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Law enforcement officials from around the country joined Oakland citizens today to honor four police officers murdered in a bloody shooting spree. The service at the Oakland Coliseum has drawn 19,000 people. Crowd are overflowing.
Full coverage here, with info on how to express condolences and contribute to a memorial fund for the fallen police officers.
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Dr. Cory Franklin had a provocative piece in the New York Post yesterday exploring whether Canada’s government-run health care system contributed to the tragic skiing death of Natasha Richardson. He writes:
Richardson died of an epidural hematoma — a bleeding artery between the skull and brain that compresses and ultimately causes fatal brain damage via pressure [...]

The shamnesty crowd is ready to roll again. The illegal alien college tuition discount bill known as the “DREAM Act” has been reintroduced — with bipartisan support, as usual:
Congressmen Howard Berman (D-CA) and Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), announced the reintroduction today of the DREAM Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. This legislation will restore the [...]

And another one down, and another one gone…

My syndicated column today continues the theme I blogged about two days ago in the “Rule of the Mob” post. Keep an eye on next week’s G20 summit in London. Thousands of anti-capitalism zealots will be amassing there to intimidate and harass bankers. The vandalizing of the Scottish ex-banking executive’s home in Edinburgh is just [...]

I’m scheduled to talk about the GIVE/SERVE Act on Glenn Beck’s show at around 5:30pm Eastern. (Update: Watch the vid at Hot Air.)
Quin Hilyer takes a closer look at the creepy national service expansion plans in today’s DC Examiner, and posts an update on one troublesome provision:
Between being first officially “reported” to the House and [...]

The GOP “Road to Recovery.”

Yesterday, the Washington Post reported on the Obama administration’s vehement denial that it is backing away from the phrase “Global War on Terror.” The phrase has long been a source of debate and rancor – not just on the left, but also on our side because it omits the important, specific context of global jihad [...]

Never mind.

$%^&*!!

Smells like permanent campaign spirit.

Last month before signing the Generational Theft Act of 2009, President Obama and Bozo the VP Joe Biden extolled a solar panel manufacturer that outfitted the Denver Museum of Science and Nature. I pointed out the generous government help the company received. Now, the Colorado-based Independence Institute provides the rest of the story — and [...]

Hey, Associated Press: Way to look after the public interest! A month after the Generational Theft Act was rushed through Congress and signed into law, the news service tells us that the jobs projections were basically pulled out of thin air.
The title of the AP’s penetrating, belated analysis: “Bold claims of stimulus jobs can’t be [...]

Where in the world is Barack Obama’s illegal alien aunt, Zeituni Onyango? When last we saw the destitute relative, she was partying on Inauguration Day despite her fugitive status. The deportation evader is set to have yet another day in immigration court. She’s back at her Boston public housing complex, courtesy of the American taxpayer, [...]

I’m scheduled to appear on Fox&Friends this morning at around 7:15am Eastern to talk about the Fishwrap Rescue and Recovery Act of 2009.
But first: COFFEE!

This is beginning to get repetitious. Just in from the EPA, another Obama nominee is bailing out over scrutiny of his past:
EPA Statement on Jon Cannon
Release date: 03/25/2009
Contact Information: Betsaida Alcantara, 202-564-1692 / alcantara.betsaida@epa.gov or Brendan Gilfillan, 202-564-2081 / gilfillan.brendan@epa.gov
(Washington, D.C. – March 25, 2009) Jon Cannon, nominee for Deputy U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, [...]

“Could I ask you about race?”

Dissent.

Pshop credit: Bucktown Dusty
Someone really needs a teleprompter of his own:
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sent the dollar tumbling with comments about China’s ideas for overhauling the global monetary system, only to drive it back up by affirming that it should remain the world’s reserve currency.
Geithner was initially asked at a Council on Foreign Relations event [...]

Nancy Pelosi isn’t the only one who thinks hard-working men and women in interior immigration enforcement are unpatriotic.
If you can stomach it, watch the whole ICE-bashing diatribe. The “anti-American” smear gets tossed in at the end. And yes, that’s McCain open-borders Hispanic outreach advisor Juan Hernandez sitting next to the smear merchant, followed by another [...]

Broken windows.

Not again? Yes, again: Another person under consideration for a top Treasury job has decided to bail on Tim Geithner.
Frank Brosens, a hedge fund manager who was Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s choice to run the office overseeing the $700 billion bank bailout program, withdrew his name from consideration.
Brosens, a founding partner of Taconic Capital Advisors [...]

I mentioned in my liveblog of the POTUS/TOTUS show that President Obama got testy when asked by Ed Henry why his administration took so long to respond publicly to the AIG bonus botch. RCP clipped the video:

OBAMA: “It took us a couple of days because I like to know what I’m talking about before I [...]

My syndicated column today looks at the massive expansion of government-funded “national service.” Debate began yesterday in the Senate, where the $6 billion SERVE Act’s primary co-sponsors are Sens. Ted Kennedy and…Orrin Hatch. And there’s the rub. Since its inception, AmeriCorps has been a bipartisan-supported beast. The Evil Party and the Stupid Party strike [...]

The Fishwrap Rescue and Recovery Act of 2009.

Lights, camera…and the stupidest question of the day from Ann Compton.

This clown/smear merchant/pork king corruptocrat deserves nothing but scorn.
Sign the petition!

More than 80,000 have signed the petition protesting President Barack Obama’s invitation to speak at Notre Dame.
Read here.

Americans for Tax Reform sent out a breaking e-mail alert this afternoon announcing that GOP Sen. Arlen Specter will oppose Big Labor’s Card Check bill. This is a huge relief. Democrats are one short of the 60 needed to move it forward.
But it’s no time to do cartwheels over Specter.
He handed the Generational Theft Act [...]

Don’t be evil.