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Posting was light today because I’ve been trapped in travel hell. Been hustling back and forth across the Chicago airport for the last three and a half hours waiting for “tornado” conditions to pass. Just venting. Speaking of “Vent,” there’s lots of good stuff over at Hot Air: Kathleen of Rightwingsparkle gets Kinky. Bill Clinton [...]

The festivities begin at 11am. I’m lowering my expectations, actually. Ahmadinejad has chickened out: There won’t be a confrontation on the General Assembly lunch menu today because the Iranian president has decided to skip it – passing up his best shot at ambushing President Bush with an impromptu debate. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has challenged Bush to [...]

For not doing enough about…AIDS and Rwanda. That’s according to a New Yorker article by David Remnick just e-mailed to me by the magazine’s P.R. people. Here’s a snippet: Remnick reveals a man still very much obsessed with leaving his mark on the world, through his foundation work on international health initiatives and his persisting [...]

***scroll for updates and liveblogging…side by side video comparison*** Remember that “viewer discretion is advised” post I did on Friday featuring TS’s mock warning slate for ABC? Allah captured the real-life slate ABC aired before “Path to 9/11″ began this evening. Click for the vid and live comment thread. More to come: Running commentary from [...]

TS at Seixon (hat tip: Allah) has helpfully crafted a TV slate for ABC to “insert into every scene the champions of free speech nutroots or poor Bill Clinton objects [to] (because, from the looks of this massive jihad they are waging , it appears ABC will be using this slate quite a bit):” The [...]

***scroll for updates*** From the nutroots in full-blown Rove Derangement Syndrome mode… To the top of the Democratic Party… …the protests against ABC’s 9/11 docu-drama, “Path to 9/11,” have become completely unhinged. The Ostroy Report says this morning: In a story in Friday’s New York Times, former Governor of New Jersey and co-chair of the [...]

Looking for a late-night laugh? Check out the fulmination from Ned Lamont’s nutroots gal pal, Jane Hamsher, sputtering about her blackface debacle. Guess whose fault it is that she made an insane decision to publish the minstrel Photoshop of Joe Lieberman on her Huffington Post blog entry? It’s those damned “right-wing Republicans:” I sincerely apologize [...]

One of my favorite passages from Zell Miller’s RNC speech sets the theme for today’s July 4th news and notes: Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier. And, our soldiers don’t just give freedom abroad, they preserve it [...]

Oh, dear Lord. A jihadist plot, possibly of global scale, possibly imminent, unravels in Canada…and what do law enforcement officials do? Try to whitewash the obvious jihadi profile from the public’s mind. At the press briefing held by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police today, the suspects who appeared in court–all sporting traditional Muslim male beards [...]

The Wall Street Journal editorial page gets all huffy about the FBI raid of Democrat Rep. William Jefferson’s Capitol Hill office. The WSJ board thinks law enforcement officials should have “negotiate(d) the parameters of such a search with House leaders” instead of obtaining a judicial warrant. The “Speech and Debate Clause” of the Constitution, in [...]

Compare and contrast… In Dallas, a school district strikes the words “In God We Trust” from the photo of an enlarged nickel on a yearbook cover for fear of offending students of differing religions. In California, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (the one that outlawed the Pledge of Allegiance for its reference to God) [...]

There are a lot of rumors flying around the left side of the blogosphere about a Karl Rove indictment. (He’s among the top Technorati searches today.) The New York Sun reports otherwise. But unhinged Democrats are already partying hard. The Detroit Free Press report: Was it an improbable outside-the-Beltway scoop on the ultimate inside-the-Beltway story? [...]

House Democrats are bashing the Bush administration for its lack of “diversity.” Via WaPo: President Bush’s crop of political appointees includes fewer women and minorities than did President Bill Clinton’s at comparable points in their presidencies, according to a new report by House Democrats. Women made up about 37 percent of the 2,786 political appointees [...]

