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Via KOCO: Say what?!
The University of Oklahoma has put up a memorial to a student who died when a homemade bomb exploded near the OU football stadium.
A stone with the name of Joel Hinrichs III was placed outside the OU student union by the student affairs division.
Hinrichs died Oct. 1, 2005, when the bomb he [...]

From milblogger Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette.

Hot Air invites you to participate in a sing-a-long tribute to Rosie O’Donnell–with apologies to The Sound of Music (click to watch):

So long, Rosie
Lyrics by Bryan Preston
Piano accompaniment by Michelle Malkin
There’s a mad sort of ranting
On the show called The View
With applause from the audience, too
But up in Babwa’s office
An absurd question bird
Is popping out [...]

The Examiner recommends where the president should exercise it.

***Update: Here’s the column….scroll down for excerpt…***

Nutroots target David Broder–new member of the VRWC?
Since “Important Action Alert” is trademarked by MyDD, a TPM blogger has issued a “BLOGSWARM ALERT!” rousing the nutroots over a column by diehard liberal David Broder that hasn’t even appeared in print yet:
Blogswarm alert!
It looks as if David Broder’s column tomorrow [...]

The Five Myths of Harry: Debunked in one handy guide.
Update 930pm Eastern: FNC reporting that House has passed the Iraq surrender deadline bill.
Here’s the AP story:
A sharply divided House brushed aside a veto threat Wednesday and passed legislation that would order President Bush to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq by Oct. 1.
The 218-208 vote came [...]

Lots of readers e-mailed to ask about the disappearance of The American Thinker. Good news: They’re back! Bad news: They were victims of a domain registration scam. Thomas Lifson has the full report.

Egad:
“He pulled the rifle from the trunk of his Mercedes, removed the Bush & Cheney pictures from the office, and promised to be back if Bush vetoed the emergency war spending bill!” -Nevada Republican Party Executive Director Zachary Moyle.
Jim Hoft has much more.
I’ll add this one to the Unhinged Mugshot Collection.

It dawns on someone in the media elite: Better late than never.
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Bruce Kesler notes:
Blog reports about Marvin Kalb’s Harvard Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy study, The Israel-Hezbollah War of 2006: The Media as a Weapon in Asymmetrical Conflict, (40-page PDF) are quoting heavily from the report on the study at World [...]

Please see these petitions, organized by Prof. Lawrence Lessig, asking the RNC & DNC:
…to require of any network broadcasting Presidential debates (at least) that they license the debates freely after they are initially broadcast — either by putting the debates into the public domain, or by permitting anyone to use or remix the contents of [...]

The Defeatocrats’ cheer:

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The Washington Times: Harry Reid is lost
Maj. Eric Egland: The Troops Need You. Video here.
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Will the Dems disavow Loser Harry?
More messages for Harry “Lost It” Reid from Iraq
Harry Reid: Anti-motivational speaker
Lieberman slaps Reid: “We should not surrender in the face of barbarism”
Raising The White Flag
More letters for Harry “Lost It” Reid
An invitation for [...]

Oh, snap

My syndicated column this week:
In 1992, Bill Clinton hit a political home run with his “Sister Souljah” moment. In 2007, Hillary Clinton suffered a reverse “Sister Souljah” strikeout. If it’s not the end of her presidential aspirations, it should be.
Allow me to explain. Fifteen years ago, then-Gov. Clinton was looking to solidify his [...]

Update: Video of the announcement…plus speculation on the replacement. Margaret Cho? Whoopi?
***Update: Reportedly confirmed***

That seems to be the buzz.
Here was her vulgar performance at the Matrix awards in case you missed it. Lorie has a big round-up.
I said earlier this month that ABC was not going to do the responsible thing and and [...]

Here’s Paul Belien’s take.

Lorie Byrd asks.

From their own shareholders (via Bloomberg News; hat tip: Daniel G):
New York Times Co. shareholders, led by Morgan Stanley, withheld 42 percent of their votes from directors to protest the Sulzberger family’s control over the company.
About 52.5 million of the 124.2 million shares voted declined to support the re-election of directors, New York Times spokeswoman [...]

The NYPost hammers Defeatist Harry:
From the start, Reid and the Democrats have seen the war in Iraq as a partisan opportunity.
They refuse to present a unified front to the rest of the world – especially to America’s enemies – because, in their pinched view, to do so would be to weaken their own prospects for [...]

Celebration.

Hugh Hewitt at Townhall takes on law professor Geoffrey Stone–the “Rosie O’Donnell of the law school world.”

Read it.

Joe Lieberman spanked Harry Reid over the weekend. Will any other Democrat do the same? The NRSC calls on Sen. Mary Landrieu to disavow Sen. Reid’s defeatist comments regarding the war in Iraq:

Where does she stand?
How about Jay Rockefeller? Tom Harkin? Anyone?
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More messages for Harry “Lost It” Reid from Iraq
Harry Reid: Anti-motivational speaker
Lieberman slaps Reid: [...]

Did you catch this? (Hat tip: Reader Wade) In addition to her one toilet square paper-per-sitting quota, eco-zealot Sheryl Crow also advocates “dining sleeves” to replace napkins. Seriously:
I also like the idea of not using paper napkins, which happen to be made from virgin wood and represent the height of wastefulness. I have designed a [...]

Lawrence O’Donnell’s gun ignorance was on full display on The McLaughlin Group.
Carolyn McCarthy showed hers last week.
And more on Yale’s anti-gun idiocy from Inside Higher Ed:
It was six hours before opening night. Sarah Holdren, director of a Yale student production, had just entered the theater for a routine pre-performance errand when the man who runs [...]

***Update: The Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial board spanks Harry Reid***
Former Marine and current embed J.D. Johannes reports from Fallujah: “Doesn’t Look Lost To Me.”
Just back inside some civilized wire (Camp Fallujah) and am reading Harry Reid’s declaration on the war in Iraq being lost.
The odd thing is that I think there are parts of Al [...]

Last night, I blogged about Hillary talkin’ like a homegirl at Al Sharpton’s demagogue-a-thon.
More at HA, where see-dubya quips:
MEMO TO HILLARY: When your name is “Clinton”, and you attack the ethics of the Bush administration…
DO NOT MENTION THE OVAL OFFICE CARPET.
Er, yeah.
Ick.
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Victor Davis Hanson weighs in:
Will anyone ever become offended that Sen Clinton serially now [...]

Musician/celebutante Sheryl Crow proposes a one square of toilet paper-per-sitting quota to offset deforestation.
That’s going to be a tough rule to enforce–what with eco-Hollyweirdos so, you know, full of crap.
Meanwhile, in Manhattan, wealthy socialites help rescue the planet by plunking down a few pennies for Shaklee cleaning products and energy-saving bulbs for their closets. But [...]

Sarkozy and Royal headed for a runoff.
Yesterday: Whither France?

Coming to Washington, D.C.:
While illegal aliens and their supporters take to the streets to demand amnesty and other benefits, ordinary Americans take to the radio airwaves to express their anger at their government’s failure to enforce laws against illegal immigration.
During the week of April 22, the radio airwaves of America, along with hundreds of listeners [...]

Well, this will get people to forget about his $400 Beverly Hills haircuts…
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards told Michigan Democrats Saturday night that the United States must quickly get out of Iraq, which he called a “bleeding sore.”
“America needs to be leaving Iraq, this is very, very simple,” said Edwards, a 53-year-old former U.S. [...]