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Oh, this is just side-splitting. The Daily Kos summons up the Black Box Brigades and launches a fund-raising drive to fight evil Diebold, which Kos thinks stole a congressional election from a Democrat in Florida’s 13th district.
“These are the opening salvos in what will be the battle to end Diebold,” he proclaims. Except for one [...]

Just in: It’s Boehner and Blunt. Background at N.Z. Bear’s. And Allah’s got all the latest.
On the Senate side, Mitch McConnell says he is ready to start killing things. It’s a start.
The Examiner slams the pork-besotted GOP. Speaking of which, Betsy Newmark notes that Sen. Ted Stevens–Boss Hog himself–has announced he’ll run for re-election [...]

***scroll for updates…CAIR jumps in…of course…bumping to the top…update 0837 added e-mail from UCLA student…***
Been getting e-mails about this all night. Here’s the video. The usual police-bashers are attacking campus security for taking extreme measures when the student repeatedly refused to show ID and physically defied them. The student is out of control. A mob [...]

Victimized…again
Six years ago, I took aim at the broadcast media’s shameless coverage of O.J. Simpson. That included Fox. Flashback, July 28, 2000, “Stop milking the O.J.:”
On Tuesday, Simpson appeared on “Fox News Live” in the afternoon and on “The Edge With Paula Zahn” in prime time. The network’s website hyped the interviews, which coincided with [...]

I noted six days ago that folks who were getting hysterical over the not-yet-filed, publicity-seeking lawsuit against Don Rumsfeld should calm down before going ballistic on Germany.
Well, lookee here: Time magazine, which hyped the scoop, is now pulling an Emily Litella. Suit’s not likely to happen, after all.
Allah has more on the anatomy of [...]

I wonder to whom he was selling these stolen goods? Maybe al-Reuters will tell us. Or not (via Ynetnews/hat tip: Rusty):
Police arrested a Reuters photographer from Qalqilya on suspicion that he possessed stolen goods.
According to suspicions, the man, 34, sells stolen electronic goods in his Qalqilya store, where 50 laptops, 8 digital cameras, 40 video [...]

One of America’s greatest intellectual heroes of freedom passed away last night.
Here’s the Friedman Foundation’s statement:
Today, upon news of the death of Nobel Laureate economist Dr. Milton Friedman, Gordon St. Angelo, president and CEO of the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation, offered the following statement:
America has lost a true visionary and advocate for human [...]

***update: Dems’ kiss and make-up video is here…more on the Murtha redeployment…***
Pelosi’s in. Now, NRO’s Jonathan Martin (terrific addition to The Corner) reports, the voting for Majority Leader has commenced. He’s filing from the Capitol:
The nominating speeches are over, and House Democrats are voting now to choose their new Majority Leader.
For Rep. John Murtha, [...]

Sisayehiticha Dinssa, 35, an unemployed man traveling from Nigeria by way of Amsterdam and headed for Phoenix, was arrested Tuesday at Detroit International Airport after security officials searched him and found him carrying nearly $80,000 in cash and a laptop computer containing information about nuclear materials and cyanide.
Could be something. Could be nothing. In [...]

Lifter?
On Tuesday, Michael Moore published a much-heralded “letter to disheartened conservatives.” He was so proud of his manifesto that he turned it into a petition–which now has more than 17,000 signatures.

It goes on like this:
Dear Conservatives and Republicans,
I, and my fellow signatories, hereby make these promises to you:
1. We will always respect you for [...]

Bay Area JROTC members: Casualties of San Francisco values
I’ve received tons of letters in response to my post yesterday on the San Francisco school board’s decision to kill its JROTC program. I’m reprinting a sample, plus one published in the San Francisco Chronicle this morning and another received by California Conservative, which is tracking the [...]

David Limbaugh has good advice for the Republican Party gone astray:
The antidote for what ails the Republican Party and the nation today is not to surrender to the destructive policies of the Democratic Party. But in the next few years, conservatives need to resurrect a defining, unifying message, which might result in some realignments. The [...]

YouTube (which never seems to respond to e-mail from customers) sent out a cease-and-desist letter to top tech blogger Michael Arrington of TechCrunch:
Buried in my email this evening I found a cease and desist letter from an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, representing their client YouTube. We’ve been accused of a number of [...]

Since the 9/11 attacks, I’ve reported and blogged extensively about the national security risks posed by the religious worker visa program (”R visa”).
One of the points I’ve tried to stress in the homeland security/immigration debate is that it’s not just back-door illegal immigration that remains a big problem. Front-door exploitation and lax enforcement of visa [...]

