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Want some arugula on that?

And I’ve got a hangnail!

The title of his latest post: “The arrogant and intolerant speak out.”
He’s talking about you, not himself:
The Arrogant and Intolerant Speak Out
Well, one thing’s abundantly clear about who will actually defend our rights to say what we believe: It isn’t the hundreds who have written me saying they are soldiers or veterans or war supporters [...]

Debra Burlingame speaks for me:
We now have the ability to put remote control cameras on the surface of Mars. Why should we allow enemies to annihilate us simply because we lack the clarity or resolve to strike a reasonable balance between a healthy skepticism of government power and the need to take proactive measures to [...]

Take an Antacid and watch the clip (.wmv file).

Brad Wilmouth at Newsbusters has the full transcript and more:
Olbermann: “Who has enabled this? I mean, in a perverse way, is it almost necessary to say that Bill Clinton paved the way for George Bush to conduct a kind of fingers-in-his-ears, shout la-la-la-la-la presidency?”
Dowd: “No, they’re [...]

Take a close look at the protest banner held up by a petulant bunch of Georgetown University kids who disrupted a speech by Attorney General Al Gonzales defending the NSA’s terrorist surveillance program yesterday:

Notice anything missing?

The Ben Franklin quote that has been so misused and abused by the civil liberties absolutists since Sept. 11 originally [...]

On Friday, Editor and Publisher hyped this Sunday NYTimes magazine piece by Michael Crowley about the influence of conservative vs. liberal blogs.
Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman offer stiff competition on a weekly basis, but Crowley’s embarrassing little squib (283 words) has to be one of most insipid, shallow, and uninformed wastes of space to grace [...]

Dr. Helen dispenses some sage advice for Maureen Dowd and her bitter ilk.

Dr. Sanity assesses the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the Left.

My new column on the boneheaded Julie Myers nomination is up.
The Roanoke Times weighs in against the nomination.
Maureen Dowd tries to do her best impression of a liberal who cares about border security. No need to pay or register. Just look at the headline and summary.
And via AP, there’s this news of how dense Democrats [...]

Hot off the press: the latest fabrications from the Associated Press and the New York Times.
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Related:
- The Dowdifier strikes again
- AP: John McCain is “front-runner” for GOP nomination
- The Associated Press and its sources
- The Associated Press makes it up
- The crowd that didn’t boo
- Associated Press continues to stonewall
- The Associated Press twists [...]

Stephen Spruiell at The Media Blog catches Maureen Dowd monkeying around with Don Rumsfeld’s remarks at a press briefing yesterday. (Here’s her Dowdification of President Bush, via Bob Cox at The National Debate, which caused the NYTimes to revamp its correction policy.)
Rumsfeld’s full remarks are here.
For the straight scoop and informed analysis of Rumsfeld’s comments [...]

*scroll down for updates*
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 [...]

Maureen Dowd’s tribute to her mother is a beautiful and transcendent piece of writing. Condolences to the family.
Nick Kristof’s powerful column taking the MSM to task for ignoring the genocide is Darfur is also a must-read.
Yes, I’m feeling okay.

Stephen Spruiell at The Media Blog highlights the new Pew Research survey showing the American public’s dissatisfaction with MSM coverage of the military. Writes Spruiell:
This rising dissatisfaction with press coverage of the military doesn’t mean, however, that the public wants the press to become a propaganda outlet for the Pentagon. A large majority consistently agrees [...]

Maureen Dowd is washed up, burnt out, and tired of the competition. Don’t take my word for it. Take hers! The Salt Lake Tribune reports:
She writes two columns a week for the most prestigious newspaper in America, heckling the powerful with her trademark sarcasm while making witty allusions to movies and pop culture.
It’s a [...]

Gawker untangles Maureen Dowd’s Bolton-hating mixed metaphors.

Villainous Company does a little Dowd detangling of her own.

Interesting changes on the Sunday New York Times op-ed pages–the most coveted real estate in opinion journalism. Via Editor and Publisher:
As promised, The New York Times unveiled its expanded Sunday op-ed section, a move set in motion at least partly by the decision to move the lengthy Frank Rich contributions here from Arts & [...]

In the New York Times yesterday, Maureen Dowd bemoaned how difficult it is to be a woman with opinions–or whatever she calls the half-cooked rhetorical omelette she dumps onto the Times op-ed platter every week:
In 1996, after six months on the job, I went to Howell Raines, the editorial page editor, to try to get [...]

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.

Maureen Dowd writes this week about the right-thinking members of her family. Check out this e-mail she says her brother, Kevin, who lives here in my neighborhood (Montgomery County, Md.), sent out after the election:
People often ask me why President Bush inspires such passionate support. My brother Kevin, a salesman who lives in Montgomery [...]

Lots of readers are asking me to comment on the Virginian-Pilot’s decision to drop my syndicated column.
The most amusing thing is that the paper’s decision was news at all. I’ve been nationally syndicated for five years now, and papers come and go routinely. I’ve been fortunate over the years to have gained far more than [...]

Over the weekend, Maureen Dowd demonstrated just how out of touch the MSM is with political reality in her column attacking Karl Rove. She cast him as a disgruntled nerd, avenging his Kennedy-era high school grievances against liberals by pandering aggressively to backward evangelicals in support of President Bush.
The truth? It’s much, much closer to [...]

So, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd writes that America is heading back to the Dark Ages, as the Bush Administration rushes to replace science with religion:
W.’s presidency rushes backward, stifling possibilities, stirring intolerance, confusing church with state, blowing off the world, replacing science with religion, and facts with faith. We’re entering another dark age, [...]

The gentlemen of Power Line are absolutely right: What happened to Ann Coulter last week was not funny.
Leftists greeted the news that two men attacked her during a University of Arizona college speaking event with glee, ridicule, and misogynist gloating.
(Dan Flynn notes that this isn’t the first time Coulter has been physically attacked.)
Now, can you [...]

Well, Teresa Heinz Kerry’s subdued act didn’t last long did it? By now, you’ve all read Her Highness’s condescending remarks about our First Lady Laura Bush. Teresa’s boneheaded ““apology” was even worse than the initial comments. Teresa managed to snub not only millions of teachers and librarians and Mrs. Bush’s 22 years of work as [...]

How much more Democrat hate can you take? First, Jeff Danziger strikes out at Condi Rice with the most heinous political cartoon of the year.
And now this disgusting campaign flyer from Tennessee Democrats (hat tip: Traditional Values Coalition):

Maureen Dowd no doubt approves.
Update: According to TVC, the person responsible for the flyer is Democrat Craig Fitzhugh. [...]

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill has protested the NY Times crossword puzzle, Fox News, and the Crazy Eddie advertising campaign for discriminating against mentally ill patients.
We’ll be checking in to see if NAMI condemns Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards’ latest remarks about crazy people.
Update: A reader steams…
Ok, Edwards has now said I [...]

A subtle but telling example of media bias:
Just before I arrived in Berkeley, a headline in the news section of the San Francisco Chronicle referred to me as a “right-wing pundit.”
In last night’s speech I mused that if New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd came to the Bay Area, no Chronicle headline would refer to [...]

The FBI is damned if it tries to gather intelligence, and damned if it doesn’t.
Its agents are damned as bigots when they attempt the most modest of surveillance measures based on race, religion, or other politically incorrect criteria, and they are damned as bumblers when they fail to act on information gathered through those means. [...]

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 [...]