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ADC to Honor Helen Thomas at Convention and Inaugurate Journalism Scholarship
Washington DC | March 30th, 2009 | www.adc.org | Since the Kennedy Administration in the early 1960s many policies and initiatives have changed from President to President, but one thing has been consistent; the watchful eye of Arab-American Journalist Helen Thomas [...]

It’s a shocker from the open-borders Bush administration. The families must be extraordinarily relieved. They’ve been through hell:
On his last full day in office, President Bush commuted the sentences of two former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug runner in 2005.
The imprisonment of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean had sparked [...]

That smile.

Double standards.

Lots of readers are asking how to send condolences to Tony Snow’s family. His optimism, faith, decency, and good cheer have touched countless Americans. Kristinn Taylor at FR writes that the “White House Correspondents Association announced today that they will receive cards and letters of condolence for the family of Tony Snow at their Washington, [...]

Heartbreakingly sad news this morning. Tony Snow has died. He was 53. He was a true mensch, multi-talented–and one of the kindest people I had the honor to meet in the news business.
Tears:
Tony Snow, the former White House press secretary and conservative pundit who bedeviled the press corps and charmed millions as a FOX News [...]

Defamed.

President Bush on Snow’s tenure: “”It’s been a joy to watch him spar with you.”

JetBlue…or JetFoil?

WashTimes reports that President Bush will offer his amnesty “confidence-builder” in a speech this morning:
President Bush will state in a speech this morning that he supports an amendment to the immigration reform bill that would immediately spend $4.4 billion on border security, in the White House’s latest effort to resurrect the bill that failed last [...]

Just received from a Hill source:

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Out-of-touch-with-reality quote of the morning:
“I think one of the things that we have to do is answer the skeptics, answer the doubters,” White House press secretary Tony Snow said Tuesday.
“We not only have a good sound bill, but it’s also one that a lot of conservatives, when they get a [...]

I’ll be doing a new Friday feature on The O’Reilly Factor tonight that touches on a few of the week’s hot topics. Tonight: The White House spin on shamnesty, the Miss Universe debacle in Mexico City, and sex/drug talk at Boulder High School. Tune in around 8:20pm-ish Eastern.
Update: Here’s the video. After I quickly knocked [...]

Tony Snow is back on the job today. Welcome back!

The White House has set up a get well page for readers who want to send their best to Tony Snow. Internet director David Alamancy writes: “Under ‘Features’ section, you will find a link at the top right-hand corner of the page where you can send Tony a note. We’ll make sure he gets it.”
Go [...]

Terrible news…Fox reporting…Cancer has spread to Tony Snow’s liver…Hat tip – AP (Bush statement video added).
Mike Emmanuel: “Tony is a fighter.”
He is also a real mensch. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino: “He said he’s going to beat it again,” Perino said in an emotional morning briefing with White [...]

AP: “Presidential spokesman Tony Snow is undergoing surgery Monday to remove a growth in his lower abdomen, a procedure he said was being done “out of an aggressive sense of caution” because he had colon cancer two years ago.”

***4:15pm update***
Ann Coulter just finished her riff on Al Gore, tossed out some cute jokes (”You can understand why Hollywood is concerned about global warming. You know what heat does to plastic.”), and ended with a cheap one-liner about John Edwards being a “faggot.” (Paraphrasing) She said she would refrain from commenting on Edwards because [...]

Tony Snow, in an interview with Hugh Hewitt, just now said that more people are going to get the word about what’s really going on in Iraq, because more people are going over there to embed and get the word out.
For example, “Michelle Malkin is over there right now“, he said.
That’s second-hand via Mrs. See-Dubya, [...]

Bush speech pre-game. It’s like ESPN Gameday, but with a disappointing lack of Kirk Herbstreit.
Tonight at 9 p.m., the President will admit mistakes in Iraq or lay out a plan for victory, depending on which side of the aisle you’re seated.
Let’s go over what we actually know before tonight, which given the leaks, previews, and [...]

Set for 1pm.
How do you spell illegal alien amnesty? Reuters:
President George W. Bush, disappointed at the Democrats’ seizure of the House of Representatives, will hold a news conference on Wednesday to urge his opponents to work with him, the White House said.
The news conference was set for 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) in the White [...]

***update: Hussein found guilty of crimes against humanity……more…PJM coverage…Sky News: he shouted “Allahu akbar!”…refused to stand for the verdict and had to be lifted to his feet by two court bailiffs…justice will not be swift: phase two and appeal begin…”Saddam is in the middle of a second crimes against humanity trial and the appeal against [...]

***update: Kerry to speak at 2pm press conference…I expect nothing less than full-throated indignance, condescension, and blame avoidance…great news for the GOP…see, what did I tell ya: Kerry: “I apologize to no one for my criticisms of President Bush…”
***update: American Legion asks for apology:
The National Commander of The American Legion called on Sen. John Kerry [...]

President Bush signed the Secure Fence Act this morning. (Video here.) Efforts to water it down, such as it is, are still underway:
Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison, both Texas Republicans, had wanted to amend the fence bill to give local governments more say about where fencing is erected. They lost that battle, but [...]

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I’ve been absorbing as much commentary on the ‘net and radio about the Foley mess as I can stand today.
What I am hearing from some conservatives inclined to pooh-pooh Foley’s behavior and carry on about Barney Frank instead does not sit well with me. You can’t possibly read Foley’s communications with minors that [...]

***originally posted 752am…bumping this back to the top…11am Eastern – White House says it is considering declassifying the NIE…1210pm new update: Bush will release parts of the report…video…***
President Bush on Tuesday said it is naive and a mistake to think that the war with Iraq has worsened terrorism, disputing a national intelligence assessment by [...]

Rick Moran rates left-wing cheerleaders for Hezbollah.
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Josh Trevino weighs in on Qana:
Let us call the childrens’ deaths in Qana what they are: a horrific freak of war. They were not intended; they were not actively sought; and they were not the product of criminal negligence. In weeks of war and thousands of sorties against a [...]

FWIW, the Senate resolution passed this evening. N.Z. Bear has the full text. FoxNews.com:
The Senate approved by voice vote Tuesday a resolution condemning Hezbollah and Hamas and their state sponsors, which include Syria and Iran, and supporting Israel’s exercise of its right to self-defense.
“I applaud my Senate colleagues for their overwhelming support of this resolution, [...]

Statement issued this afternoon:
“We demand first that the Israeli soldiers be returned to Israel healthy, that the attacks on Israel cease, and then naturally for Israel to halt military action,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters.
At least Merkel’s got the priorities right.
Then this from the ABCNews.com report:
Group of Eight leaders on Sunday blamed extremists for [...]

***update: video of Keller revelations about Murtha here***
***update 2: Bryan, Allah and INDC Bill note that Keller actually says the opposite about Murtha. Ok, now that makes sense.***
Just in…Treasury Secy John Snow’s letter to the blabbermouth NYTimes. Snow reveals something significant I hadn’t seen anywhere else yet (at least not in the NYTimes):
It should also [...]

***update: Tony Snow video***
They can buy ink by the barrel, but we can fight back now with bandwidth by the terrabyte. I’m getting inundated with furious readers’ letters to the Times, most of which the editors won’t bother to read or publish–since they’re not in, you know, the “public (Pulitzer) interest.” So I’m reprinting a [...]