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I love how the always oh-so-sensitive New York Times has no problem throwing my ethnicity into an attack, when my ethnicity has nothing at all to do with the subject (the jihad vs. anti-jihad war at YouTube). Of course, if you visited NYTimes writer Virginia Heffernan’s insipid blog to look at the petty swipes, you [...]

US Senate candidate Ned Lamont of Connecticut, darling of the left-wing blogosphere, is now running as fast as he can from the nutball bloggers who have zealously promoted his campaign against Sen. Joe Lieberman from its inception. (Today’s Vent gives the overview.) And he’s lying through his teeth in his effort to rid himself of [...]

YNetNews has the lowdown:
Shortly after 8:30 p.m. Friday night, it was reported that the stern of an Israeli navy war ship suffered a direct hit in an attack by Hizbullah, which damaged the helicopter landing pad area. The hit caused a conflagration, which was extinguished. No one was hurt in the fire.
Shortly afterwards, crewmembers assessed [...]

Hot Air Special Correspondent X has sent us new photos of the Kos Konvention. Apparently, the Left has a new emblem. He writes:
“SWEET SASSY MOLASSEY! What in the name of Sauron’s eye is this? It’s like Tim Burton’s Night Before Independence Day…”

Egad.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, a Daily Kos poster and devotee, is scheduled speak to the [...]

Hot Air has a special correspondent in Las Vegas for the “nutroots convention” convened by The Daily Kos.
An excerpt from Dispatch 1:
People here are largely, disappointingly, golf-shirted, short-haired, and white bread. Grooming and hygiene are up to western business standards. There is one dude wearing a pith helmet and another guy in a kilt, but [...]

Our preview of the star-studded nutroots convention.
New York Times Magazine writer Matt Bai, who will serve on a panel at the confab, hails the Kossification of the Democrat Party.

Michael Schiavo is blogging at the Daily Kos. (Hat tip: reader Eileen)

Nope, I didn’t say it. Here’s the call from a commenter at–yes, it’s true–The Daily Kos:
Patrick Kennedy’s in a lot of pain; I feel sympathy.
But if he can’t remember even getting into his car, if he was in rehab over Christmas, if there’s an allegation he’d been drinking before the accident — well maybe he [...]

The anti-troops brigade at UC Santa Cruz has now called in the left-wing blogosphere’s kings of hate to attack me. For what? For linking to a Students Against War press release bragging about booting military recruiters off campus and for re-posting publicly available contact info for the SAW press machine.
See here and here for background.
The [...]

Video at Expose the Left.
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James Joyner at OTB: More AP lies in Scalia/AEI story
Reader KT e-mails:
I was at AEI yesterday and saw Scalia speak and was, I am not sure you could call it heckled and I thought of your book. First, Justice Scalia was excellent, especially on the main issue, using foreign law [...]

On Tuesday, the New York Daily News ran a story about President Bush’s body language. (Hat tip: reader Joyus.) The article quoted a single source, Karen Bradley, “a certified movement analyst at the University of Maryland, College Park,” who provided supposedly neutral advice such as this:
Bradley’s guide to the body behind the language:
Raised shoulders
What [...]

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I am watching Sen. Ted Kennedy on C-SPAN unraveling before my eyes. He is screaming. The face is fire-engine red. The fists are waving furiously. Here’s my rough transcript of his ongoing diatribe smearing the Alito nomination as a step backwards toward mass discrimination:
KENNEDY: …All you have to do, Mr. President, is [...]

When I chronicled the kraziness at the Daily Kos in Unhinged, left-wing critics shot back that the most highly-trafficked website on the left side of the blogosphere did not represent the Democrat Party leadership.
Now, not only is John Kerry a proud Kossack…Ted Kennedy is blogging there, too:

Irrefutable: The unhinged fringe is the mainstream of the [...]

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 [...]

We’re an hour and a half into the hearings and I need to hear no more. It’s all about the Dems beating dead horses. Over and over again. Unitary executive. CAP. Vanguard. Vanguard. Vanguard.
John Podhoretz marvels: “A Kennedy who has never known a moment’s worry about money is now grilling a lifelong middle-class public servant [...]

Earlier this week George Will argued that President Bush should have asked Congress for permission to carry out warrantless eavesdropping of Americans. He is confident that Congress would have changed FISA to approve the program:
Congress, if asked, almost certainly would have made such modifications of law as the president’s plans required.
Just one teensy weensy problem: [...]

