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Anti-war activists and far-left organizations have been galvanized by Cindy Sheehan’s continuing protest outside President Bush’s Crawford, Texas, ranch. MoveOn.org has hopped on the bandwagon with a newspaper ad and Internet campaign. Air America hosts, all too happy to talk about something other than their own unpleasant political and financial woes, have [...]

Clintonite Paul Begala speaking to college students about Republicans:
“They want to kill me and my children if they can. But if they just kill me and not my children, they want my children to be comforted — that while they didn’t protect me because they cut my taxes, my children won’t have to pay any [...]

The miscreant Ted Rall fumes:
The right points to critics like Michael Moore, yours truly, and Ward Churchill, the Colorado professor who points out the gaping chasm between America’s high-falooting rhetoric and its historical record. But these bête noires are guilty only of the all-American actions of criticism and dissent, not to mention speaking uncomfortable truths [...]

Durbinization alert:
Tons of readers are e-mailing me about NBC News anchor Brian Williams’ comments tonight in which he apparently compared the Founding Fathers to modern-day terrorists. The remarks seem to pooh-pooh the story about Iranian president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s alleged involvement in the 1979 hostage crisis at the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
Williams previewed his argument on [...]

Morgan Spurlock, director/producer of the smash hit “Super Size Me,” is coming out with a new documentary/reality TV show called “30 Days.” Debbie Schlussel, who was asked to appear on the show, says the outcome of the show was decided before production began:
A show summary sent to me before taping said: “This process aims to [...]

This blog turned one last week! (BTW: Congrats to Karol at Alarming News, which turned the Big 3 today.)
First, some blogiversary expressions of gratitude:
Special thanks to the following people for their warm welcomes, words of advice/encouragement, and early links during mm.com’s incipient days: John, Paul, and Scott at Power Line, John Hawkins at Right Wing [...]

- What was the president of Princeton University doing at an “All-Ivy Drag Competition?” Photo here.
- “Blogs, Buzz, and Beyond.” A new report on the role blogs play in national politics.
- The Return of Hillarycare. David Gratzer blows the whistle.
- George Lucas: The Next Michael Moore? More on Lucas’ pandering to the French here [...]

One of Michael Moore’s “Minutemen” in the making:

Mohammad Hossein, 4, plays with his toy gun, in front of his mother, who is a member of a suicide commandos unit, during a meeting where more than 200 young men and women volunteers prepared themselves for special training to carry out suicide bomb attacks against Americans in [...]

They just won’t give up. When Bush-bashers have no substantive criticisms to make, they resort to Michael Moore’s “My Pet Goat” strategy.
“My Pet Goat,” you’ll recall, was the book the president read to Florida schoolchildren for several minutes after he was informed of the terrorist attacks on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. (Correction: Children [...]

Reader Stu G. writes, “For all the anti-American photos that won awards, here’s one that deserve one for if ever one photo so clearly showed the difference between US forces in Iraq and the Michael Moore’s ‘minutemen,’ this is it:”

AP Photo/US Army(05/30 correction. The photo is NOT an Associated Press photo. It was taken by [...]

Via Fox News:
Filmmaker and Michigan native Michael Moore has established a scholarship for students who defy the administration at California State University, San Marcos–the same school that canceled his talk last year.
The Michael Moore Freedom of Speech Scholarship will award two $2,500 annual scholarships to Cal State San Marcos students “who have done the most [...]

Guess who said this:
Although not all Muslims are terrorists, unfortunately, in today’s world, most of the terrorists are Muslim.
It was Shohreh Aghdashloo, the lovely Iranian actress who plays a controversial role in FOX’s hit TV series, 24. The Council on American-Islamic Relations launched protests over a plot line involving a Muslim family of terrorist sleeper [...]

The Seattle Times reports, Preschool obesity rises:
Dr. William Cochran, a pediatric gastroenterologist and nutritionist for the Geisinger Clinic in Danville, Pa., said he sees many youngsters in his weight-management clinic who weigh 300 to 400 pounds. He also is seeing more and more children with diabetes, high blood pressure, even liver disease.
“Some kids are drinking [...]

The Los Angeles Times has details on Michael Moore’s latest piece of propaganda theater–a hit on the health care/pharmaceutical industry titled “Sicko:”
Rumors are already flying within the industry about Moore’s moviemaking tactics. Moore, it is said, has hired actors to portray pharmaceutical salesmen who offer gifts to doctors who promote their products. There’s also word [...]

Created by the American Leftist
As you’ve all seen, Michael Moore has made his post-election “statement” on his website by publishing a photo mosaic of President Bush’s face, formed with the images of fallen American soldiers.
The mosaic was created by the blogger American Leftist earlier this spring (would have been nice for Moore to give his [...]

