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Marc Danziger is raising money to fight retreatist politicians:
I’m a liberal Democrat (pro-gay marriage, pro-choice, pro-progressive taxation, pro-equal rights, pro-environmental regulation, pro-public schools) who supported and supports the war in Iraq. As I tell my liberal friends “Did I miss the part where it was progressive not to fight medieval religious fascists?”
I’ve been waiting for […]

From Ground Zero to Boston to Hawaii to soCal.

Bill Ardolino has a first-hand report on Marines and Iraqi Army working and surviving together during that chlorine gas attack on the Fallujah Government Center.

Read it and send your thanks and best wishes to our troops and their Iraqi counterparts.

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How would the MSM cover an artist exhibition of a “Chocolate Mohammed” timed to coincide with Ramadan?
They wouldn’t.
But find an artist to mock Jesus at Easter with a chocolate sculpture…

…and you’ll get wall-to-wall coverage. “Chocolate Jesus” is on Fox, MSNBC, and ABC. And CNN. And all over the web.
No pixelation. No withholding the photos […]

A reader sends her e-mail exchange with the still AWOL San Francisco Chronicle:
From: Erika
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:41 PM
To: SFReaderRep
Subject: Dianne Feinstein
Do you plan on reporting about Dianne Feinstein’s resignation of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee? She is a SF gal, after all??
Erika
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From: Rogers, Dick (mailto:DRogers@sfchronicle.com) On Behalf Of SFReaderRep
Sent: Friday, March […]

Richard at EU Referendum pounds away at the Brits’ bungling of the hostage crisis:
[A]s more details emerge of the snatch, it has emerged that only two boats were initially used by the Iranians. Video footage has been released by Iranian television showing close-ups of one of the vessels, a small speedboat with a crew of […]

Dr. Helen shares some good advice.

Jerry Seper at the WashTimes reports that two execs of the Golden State Fence Company–hired by the U.S. government to help build a fence along the Southwest border to curb the flow of illegal aliens into the United States–have been sentenced on charges of hiring illegals for the job.
The judge in the case, and […]

Waiting for the next Harry Potter book to arrive:
Guantanamo Bay - “War on terror” detainees at Guantanamo are avid Harry Potter readers and eagerly await the next book in the series featuring the schoolboy wizard, the camp librarian says.
While religion tops the reading lists of the overwhelmingly Muslim detainees, Harry Potter was a big favourite, […]

Now that Sen. Dianne Feinstein has resigned under an ethical cloud from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, where she sat while voting for appropriations worth billions to her husband’s firms, I am wondering:
Will she also be resigning from the Senate Rules Committee?

Ruh roh. Waiting for the nutroots to issue their “action alerts” to bully the CBC into pulling out…
Update: Here you go…

NYTimes notes: “This isn’t the first time the C.B.C. has paired with Fox. It did so in 2003 as a runup to the 2004 election cycle.”
Here’s the official Fox News announcement:
NEW YORK & WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–FOX […]

Some MSM types were not too happy about President Bush citing the words of Baghdad bloggers and Pajamas Media editors Omar and Mohammed Fadhil yesterday in his remarks to the press. Check out the anti-blog editorializing in this Associated (with terrorists) Press account:
To back up his point that pulling out of Iraq would be a […]

The Senate passes the Retreat Deadline bill.
Forty-eight Democrats and independent Bernard Sanders of Vermont were joined by two Republicans, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Gordon Smith of Oregon, in voting for the measure. Opposed were 46 Republicans and Connecticut independent Joseph Lieberman.
Sens. Mike Enzi, R-Wy., and Tim Johnson, D-S.D., did not vote.
Hello, veto.
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N.Z. Bear at […]

Is DiFi dirty? In January, I linked to Metroactive’s extensive investigation of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s conflict of interests as a member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee who voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband’s firms.
Looks like Metroactive’s work may have had an effect. They report on Feinstein’s resignation from the subcommittee yesterday:
SEN. Dianne […]

The latest in the hostage stand-off:
Iran may delay the release of the female British sailor if Britain takes the issue to the U.N. Security Council or freezes relations, the country’s top negotiator Ali Larijani said Thursday. The Foreign Office in London, meanwhile, said Britain is seeking condemnation of Iran at the United Nations.

The White House has set up a get well page for readers who want to send their best to Tony Snow. Internet director David Alamancy writes: “Under ‘Features’ section, you will find a link at the top right-hand corner of the page where you can send Tony a note. We’ll make sure he gets it.”
Go […]

Hey, WaPo: Your bias is showing.

Check out our Spartacus-inspired PSA in support of the citizen John Does threatened by CAIR and the litigious imams for reporting suspicious behavior:

(Thanks to the cast and crew: Uncle Jimbo, Robert Spencer, Erick Stakelbeck, and Bryan Preston.)
My column this week also covers the new John Doe movement and lays down the John Doe manifesto:
Dear […]

President Bush is talking about progress in the war in Iraq. I believe he is now quoting Iraq the Model!
Yep, he quoted from Mohammed and Omar Fadhil’s piece in the WSJ:
The brightest image of the past two weeks was the scene of displaced families returning home; more than a thousand families are back to their […]

***update: video of “confession“***
So says Iran.
Faye Turney is a sea survival specialist who told British media that she loves her job, knew the risk going in, and had set her heart on life in the Royal Navy.
The rest of the hostages are reportedly to be paraded on television. Pajamas Media is tracking breaking developments. Melanie […]

“Kathy Sierra” is currently the top search term at Technorati.com. Sierra is a tech blogger here. Yesterday, she announced she would not appear at a public convention because anonymous death threats and nasty comments had left her terrified and house-bound:
I have cancelled all speaking engagements.
I am afraid to leave my yard.
I will never feel the […]

House GOP strikes back at the litigious imams, reports the Washington Times in a web-only exclusive. Audrey Hudson writes:
House Republicans today surprised Democrats with a procedural vote to protect public-transportation passengers from being sued if they report suspicious activity — the first step by lawmakers to protect “John Doe” airline travelers already targeted in a […]

Meet Selena Roberts.

N.Z. Bear at The Victory Caucus has created a handy index to the key provisions in the Dems’ emergency supplemental bill so you can see all the pork for yourselves.
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Update: The Senate approves a troop withdrawal deadline.
Here’s the roll and more.
Austin Bay minces no words: “Veto it,” he writes. “Shame on Nebraska’s Senators Hagel […]

They’re back.
ERA is back from the dead, and that great champion of women’s rights, Teddy (Owl Club) Kennedy is leading the resurrection:
WASHINGTON, March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Senator Ted Kennedy (D- MA), Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Ellie Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority and strong leader on […]

Look what happened to John McCain’s MySpace page.
Whoops. Lesson learned.

Local D.C. station WJLA reports Sen. James Webb’s aide, Phillip Thompson, is scheduled to appear in court this afternoon: “An aide to Senator Jim Webb is expected to appear before a D.C. Superior Court magistrate judge Tuesday. Phillip Thompson faces weapons violations following his arrest at the Russell Senate Office Building late Monday morning. Thompson […]

The Maryland House last night voted 81 to 57 for a bill that gives in-state tuition discounts to illegal aliens at universities and community colleges.
The illegal alien Pander-lympics continues.

Terrible news…Fox reporting…Cancer has spread to Tony Snow’s liver…Hat tip - AP (Bush statement video added).
Mike Emmanuel: “Tony is a fighter.”
He is also a real mensch. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino: “He said he’s going to beat it again,” Perino said in an emotional morning briefing with White […]