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Last week, Hillary Clinton issued what she called the “Rutgers pledge” in the wake of the Don Imus firing:
“Will you be willing to speak up and say, “Enough is enough,’ when women or minorities or the innocent or powerless are marginalized or denigrated?” Clinton said in her speech to about 700 people. “Will you [...]

From milblogger Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette.

***Update: Here’s the column….scroll down for excerpt…***

Nutroots target David Broder–new member of the VRWC?
Since “Important Action Alert” is trademarked by MyDD, a TPM blogger has issued a “BLOGSWARM ALERT!” rousing the nutroots over a column by diehard liberal David Broder that hasn’t even appeared in print yet:
Blogswarm alert!
It looks as if David Broder’s column tomorrow [...]

Lots of readers e-mailed to ask about the disappearance of The American Thinker. Good news: They’re back! Bad news: They were victims of a domain registration scam. Thomas Lifson has the full report.

Celebration.

Read it.

Discover magazine has a neat graphic from Matthew Hurst of Nielsen Buzzmetrics mapping the blogosphere:

Individual dots represent individual blogs. You’re at number 4!

My column this week:
There’s no polite way or time to say it: American college and universities have become coddle industries. Big Nanny administrators oversee speech codes, segregrated dorms, politically correct academic departments, and designated “safe spaces” to protect students selectively from hurtful (conservative) opinions—while allowing mob rule for approved leftist positions (textbook case: Columbia University’s [...]

The techblogging elite, liberal femme bloggers, and their friends in the MSM are still yammering amongst themselves about the Kathy Sierra incident. Bloggers’ code of conduct. Civility badges. Blah blah blah.
Big props to Mary Katharine Ham for calling out the one-eyed, left-wing women bloggers (who still won’t admit their blind spot) and for demonstrating tough, [...]

For a hearty lunchtime chuckle: Check out my interview with Ron Ott of Coptix, one of the masterminds behind the April Fools’ joke that caused a Rove Derangement Syndrome feeding frenzy.

***update: Block removed!***
If you’ve been having trouble reading Little Green Footballs at work, this may be why. Charles Johnson writes:
I’ve received more than two dozen emails today from people telling me that their company has suddenly begun blocking LGF, because the Websense content filtering system had added LGF to either the “Advocacy” or “Racism/Hate” category. [...]

April Fools!

Conservative blogger/citizen journalist Stephen Taylor is posing a threat to the Canadian MSM establishment. Keep ‘em squirming, Stephen.

…but HuffPo and Co. only complain when it’s directed at themselves.
No mention of hate-monger Jane Hamsher’s “b**ch is dead meat” and “sandpaper sn**ch” attacks on Kate O’Beirne.
No mention of other “feminist” attacks on independent-minded (read: non-left) bloggers–a phenomenon Dr. Helen noted here.
And, of course, no mention of this or this.
Some women are more equal than [...]

Dr. Helen shares some good advice.

President Bush is talking about progress in the war in Iraq. I believe he is now quoting Iraq the Model!
Yep, he quoted from Mohammed and Omar Fadhil’s piece in the WSJ:
The brightest image of the past two weeks was the scene of displaced families returning home; more than a thousand families are back to their [...]

Meet Selena Roberts.

The Dawn Patrol, a “daily roundup of information on the War on Terror and other topics - from the MilBlogs and other sources around the world” is your gateway to the world of the deployed milblogger, featuring milbloggers stationed in Iraq:
Acute Politics
Badgers Forward
Jack Army
and
The Marching Camp
Broken Masterpieces has frequent dispatches from Duke [...]

Paul Wood, a journalist of the BBC, has a new piece up at BBC Radio 4. It’s a 30 minute podcast that includes readings of military and Iraqi blogs in the war zone - some are featured in The Blog of War - Frontline Dispatches from Iraq and Afghanistan and milbloggers Jason Hartley and [...]

If you are a military blogger or reader of military blogs or a vet or person interested in the military, the 2007 Military Blog Conference in Washington, DC is something you won’t want to miss.
On May 4th, all types of military bloggers will descend upon our unsuspecting capital to discuss military blogging issues (military censorship, [...]

I’ll be away for the next few days on a short trip. But you are in for a treat. In my absence, I’ve invited a few of my favorite military bloggers to guest blog. With the Walter Reed story still unfolding, the Democrat crack-up continuing, an initial test vote on the overall military spending bill [...]

Millions of viewers won’t watch the Democrats debate on Fox News, according to Politico.com.
This is victory?
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Will the Congressional Black Caucus cave, too?
Update - ICN has a statement:
Here is FNC VP David Rhodes statement on the news that the Nevada State Democratic Party caved in to left wing pressure and pulled out of the debate FNC [...]

MKH notices that the Huffington Post has disallowed comments on an article about VP Cheney’s blood clot.
The first step toward recovery…

They still hate Fox News. And they’re stepping up the pressure on Harry Reid to cave in to their anti-FNC campaign in Nevada.
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Fox News Derangement Syndrome Alert

Patterico eviscerates a nutroots leader: This is gonna leave a mark.
*Seems to be down. But keep checking back. It’s worth it.

***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 [...]

The Daily Kos declares war over the Nevada Democratic Party’s choice of Fox News–get out the smelling salts!–to host the Democrats’ first presidential debate in August.
Greg Tinti observes:
Maybe the Nevada Democratic Party actually wants to people to see this debate. And anyway, it’s not like there aren’t going to be dozens of other debates from [...]

Here’s a grass-roots effort by and for active-duty members of the military to support the mission in Iraq.
The petition is a response to a left-wing astroturf group of anti-war vets.
Hat tip: Smash

The other John Edwards nutroots shoe drops.
As usual, guess who’s getting blamed. More blame-the-messenger hysterics and hyperbole at–where else?–HuffPo.

Bryan Preston responds to McEwan’s claims of hate mail and death threats:
Blogs in general have a collective new dent thanks to the promotion of two of its worst to positions where they would attract mainstream coverage and [...]

“Blogmaster” Amanda Marcotte has resigned from the Edwards’ campaign (the site is currently down). Of course, it’s all the right wing’s and Catholic activists’ fault (a blame-avoidance strategy I highlighted on The O’Reilly Factor tonight before news of Marcotte’s resignation broke). Writes Marcotte this evening:
I was hired by the Edwards campaign for the skills and [...]