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A few days ago, I noted Jane Fonda’s scheduled appearance tomorrow at a Navy Memorial protest. She’ll be joined by legions of others coming to Washington, D.C. this weekend: Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to gather in Washington, D.C., this weekend for a major anti-war rally — the first of several events designed [...]

…the Associated (with Booty Calls) Press would pick up my videoblog? Click for the explanation: *** On a serious note, Charles Johnson is keeping an eye on an evolving AP report. Allah’s got more.

***11:52am update: “The Pelosi delegation visited the heavily fortified Green Zone, site of the American Embassy, and met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. “We come out of the meeting with a greater understanding of the others’ point of view,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said, in brief remarks after the meeting.”*** — Reuters reports: U.S. House of [...]

Gerard Baker lays bare the vaulting ambition of America’s Lady Macbeth.

Jules Crittenden discovers a left-wing war plan–from Michael Moore.

Blogger polls results at Right Wing News.

What the open-borders entitlement culture has wrought (via Chicago Sun-Times): Winning a Chevrolet Corvette is the stuff of dreams. In Maribel Nava Alvarez’s case, it has been a nightmare. The former Little Village resident said officials with local radio station La Ley 107.9 FM and its parent company, Spanish Broadcasting System, withheld the gray sports [...]

Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, Alexandra, is getting a lot of attention for her documentary about evangelical Christians, which airs tonight in less than an hour on HBO. Allah has video of her appearance last night on Hannity and Colmes here. She joked that evangelicals refer to HBO as “Hell’s Box Office”–a sound-bite-friendly gag line that she [...]

The Center for Consumer Freedom is blogging the PETA animal cruelty trial in North Carolina over at PetaKillsAnimals.com. Check back often for updates. And have this chart handy the next time your vegan college kids or favorite Hollywood starlet starts proselytizing for PETA: *** Previous PETA blogging.

A couple of convictions just handed down (via the Cleveland Plain Dealer): A jury found two Cuyahoga County elections workers guilty Wednesday of charges that they skirted Board of Elections procedures to thwart a countywide ballot recount after the divisive 2004 presidential election. The jury convicted Kathleen Dreamer, 40, of Cleveland and Jacqueline Maiden, 59, [...]

Jeez, I thought only liberal arts undergrads in the 1990s quibbled about this stuff (Hotline Blog via Drudge): Among the things attendees at this morning’s National Journal /NBC post-SOTU breakfast learned was that it is no longer politically correct in the House Dem caucus to refer to the newly elected members from ’06 as “Freshmen.” [...]

Read Scott W. Johnson’s answer at Power Line.

Bill Ardolino is on his way home after a month-long embed in Iraq. He’s done terrific work, has much more in store, and reflects: This trip has briefly exposed me to personal extremes of stress, humor, camaraderie, nobility, savagery, hope, despair, fear and excitement, either as an observer or participant. I’ve arrived at a better [...]

…for salvation. Patterico, as always, has sage advice for the West Coast dog trainer.

Talking the talk–it’s a start: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed on Thursday that his crackdown in Baghdad would leave militants nowhere to hide, even if they sought refuge in mosques or schools. In a speech to parliament, Maliki urged politicians on all sides to support his Baghdad security plan, backed by some 17,000 U.S. [...]

…to President Bush?

Dawn Eden reports that Yale medical students are celebrating “Roe v. Wade week” by holding a seminar, open to non-medical students, on how to perform abortions.

Mohammed Fadhil, Pajamas Media Editor and Special Correspondent, Baghdad, files a report from the streets of the Iraqi capital as security ops ramp up: Today in Baghdad, American troops not only man checkpoints on main streets, but are also running daily patrols through the inner streets in residential blocs. Typically a patrolling unit will choose [...]

Hanoi Jane is scheduled to appear at an anti-war protest at the Navy Memorial this weekend. From the United for Peace website: 10am: Women Say Pull Out! Women’s Convergence for DC Mobilization Join Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Lynn Woolsey, Rhea Perlman, Eve Ensler, Mimi Kennedy, Q’orianka Kilcher, the Co-founders of CODEPINK [...]

Make sure to take time and check out our video report on the streets of northern Baghdad with the Dagger Brigade. And don’t miss Bryan’s compare-and-contrast analysis of MSM war reporting and counterinsurgency coverage in various parts of the capital. *** Meantime, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted to oppose the surge.

Ain’t nobody to blame but himself.

Well, I see the news about the pre-State of the Union immigration raids–intended to soften up conservative opposition to the coming illegal alien amnesty–is getting big play. Misleading play. The top-left corner headline this morning at Drudge reads “Officials catch 761 illegals in Los Angeles.” But click through to the LA Daily News story and [...]

Ian Schwartz has a photo gallery of sleepyheads at the State of the Union Address last night. *** A reader who attended the SOTU speech e-mails: Regarding the sleepyheads item on your blog, I think a lot of them were reading the President’s address along with him as he gave it. …. Every attendee gets [...]

Debra Muhl, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, is a military nurse who has served in combat zones for 30 years. She works for Sutter Health, a health care provider in the Bay Area, as administrative director of the joint cardiac program Or rather, she used to work for Sutter Health. According [...]

This has been a long time coming (via SFgate.com): The arrest and charging of a group of former black militants Tuesday for the 1971 slaying of a San Francisco police sergeant ends decades of frustration for investigators who say the men were soldiers in a five-year war on law enforcement in the late 1960s and [...]

Jim Hoft thinks there might be disruptions from the balcony. Brit Hume says Nancy Pelosi put on a new outfit for her historic moment at the last minute because she spilled chocolate on her suit. Madame Speaker Hang in there, Dick Everything’s already anticlimactic from here. The full SOTU text is up–and so is Democrat [...]

I filed my State of the Borders column this afternoon. Didn’t need to wait for President Bush’s State of the Union Address to know what’s in store: the coming amnesty disaster. More on that tomorrow. In the meantime, as is the White House m.o., the feds put on another last-minute dog-and-pony show to show their [...]

That’s what Lt. Gen. David Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning. It needs to be underlined and it is up the Commander-in-Chief to bolster national will moving forward. That’s what the troops repeatedly and candidly told us on our embed trip, too. It’s not just about stopping the violence in Iraq and [...]

Mark at The Ouwet Front has photos. Michael Totten is keeping on top of breaking developments.