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I let my daughter stay up past her bedtime to watch the Scripps National Spelling Bee with me. Great show! Danville, Calif. speller Evan O’Dorney clinched the title with “serrefine.” Funny kid. He made a point in his victory interview of pooh-poohing the spelling bee in favor of his greater loves: music and math. Our [...]

Donations to the RNC have dropped off 40 percent, due to anger over Beltway elite open-borders policies, reports the WashTimes. Brilliant, Karl Rove! Keep insulting your base and maybe donations will drop by half by the end of the weekend. Genius.

La Shawn Barber reports that liberals in the D.C. area love illegal aliens…until they start littering and urinating in their constituents’ backyards. Flashback: Not in Sharon Rockefeller’s backyard

Patterico has launched a series of case studies that your members of Congress should hear about: “Deport the criminals first.” Part One is here. Part Two is here. Guess he’s just another member of the “Foaming at The Mouth” mob. Someone should make a T-shirt.

In the name of the Religion of Peace: All throughout the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Pakistan’s impoverished western border with Afghanistan, lie the ruins of barbershops and music and video stores — symbols of Western-oriented life that religious extremists have destroyed in a growing wave of violence. Now Islamist militants have a new target, [...]

Satirist Frank J. writes up shamnesty talking points from the White House and Wall Street Journal. They are such parodies of themselves already, but Frank J. pulls it off. Meanwhile, several Arizona readers have sent a link to this piece on the spillover of Mexican drug cartel- and human trafficking-related violence onto American soil. War [...]

He is Andrew Harley Speaker–and what a selfish, reckless man he is. Update: A strange new twist…Speaker’s father-in-law is a CDC microbiologist who specializes in TB. *** Related: What’s that I hear? The sound of ACLU lawyers on the way. Related: The government is investigating how Speaker got across the border: The government is investigating [...]

A musical tribute, with apologies to Bob Hope.

Peachy: A Milwaukee police officer was arrested Wednesday by federal immigration agents on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant who assumed the identity of his dead cousin a decade ago, officials said. The officer, who has lived and worked under the name Jose A. Morales since he was a teenager, was arrested by agents with [...]

The pro-immigration enforcement National Review and the open-borders Wall Street Journal have been engaged in a battle over the shamnesty bill. Now, NR has issued a challenge to the WSJ. Get ready to rummmmble: We hereby challenge the Journal’s editors to debate the immigration bill in a neutral venue with a moderator of their choosing [...]

The Washington Post’s Amar Bakshi is traveling around the world with a video camera interviewing “America’s lovers and haters.” Check it out. Interesting stuff there. His latest vlog is with Muslims in Blackburn, England: The group is skeptical not only about whether Britain and America believe in “genuine democracy” or the selective implementation of it. [...]

There’s been a lot of buzz from my southern California readers about a terrible murder case in Orange County. On May 22, Jayprakash Dhanak and his 20-year-old daughter Karishma Dhanak were killed and their home was set on fire. Their beaten, charred bodies were found on a trail in a nearby park [clarification: they were [...]

You remember Naveed Haq, the Pakistani-American who declared “I am a Muslim American, angry at Israel,” before shooting six innocent women and killing one at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building last July? He has entered his plea in the case: A man accused of opening fire at a Seattle Jewish charity last summer, [...]

Reuters reporting: The U.N. Security Council voted on Wednesday to establish a special court to prosecute the murder two years ago of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri. Ten council members voted for the Western-sponsored resolution and five — Russia, China, Qatar, Indonesia and South Africa — abstained, with no votes against. The resolution will [...]

Adam Housley’s continuing blog/video/photo coverage at FoxNews.com is must-read. Jim Hoft has a thorough round-up–with video.

LifeNews.com has the story.

Get on with it, already! People are asking me to comment on the non-announcement announcement by unnamed Fred Thompson advisers about a non-public public non-plan plan to officially non-officially test the waters for a presidential bid that may or may not happen on July 4, but probably the first week of July, which “could culminate [...]

…if a banned passenger can still get on a plane? That’s the question the feds need to answer in the case of the Atlanta man infected with a super TB strain: An Atlanta-area man — infected with a rare, potentially deadly type of tuberculosis — is under federal quarantine at Grady Memorial Hospital with an [...]

No, you cannot convert: Three cheers for sharia! Last August, I wrote about the plight of an ex-Muslim woman in Malaysia named Lina Joy. She had converted to Christianity and wanted to marry a Christian man. As the Abdul Rahman case made chillingly clear to the world, there are dire consequences for leaving Islam. Joy [...]

Beauty and the buffoons Here’s my syndicated column this week–following up on my post yesterday on the disgraceful treatment of Miss USA in Mexico. I take special note of how stupidly passive Miss USA’s fellow Americans were as the crowd of hecklers and booers disrupted her interview on Monday night. *** The United States government [...]

The Founding Fathers: They meant what they wrote President Bush attacked immigration enforcement proponents for engaging in “empty political rhetoric”–and the NYTimes was all too happy to report on it: President Bush today accused opponents of his proposed immigration measure of fear-mongering to defeat it in Congress, and took on his own conservative political base [...]

Worse than 9/11: An American member of Al Qaeda warned President Bush on Tuesday to end U.S. involvement in all Muslim lands or face an attack worse than the Sept. 11 suicide assault, according to a new videotape. Wearing a white robe and a turban, Adam Yehiye Gadahn, who also goes by the name Azzam [...]

A reader e-mails that a passenger she knows rode on Virgin Atlantic Airlines Flight 001 from London to NYC on May 20th. Despite publicly declaring on May 3 that it would stop showing the 9/11 crockumentary “Loose Change 2,” the airline is apparently still making it available. The passenger registered his complaint with the flight [...]

J.D. Johannes reports outside the wire.

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The wacky McGee family is in hot water again. You remember Michael McGee, Sr.–the liberal talk show goon who mocked the accidental death of his radio rival’s mother. McGee the Elder was suspended and replaced with his equally obnoxious son–an alderman with a long history of trouble with the law. Well, McGee the Younger has [...]

Thank you, Brian Morganstern, for stepping up to the plate.

Do you remember what happened in Guadalajara in 2004 during an Olympics qualification soccer match between the U.S. and Mexico? Let me remind you: The boos nearly drowned out “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and a few dozen fans chanted “Osama! Osama!” as the United States was eliminated by Mexico in Olympic men’s soccer qualifying. A loud [...]

Update: New WashTimes article on the report here. This weekend, dogged Washington Times reporter Audrey Hudson previewed a Department of Homeland Security Inspector General’s report on the handling–and mishandling–of Flight 327. Longtime readers will remember this incident as an airline security object lesson on the need for passengers to say something when they see something. [...]

Peace through flag-burning Despicable Memorial Day desecration in Orcas Island, Wash.: Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans’ graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday. Forty-six flag standards were found empty and another 33 flags were in charred tatters Sunday in the cemetery, authorities [...]