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The next time an MSM outlet describes Barack Obama as “articulate,” I suggest you send them this audio link. My friend Jessica McBride sent it along, and man, is it painful. It’s from his speech yesterday in Milwaukee–tying the Virginia Tech massacre to Iraq, Darfur, Don Imus, and everything but the kitchen sink. Jessica provides [...]

Virginia Tech will hold a convocation at 2pm. All broadcast nets are set to cover.
The 23rd Psalm
The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’ sake.
Yea, though I [...]

An important media advisory from the AAJA: Only they can use ethnic descriptors. Everyone else: Back off!
Too.
Ridiculous.
Reader Doug in Colorado writes:
Unbelievable. If there were any consistency, they would be lauding the fact that he made great strides in bringing greater diversity to the ranks of mass murderers, a segment in which the Asian-American community [...]

I’ve been traveling. The Hot Air crew has everything you need to know about the VTech shooter. I’ll be back soon.
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A Virginia blogger mourns Ryan Clark, a friend killed yesterday in the rampage.
Allah links to the Daily Mail, which ID’s the woman killed in the first shooting as Emily Hilscher, “who lived on the fourth [...]

Must-read dispatch from Rocco diPippo, who has been in Iraq the past seven months and reports on hypocrisy’s human price on the streets of Baghdad. Read the whole thing.

The NYTimes has already posted its lead editorial for tomorrow. Not that you need to read it to know what they’ve already concluded:
Yesterday’s mass shooting at Virginia Tech — the worst in American history — is another horrifying reminder that some of the gravest dangers Americans face come from killers at home armed with guns [...]

University of Iowa graduate Matt Miller e-mails that today’s carnage at Virginia Tech “sounds eerily similar to the November 1st, 1991 shootings at the University of Iowa by a Chinese doctorate student of physics shot dead three professors, his rival classmate (also Chinese) and a University Vice President. He also seriously wounded one other [...]

The Internet rumor mill, chasing down leads on the identity of the Virginia Tech shooter, has been grinding all day. Allah debunks one of those rumors, which Hot Air received, investigated, and debated this afternoon and evening:
He’s not the shooter.
Here’s his LiveJournal page. And his Facebook page.
He’s gloating about making the Drudge Report. Lovely.
Update….He [...]

***updated: 7:45pm Eastern press conference…law enforcement says it has a “preliminary ID on the shooter”…but they are not prepared to disclose the identity yet…”following up on leads”…”two weapons recovered”…not identifying yet…no one in custody…there is one person of interest who is still of interest…separate from the dead gunman…the person of interest knows one of the [...]

Scroll for updates…
All the latest. (Update: Cell-phone video added, Bush video, more eyewitness reports, and questions about campus management of the crisis)
Virginia bloggers tracking the story here.
Audio of Virginia Tech President Charles Steger’s comments here.
Reader Brian writes:
I am a Virginia Tech alumni and have been following the VT shootings on my blog. Something not [...]

Three provocative reads:
Jack Dunphy examines the underreported murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom and the media’s inner-city crime taboos.
Heather Mac Donald tells the Truth about Black Crime Rates.
John Derbyshire weighs in with Reflections on Race Week.
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Same as it ever was. Here’s a flashback to a column I wrote in 2002 that underscores Dunphy’s point: [...]

Marking Holocaust Memorial Day:
Sirens sounded across Israel on Monday morning, bringing life to a standstill as millions of Israelis observed a moment of silence to honor the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
The two-minute siren at 10 a.m. is an annual tradition marking Israel’s Holocaust remembrance day, which began Sunday evening and ends at [...]

Last week, Pakistan’s Minister of Tourism got in trouble for hugging a “foreign man” (her skydiving coach). She faces fatwas and calls for her dismissal.
Guess Richard Gere must have missed those stories, because now he’s in hot water for his PDAs with Indian actress Shilpa Shetty.

Actor Richard Gere has sparked protests in India after kissing [...]

Tigerhawk takes a closer look at the Democrats’ legislative proposal to create a “Department of Peace and Nonviolence.”
Jim Hoft nominates Cindy Sheehan to head the PAND.
Rick Moran proposes other Democrat Departments.
Next: Changing all “departments” to “ministries.”
And Michael Moore for Minister of Health.

It’s Monday. Do you know where your kid’s next field trip is? The NYPost has an exclusive on a Castro-lovin’ high school teacher who whisked his students to Cuba for a spring break trip–in defiance of economic sanctions and travel restrictions, and in apparent violation of the principal’s orders.

There’s a new kind of “conscientious objector” in Britain’s medical community–and the pro-abortion lobby isn’t happy (via the Independent):
Britain is facing an abortion crisis because an unprecedented number of doctors are refusing to be involved in carrying out the procedure. The exodus of doctors prepared to perform the task is a nationwide phenomenon that threatens [...]

Saw this at The Jawa Report: “One of Britain’s best-known writers has been nominated for the National Short Story Prize for a story inspired by watching videos of hostages being murdered by their Islamic captors.”
The writer is Hanif Kureishi. The story is “Weddings and Beheadings.” It’s told from the perspective of an Iraqi cameraman employed [...]

Check out City Journal: Adam D. Thierer weighs in on the “media cornucopia” and the Left’s attempts to snuff out abundant conservative voices.
Scarcity-obsessed Dennis Kucinich has recently introduced plans in Congress to revive the Fairness Doctrine, which once let government regulators police the airwaves to ensure a balancing of viewpoints, however that’s defined. A new [...]

“It is more than words. It is a way of life.”

Video from last night’s show here.
I think I was about to hurl when Geraldo called Al Sharpton a “great man” and one of the nation’s top “civil rights” leaders. You can hear me mutter “whose civil rights?” Certainly not the rights of innocent prosecutor Steve Pagones, who was truly scarred for life by the lying, [...]

Barry-come-lately jumps on the anti-rap misogyny bandwagon. Here’s what he said late today:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday questioned the way some rappers talk about women in songs, saying the lyrics are similar to the derogatory language used by embattled radio host Don Imus.
They are “degrading their sisters. That doesn’t inspire me,” Obama said [...]

Your weekend print-out reading: Internet essayist Bill Whittle expounds on conspiracy mania.

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From a source at Blackfive.

At Townhall. Don’t worry. It’s work-safe.

You remember “Piss Christ:”

And the Virgin Mary stained with elephant dung:

And most recently, “Chocolate Jesus:”

So…
What could the warped artistic world possibly dream up next to denigrate the faithful? Well, having exhausted bodily excretions and the candy store, they are now taking religion-bashing high tech. Big hat tip to The Ugly American at Sondra K’s blog, [...]

Rich Miniter of Pajamas Media reported yesterday from the International Zone, where the Iraqi Parliament was hit by a suicide bomber:
Even though the blast was less than 15 feet away through a wall, it sounded like a dull thud followed a small tremor.
I was in the shower at 2:30 PM — my first in days [...]

Hoo-boy. That was a fun, wild ride.
Here are the video highlights and lowlights of my first of two guest host stints on The O’Reilly Factor.
Tonight’s show replays at 11pm Eastern. I’ll be back tomorrow night.
In a nutshell:
One Opio Sokoni informs us it’s all the Founding Fathers’ fault that hip-hop “artists” treat women like meat [...]

CBS drops Imus.

I’ll be guest-hosting on The O’Reilly Factor tonight and tomorrow night. Tonight, we’ll be talking Imus, Sharpton, Snoop Dogg, Duke, illegal alien sanctuary challenges, and more. See ya in the No-Spin Zone.