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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 [...]

**scroll down for updates**

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 [...]

Michael Malone of ABC News asserts that “[m]any blogs enjoy readerships larger than some major metropolitan newspapers.”
Wow! That’s great news for bloggers! But is it true?
The circulation of most major metropolitan newspapers is 200,000 or more. Many average more than 400,000. By comparison, Instapundit currently averages about 130,000 visits (not unique visitors) a day. Assuming [...]

The left side of the blogosphere has gone into full-blown spin mode regarding the effects of President Bush’s Social Security indexing proposal.
Here’s Josh Marshall:
let’s state specifically what this to-some-sexy-sounding proposal offers: steep benefit cuts for all but the lowest income Americans and meager increases in benefits for them. It’s hard to see how there’s anything [...]

You’ve no doubt heard about this terrible story of a downed helicopter in Iraq carrying American, Fijian, and Bulgarian civilian security workers who were protecting U.S. diplomats in the area:
Eleven people, including six Americans working for a North Carolina private security firm, were killed Thursday when a commercial helicopter was shot down by missile fire [...]

Washington Post ombudsman Michael Getler’s column about the Post’s coverage of the Schiavo memo is surprisingly good.
Before I get to the meat of the column, here are two tidbits that I haven’t seen elsewhere:
- The March 19 Post article by Mike Allen and Manuel Roig-Franzia that claimed the memo was circulated by Republican party leaders [...]

Former Senator Bob Kerrey is considering running for mayor of New York City, the New York Times reports.
Wes Clark is seriously considering running for president in ‘08, a Daily Kos correspondent reports (via MyDD).
PoliPundit says Republicans will probably pick up a seat or two in the U.S. Senate next fall. One of the most vulnerable [...]

One thing is clear from those who are cackling over news that Sen. Mel Martinez’s legal counsel, Brian Darling, is the author of the so-called GOP/Schiavo Talking Points Memo: Your reading comprehension level is lower than my 17-month-old son’s. And he’s just started reading picture books.
Giddy e-mailers are demanding that conservative bloggers, including myself, “retract” [...]

A year ago today, left-wing blogger and Democratic strategist Markos Moulitsos Zuniga of the Daily Kos cheered the brutal murders of four American civilian contractors in Fallujah–all of them war veterans with distinguished records, three of them fathers–with the following infamous words:
“Screw them.”
(Scroll down in the comments section. It’s there.)
Initially, Democrat advertisers condemned Kos’s atrocious [...]