You know everyone’s gonna have one–the winners/losers list. Might as well get started. Feel free to add.
Winners: Swift Boat Vets
Losers: Lawrence O’Donnell, Chris Matthews, Mary Mapes, insert every other Swift Vet-hating media elitist here

Winner: Hillary Clinton
Loser: Terry McAuliffe
Winner: Zell Miller
Loser: Tom Daschle
Winner: Florida Gov. Jeb Bush
Loser: Florida election lawyers
Winner: Ron Silver
Loser: P. Diddy
Winner: Blogosphere
Loser: [...]

Florida station WJXT reports: Florida Voting So Smooth, Michael Moore Packs Up, Leaves
He’s reportedly headed to Ohio. Don’t stop there, buddy. Make like a California liberal and keep moving north…Canada is lovely this time of year.
Update: A steamed Canadian reader protests…
As a Canadian I must vehemently protest your suggestion that Mr Moore continue his, (hopefully [...]

Yet another public school has allowed a teacher to show Michael Moore’s crockumentary to students. From the Seattle Times:
MILL CREEK — A high-school teacher’s classroom showing of the controversial film “Fahrenheit 9/11″ has some local Republicans fired up.
Judy Baker, a teacher at Henry M. Jackson High School, showed the anti-Bush documentary last week to [...]

…and it’s bound to get ugly somewhere on Nov. 2.
Michael Moore says a total of 1,200 professional and nonprofessional cameramen, filmmakers and videographers will bring their cameras to polling places in Ohio and Florida to prevent “intimidation.”
Moorewatch notes that “Moore himself is BLATANTLY trying to intimidate people with this ploy,” and has issued this call: [...]

Chalk it up to sleep deprivation, but I honestly feel a wee bit sorry for John Edwards. This video of him fussing with his feathery Breck hair before a TV interview will undoubtedly be the laughingstock of the blogosphere and beyond today.
Yeah, he’s prissier than most. Waaayy prissier. But if you secretly taped almost any [...]

Hi, all. I was at Penn State U. yesterday, speaking to students about illegal immigration and terrorism. Thanks to YAF for sponsoring and hosting the event and to all those who came to the pre- and post-event gatherings. The PS-YAF members and College Republicans are extremely energized and well-organized in Pennsylvania. They are holding the [...]

The Michael Moore wing of the Democratic Party has made much ado of President Bush’s decision to finish reading “My Pet Goat” to Florida schoolchildren for several minutes after he was informed of the terrorist attacks on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. John Kerry picked up Moore’s goat droppings and his campaign is running [...]

Here’s a letter I received today from Terry Sater, a Vietnam Vet who served with the Mobile Riverine Force in the Mekong Delta during 1968 and 1969. He writes that “I’m not part of a 527. I voted for McGovern, Perot and Bush. I didn’t volunteer for Nam. I didn’t want to [...]

The New York Times discovers the phenomenon of jet-setting liberals (registration required) who preach environmentalism and practice Gulfstream eco-hypocrisy:
When the leftist film maker Michael Moore used his publisher’s plane on a recent book tour, for example, critics lambasted him for enjoying the corporate high life. The Hollywood activist Laurie David, the wife of Larry David [...]

The airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 on Cuban state-run TV is apparently a violation of Oscar Awards rules.
Property rights, schmoperty rights, right, Michael?
Via Wizbang.

The word is out about my new book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for “Racial Profiling” in World War II and the War on Terror. I’ve been keeping it under wraps over the past year as I quietly toiled away in the wee hours of the morning, but since Instapundit kindly mentioned receiving the [...]

A number of bloggers have come up with excellent responses to Michael Moore’s question to Bill O’Reilly, “Would you sacrifice your son to secure Fallujah?” Here are three of my favorites:
“No parent makes that choice for their child. You can enlist in the army when you are 18 years old, an adult. An adult who [...]

Jon Lauck has the latest on Michael Moore, Tom Daschle and Hug-gate. Moore says Daschle is a liar.
There’s a pot and a kettle.

Two bloggers–Bill at INDC Journal and John Tabin–report on their Democratic National Convention press credentials getting revoked by the supposedly blog-friendly Party of the Little People.
Some hapless DNC cogs explain the revocations by telling the bloggers that there is not enough “overall site capacity” to accomodate them.
Not enough space? Sounds like a phony [...]

Just caught up on some TV viewing thanks to the (sporadic) wonder of TiVo. Bill O’Reilly conducted a fascinating interview on Tuesday night with New York Times columnist David Brooks. I’m attaching the entire transcript below (click on “Read More”). In brief, the conservative Brooks denied unequivocally that there’s a liberal bias at his paper [...]