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News is expected at noon about the health of the better half of the Edwards team. As all of us who have had loved ones who have fought tough battles with terminal illness, I wish her the best.
As for the candidate, I’m not sure he’ll completely withdraw, as many are speculating.
Rick Moran mulls over [...]

You’ve already seen the stories about the Obama-linked video consultant who was unmasked as the creator the anti-Hillary Big Sister ad.
Here’s his confessional at HuffPo, “I made the ‘Vote Different’ Ad:”
Let me be clear: I am a proud Democrat, and I always have been. I support Senator Obama. I hope he wins the primary. (I [...]

I raised my eyebrow about the release of the Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo the other day. Now, the shoe drops:
An Italian journalist who was held hostage for 15 days by the Taliban in lawless southern Afghanistan was ransomed for five Taliban prisoners, the Italian government and Afghan officials confirmed Wednesday.
It appears to be the first [...]

The screenshot is from Cathy’s appearance on the Dennis Miller show in May 2005. Re-reading Cathy’s post on her tangle with Larry O’Scary made me laugh out loud all over again. I imagine Cathy provoked the reaction pictured above–vein-popping, fist-clenching unhingedness–in a lot of her targets who were smart enough not to sit next to [...]

At the Goracle hearing, Sen. Barbara Boxer cattily lorded her power over Sen. James Inhofe during Inhofe’s questioning.
Transcript:
(After Boxer squabbles about the length of Inhofe’s questions to Gore…)
Inhofe: Why don’t we do this? At the end, you can have as much time as you want to answer all of the questions…
Boxer: No, that isn’t the [...]

Compare it to the sentence for drug possession.

Erick Stakelbeck reports.

He blew hot air on Capitol Hill. Skip the hearings. Ignore the Gore-y details.
Buy this antidote instead:

The subpoenas have begun. Hat tip to Patterico for dubbing the Dems’ inquirious phenom.

Australian PM John Howard speaks: “What Iraq and her people need now is time, not a timetable. They seek our patience, not political positioning. They require our resolve, not our retreat.” Read the whole thing.

Jason at Shock and Blog took a closer look at the flag-burning and US soldier effigy-burning party in Portland. He writes: “I haven’t seen anyone pointing this out yet. They’re brainwashing the next generation of troop-haters:”
[update: photo removed at request of original copyright holder,
Rachael Palinkas]
Planting the seeds for the next crop of moonbats…
To paraphrase [...]

The Roanoke Times’ targeting of concealed carry permit holders is the topic of my syndicated column today. Intro:
“The Second Amendment,” Charlton Heston used to say, “is America’s first freedom.” The Second secures the rest.
It’s a message narcissistic journalists need to hear again. A decade ago, Heston chastised the media in a National Press Club [...]

Brian Maloney at the Radio Equalizer reports.

Belated spring break report: While Smash, Blackfive, John Noonan, and Greyhawk held down the fort here last week–and kudos and thanks to all of them for their work–I was at play for a brief, but welcome, respite with my family here…

I took this photo in the lobby of the Nickelodeon Hotel. We stayed in a [...]

Didja know that “D’oh” is trademarked?

Finally owning up to her designation as one of the nation’s worst governors, the beleaguered governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco, bows out.
Why’d she go? Seems clear the writing was on the wall:
In a poll of 600 likely voters taken Jan. 12-14 by Southern Media and Opinion Research, Blanco had a job approval rating of 50 [...]

Some sort of statement from President Bush is expected at 5:45pm Eastern.
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Update II: Video.
Update 5:46pm:
Bush, finally fesity, speaks: No show trials. Will allow key lawmakers to interview members of my staff…I will oppose any attempts to subpoena White House officials.
It was common to hear complaints about attorneys. From both parties. Citizens. Lawmakers.
To US Attorneys: I [...]

A college undergrad in Iran?

Nope, try the University of Toledo.
Brian Boos and Frederick Cooper of the University of Toledo College Republicans e-mailed me about the photo yesterday:
[O]ur student group decided to hold a fundraiser that would raise money and toiletries in order to provide care packages to UT students fighting overseas. We [...]

He brags here.
What the envirozealots really want to know about, though, is his hairspray bill. Are there ozone layer offsets?

The Save the Whales crowd sure has a strange way of showing its love for animals.
Related: PETA kills animals

Letter to the editor in today’s Portland Oregonian:
From the dog wearing the sign “Bow Wow Peace Now” to the black-clad percussion-playing “anarchists” to a woman remembering her 53-year-old friend Ron Paulson, who was killed in Iraq, to the surrealistic black-clad police officers hanging onto vans, flag-draped coffins and magnificent horses, it was quite the [...]

Mitt Romney photoshopped (or rather, “photo/illustrated”) as Fidel Castro on the front cover of the Boston Herald (hat tip - Sondra K)
Hillary Clinton’s Southern accent and black vote pandering were awful.
Mitt Romney’s Spanish accent and Cuban vote pandering look just as bad. The Miami Herald reported yesterday:
Presidential candidate bungles speech in Miami
BY BETH REINHARD
People chuckled [...]

Danish newspaper editor Flemming Rose of the Jyllands-Posten–the publication that bravely printed the Mohammed Cartoons critical of sharia creep and the bullies of jihad–has received an award:
Copenhagen - The Danish newspaper editor who chose to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005 was on Monday awarded a free press prize for his “determination [...]

***Update 12:51 pm: Senate limits Gonzales’ hiring authority***
Bloggers on the left and the right are sifting through the U.S. attorney-gate e-mails–3,000 pages of them now posted on the House Judiciary Committee website.
MSM outlets are digging, too. ABC News reports that beleaguered AG Alberto Gonzales doesn’t use e-mail. NYTimes writes: “The new e-mail provided fresh details [...]

Smash reports.

Nope, I’m not talking about Joe Lieberman.
It’s Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano:
Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano’s recent statements supporting military operations in Iraq and saying she has no plans to call for a troop withdrawal are drawing criticism from her own party who’ve lost patience with the war.
Napolitano made her first visit to Iraq this month at [...]

Jessica McBride sends an alert about a despicable report of anti-war thugs vandalizing and apparently spreading human waste at a military recruitment office:
Police have arrested four people and are questioning about 20 more in connection with vandalism that took place at an east side Army recruiting office tonight.
Officers were called to the 3100 block [...]

I just linked to LGF’s post on the US soldier burned in effigy. Charles Johnson has updated it with a photo of a sign that reads “F*** The Troops.” Here it is (language warning):

In Portland, Oregon.
Yes, question their patriotism.
Speaking of which, the “patriotism” of the moonbats and the Gathering of Eagles were topics briefly discussed tonight on our O’Reilly Factor segment tonight. Fox aired a bit of our Hot Air video report. If you’re just checking in for the first time tonight and haven’t seen it, go here [...]

Questions remain.