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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, New York [...]

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 Rights, Inc.) [...]

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 speech, but [...]

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 of Days
but that’s just my opinion
Justin [...]

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 [...]

The Bush administration is finally and concertedly pushing back against the Deaniac Democrat lie that President Bush somehow lied us into war in Iraq. The president has delivered two speeches in the past few days that take direct aim at those Democrats who voted in favor of the war but now claim that the [...]

***see 11/ 28 update below***
Reader reaction to the GOP cave-in on ANWR has been overwhelming. I’m reprinting just a small sample of letters that came in this morning from conservatives fed-up with Republican “leadership.”
Update 1120am EST. I’ll keep adding letters throughout the day.
Update 1145am EST. Many of you are asking for the list of [...]

The Left had a field day over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s remarks on NBC’s Meet the Press this morning in which she downplayed possible perjury and obstruction of justice indictments this week in the Rove/Plame/Miller/Libby/God-knows-who-else leak case. I watched the rebroadcast of the show tonight and have to say that I found Hutchison’s pooh-poohing more [...]

Check out John Hawkins’ poll of conservative bloggers on the Miers nomination. Negative sentiment and uncertainty predominate.
Compare with the Washington Times’ survey of Republican senators–nearly half of whom say they, too, remain unconvinced that Harriet Miers is worthy of being confirmed to the Supreme Court.
And read John Fund (go ahead, White House, call him an [...]

Reader e-mail of the morning from Jeanne M.:
The latest photo of Bill Clinton looking very angry and wagging his finger as he criticizes Bush is the exact pose he struck when he said he ‘didn’t have sex with that woman.’
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Update: John Hinderaker at Power Line dissects Clinton’s attack.

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Bulldog Pundit at ABP noticed this at Daily Kos:
Two more weeks, folks, before we take them on, head on.
No calls for a truce will be brooked. The DLC has used those pauses in the past to bide their time between offensives. Appeals to party unity will fall on deaf ears (it’s summer of a [...]

The blogosphere is buzzing with excellent commentary and analysis of the Operation Able Danger revelations and the 9/11 Commission’s CYA act.

Jim Geraghty has a comprehensive review of what we know and don’t know over at TKS.
Then head over to Captain’s Quarters, where Ed Morrissey has created a new category for his invaluable posts on the [...]

The 9/11 Commission was supposed to give the America people a complete, unbiased story of the government failures that led up to the September 11 terrorist attacks. But the Commission now admits its acclaimed Final Report ignored key information provided by a U.S. Army data mining project, Able Danger, which identified Mohammed Atta and several [...]

Tony Mauro of the Legal Times reported in February 2005 that SCOTUS nominee John Roberts’ votes “have mainly fallen on the conservative side, but not always:”
Last December, in United States v. Mellen, Roberts ruled in favor of a criminal defendant who challenged his sentence in a fraud case. Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson — yes, an [...]

- Using racial slurs against each other during legislative debates over flying the flag.
- Getting convicted for election fraud in East St. Louis.
- And starting to dislike themselves more than Republicans do:
A poll on the political mood in the United States conducted by the Democratic Party has alarmed the party at its own loss of [...]

One of the most common complaints about Guantanamo Bay is that the detainees have been denied trials.
Sen. John McCain made these charges on Meet the Press yesterday: “The weight of evidence [in Guantanamo Bay] has got to be that we’ve got to adjudicate these people’s cases, and…if it means releasing some of them, you’ll have [...]

Bob Novak visits California and finds “surprising and substantial opposition” among Democrat elites to nominating Hillary Clinton for President in ‘08:
At a dinner party in a private room of a Los Angeles restaurant attended by eight Democratic politicians (including City Council members and a county supervisor), I was asked to assess the political scene. I [...]

Hillary Clinton reverted back from her “moderate” self last week in her attack on the Bush Administration over North Korea’s nuclear capabilities:
“Put simply, they couldn’t do that when George Bush became president, and now they can.”
Andy Card hollered back at HRC on Meet The Press:
Russert: “Could it be said that President Bush was so focused [...]

The New York Sun’s Josh Gerstein is following the trail of Hillary Clinton’s Hollywood fund-raising flim-flam men. He reported earlier this week on a mystery Demo witness who “has offered a guilty plea to bank fraud charges and is likely to become a government witness at the upcoming federal trial of a top finance aide [...]

CHARLES H. PORTER IV/Associated Press
Hard to believe it has been a decade since the Oklahoma City bombing. The Oklahoma City National Memorial is here. At 9:03am, the names of the 168 murdered in the domestic terrorist attack will be read aloud at the site. God rest their souls.
There’s an update on the family [...]

As noted over the weekend, Ann Coulter is on the cover of the most recent issue of Time magazine. Fans noticed the cover photo’s strange distortions immediately. Drudge follows up here with reax from Coulter and also mention that the photog–”Platon“–snapped the notorious Esquire magazine cover photo of Bill Clinton, shot at Monica Lewinsky-level.
“Why [...]

Former president Bill Clinton says gay Republican operative Arthur Finkelstein may be “self-loathing.”
Imagine the outcry if President Bush said that about a gay Democrat.

The essay in The Spectator by Mark Steyn written shortly before Terri Schiavo died and published today is, hands down, the best piece written on the case. Ever.
I had completely forgotten about the Robert Wendland case, which Steyn had highlighted in 1998 and revisited this week. Here’s the intro:
Do you remember a fellow called Robert [...]

Sandy “Honestly, I had no idea how those papers got into my socks, jacket pocket, and portfolio” Berger will plead guilty to misdemeanor theft of classified documents.
My, what serendipitous timing. Just saying.
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Flashbacks:
Sandy Berg(l)er?
Berger and a side order of lies
Ace of Spades spoof: Mystical Artifacts Removed From Top-Secret Government Warehouse
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Update: An unhinged reader says Berger [...]

A few days ago, I noted that some ethnic grievance-mongers were griping that there wasn’t enough coverage of the Minnesota school shootings because many of the victims were Native American.
The race card-playing continues in the Friday A section of the Washington Post, under the eye-roll-inducing headline:
Native Americans Criticize Bush’s Silence
Response to School Shooting Is Contrasted [...]