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The community organizer-in-chief will sign the $6 billion GIVE/SERVE legislation today. Just a reminder that only 14 Republican Senators voted against the massive national service expansion. And some good perspective from John Miller: Cost of the “national service bill” (the one that pays people to “volunteer”) that President Obama will sign today: $5.7 billion. That’s [...]

I can’t even keep count anymore, can you? Meet the newest left-wing journalist rescued from the ailing newspaper industry by the Obama administration: former LA Times columnist Rosa Brooks. She’s the daughter of liberal writer Barbara Ehrenreich and an acolyte of George Soros. And she’s working in the…Pentagon. Not a joke. Nile Gardiner gives you [...]

She said this on CNN over the weekend: KING: A lot of Democrats in Congress want to you investigate [Joe Arpaio]. They think he is over the line. He says he is just enforcing the law and the problem is the federal government. NAPOLITANO: Well, you know, Sheriff Joe, he is being very political in [...]

Here’s your follow-up to the vulgar gossip blogger Perez Hilton’s attack on Miss California USA Carrie Prejean. On MSNBC (natural habitat of slimers), Hilton says he takes back his apology for calling Prejean a “dumb b*tch” and then pours on even more slime by laughing that while he called her that epithet he was really [...]

“We will resist socialism.”

The government of the Northern Mariana Islands is applying for federal stimulus money that would go to foreign welfare recipients. The money would pay for food stamps and job training: The CNMI government, through the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, has filed an application for a $3 million grant that would allow the inclusion [...]

Disgrace.

Attention, Tea Party people!

Unhinged CNN reporter Susan Roesgen is on “vacation” after scrapping with Tea Party protesters last week, but her bosses are still hard at work trying to stifle Tea Party voices of dissent. As many of you know, CNN forced the takedown of behind-the-scenes video shot by Andrew Marcus of Founding Bloggers and posted to YouTube. [...]

If even half of what’s in Jeff Stein’s CQ exclusive is true, this is a blockbuster scandal of historic proportions. It makes all of the pay-to-play scandals to date look like kindergarten games. Here’s the upshot: Rep. Jane Harman , the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA [...]

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has been tracking President Obama’s grovel tour and pitches a perfect idea for a T-shirt design contest after watching him bow and scrape to the dictators in Latin America: Once again, we have the new President embarking on the “We Suck ‘09″ tour, kicked off in Europe, where he felt [...]

It’s one thing for Hollywood twit Janeane Garofalo to smear the Tea Party movement as RAAAAACIST. We expect ignorant celebrities to be ignorant. But when newspapers phone up “experts” in academia to provide commentary and analysis on social and political trends, it would be nice if they based their assessments on reality, wouldn’t it? In [...]

I’m in Chicago tonight for the “Sammies” awards — presented by the Sam Adams Alliance. They do fabulous work on open government, transparency and blogivism. Full list of award winners here. Congrats to all! What are you up to this weekend?

Scroll for updates… I reported in my column this week the news the Tea Party-bashing MSM doesn’t want to report: Republicans who supported the bailouts, the stimulus, and tax increases are in just as much hot water as Democrats. I told you that California GOP chairman Ron Nehring and GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger were booed [...]

Click on the link for the full-size photo if you must. I can’t stand to look at our president’s dumb grin as he warmly greets Venezuela’s thug-in-chief: Gag. And another handholding pic here: Ew. Did anyone smell sulfur during the photo op? Now, the Evil Clown (as Allahpundit calls him) can add his friendly pic [...]

Fancy pants.

Here’s a homeland security threat that doesn’t fit the rightwing extremist profile. Paging Janet Napolitano. Oh, never mind: The Weld County sheriff’s office is looking for whoever sent it a letter threatening to put bombs around Greeley next week unless illegal immigrants are released from jail. The sheriff’s office says the letter was handwritten in [...]

Senators Coburn, Brownback, DeMint, Burr, Murkowski, Inhofe, and Vitter sent the following letter to DHS Secretary Napolitano yesterday concerning the DHS conservative hit job: April 16, 2009 The Honorable Janet Napolitano Secretary The Department of Homeland Security 310 7th street, S.W. Washington, DC 20528-0150 VIA FASCMILLE Dear Secretary Napolitano, We write today concerning the release [...]

Ed Morrissey nails the buck-passers on the DHS rightwing extremism assessment: First, while the Bush administration might have wanted an assessment of right-wing extremist threats, it didn’t necessarily want one that painted returning veterans and conservative thought on abortion, illegal immigration, and federalism as extremist threats, nor did it want a threat assessment that couldn’t [...]

Several parents with kids at UN-Chapel Hill have e-mailed me their outrage over the appalling treatment of Tom Tancredo. Yesterday, the chancellor sent the following note to parents: Dear Carolina Parents, To keep you informed, we are forwarding a message from Chancellor Holden Thorp that was disbursed to the University community today. Your Office on [...]

Hey, how about an analysis of the Tax Day Tea Party movement that doesn’t involve sexual jokes, Beavis & Butthead-style guffawing, or D-list allegations of RAAAAACISM? Here’s my syndicated column on what Republicans in elected office — and fiscal conservatives unhappy with double-talking GOP politicians — need to take away from this week. Make it [...]

Pay to play: It’s the Obama way. So, really, is anyone surprised anymore? Steven Rattner, the leader of the Obama administration’s auto task force, was one of the executives involved with payments under scrutiny in a probe of an alleged kickback scheme at New York state’s pension fund, according to a person familiar with the [...]

Dirtbags.

In case you missed it: Founding Bloggers was on the scene after beclowned CNN antagonist Susan Roesgen hectored Tea Party protesters. Watch it. Update: Looks like site may be down. Here’s the vid: *** More on her hackery at Hot Air.

The free-speech squelchers at UNC-Chapel Hill threw a temper tantrum during Tom Tancredo’s speech. I can hardly stomach watching the videos. And I am very grateful that Tancredo was not harmed. We’ve seen it so many times before: Administration officials and faculty who refuse to act like adults on campus. They are worse than AWOL. [...]

Watch this. Liberal toady James Wolcott argues that since he didn’t see big Tea Party crowds on his favorite left-wing tv stations and didn’t read front-page stories about the protests in his favorite left-wing newspapers, they weren’t newsworthy and no one really turned out except at the ones Fox News covered. C-SPAN host Susan Swain [...]

Janet Napolitano made the media rounds this morning to face the public firestorm over DHS’s hit job on conservatives. I’m calling it the Extremist Makeover tour. She offered an apology to veterans, saying it wasn’t her intention to offend. It may not have been the intention of the report authors or Napolitano to offend or [...]

Call the wah-mbulance. So, the Tea Party protests are “not fit for family viewing” according to one very unhappy CNN reporter, Susan Roesgen, who also fumes over what she calls an “offensive” anti-Obama sign that compares Obama to a fascist. (And yes, I told you this was going to happen.) But guess what? Newsbusters caught [...]

Something hugely significant just happened here at the Sacramento Tea Party. Organizer Mark Meckler singled out GOP opportunists who wouldn’t give him the time of day weeks ago — and then wanted to hitch their wagons to the Tea Party bandwagon at the last minute. Meckler said he heard that California GOP chair Ron Nehring [...]

I just have one word: Wow. More than 800 tea parties across the country. Here’s your first photo/vid round-up from the events across the country, large and small, every corner of this great nation (hit your refresh button often…I’ll keep updating…11:20pm…just added tons more crowd pix and vid…trying to keep ‘em all in one post [...]