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It’s the Obama-Cheney showdown this morning. I, for one, am gratified to see this White House forced to put national security on the front burner. If not for the forceful public defenses by Vice President Cheney of the aggressive, proactive measures the last administration took to keep us safe, the current commander-in-chief would [...]

Comedy Central.

***update:*** The Washington Post blasts the Pelosi plan. Writes the editorial board: “It makes perfect sense, if the goal is winning votes in the United States.” Wow. There’s more:
THE RESTRICTIONS on Iraq war funding drawn up by the House Democratic leadership are exquisitely tailored to bring together the party’s leftist and centrist wings. For the [...]

From my column today:
How many times have you sat in front of the TV over the last four years, watching anti-war activists march on Washington, chase the ROTC off your local college campus, vandalize war memorials, insult the troops and wreak havoc under the surrender banner?
How many times have you thought to yourself: What can [...]

***update: HuffPo has closed its comments section after receiving 437 mostly unhinged messages…a reader saved a PDF file of the entire comment thread for posterity…posted here…***
***update ii: exclusive photos from the operating room at Bagram added below***
***update iii: i’ve been notified by military officials that DVIDS should not have released the photos. i’ve taken them [...]

The Sheehanistas are turning on Sen. Patty Murray in Washington state over the war. Allah’s got the video of Murray getting chewed out by Evergreen State lefties, who are pushing impeachment legislation. My old Seattle Times colleague David Postman reports on the panic the measure is causing among Beltway Democrats:
Sen. Patty Murray and Congressman Jay [...]

Under no circumstances should anybody even imagine, even for a nanosecond entertain the notion, that this post is by our dearest Michelle (who is either in Iraq or in next-door Okinawa, as I understand it, but I’ve never been either place, so what do I know?) Rather, this post is by Dafydd of Big [...]

Audrey Hudson at the Washington Times investigates the Minneapolis Six and gets feedback from air marshals.
We take a closer look at Omar Shahin over at Hot Air. Discussion on O’Reilly last night here.
HA affiliate Charles Ryder has more video and spotted another hate-spewer at the praying imams’ protest yesterday at Reagan National.
Scott Johnson at Power [...]

I don’t like to mud wrestle, but sometimes the slime-flingers need to be held accountable. All week, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and his left-wing vassals have tried to blame female conservative commentators for one nutball’s fake anthrax letter attacks. Reportedly, the suspect was a Free Republic.com member whose pseudonymous profile noted that he “worshipped” Ann [...]

Harold Ford’s wearing a camouflage hunting cap in his last-minute campaign flurry.

Glenn Reynolds videoblogs Corker supporters in his neck of the woods, who are probably not impressed with Ford’s panderwear.
Real Clear Politics has Corker up by six in final numbers.
Speaking of hunting, Dick Cheney’s doing the real thing.

Byron Calame: NYTimes’ lapdog tucks tail
I am sure that the New York Times public editor, Byron Calame, is hoping we will all go away now.
Fat chance.
Three months after defending his paper’s decision to blow the cover of a top-secret terrorist banking data surveillance program, he issued a weasel-worded retraction yesterday in his Sunday [...]

Over the weekend, I pointed to a story in the blabbermouth NYTimes about the vacation homes of Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld and VP Dick Cheney as a news hook to talk about the Left’s selective apathy towards reckless, unnecessary invasions of privacy.
The reactions were predictable: the usual moonbats accused me of hypocrisy by dredging up [...]

Video at Expose the Left.
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James Joyner at OTB: More AP lies in Scalia/AEI story
Reader KT e-mails:
I was at AEI yesterday and saw Scalia speak and was, I am not sure you could call it heckled and I thought of your book. First, Justice Scalia was excellent, especially on the main issue, using foreign law [...]

Insane.
Unhinged.
Scott Johnson: “Deranged sophomoric hysteria.”
I’ll let Alan Simpson, interviewed on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, have the last words:
SIMPSON…Dick Cheney has become the hate symbol from the beginning. He was the hate symbol when he was with Halliburton. He was the hate symbol when he came in and the votes with South Africa [...]

Via Drudge/WCBS:
The man shot by Vice President Dick Cheney has shown signs of having suffered a heart attack due to his wounded, medical doctors said Tuesday.
The doctors at the hospital in Corpus Christi say they’ve been consulting with White House doctors about Harry Whittington’s treatment.
Via AP:
The man shot by Vice President Dick Cheney suffered a [...]

