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***update: HuffPo has closed its comments section after receiving 437 mostly unhinged messages…a reader saved a PDF file of the entire comment thread for posterity…posted here…***
***update ii: exclusive photos from the operating room at Bagram added below***
***update iii: i’ve been notified by military officials that DVIDS should not have released the photos. i’ve taken them […]

***Update: Spokesman says it was not a stroke. Johnson underwent emergency surgery of an unknown nature last night…926am update - http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/14/sen-johnson-in-critical-condition/…***

It’s unconfirmed, but word is that U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) has suffered a stroke. First and foremost, keep him and his family in your thoughts and prayers. There’s already a rush to calculate […]

Every weekday morning, after I get my kids dressed and fed and off and running for the day, I sit down in my home office to blog, write columns, manage Hot Air, and juggle duties as a Fox News contributor. I can’t wait to see what’s happening in the world, what tips readers have sent, […]

You’ve seen tonight’s headlines: FBI detains 7 in domestic terror probe
Seven people are in custody after a sweep by law enforcement authorities in connection with an alleged plot against targets that may have included the Sears Tower, officials told CNN on Thursday.
Officials said no weapons or bomb-making materials had been found in the searches in […]

***scroll for updates…Just Citizens blog reports that Army has no record of service from Jesse/Jessie MacBeth…more below…(hat tip: LGF )…12noon update: I just talked to the Army spokesman as well. Paul Boyce told me: “At a minimum, this appears to have been concocted” and “some sort of hoax.” Special Ops Command and State Department have […]

Much has been made of the rabid Left’s online swarm that shut down the Washington Post’s blog comment section. The comments seemed comparatively tame to me. Maybe I’ll copy off Chapter 6 of Unhinged and send it off to the WaPo ombudsman and her editors to help them feel better.
Meantime, the moonbat manipulation of Amazon.com’s […]

Bill O’Reilly took on David Letterman last night. Advantage: O’Reilly. The Political Teen has video. Letterman recycled chickenhawk arguments, muttered “Honest to Christ!” when O’Reilly refused to back down from his criticism of Cindy Sheehan, and attacked O’Reilly’s show despite admitting he doesn’t watch it. Some highlights:
O’REILLY: No way that a terrorist that blows […]

*AP names Hurricane Katrina its top story of the year. Can’t argue with that. The rest of the top ten:
2: PAPAL TRANSITION: John Paul II’s death marked the passing of the first non-Italian pope in 455 years and ended a 26-year pontificate, third-longest in history. In a remarkable show of affection, many millions attended services […]

Oh, my. Someone just sent me a link to the latest popular rant at the Democratic Underground. An excerpt:
I am an American, Born and Raised, but I am NOT a citizen of BUSH’S America. I want nothing to do with the country these people have created.
And for those who support them, Let’s get Something Nice […]

Via Breitbart.com, Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies at Home.
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturday evening at his home in suburban Virginia, said Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg.
A statement from the spokeswoman said he was surrounded by his three children when he died in Arlington.
“The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October […]

Reuters is reporting that hundreds are feared dead in Biloxi, Miss. Cadaver dogs are being brought in to locate the corpses.
According to Allahpundit, CNN is reporting that officials in Biloxi are spraypainting roofs black if there are corpses inside and red if there are injured inside.
Meanwhile, conditions in New Orleans continue to worsen. […]

From the Democratic Underground:
- Its (sic) a war. My country’s army is killing civilians; am I a “fair target?”
- the root causes of terrorism are what needs to be addressed in order to get a handle on changing these circumstances. There are myriads (literally) of terrorists who have reasons for what they are doing and […]

Oh, my. Check out this thread in the fever swamps of the Democratic Underground.
It’s titled, “Al Gore is still president.”
Here’s an excerpt from one commenter. This is not a parody:
…sometimes I go away to my happy place where al gore is president. Can you just imagine the world right now? the way that […]

It’s a gorgeous, sunny day here in the greater Washington, D.C., area. And like another gorgeous, sunny day I’ll never forget, fighter jets are flying overhead. As you’ve probably read, there was a scare at the Capitol about 20 minutes ago when a small unidentified plane violated D.C.’s no-fly zone. The all-clear has already been […]

Sen. John Edwards’ wife, Elizabeth, is a frequent commenter in the far-left fever swamps of the Democratic Underground discussion forum (see, for example, here and here).
Yesterday, Mrs. Edwards surfaced on a DU thread about conservative radio talk show hostess extraordinaire Laura Ingraham, who underwent surgery yesterday for breast cancer. (Hat tip: Reader Eddie.) When the […]

If there are 120 million Americans adults online, this survey suggests that 31 million Americans read a political blog at least once a month and 6 million Americans read a political blog at least once a day. This would mean that Instapundit is read by less than 3% of those who read political blogs on […]

The death of the Pope just couldn’t stop the libs in the media from showing their true colors.
Example No. 1: Hawk-eyed Hinderaker at Power Line catches the New York Times in an amazing website goof that rivals CBS’s premature Terri Schiavo obit. Check out the screenshot for the anti-Pope bias in black and white. […]

You’ve seen the BBC report:
The Indian Ocean is on tsunami alert after a quake off the coast of Sumatra, the Indonesian island that bore the brunt of the 26 December disaster. It struck just before midnight local time, with an estimated magnitude of 8.2, and caused widespread panic.
Now, the tin-foilers at the Democratic Underground […]

The New York Times reports today that the Bush Administration wants to raise veterans’ co-payments for prescription drugs to $15 from a ridiculously low $7 and impose an annual enrollment fee of $250. Does anyone doubt that Democrats are going to talk incessantly about these “cuts“? But here’s one thing I bet they won’t mention: […]

Actual headline featured in Google News’ top U.S. stories section:
Gonzales confirmed: war criminal to head US Justice Department
On a somewhat related note, I received the following e-mail from Google News recently that might be of interest to other bloggers wondering what the criteria are for inclusion as Google News sources:
Hi Michelle,
Thank you for your note. […]

Ted Kennedy
John Kerry
Mary Ann Marsh
Chris Matthews
The Democratic Underground
Donatella Lorch
Peter Jennings
Maureen Dowd (okay, she’s always a sourpuss)
The Arab press
The American press
Did I miss anyone?
Update: Votes already coming in for Harry Reid. Of course.

Ramsey Clark, the terrorists’ lawyer, has an op-ed piece out today in the Houston Chronicle in defense of Saddam Hussein. Here’s a taste:
The United States, and the Bush administration in particular, engineered the demonization of Saddam, and it has a clear political interest in his conviction. Obviously, a fair trial of Saddam will be difficult […]

Right Wing News delves into the fever swamps of the Democratic Underground and pulls out the 10 Worst Quotes from rabid libs.
John Leo compiles the 2004 awards for over-the-top rhetoric.
Quin Hilyer highlights the invaluable Media Research Center’s top examples of media bias.
And keying off the news that “blog” is the word of the year, here’s […]

Regarding Barbra Streisand’s blog blunder, three quick points:
1) Hasn’t one of her P.C. friends told her yet that it isn’t fashionable to be quoting from correspondence between two dead white slave owners?
2) Couldn’t she at least have given credit to Elizabeth Edwards, who posted the quote as consolation at the Democratic Underground on Nov. 5? […]

Democratic Underground, the left’s version of Free Republic, has shut off its forum to unregistered visitors for the night.
A Corner reader in Georgetown says libs are quitting their parties with heads hanging low.
Not much activity at top liberal blogs. Zzzzzz.
Is there one happy Democrat awake anywhere? A reader writes in…
Somewhere in Westchester County a giddy […]