Yahoo!/AP caption: Aaron Fuksa, right, and Scottie McLaughlin, both employees of Madame Tussauds’ wax museum and Hillary Clinton supporters, chant during the unveiling of the Hillary Clinton wax figure, left, beside a figure of her husband, former President Clinton, at the museum, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006 in New York…A life-sized figure of the former first [...]

I asked this morning, and I’ll repeat the question: How much did the Saudis pay Al Gore to trash America this weekend at the Jeddah Economic Forum? Arab News has details on the sponsors of the event: Today, the JEF, which was conceived in 2000, and the Jeddah International Exhibition & Convention Center are units [...]

***scroll for updates*** Kudos to the Philadelphia Inquirer for braving the forces of political correctness, foreign and domestic, and publishing one of the forbidden Muhammad cartoons. The point that needs to be hammered again and again is that the newspaper did not publish the cartoon to deliberately offend Muslims or to make an anti-Islamist statement, [...]

***11:20am update…I’ve just learned that the NYSun published two of the cartoons in today’s print edition…will post scans if I can get them…bravo!…scan posted below…*** I have contacted several newspaper op-ed editors urging them to run the Danish forbidden cartoons along with my column this week. So far, all have declined. Now, via a tip [...]

My column today picks up on the blog campaign to “Buy Danish” in support of the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, its cartoonists, and the country now under fire by radical Islamists around the world for printing the Forbidden Cartoons. Via Real Clear Politics, Kathleen Parker is on the same wavelength. Meanwhile, Judith Apter Klinghoffer notes that other [...]

Last October, I blogged about a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, and its cartoonists being threatened by Muslim extremists for publishing cartoons about the prophet Muhammad deemed offensive by Islamist p.c. bulllies. See here and here. For the past four months, The Brussels Journal has relentlessly covered the ensuing uproar from the Muslim world and the battle [...]

The World Economic Forum in Davos, which attracts the world’s wealthiest and windiest bloviators, wrapped up this weekend. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt turned up, along with Michael Douglas, Peter Gabriel, retired tennis player Monica Seles, and other We Are The World Hollywood celebrity-types. (See here for embarrassingly star-struck slavering from an official World Economic [...]

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: [...]

Forgot to note this the other day: The five-year suspension is up. Bill Clinton is eligible to practice law again.

Josh Gerstein of the NYSun reports: A fund-raising committee for Senator Clinton’s 2000 campaign has agreed to pay a $35,000 civil penalty and to concede that reports it made to the federal government understated by more than $700,000 donations to a California celebrity gala held to benefit her Senate bid. The agreement between the committee, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Supreme Court will hear an important case today that pits anti-war academics against the Defense Department. The moonbats plan to be out on the SCOTUS steps in Washington, D.C. in full force and on campuses across the country. Peter Berkowitz at NRO has a good overview. An excerpt: FAIR (Forum for Academic and Institutional [...]

Convicted murderer Stanley “Tookie” Williams, the co-founder of the violent Crips gang who is on Death Row in California, is Hollyweird’s current cause celebre. He is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 13 after 24 years of legal wrangling. The San Francisco Chronicle reports today that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has decided to hold a clemency [...]

Reason number 95,385 to keep your kids out of government schools (via the Boston Globe): BENNINGTON, Vt. –The school superintendent whose district includes Mount Anthony Union High School has labeled “inappropriate” and “irresponsible” an English teacher’s use of liberal statements in a vocabulary quiz. “I wish Bush would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a [...]

While there’s a lull in the action on that important troop withdrawal vote, take some time to stop by these blogs. They all used the Just Google It graphics or made their own versions. Lifelike Pundits Eric’s Boredom Revealed The Owner’s Manual Halbert’s Cubicle The Red Vee Dub SoCalPundit The Kellino Zone UrbanGrounds The Shape [...]

When you watch this incredibly good RNC web video you might ask how on earth the Democrats ever thought they would get away with accusing the President of lying and misleading the country into the war in Iraq. I would answer that with the following: 1. They were emboldened when they were successful in getting [...]