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Don’t mean to give you more indigestion on a Saturday night, but thought you should see this from The Hill: Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)…is still in talks with President Barack Obama regarding her final vote on the legislation. Snowe said that she spoke to Obama while he was aboard Air Force One en route to [...]

Weekend at Harry’s.

Tuition hikes and custodian layoffs were the latest excuse for a UC Berkeley campus tantrum. The San Francisco Chronicle called the student takeover of Wheeler Hall an “occupation.” In the old days, dyed-in-the-wool libs would practice civil disobedience and accept their punishment. In the Age of No Consequences, Berkeley students demand that they be allowed [...]

Attorney General Eric Holder, Team Obama’s Dirty Dozen (get your trading cards here) I’ve been pounding on corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder’s brazen conflicts of interests and terror-friendly law firm work. Now, the Washington Times has the exclusive on a DOJ recusal list that looks to be the tip of the iceberg: The Obama Justice [...]

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti Eric Zimmerman at The Hill has new details on mismanaged federal DOJ grants to ACORN and its affiliates: ACORN and its affiliates received $200,000 in Justice Department grants between 2002 and 2009, according a report issued today by the department’s Inspector General. No DOJ grants went directly to ACORN, but a [...]

On fire.

Payoffs from A to Z.

Attorney General Eric Holder, Team Obama’s Dirty Dozen (get your trading cards here) I mentioned this event in my Fort Hood column last week — and it went as nauseatingly as expected: Corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder flew to Detroit last night to pay homage to Arab-American/Muslim grievance groups and to reassure them that he’s [...]

Scroll down for updates…Balzano and other SEIU executives in Allentown PA quit over Boy Scout thuggery… Photoshop credit: American Power My column today provides context for the SEIU bullying of Boy Scouts in Allentown, Pa. As you’ll see, there’s a long history of Big Labor thuggery against volunteers who threaten the union racket. On a [...]

Check out the list of Demcare tax hikes here, tell everyone you know, and melt the phones. Harry Reid has scheduled the first Senate test vote for Saturday night. Plus: LaborPains.org has obtained the SEIU internal playbook on what words to use (and to avoid) when pushing the government health care takeover. Sample of words [...]

David Hamilton is a hard Left, former ACORN fund-raiser and abortion radical who was rated “not qualified” by the ABA. Now, via LifeNews, he is federal judge: The Senate voted today 59-39 to confirm a pro-abortion federal judge President Barack Obama appointed to become a new appeals court justice. David Hamilton, of Indiana, is the [...]

“You guys make a pretty good photo op.”

We’ve had Bush Derangement Syndrome. Cheney Derangement Syndrome. Female Conservative Derangement Syndrome. And Palin Derangement Syndrome. But this week, the blogging world saw the first definitive case of Palin-Induced Psychosis suffered by the Atlantic magazine’s Andrew Sullivan. It’s not a pretty sight. Watch him completely unravel here and here. Jules Crittenden provides a road map [...]

On Monday, I spotlighted SEIU thuggery in Allentown, Pa., over a Boy Scout’s volunteer work. SEIU’s Nick Balzano threatened to file a grievance when a teenager pursuing his Eagle Scout badge contributed too much free labor clearing walking paths and improving his neighborhood. The story, first published in The Morning Call, was picked up by [...]

We’ve made the “rejected RNC/GOP solicitation form” a regular feature here at MichelleMalkin.com. Now, it has inspired a new genre. Reader Laurie in Pennsylvania e-mails: Hi Michelle, I totally ripped off your RNC membership form rejection idea with the constant requests my husband gets to join AARP. (He belonged for one year in 2002 and [...]

Update: 11/19 9am…Holder hedges on GOP request for disclosure/recusal information… Attorney General Eric Holder, Team Obama’s Dirty Dozen (get your trading cards here) If you’ve been paying attention, you already know all about AG Eric Holder and his DOJ staff’s national security conflict of interest as senior partner with Covington & Burling — the prestigious [...]

Population control has always been behind the green agenda: The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday. The agency did not recommend countries set limits on how many children people should have, [...]

Democrat Rep. Dianne DeGette of Colorado is leading the charge to keep abortion funding in the Obamacare/Pelosicare government health care takeover bill. She is fuming over the exercise of political speech by leaders of faith who oppose government abortion subsidies. She wants to shut them up: [DeGette] also said that religiously-affiliated groups like the U.S. [...]

I’d be burning the phone lines right now if I were an Ohio taxpayer: Ohio taxpayers are right in the middle of the civil rights lawsuit that Samuel Joseph — “Joe the Plumber” — Wurzelbacher has filed against three former state employees, charging that they illegally accessed his confidential information through state databases. Ohio Attorney [...]

Obama’s double-talk on dissent.

Everyone has commented on the cover photo of Sarah Palin that Newsweek editors used — a photo from a Runner’s World spread taken during the campaign. Whatever the intentions of the left-wing Newsweek editors, I think Sarah looks fabulous. The truly tasteless photo of Palin that no one is talking about is inside the magazine [...]

The printing plants of several newspapers in New York City were raided today as part of a corruption probe into union/Mob ties. It will be interesting to see how vigorously the newspapers cover the story, no? AP: A law enforcement official says the New York Police Department raided circulation offices at some of the nation’s [...]

If there is a shining example of just how dangerous it is for America to give foreign-born jihadists the full panoply of American constitutional rights and all the attendant benefits of a civilian trial, it is Lynne Stewart. I’ve written about her treacherous collaboration with the Muslim terrorist mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman many times [...]

Steven Crowder takes you on a non-bleeding heart tour of Guantanamo Bay. No tears for jihadists here:

Yesterday, I noted the troubled political life and sudden death of Chicago developer/Daley croney/Olympic bid-pusher/public schools chief Michael Scott. The medical examiner’s office ruled the death a suicide. But the case is not closed. Police are still continuing a probe: “We know what the (medical examiner) ruled, but there’s still a lot of questions that [...]

You remember that homeland security slogan, “If you see something, say something.” Well, after you say something, the people in charge of defending our country are supposed to DO SOMETHING. But the thread that continues to run through the Fort Hood jihadist debacle is that time after time, Hasan’s colleagues did say something. And his [...]

Rear-ended.

A few weeks ago, I said we needed a new metric for all the bogus jobs claimed by the Obama White House. I called it the “Stimulus Jobs Inflation Index.” The Examiner does even better — creating a handy, interactive Stimulus Jobs Inflation Map. More than ten percent of the jobs the Obama administration has [...]

I’ve linked in previous years to the word of the year announcement by Oxford University Press. It’s usually good fun and water cooler-worthy. Today, OUP unveiled 2009′s word of the year: “Unfriend.” But it was one of the runner-up words that caught my eye: “Teabagger.” Yes, they chose “teabagger” and defined it thusly: teabagger -a [...]

Angry mob.