Kansas University’s Paul Mirecki, the controversial religious studies professor whose planned course on creationism and intelligent design was canceled after he derided Christian conservatives as “fundies,” was allegedly beaten on Monday morning by two unidentified white men who he claims targeted him for his views. The Lawrence Journal World reported:
Douglas County sheriff’s deputies are investigating [...]

***updated with Sheehan arrest, Pentagon arrests…plus Sheehan arrest video, AP rewrites…***
230pm EDT. Grieving anti-war mom Cindy Sheehan carted away from the White House. Via Reuters/Yahoo:

Video at Bare Knuckle Politics.
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I’ve posted the second round of my photos from Saturday’s Sheehanapalooza in Washington at my Flickr site. (Round one is here.)
What a lot of folks don’t [...]

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Credit: AP
Galveston, nearly empty, is reporting three large fires engulfing historic buildings. Via Reuters:
A large fire broke out in downtown Galveston on Friday night, engulfing three buildings and sending flames shooting into the sky as the first winds from Hurricane Rita began whipping the coastal island.
Fire crews attempted to fight the blaze [...]

***scroll down for updates, more charitable relief info, looting/prison riot status, definitive clarification about reporting on “martial law,” midnight update and declaration of tomorrow’s Day of Prayer***
As I noted below, the Orleans Parish Prison inmate rioting situation is grave. ABC News reports:
Inmates at a prison in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans have rioted, attempted to escape and [...]

Bulldog Pundit at ABP noticed this at Daily Kos:
Two more weeks, folks, before we take them on, head on.
No calls for a truce will be brooked. The DLC has used those pauses in the past to bide their time between offensives. Appeals to party unity will fall on deaf ears (it’s summer of a [...]

So, last night during the SCOTUS press conference, you may have noticed the facial expressions of President Bush and John Roberts’ wife. Glenn Reynolds did.
So did the readers at Daily Kos.
Why the faces? Because John Roberts’ adorable little son decided to break dance during the momentous event. Dirty Harry has the hilarious photos. Here’s one:

(*Update* [...]

TVNewser says 10.3 million people visited MSNBC.com on the day of the 7/7 London terrorist attacks, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. By comparison, the most highly trafficked political blog, Daily Kos, had 212,000 unique visitors during the month of April 2005, according to ComScore Media Metrix.
That means MSNBC.com had almost 50 times more readers in a [...]

This Drudge flash, which reports on a MoveOn.org activist’s warning to partygoers to leave their “Bush is a liar” shirts at home, is fascinating.
But the new costume of normalcy can’t mask the underlying derangement of the Bush-haters. They can put items like these away when the Washington Post photographer comes to visit, but [...]

So, the Daily Kos has taken a bold stand against his conspiracy-mongering readers and posters:
I made a mass banning of people perpetuating a series of bizarre, off-the-wall, unsupported and frankly embarassing conspiracy theories.
I have a high tolerance level for material I deem appropriate for this site, but one thing I REFUSE to allow is [expletive] [...]

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 [...]

Yet another blogger exaggerates the number of people who read political blogs. This time the claim is that 57 top liberal blogs have as large an audience as CNN and MSNBC combined. The implication is that advertisers should pay as much for ads on liberals blogs as they now pay for ads on cable television. [...]

ComScore Media Metrix estimates that Daily Kos had 212,000 unique visitors in April, compared to almost 30 million unique visitors to the New York Times web site. If so, that means nytimes.com had 140 times as many readers as Kos, the most heavily-trafficked political blog. It also suggests that the number of visits at a [...]

Daily Kos and other liberal bloggers are claiming that newly-released FBI documents confirm Newsweek’s allegations regarding Koran-flushing (see “FBI: Newsweek was right“).
It should be obvious to anyone who so much as glances at the documents being cited that the FBI was reporting the statements of detainees rather than endorsing or validating those allegations. Immediately before [...]

They’re rolling out the cots for an all-night debate in the Senate tonight on the nomination of Priscilla Owen. More on the non-slumber party preparations here.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has arranged to deliver a 90-second nationally televised pitch sometime this evening.
The lefties are gearing up over at The Daily Kos.
On the right, Captain Ed [...]