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White House press secretary Scott McClellan is getting mauled over the delay in the public disclosure of Vice President Dick Cheney’s hunting accident. NBC’s David Gregory is fuming (I know, what else is new). Other reporters are shouting and interjecting.
More to come…
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Ok, here’s a taste of the MSM hunt:

Download and watch video (Windows [...]

Fox News is reporting that VP Dick Cheney was involved in a hunting accident yesterday.
Breitbart/AP:
Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.

Harry Whittington, 78, was “alert and doing fine” after Cheney sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the [...]

Scott McClellan is holding his daily White House press briefing and VP Dick Cheney is speaking at the Manhattan Institute.
McClellan:
The president is fully committed to doing everything within his power to prevent attacks and defeat the terrorists. We are taking the fight to enemy and now we are working to advance freedom and democracy to [...]

Following up on my column and post yesterday about Hillary Clinton’s exploitation of the body armor issue, here’s the latest push back from the Pentagon (via ABC):
The Pentagon is pushing back hard against allegations soldiers’ lives have been lost in Iraq because they were not issued adequate body armor.
“There is nothing more important to [...]

***scroll for updates…12:41pm EST. Cloture fails. Senate votes to block the defense spending bill 56-44..1020pm EST: ANWR provision dropped….***
Just in: “The Republican-controlled Senate passed legislation to cut federal deficits by $39.7 billion on Wednesday by the narrowest of margins, 51-50, with Vice President Dick Cheney casting the deciding vote.”
Unfortunately, the LA Times points out that [...]

Here we go, kids. Via AP:
WASHINGTON – The proposal to drill for oil in an Alaska wildlife refuge will create the most environmentally friendly oil field in the world, Interior Secretary Gale Norton said Tuesday – a claim disputed by drilling opponents.
They said the legislation before Congress could allow oil companies to skirt some existing [...]

***scroll for updates…The ACLU wants a special prosecutor (but not for the leakers)…Some on the Left aren’t happy with the Times, either…Arlen Specter says the Judiciary Committee will investigate (the Bush administration, not the leakers)…12/17 Bush fights back…***

This morning, the Drudge Report–HUGE RED FONT and all–chose to aid and abet the civil liberties Chicken Littles [...]

John Hawkins at Right Wing News kicks things off with The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes For 2005. A sample:
40) “I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal. It was awesome.” — Drew Barrymore
39) “I think (the NBA’s dress code is) a racist statement because a lot of the guys who are [...]

Vice President Dick Cheney is set to give a major speech this morning defending the Iraq war at the American Enterprise Institute.
The Washington Times editorializes:
Ever since Mr. Bush’s Veteran’s Day speech rebutting the canard that he lied the country into war, congressional Democrats and parts of the mainstream media have responded by coming up with [...]

The Astute Blogger wonders why the liberals and the media just can’t seem to get excited about burned and defiled churches in France the same way that they get excited when a mosque is defiled.
Michael Barone writes on the different recollections of Bob Woodward and Walter Pincus and what that says about the CIA.
But you [...]

Dick Cheney has now joined the “push back” with a forceful speech. Here are a few excerpts:
What we’re hearing now is some politicians contradicting their own statements and making a play for political advantage in the middle of a war. The saddest part is that our people in uniform have been subjected to these [...]

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Democratic temper tantrum taking place behind closed Senate doors via Breitbart/AP:
Democrats forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session Tuesday, demanding answers about intelligence that led to the Iraq war. Republicans derided the move as a political stunt.
In a speech on the Senate floor, Democratic leader Harry Reid said the American [...]

Drudge is headlining an ABC News story on a deeply disturbing espionage case at the White House involving a naturalized American of Filipino descent who worked for Vice President Dick Cheney (and also Al Gore).
Both the FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history.
Officials tell [...]

Guess it’s too late…
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130pm EDT. Dick Cheney just finished an interview with Rush Limbaugh. Cheney pleads for Rush to “trust” him. First caller after the segment is a Republican woman who is “so disappointed” with Bush and the GOP…they don’t seem to care about their base…we fought hard to get a Republican majority…I am so [...]

Via Editor and Publisher:
Judith Miller, The New York Times reporter who has been jailed since July 6 for refusing to identify a source, has been released, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on its Web site tonight.
It said that an unnamed jail official had revealed that “Miller left an Alexandria, Va. jail late this afternoon….She was released [...]