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A heart-warmer: Boy Scouts and middle school musicians give soldiers a homecoming to remember.
Hat tip: Mel Morgan

Really. Sick:
Sheriff’s investigators arrested and charged a Calhoun Community College instructor with making a terrorist threat against herself following the Virginia Tech massacre.
Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely said Penelope Blankenship, 43, of Decatur was arrested Friday on the felony charge and released on $5,000 bond.
Calhoun officials said Blankenship, a criminal justice and psychology instructor, has [...]

The bad news. (MNF-I condemns the killing.)
And the good.

Update: The video is back up.
***Update: Well, isn’t that interesting. The video has been removed.***
***Update: Here’s another working link to the video.***
Like all the other Democrat presidential candidates, Hillary paid homage at Al Sharpton’s demagogue-a-thon this week in NYC. Her made-for-black-audiences accent, which first surfaced in Selma in March, is back. It’s quite a drawl, [...]

Rodger at Are We Lumberjacks? sends some Photoshopped posters for Harry Reid’s Surrender Now campaign:

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Previous:
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 our troops: Letters to Harry Reid

Discover magazine has a neat graphic from Matthew Hurst of Nielsen Buzzmetrics mapping the blogosphere:

Individual dots represent individual blogs. You’re at number 4!

Reader Dwayne e-mailed a photo of his new tattoos, inspired by a column I wrote last fall on the fifth anniversary of 9/11:

Wow. Very cool. For those with lower pain threshholds, you can get the “I will not submit” bumper stickers and shirts by clicking through here. All proceeds are donated to the Families of [...]

Charter member of the Axis of Weasels.
Unemployment rate of 8 percent or higher since 1984. Budget deficits for 27 years running. Economic basket case of the world.
Burning banlieus. Heart of Eurabia and festering anti-Semitism.
Welcome to France.
Socialist failure Jacques Chirac is now on his way out as France heads to the polls this weekend.
The Economist has [...]

Statement from Sen. Joe Lieberman:
WASHINGTON - Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) today made the following statement in response to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s comment that the Iraq War is “lost:”
“This week witnessed horrific terrorist attacks by Islamist extremists in Iraq, killing hundreds of innocent civilians and leading Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to declare that [...]

Click to watch:

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Karol Sheinin on Sharpton-mania: Absurd.
NYSun: Sharpton hosts candidates
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Ed Koch disses Al Sharpton
Hair-raising photo of the morning
Look who’s propping up Al Sharpton
Factor highlights–and the real Al Sharpton
Jeff Jacoby — Al Sharpton: The Democrats’ David Duke
Pagones v. Maddux, Mason and Sharpton - Tawana Brawley Grand Jury Report

Reprinted by permission of Chip Bok and Creators Syndicate
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Related: Don’t believe the war reporting of the McClatchy News Service.
Milblogger COBDanny gives Reid both barrels:
Dear Senator Reid,
Thank you for finally putting this whole Iraq War mess to bed. The timing couldn’t be better for my family.
You see, my son is serving in this “lost war” [...]

Today has been designated “Hokie Hope” day in honor of the VTech victims.
Bells are ringing at noon across the country to remember. Americans are wearing orange and maroon to show solidarity with the VTech campus.
Here’s a running list of memorial services for the students and professors killed on Monday.
PJM Tel Aviv editor Allison Kaplan Sommer [...]

Here’s a second batch of messages from my military readers for Harry Reid and the White Flag Dems:
*Updated 1145am Eastern*
From milblogger Dadmanly:
Senator Reid,
It is difficult to write this letter with any civility, but I think enough people will scream so much, with enough cursing and invective, that I will not need to add any more [...]

Remember that radical La Raza school in Los Angeles? Well, via Lonewacko, here’s the LATimes reporting that the school is suing the L.A. talk show host who first exposed the school’s reconquista roots:
A year-long feud between a talk radio personality and an L.A. charter school is ending up in an unusual court case.
School administrators filed [...]

