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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 [...]

On the New York Times op-ed page yesterday, columnist Nicholas Kristof dredged up the debunked talking point that the number of abortions has increased since George W. Bush became President:
What has been lethal for Democrats has not been their pro-choice position as such, but the perception that they don’t even share public qualms about abortion. [...]

(3/4, 1:13am. Check out the Ted Rall update below.)
The cold-blooded murders of Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow’s mother and husband have rightly focused the MSM’s attention on right-wing, white supremacist Internet sites. A sample:

Traffic Heavy On Hate Sites After Lefkow Murders
Extremists applaud murder of judge’s relatives
Killings spotlight supremacist group
Hate groups multiply online
The bile on these sites [...]

Bill Clinton’s Rhodes Scholar buddy, Mel Reynolds, the sex offender who was convicted in 1995 by an Illinois jury on two counts of solicitation of child pornography, three counts of criminal sexual assault, three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, and four counts of obstruction of justice, is in the news again.
Seems he has been [...]

The FOX sports guys just asked former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton for their Super Bowl predictions.
Bush 41 gives a succinct answer: Patriots by 14.
Clinton hesitates, brags that both teams’ hometowns “voted for me twice,” then rambles on about the Eagles’ defense without giving a spread. Or anything else definitive.
Typical Clinton. Can’t even [...]

Did you know that tomorrow is “Death to America Day” on the official Islamic Republic of Iran calendar?
Some local Iranian officials planned to celebrate the day at a Marriott hotel in Bethesda, Md. But when Iranian critics of Islamofascism got wind of the event, they launched a letter-writing and blog campaign to protest Marriott’s [...]

President Bush threw a bone to fiscal conservatives in tonight’s speech with these lines:
America’s prosperity requires restraining the spending appetite of the federal government. I welcome the bipartisan enthusiasm for spending discipline. So next week I will send you a budget that holds the growth of discretionary spending below inflation, makes tax relief permanent, and [...]

In her brazen quest to move rightward, N.Y. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton attacked President Bush’s record on abortion, claiming at a Washington, D.C., march today that:
In the (first) three years since President Bush took office, eight states have seen an increase in abortion rates and four saw a decrease.
But is it true? LifeNews.com reports the [...]

Gack. Fresh on the heels of the Department of Education’s Paidpunditgate scandal, the Bush administration has now announced plans to EXPAND the reach of the No Child Left Behind Act from grade school to high school. The plan will involve $1.5 billion in new federal education spending, including:
- $200 million for the “Striving Readers” literacy [...]

A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals–yes, that one–gave President Bush an important win in the War on Terror today by reinstating indictments against seven defendants accused of raising money for a terror organization with links to ousted Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein. USA Today reports:
In a victory for the Bush administration’s war [...]

Bill Clinton Helps Launch Search Engine…backed by the Chinese government, which donated an undisclosed sum to the William J. Clinton Foundation.
FReeper Dukeman asks:
I wonder whether it will filter out all the websites banned in China.

City attempts white out during Clinton festivities
From the AP:
LITTLE ROCK - Seeking to distance itself from a checkered racial past, Little Rock erased “Confederate Blvd.” from interstate highway signs just weeks before dignitaries arrived for the opening of Bill Clinton’s presidential library.
The Confederate Boulevard signs had been the first landmarks many saw after landing [...]

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 [...]

My column is about the now-thoroughly-discredited myth that higher turnout benefits Democrats. Here’s the intro:
Despite apocalyptic claims of systemic voter suppression, upwards of 120 million Americans were able to navigate traffic, traverse bad weather, find their polling places, stand in line without fainting, elbow their way past United Nations nosybodies and MoveOn.org mobsters, press their [...]

The Kerry campaign is getting more and more desperate.
Now comes word that a Kerry spokesman is criticizing top Republican officials for getting flu shots (”Cheney Got Flu Shot, Aides Say, Citing Heart Issue“). Reuters quotes the Kerry campaign as follows:
The Kerry campaign accused the Bush administration of “telling Americans to keep calm” while top [...]