More from the Clean House Dems:
John Kass at the Chicago Trib reports on some funny business involving U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, and their cozy relations with Antoin “Tony” Rezko–who has been indicted in an alleged kickback scheme involving state pension fund investments and Republicans and Democrats, a massive federal investigation the [...]

Just when the MSM focus had fixed on the Democrats’ culture of corruption and business-as-usual, along come Beltway Republicans to remind us of how lame the GOP leadership is.
Trent Lott is back.
Flashback 2002: I called Trent Lott the Republican Party’s eternal Maalox moment.
Nothing’s changed.
Meanwhile, RNC chair Mel Martinez is demonizing grass-roots conservatives who support [...]

Dirtbag then, dirtbag now
My woman-to-woman advice for Nancy Pelosi today: To clean a house, you take the garbage out, not in.
Jan. 12, 2006: Pelosi Announces ‘Clean House Team’ to Address Republican Culture of Corruption
“It is long past time for the Congress to address the systemic Republican culture of corruption that has undermined the American people’s [...]

“San Francisco values” prevailed last night. Some 1,600 students of all backgrounds will now be robbed of a valuable training program that immunized them against the anti-military hatred that infests the Bay Area:
SAN FRANCISCO — High schools across the city soon will no longer have Junior Reserve Officers’Training Corps programs after officials decided to [...]

Great. Just great:
Sen. Mel Martinez, who will become the new general chairman of the Republican Party after it lost control of Congress, said on Tuesday he would not be an “attack dog” in the 2008 White House race.
…”One of the things that I made clear as I discussed this job role with the president is [...]

Allah posted this last week. Cracked. Me. Up. Click to watch a busy morning in the Life of a Blogger:

“I’m blogging right now. Take a message.”

The New York Times published excerpts this weekend from Iraq war veterans who have contributed on-the-ground diary accounts to the New York State Veteran Oral History Program. This one was eye-catching:
First Sgt. Kevin Lyons, Third Armored Cavalry Regiment
FOX NEWS
Finally some local Iraqis went across the Syrian border, and they were buying televisions and satellite dishes. [...]

Andy Ostroy has posted a poignant message about his wife, Adrienne Shelly, whose accused murderer, illegal alien day laborer Diego Pillco, reportedly tried to cover up the crime by faking a suicide scene.
New Yorkers speak out about compromised borders and safety. A sample:
Adrienne Shelly did not commit suicide but was murdered, allegedly by an [...]

Flashback: US News ,Time magazine, and the smelly fire
Charles Johnson reports on a damning new twist in the ongoing Middle East fauxtography scandal:
You’re not going to believe this one.
All our suspicions about mainstream media slanting and distorting the news from the Middle East are confirmed in a bombshell of a post by Bruno Stevens, at [...]

The Democrats want John Bolton’s scalp. This is a moment for conservatives to stand up to the Left’s empty, vindictive obstructionism and support a strong voice for America’s interests at the corrupted, soft-on-jihad offices of Turtle Bay.
We’re videoblogging for Bolton over at Hot Air.
Call Congress and make your voice heard here.
Editorial boards weighing in:

The Chicago [...]

“Balls.”
As in: “The Democrats don’t have the balls or guts to do anything about out-of-control entitlement programs.”
The good news: Last time I checked, you can still say “Boo freakin hoo” without getting bleeped.

A glimmer of good news via the Seattle P-I:
Republican Rep. Dave Reichert survived a strong challenge from Democratic newcomer Darcy Burner, winning a second term Monday amid a Democratic wave that swept his party out of power in the House.
Reichert retained his seat after new returns were posted Monday night from King County. His lead [...]

Ian Schwartz has a poll up: Who should be the chairman of the RNC?
Results so far…

What say you?

***update: a reader notes that the RNC chair has to be elected by GOP state chairmen (they meet in January)…are there any out there who are listening to conservatives and who will oppose Martinez?…A RedState blogger calls Martinez “the Harriet Miers of RNC chairs”…send your comments to info@gop.com***
Oh, well. Michael Steele has been passed up [...]

Caution: San Francisco values at work. Even the left-wing San Francisco Chronicle says the political leaders of Baghdad by the Bay have gone too far:
SAN FRANCISCO public schools have problems, but a popular military-themed program isn’t one of them.
Still, a four-vote majority of the seven-member Board of Education is likely this week to cancel the [...]

Oxford University e-mails that it has chosen its word (or rather, phrase) of the year:
“Carbon neutral.”
As in: As long as he flies across the planet bloviating about global warming, Al Gore will fail at efforts to live a carbon neutral lifestyle.
Some of the runners-up:
elbow bump (a greeting in which two people touch elbows, recommended by [...]