The NYPost reports: “Former Mayor Ed Koch surprised an almost exclusively black audience yesterday by telling the Rev. Al Sharpton he had spoiled his chance to become “a crossover leader” by refusing to apologize for “the Tawana Brawley hoax.” Sharpton, for once, reportedly had nothing to say in response. If there’s video of this, let [...]

***Updated with lots of emails for Harry***
Active-duty military readers and military bloggers: If you’d like to send a message to the treacherous Harry Reid–who just declared the war in Iraq lost today–e-mail me or leave a trackback. I’ll reprint/link them here as they come in. Here is Reid’s contact form. He really needs to hear [...]

This is making the rounds. Blame George Washington.

The site Media Take Out writes:
A video of Akon dancing provocatively with a young lady has begun making its way around the internet. But not [all is] fun and games in the video.
MediaTakeOut.com has learned that the girl getting “freaked” in the video may only be 14 years [...]

Here’s a petition to memorialize VTech hero, Dr. Liviu Librescu, by renaming Norris Hall in his honor.
Related: Fallen students to be awarded posthumous degrees
Related: Official memorial fund

Video: Shep Smith makes the announcement.
Previous today: Backlash against NBC

Radar Magazine sent me a link to a very interesting interview with Jon Voight, the Hollywood actor and father of Angelina Jolie. Here’s an excerpt:
You recently visited with wounded troops at Walter Reed. What were your impressions?
I was deeply impressed by them. Most I spoke to were young people, around 20 years old. And they [...]

I noted yesterday that the Dems were flocking to Al Sharpton’s annual demagogue-a-thon this week. The photo above comes via the Boston Globe with the following caption:
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards shakes hands with Rev. Al Sharpton after speaking during the ‘Keepers of the Dream Awards Dinner’ Wednesday, April 18, 2007 during the 9th annual [...]

The Party of Cut and Run cuts and runs again:
Democrats Would Make Iraq Timetable in Bill ‘Advisory’
By Peter Baker and Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, April 19, 2007; Page A18
Congressional Democratic leaders are moving to make their proposed timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq “advisory” as they seek to reconcile two versions of war [...]

***update: 940am Eastern press conference…law enforcement spokesman: “I am sorry that you all were exposed to these images…”***
***update: TVNewser reports…NBC has announced it will limit usage of the Cho maniac videos to 10 Percent Of NBC airtime…
Mark Finkelstein notes that angry VTech family members canceled appearances on the Today show over the network’s airing of [...]

If you haven’t already read the December 2005 temporary detention order for VTech maniac Seung-Hui Cho, you should.
A source who works as a Special Justice in Virginia e-mailed me today:
The relevant statutes are at Title 37.2 of the Virginia Code…
…As he was NOT involuntary hospitalized, the following report was not required to be made:
37.2-819. Order [...]

Perspective.

Straight-shooting Glenn Reynolds lays it out.
Update: The killer’s video messages…sent to NBC at 9:01am Monday.
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Related: Many writers who have weighed in on self-defense and concealed carry restrictions in the wake of the VTech massacre have come under attack. John Derbyshire is taking heat. Talk radio is under attack. And here is an unsurprising reaction to [...]

Three workers at a Christian publishing house in Turkey had their throats slit.
Robert Spencer notes the whitewashing of those who have attacked the publishing house in the past. They’re…“nationalists.”

For satirizing affirmative action scholarships.
The indispensible Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is helping the CRs at the University of Rhode Island. More here.

My column this week:
There’s no polite way or time to say it: American college and universities have become coddle industries. Big Nanny administrators oversee speech codes, segregrated dorms, politically correct academic departments, and designated “safe spaces” to protect students selectively from hurtful (conservative) opinions—while allowing mob rule for approved leftist positions (textbook case: Columbia University’s [...]

Last week, I noted how willing media have propped up race hustler Al Sharpton. There’s one other powerful institution that continues to serve as a Sharpton enabler: the Democrat Party.
Every major presidential candidate is scheduled to pay homage at Sharpton’s annual National Action Network convention this week–beginning with John Edwards and climaxing with Barack Obama:
Civil [...]