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Sandy “Honestly, I had no idea how those papers got into my socks, jacket pocket, and portfolio” Berger will plead guilty to misdemeanor theft of classified documents.
My, what serendipitous timing. Just saying.
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Flashbacks:
Sandy Berg(l)er?
Berger and a side order of lies
Ace of Spades spoof: Mystical Artifacts Removed From Top-Secret Government Warehouse
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Update: An unhinged reader says Berger [...]

Just to lighten things up a little…
Kevin at Wizbang beat me to it, but if you haven’t seen this ridiculous story about Snohomish , Wa., public school officials banning t-shirts with the word “Snohos” because it’s “derogatory,” read it now.
Will Ho-Hos be next on the hit list?
How about Boho?
Or SoHo?
And will the P.C. cops now [...]

Pope John Paul II’s condition is worsening. Marc Thiessen’s piece in NRO, “The Blessed Sounds of Silence,” is a beautiful tribute.
Update: The Pope has been given “last rites” (or rather, the sacrament of anointing the sick). From CNN…
VATICAN CITY (CNN) — Pope John Paul II was given the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church [...]

Okay, did you watch George “Dehydration is Beautiful” Felos’ press conference? Did you get TOTALLY CREEPED OUT, too? How many more times could he drone blandly on about Terri’s “death process?” I stopped counting after the 15th time. Why isn’t anyone in the MSM probing this man’s background, his writings, and his deadly agenda?
Here are [...]

May Terri Schindler-Schiavo rest in peace and God have mercy on us all.
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though [...]

The principal of a high school in Salem, Ore., refuses to allow one of her students, Shea Riecke, to post a picture of her brother, a Marine, on a classroom bulletin board. Here is the photo. (Shea’s brother, Cpl Bill Riecke, is on the right.)

Photo credit: Marine Corps Moms
Normally this sort of thing would pass [...]

Brian Maloney dissects the latest ratings.
Earlier: Air America’s lousy ratings

Regarding the fishy Schiavo talking points memo, Washington Post reporter Mike Allen told Howard Kurtz that “we simply reported that the sheet of paper was distributed to Republican senators.”
If you look at the version of the article by Allen and Manuel Roig-Franzia that appeared in the Post on March 20, that is true. However, if [...]

Scheduled to appear on Fox & Friends tomorrow morning at around 8:50 am eastern time. Will be discussing the Minuteman Project again.
Trey Jackson has video.

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Because it’s just so easy…
A bunch of readers point out that the Google search icon today pays tribute to Vincent Van Gogh, whose birth is apparently more noteworthy and deserving of celebration than the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Scheduled to be on O’Reilly tonight talking about the ACLU and the Minuteman Project.
Update: Transcript here. Video here and here.

Code Blue Blog, run by an inpatient radiologist in South Florida, has a $100,000 challenge for the loudmouth neurologists employed by Michael Schiavo:
I’ve watched a steady stream of neurologists, bioethicists, and neurologist/bioethicists from Columbia, Cornell, and NYU interviewed all week on Fox and CNN and MSNBC. They all said about the same thing, that Terri’s [...]

Last week, I flamed President Bush for dissing the volunteers of the Minuteman Project as “vigilantes.” Today’s column takes a look at the Minutemen’s chief foes on the Left–the sanctimonious, hypocritical, open-borders ideologues at the American Civil Liberties Union. Read more on this and other border developments at The Immigration Blog.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof responded via e-mail to this post criticizing his claim that the number of abortions has “increased significantly” since President Bush took office. He writes:
michelle,
thanks belatedly for your note about hillary and abortions. i was in zimbabwe, skulking around and pretending to be a tourist, and didn’t have web access. [...]

CBS News erroneously reported that Terri Schiavo has died, according to talk radio host Glenn Beck. CBS removed the incorrect story from its web site, but Beck pdf’d it. Smart move.
The story originally appeared on March 28 here. No correction. No retraction. No apology. No surprise.
(Hat tip: Laura Embleton and other readers.)
Update: More at LifeNews.com
Update [...]

This was a pleasant surprise.

At long last Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz has written a full column about the so-called “GOP Talking Points” memo supposedly circulated by Republicans nearly two weeks ago. (Kurtz briefly mentioned the issue last week.)
As I alluded to here, ABC News is defending itself on the ground that Linda Douglass reported that the [...]

Josh Claybourn of In the Agora retracts the post that I criticized on Saturday morning:
Late Friday evening I posted the accusations of four supposed Senate staffers who claimed a Democratic aide had distributed the “GOP” talking points memo. I now have reason to believe that in unraveling a hoax I was hoaxed myself. I haven’t [...]

The Council for Arab Islamic Relations (CAIR) successfully pressured National Review to pull ads for two books criticizing Islam. And Google is trying to curb expression of something or other over at the Jawa Report.
CAIR is well within its rights to call for a boycott of National Review rather than critique the books it doesn’t [...]

The Supreme Court weighed in today on the pros and cons of file-sharing (which I’ve blogged about here, here, and here). Record companies and movie studios have sued to shut down peer-to-peer software makers such as Grokster and Morpheus, arguing that the millions of songs and movies copied each day over these networks have cut [...]

The much-anticipated Volcker report on the U.N. Oil for Food fiasco is scheduled to be posted here at noon today. The Wall Street Journal editorializes further on Kofi Annan’s son, Kojo, and his smelly Iraq connections–first reported by investigative blogger Roger L. Simon on Sunday night. Simon mentions that he will work in tandem with [...]

The Philadelphia Inquirer catches up with a strangely chipper Dan Rather, and Captain Ed finds Gunga Dan a little too gung ho. A snort-worthy must-read!

Picking up where I left off in this post, Rob Sama uses P2P to find an Excel spreadsheet containing 13 names, addresses, salaries and social security numbers. “Not a bad grab for about 5 minutes of work,” Sama notes.

Sounds like this book speaks some uncomfortable truths about what it’s like to be a sales rep. for a large pharmaceutical company. If you don’t feel like shelling out for the book, you can find a lot of similar stories on the message boards at this site.

Jack Shafer does a great job ripping apart David Shaw’s sloppy, wrong-headed blogger-bashing column.
I have only one point to add–namely, that the neat division between “bloggers” on the one hand and “journalists” on the other is not as cut and dried as Shaw seems to think. As Radley Balko has noted, most of the top [...]

On Sunday, I commented on AP’s tasteless comparison between Terri Schiavo and Kismet the robot. Today economist Steven Landsburg gives us this passage in a Slate column titled “Imagine Terri Were a Toaster…”:
Now, Michael Schiavo, it seems to me, is in something very like the bluenose position here. If he had a use for his [...]

Last week, investigators in Minnesota said Red Lake school shooter Jeff Weise had acted alone. But the case took a startling turn today with the bombshell arrest of a teenage classmate of the dead gunman:
The teenage son of the tribal chairman has been arrested in connection with last week’s shootings on a Minnesota Indian reservation, [...]

Via AP:
George Felos, the attorney for husband Michael Schiavo, told reporters later that he had visited Schiavo for more than an hour Tuesday and described her as “very peaceful. She looked calm.”
“I saw no evidence of any bodily discomfort whatsoever,” Felos said.
Felos also said that the chief medical examiner for Pinellas County, Dr. [Jon] Thogmartin, [...]

Over the weekend, I wondered why the mainstream media was ignoring some amazing stories of pro-life activists and evangelical disabled advocates who have been peacefully keeping vigil outside Terri Schiavo’s hospice.
Michelle Cottle of The New Republic, who appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on Sunday, provides some candid insight into the bigoted mindset of the MSM [...]