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Look out, Oklahomans. Here come the California refugees: Fleeing the Great Depression and a drought unprecedented in American history, a vast wave of Oklahomans and Texans dubbed “Okies” loaded everything they could onto crowded vehicles during the 1930s and headed west for California. Today, in huge numbers, their grandchildren are moving back… …From 2004 through [...]

You can see real-time photos pouring in over Twitter/Twitpic via this PicFog page. A small sample: (Mousavi waves to the masses) *** Update: AP photog reports gunfire at the massive Tehran rally; one reported dead.

“She is not an honest woman.”

Uprising.

Community service, Obama-style.

The Obamacare government takeover plan has provided a welcome stimulus of creativity and fighting spirit on the Right. Last week, we featured Rounds One and Two of the Obamacare photoshop poster contest. They just keep getting better. Print, save, and fax your favorites to your congressional reps. Bring one to an Obamacare protest near you [...]

Ready for some unhinged liberal math equations? Karl Rove = Ahmadinejad. George W. Bush = Ahmadinejad. And, of course: Rove x Bush = Fox News + Tea Parties + Talk Radio + Right-wing blogosphere = Ahmadinejad (squared).

Iranian youth risked their lives to protest election fraud. L.A. youths set cars and buses on fire and took to the streets to riot…after their basketball team won: Losers. And looters! Compare and contrast: (Photo source: LA Times) (Photo source: Tehran Live)

Family time for me. Talk amongst yourselves! Reminder: It’s Flag Day and the Army’s Birthday. Celebrate!

Here’s video of the riots and police beatings in the streets of Iran as citizens bravely stood up to protest election fraud by the mullah-cracy: There will be public protests in Toronto and Berlin in solidarity with the reformists. Latest from the wires on the winds of change: The brazen and angry confrontations — including [...]

Big Government bedfellows.

Chris Dodd’s cottage in Ireland, a joint purchase facilitated by crony contributor and convicted insider trader Edward Downe, is magical. Watch it magically appreciate: A new appraisal more than doubles the value of U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd’s Irish cottage, a vacation home that is the subject of an ethics complaint by a conservative group that [...]

News from North Korea: The youngest son of North Korea’s authoritarian leader has been given the title of “Brilliant Comrade,” a newspaper reported Friday, a sign the communist regime is preparing to name him as successor to the ailing Kim Jong Il. The report came shortly before the U.N. Security Council approved tough new sanctions [...]

Ashes.

Never take a CAIR condemnation at face value. Never.

Culture of corruption.

My syndicated column today fixes the spotlight on David “The Perv” Letterman’s contempt for women. Yesterday morning, I noted the silence of the feminists. Last night, NOW finally spoke up — but not without taking a holier-than-thou potshot of its own. I suggest they all review the Four Stages of Conservative Female Abuse before wagging [...]

Up in smoke.

Clarifying.

One of the few things the Bush administration did right on immigration enforcement was to strengthen and expand the E-Verify citizenship verification system for employers. A Senate aide tells me this afternoon that the Obama White House is preparing to gut the program. Buzz on the Hill is that Team Obama will repeal some of [...]

I noted yesterday and this morning that Holocaust Museum nutball was an equal-opportunity hater. He railed against Fox News and Rupert Murdoch. And now this: FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine yesterday after a shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and told employees they’d found the magazine’s address A senior [...]

Goodbye, sir!

Don Surber looks at the liberal hatred of conservative women in the public sphere: Too many American liberals cannot handle a strong, good-looking, intelligent, independent woman who disagrees with them — and so they make the crude, cruel and sexist remarks — including those about raping them or their 14-year-old daughters… …So-called feminists stand on [...]

Steve Hayes has the scoop on how “the Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan,” according to GOP Representative Mike Rogers, “who recently met with military, intelligence and law enforcement officials on a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan.” [...]

Vindication! Vindication! Apologize! Apologize! This is the gleeful mantra on the Left side of the blogosphere and cable TV. A father/security guard/hero is dead and all these political opportunists can do is gloat about “vindication” that isn’t there. I linked Greyhawk’s post on this issue at Mudville Gazette yesterday, but I am linking it again [...]

Here is more on Holocaust Museum security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns, the gentle giant who was murdered by the racist whackjob yesterday. Via the Washington Post: “A soft-spoken, gentle giant,” said Milton Talley, a former employee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where Johns was killed yesterday in the line of duty — shot, authorities [...]

It’s all a freaking game to dirty old David Letterman. For shame. Can you imagine him talking about the Obama daughters this way? Via EW, h/t Hot Air: “We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter [Bristol]… and now [...]

Scroll for updates… Details just coming in. Via FoxNews: “At least two people were shot at the national Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, an official told FOX News. Other media reports said a man walked into the museum and shot a security guard. Another guard returned fire, wounding the alleged shooter. ” AP [...]

The journey of one homegrown jihadist has come to an end. You may remember the forgotten Muslim terrorist wanna-bes in Georgia (click for background). Well, Syed Ahmed is headed for the graybar hotel: Ahmed, a 24-year-old former Georgia Tech student, was convicted of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. During his trial last week, [...]

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