, stands a chance today of being elected by a vote of the General Assembly to one of the 10 non-permanent seats on the 15-member Security Council. This is the same country whose megalomaniac ruler, Hugo Chávez, ranted against [...]

The Vatican confirms: The Vatican on Monday officially confirmed that Pope Benedict will visit Turkey at the end of November, a trip that had been put into doubt by Muslim anger over controversial comments he made about Islam. The confirmation of the Nov 28-Dec 1 trip to the predominantly Muslim nation came in an advisory [...]

***update: 240pm Eastern. Stewart sentenced to 28 months…a travesty…”She smiled as the judge announced his decision to send her to prison for less than 2 1/2 years.”*** Left-wing radical laywer Lynne Stewart will be sentenced this morning for her role in fomenting jihad for her client, convicted jihadist and NYC bomb plotter Sheik Omar Abdel [...]

First, read the latest headline: One in 10 Indonesia Muslims back violent jihad: poll The details: Around one in 10 Indonesian Muslims support jihad and justify bomb attacks on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali as defending the faith, a survey released on Sunday showed. Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country, with 220 million [...]

The New York Times looks at government-funded Islamic-only schools in Britain: The sports hall doubles as a prayer room and dining hall for male teenagers, at other times for young women, but never the two together. In the kindergarten, female teachers, warned of an impending visit by a man, draw full facial veils before receiving [...]

Patterico rips an L.A. Times columnist who thinks the Columbia University mob should get “credit” for “trying.” Penraker looks at one of the experts the mob-coddler cites and finds him puke-worthy. I second that.

From the 2007 America’s Heroes Reconnaissance Marines Calendar: Yahoo! News caption: In this photo released by Freedom Is Not Free, Sgt. James Wright salutes during the national anthem at a ceremony at the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Va., where he received the Bronze Star Medal with valor device, June 1, 2004. The photo [...]

Brian Maloney smells another shell game coming on. Me, too: How is a company that was registered just a few days ago already in a position to bail out the newly- bankrupt Air America Radio network? From the whirlwind of news developments on this front yesterday, that one jumped right off the page. Why? For [...]

The US Navy turns 231 years old today. A message from the Navy’s Master Chief Petty Officer Joe R. Campa: Throughout our Navy and throughout the year, our various communities celebrate birthdays. From Seabees to Submariners, Corpsmen to the Supply Corps, community birthdays are a source of pride and renewal. October 13, 1775, the birth [...]

Blackfive features the Army’s new recruiting video. He approves.

Remember the special fun project I mentioned yesterday? Well, what if we took The View and reversed the formula (three conservatives and one liberal instead of three liberals and one conservative), turned down the screeching, and demonstrated real diversity on TV? Hot Air TV presents The View with a Clue: Stay tuned for a second [...]

If you read Brian Maloney’s extensive report yesterday on the failed Air America takeover deal with shady nutball Sheldon Drobny, the brief AP dispatch this morning on the liberal network’s filing for bankruptcy will be no surprise: Air America Radio, a liberal talk and news radio network, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a [...]