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Bill O’Reilly took on David Letterman last night. Advantage: O’Reilly. The Political Teen has video. Letterman recycled chickenhawk arguments, muttered “Honest to Christ!” when O’Reilly refused to back down from his criticism of Cindy Sheehan, and attacked O’Reilly’s show despite admitting he doesn’t watch it. Some highlights: O’REILLY: No way that a terrorist that blows [...]

Little Green Footballs has the top 20 nominees for the Annual Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year. Tough competition this year includes: Cindy Sheehan Harry Reid Mary Mapes George Clooney Sean Penn Howard Dean Ward Churchill Dan Rather Chris Matthews Nancy Pelosi Noam Chomsky Kofi Annan Ramsey Clark Send LGF any other names [...]

Here’s Cindy Sheehan in Newsweek, biting the MSM hand that has fed her so royally the last six months: What do you think you achieved in Crawford? We brought the war into the forefront of American consciousness and started the discussion that should have started before the war. The mood in our country is turning [...]

Okay. I don’t question that the rock star and the world’s biggest philanthropists are doing good for the world. (Interesting, isn’t it, that Bill Gates didn’t deserve the honor when he was actually creating something, but only earns Time magazine’s highest praise when he’s giving his money away. And, sorry, but Melinda Gates? She marries [...]

Anti-capitalism zealots go nuts at a WTO meeting in Asia. (via Power Line) The Bangkok Post reports: Riot police fired tear gas at anti-globalisation protestors this evening as violent street battles put the World Trade Organisation ministerial meeting into a state of siege. The tear gas was fired as protestors used metal barricades to charge [...]

Pajamas Media has highlights from its excellent team of Iraqi bloggers who covered the election yesterday. Ed Morrissey notices the NYTimes editorial page’s silence. Turnout is estimated at 11 million. Now, the tallying begins: Final results in Iraq’s parliamentary election may not be known for two weeks, but early indications show the Shiite tickets doing [...]

Blunt words from Iraqi voter Betty Dawisha for the Cindy Sheehan Left (hat tip: The Political Pit Bull): “Anybody who doesn’t appreciate what America has done, and President Bush, let them go to hell!” Go, Betty. Watch the video at The Political Teen.

Check it out: Anti-war zealot Cindy Sheehan will receive $11,000 in student fees to speak at the State University College at Oneonta. FOX News military analyst and Iraq war veteran Lt. Col. Scott Rutter, who will counter Sheehan in a separate presentation, will receive $600.

Today’s Voice of Sanity Award goes to Akef Tayem of Dallas, Texas, who traveled to Crawford to counter Cindy Sheehan and her moonbat minions outside President Bush’s ranch on Thanksgiving. Via AP/CNN: A few miles away in a field beside the main road leading to Bush’s ranch, a lone Bush supporter set up camp Thursday [...]

…against “Kerrying” our soldiers. Power Line and The Democracy Project have details. A snippet from O’Neill’s New York Sun op-ed: Are the politicians like Mr. Kerry who led the campaign to send our kids to war (when it was popular) now to withdraw support while they are locked in combat and apparently succeeding because the [...]

President Bush takes on the Cindy Sheehan Left: “While it is perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began. Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why [...]

***scroll for updates*** If you read nothing else today, make sure it’s this devastating article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by reporter Ron Harris on an anti-war fraud named Jimmy Massey. Excerpt: For more than a year, former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey has been telling anybody who will listen about the atrocities that he [...]

***scroll for updates…a soldier responds…*** “OTHERS HAVE DIED FOR MY FREEDOM. NOW THIS IS MY MARK.” These are words you did not read in the New York Times. They are the words of the late Corporal Jeffrey B. Starr, whose letter to his girlfriend in case of death in Iraq was selectively edited by the [...]

***Update: AP/Yahoo! photo filed approx 930pm EDT…*** Readers are sending word that the woman who fashions herself the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement was arrested tonight outside the White House. Here’s a brief story: Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and 25 other protesters were arrested Wednesday night in front of the White House. The protesters [...]

