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**Written by Doug Powers Some of the stars of the new movie “Inception” are hitting the promotional circuit, hell-bent to insult public figures who are respected by a good portion of the American movie-going public. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page. In the clip below, Levitt and Page refer to Dick [...]

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers Associated Press: Former Vice President Dick Cheney was admitted to the hospital Friday after experiencing discomfort, the latest health scare for the 69-year-old Republican leader who has a long history of heart disease. Cheney was expected to remain at George Washington University Hospital over the weekend, said spokesman Peter Long. [...]

It’s now being reported that former VP Dick Cheney suffered a mild heart attack last night. He is expected to be released from GWU Hospital in the next few days. Please join me in sending your best thoughts, prayers, and well wishes his way. In case you missed it, here’s VP Cheney’s surprise appearance at [...]

Scroll for updates… 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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

***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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Lizards [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Video at Expose the Left. *** 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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

***scroll for updates*** 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… *** Ok, here’s a taste of the MSM hunt: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

***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 [...]

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 [...]

***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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]