John Kerry reveals his true elitist colors. From tonight’s debate:
I’m pledging I will not raise taxes; I’m giving a tax cut to the people earning less than $200,000 a year.
Now, for the people earning more than $200,000 a year, you’re going to see a rollback to the level we were at with Bill Clinton, when [...]

Check this out.
My question: Will the Democratic political appendage known as the teachers’ union defend this rank-and-file teacher or put its fatcat union leaders’ partisan interests first? And would there be any question about where the union would have stood if this had been 1992 or 1996 and the teacher in question had been [...]

John Fund’s new book, Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy, just arrived in the mail from Encounter Books. (Here’s the intro.) And it couldn’t have come at a better time.
Voter fraud is breaking out all over:
In Tennessee, a temporary employee of the left-wing group Tennessee Citizen Action is being investigated for submitting 200 [...]

Vitamin peddler Almon Braswell, who received a pardon from Bill Clinton, was sentenced this week for conspiring to evade millions of dollars in corporate income taxes for his Marina del Rey, Calif.,-based mail order business.
From the AP:
Almon Glenn Braswell, 60, admitted in March that his Gero Vita International Inc. underpaid its taxes by $4.5 million. [...]

I wish former president Clinton well, and hope his surgery is successful.
It has been reported that Clinton has been taking Zocor, a cholesterol-lowering drug whose reputation was bruised a bit earlier this week by a new study.
After his surgery, Clinton probably will be prescribed one of the newest statins–medications that might [...]

My new column is up. It’s on the “UNITY Journalists of Color” convention being held this week in Washington, D.C. Both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry plan to make appearances, where they will try to out-P.C. each other in gag-worthy fashion.
I cooked up a little quiz for all these skin-deep diversity types and [...]

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 [...]

The Washington Post reports that Abdurahman Alamoudi, once embraced as a “mainstream” and “moderate” Muslim activist who courted both the Clinton and Bush administrations, will plead guilty today to accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from Libya in violation of U.S. law and attempting to hide it from the government:
Abdurahman Alamoudi has agreed to admit [...]

Blecch. There were more fake smiles on stage last night than on the season finale of The Swan.

Or whatever the number is now. This time it’s the federal immigration ban on people with AIDS.
FLIP…
Kerry 2004 announced Saturday: “I will work with Congress to lift the immigration ban on HIV-positive people that has prohibited the United States from hosting [an annual AIDS conference].”
FLOP…
February 1993, Boston Globe: “The US Senate dealt President Clinton [...]

The liberal conventional wisdom seems to be that dark-horse Kerry veep possibility Tom Vilsack, governor of Iowa, ruined his chances by signing a state law making English the official language in 2002.
Vilsack may or may not be Kerry’s pick, but the notion that he would hurt the ticket because of the English language law [...]

Via Binyamin Jolkovsky of Jewish World Review:
THE MISTAKE OF CLINTON’S ‘LIFE’
Bill Clinton has been characterized in many ways, often unflattering. But would even the most strident Bubba basher describe his life as a “failure”? There’s no need to — the ex-prez has already done so himself.
Believe it or not, in the last sentence of [...]

I promised myself I’d be a Clinton-free zone for the summer, but Bill Clinton’s resurrection of Hillary’s pathological lie about how she was named is too rich to pass up. From ABC News Online (via C-log):
Bill Clinton’s autobiography “My Life” has been raising eyebrows in New Zealand amid rumblings the former US president has been [...]

The big Drudge headline this morning is a link to New York Times book reviewer Michiko Kakutani’s hibachi grilling of Bill Clinton’s tome.
This is off the subject of Clinton (insert cheers here), but if you haven’t read the classic McSweeney’s essay, “I am Michiko Kakutani,” you should. And if you just happened to be [...]

Bill Clinton on George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, Washington Post, June 2004:
He both defends Bush for confronting a threat of which Clinton also spoke in dire terms while president, and minimizes the size and urgency of the problem posed by Iraq’s suspected weapons programs.
Bill Clinton on whether he would have supported the Persian [...]