So, Hurricane Cindy is going to blow back into Washington as soon as the 2,000th soldier in Iraq dies: Cindy Sheehan, the military mother who made her son’s death in Iraq a rallying point for the anti-war movement, plans to tie herself to the White House fence to protest the milestone of 2,000 U.S. military [...]

File this under “We support our troops…by refusing to honor their service.” Via Knight-Ridder: Berkeley’s Veterans Day ceremony, scheduled for Nov. 11, was abruptly canceled on Monday because the volunteer organizing committee split over the political content. At issue was a proposal by the chairman, singer/songwriter Country Joe McDonald, to have Bill Mitchell, a co-founder [...]

***scroll for updates*** Photo credit: Reuters/Yahoo! It’s a big day in Baghdad and the rest of Iraq as citizens head to the polls to vote on the country’s proposed new constitution. There are some grave concerns about the document, but Roman Martinez, who served as political adviser to U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad, writes [...]

Anti-war playwright Harold Pinter wins the Nobel Prize for literature. Here’s his website, which proudly highlights Pinter’s recent moonbattery. The website also features some of his brilliant poetry, including such sophisticated works as “American Football” (pardon the profanity, but as the site explains, it’s supposed to be “satirising through language that is deliberately violent, obscene, [...]

Louis Farrakhan and his followers, still in the grip of Katrina Derangement Syndrome, will be making landfall in Washington, D.C., this Saturday to mark the 10th anniversary of the “Million Man March.” The new campaign is being dubbed the “Millions More Movement” and Farrakhan is shamelessly exploiting the Katrina tragedy to entice new recruits to [...]

***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. *** 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 [...]

I spent the afternoon at Sheehanapalooza in D.C. under overcast skies, in a haze of hemp-scented paranoia, steeped with fetid Bush hatred. Am uploading a bunch of photos of moonbats in action at my Flickr site. Here’s a sample: The face of the anti-war movement: YEARRRGH! A stylish member of Code Pink Grieving anti-war mom [...]

Patterico explains. *** Update: Paul Mirengoff at Power Line dissents. *** Related: Hillary, McCain to Meet with Cindy Sheehan (Hat tip: Lorie Byrd)

The moonbats’ big anti-war rally, spearheaded by the far-left group A.N.S.W.E.R., is coming up this weekend in Washington, D.C. Americans who support our troops and their mission aren’t going to let this one pass. Move America Forward is sending a caravan from California to the nation’s capital to counter the protesters: Debra Johns of Northern [...]

The moonbats are going wild over reports that Cindy Sheehan was hassled by the NYPD during a protest today in Union Square. The Village Voice decries, “NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan; City’s Finest pulls move even Bush wouldn’t have tried:” Cindy Sheehan may be the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement. But that didn’t stop members [...]

Cindy Sheehan isn’t just a thorn in the side of the White House. Now, she’s threatening Hillary Clinton–and the moonbats are eating it up. Via the NYSun: War protester Cindy Sheehan came to New York last night with a blunt warning for Senator Clinton: End your support for the war in Iraq or else. Visiting [...]

From the “We support the troops by smearing blood all over their offices” file: The infamous “St Patrick’s Four” anti-war zealots who “poured their blood” all over a military recruiting center in Ithaca, N.Y.–on the walls, windows, doors, and smeared on an America flag–are back in court today for a re-trial: Four anti-war protesters who [...]

Arianna Huffington praising “authenticity.” Excuse me. Need to wipe the coffee off my computer screen… (Hat tip: William Beutler’s Blogometer) *** Okay. On a serious note, read this spot-on post from Laurence Simon, who argues that Cindy Sheehan should be allowed to meet with the president. No, not that president.

According to this AP story, there is a bit of controversy over the names of the conflicts that some in Iraq and Afghanistan have died in being included on their tombstones. Unlike earlier wars, nearly all Arlington National Cemetery gravestones for troops killed in Iraq or Afghanistan are inscribed with the slogan-like operation names the [...]

Patrick Ruffini’s August straw poll is up. Go vote and then view results sorted by referring blog. This straw poll will also allow for sorting by respondent’s state. I have never quite understood the popularity of George Allen as a presidential candidate, but never had anything against him either. Since he commented that he thought [...]

Cindy Sheehan has proven an old prediction of mine to have been right.