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File under: Can you imagine if a Republican Education Secretary said this?
Via the Washington Post, Education Secretary Arne Duncan makes a clumsy attempt at pointing out that there was an educational silver lining to the catastrophic hurricane that devastated New Orleans.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan called Hurricane Katrina “the best thing that happened to the education [...]

Five days after the Christmas Day bomber tried to blow up NWA Flight 253 over Detroit, President Obama is still on vacation in Hawaii. He has delivered two hasty, tie-less statements on homeland security from a makeshift podium in Honolulu whose underwhelming sum impact has been the equivalent of voting “present” (Obama’s career m.o.) By [...]

Weekend at Harry’s.

Divider.

Left high and dry.

Loser.

“You can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met.”

Reuters reports that President Obama will announce his surgeon general pick at around 11:30am-ish this morning.
Nope, it’s not Dr. Phil.
She’s Dr. Regina Benjamin, an Alabama rural physician.
Bio info:
Benjamin was the first black woman to head a state medical society, received the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights and last fall received a MacArthur [...]

Earlier this month, Texas Tea Party activist Katrina Pierson invited Hollyweird Tea Party-basher Janeane Garofalo to the July 4 Independence Day Tea Party in Dallas.
Katrina and friends (yours truly included) have issued one more invite to the shindig in the spirit of outreach and education. Come on down, Janeane. What are you afraid of?

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti
Well, well, well.
Michelle, Michelle, Michelle.
Guess where the First Lady will be on Monday?
Why, she’ll be delivering the keynote address at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service in San Francisco.
And who is co-sponsoring the conference?
Why, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)!
Yes, that’s the same CNCS that is [...]

Photoshop: Suitably Flip
Finally. Nearly four years after FBI agents discovered nearly $90,000 in purported bribe money stuffed in Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson’s freezer, the Democrat is finally going on trial this week. He faces 16 federal bribery and public corruption charges. NOLA sums up:
While the “cold cash” came to symbolize the case on the Internet [...]

You remember Katrina Pierson. She was the feisty speaker who rocked the Dallas Tea Party on Tax Day. Katrina has issued an invitation to race-baiting actress Janeane Garofalo to attend the next Dallas Tea Party on Independence Day. I’m delighted to let you know that I’ll be joining Katrina and thousands of others at the [...]

“We will resist socialism.”

You can catch me on C-SPAN tomorrow morning at 8am Eastern for about half an hour. Try to phone in if you can get through and provide some balance to the moonbat callers.
After that, I’ll be at CPAC tomorrow afternoon. PJTV’s “Washington Tea Party” panel, part of the Conservatism 2.0 conference, begins at around [...]

The Kentucky ice storm is still making life hard for residents. Reader Melissa e-mails an update:
I live in Marion, KY (Western KY). It is our 11th day without power or water. We have a well so when the power goes off…there goes the water. We get water from our neighbors. We have [...]

Michelle,
I’ve been trying all day to get a hold of Senator McConnell but the line is busy. I guess that is a good sign. Out of frustration I called his local line here in Paducah, Kentucky and if anyone can’t get through to his Washington office they can call:
270-442-4554
By the way Michelle I just [...]

Will President Obama leave his 77-degree-heated Oval Office and visit the Kentucky ice storm disaster area? Over/under?
National Guard troops are out there:
Thousands of National Guard troops wielding chain saws cut their way into remote communities yesterday to reach residents stranded by a deadly ice storm, enabling some to get out of their driveways for the [...]

Amazing grace.

So long, Bribe-loc.

It begins at 9pm Eastern.
Liberal Beltway fixture Bob Schieffer moderates. I noted in 2004 that he asked a question about immigration during one of the 2004 debates. Wouldn’t it be novel if the subject finally came up tonight? Not that the La Raza twins would differ much. I’m not the only one who wants to [...]

“Obama’s ties to ACORN run long and deep.”

“Thank you for all that you’re doing.”

Scroll for updates…RNC opening night cancelled…McCain via Bloomberg: “We are facing a great national challenge,” McCain said in remarks sent by video from St. Louis to Republicans gathering in St. Paul, Minnesota, for the nominating convention. “We have to do away with party politics and we have to act as Americans”…Fowler apologizes…Gustav slams into La. [...]

So much for post-racial. Plus: Michelle Obama channels Spike.

Hawkeye resilience. (Photo source: American Red Cross)

Oink.

1:40pm Eastern. The illegal alien march in Chicago is underway. His t-shirt says: “I’m illegal. So what?” (Full photo at the Chicago Tribune site.) Live video coverage here.
Scroll down for updates…
Illegal immigration activists and anti-war activists will lead the parades today, but May Day attracts all grievance-mongers.
Here’s another all-purpose, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink “list of [...]

Dispatches from the Astroturf Duck Blind

Miles and miles and miles…

Heckuva job.