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***scroll for updates*** 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 [...]

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. [...]

Guess it’s too late… *** 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 [...]

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 [...]

I spent the afternoon at Sheehanapalooza in D.C. under overcast skies, in a haze of hemp-scented paranoia, steeped with fetid Bush hatred. Am uploading a bunch of photos of moonbats in action at my Flickr site. Here’s a sample: The face of the anti-war movement: YEARRRGH! A stylish member of Code Pink Grieving anti-war mom [...]

From the “Bias? What liberal bias?” files… On Saturday, CNN.com had a piece [9/12 clarification carried by Reuters] titled “Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts:” Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration’s first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the [...]

FEMA head Michael Brown is history. Via Breitbart/AP: Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown is being removed from his role managing Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, The Associated Press has learned. Brown is being sent back to Washington from Baton Rouge, where he was the primary official overseeing the federal government’s response to the disaster, [...]

The Associated Press is reporting this evening: The husband of Cindy Sheehan, the mother camped outside President Bush’s Texas ranch to protest the death of a son in the Iraq war, has filed for divorce, according to court documents. Patrick Sheehan filed the divorce petition Friday in Solano County court, northeast of San Francisco. His [...]

According to the Denver Post, “journalist Bob Woodward predicts [Vice President] Dick Cheney will be the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in 2008.” Fred Barnes commented on this possibility a few months ago. How’s Helen Thomas taking the news?

Mark Levin asks: “Is John McCain about to do for interrogations what he did for political speech?” Sure looks like it. Be afraid. VP Dick Cheney is reportedly leading a campaign to stop the attempted micromanagement coup over Gitmo. Stay tuned…

Time and again, Washington Post Style reporter Robin Givhan hides behind fashion snarking and culture reporting to savage conservatives. She did it with Katherine Harris and Dick Cheney and John Bolton–and I’m sure you can remember many more examples of partisan mockery. Well, today’s conservative-bashing Style commentary sinks to the lowest low. The piece, “An [...]

WaPo says an announcement may come as early as this afternoon. The Supreme Court Nomination Blog has all the lowdown on rumored frontrunner Edith Clement. (Update: Rolling list of Clement’s noteworthy opinions.) Jonathan Adler comments on lefty Nan Aron’s wishes. Christopher Flannery likes Justice Alice Batchelder. ProLife Blogs takes a look at the two Ediths. [...]

So, the Daily Kos has taken a bold stand against his conspiracy-mongering readers and posters: I made a mass banning of people perpetuating a series of bizarre, off-the-wall, unsupported and frankly embarassing conspiracy theories. I have a high tolerance level for material I deem appropriate for this site, but one thing I REFUSE to allow [...]

***See the update below. Arianna responds…*** Jeff Quinton sends word that the Huffington Post is reporting from Vail, Colo., on Dick Cheney’s alleged hospitalization for heart problems. I wouldn’t have linked directly to the HuffPuffers, but after glancing at the cesspool in the comments section, I figured you’d be interested. Here’s a sample: Hasn’t he [...]

Just received this e-mail from Steve Gill: Vice President Dick Cheney appeared this morning on Steve Gill Mornings in Nashville, Tennessee and was asked about Dick Durbin’s comparison of U.S. troops at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis. The Vice President noted that he had to be “careful about what I say since this is a family [...]

Last week, I criticized President Bush for equivocating on the Gitmo question. Rumsfeld tried to do damage control then. And Dick Cheney will be attempting to do so again on FNC’s Hannity and Colmes tonight. But it’s too late. A Republican anti-Gitmo brigade has been born: – Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) joined the Left’s Guantanamo [...]

President Bush’s response to a question about Guantanamo Bay at his press conference this afternoon was woefully inadequate, and not just because he flubbed the word “dissemble.” While he rightfully criticized Amnesty International’s hyperbolic report on alleged abuses at Gitmo as “absurd,” I don’t think he defended our detention policies and practices vigorously or articulately [...]

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 [...]

James Joyner reacts to Vice President Dick Cheney’s speech last night. Wizbang has a round-up of Day One. La Shawn Barber is photo blogging. Aggregated CPAC coverage here. I’ll be dragging my flu-ridden self and family down to the conference later this afternoon for a book signing and brief chat with college students. Come say [...]

Yes, I’ve just read the story about the f-bomb dropped at the Inaugural Youth Concert. I’m sure Kid Rock is raising a scotch glass to Brett Scallions, lead singer of the band Fuel, who told the young concertgoers: “Welcome to the greatest ——ing country in the world.” Well, I’m glad he’s patriotic and all. But [...]

Set your watches. From AP… They parodied politicians and presidential candidates in a popular Web video last summer. Now JibJab Media Inc., is back with an animated tribute to President Bush’s inauguration. In “Second Term,” which will appear on JibJab’s Web Site Wednesday, four characters in bathing suits — Vice President Dick Cheney, French President [...]

Chalk it up to sleep deprivation, but I honestly feel a wee bit sorry for John Edwards. This video of him fussing with his feathery Breck hair before a TV interview will undoubtedly be the laughingstock of the blogosphere and beyond today. Yeah, he’s prissier than most. Waaayy prissier. But if you secretly taped almost [...]

John Kerry stooped to the lowest of the low with the shameless, invasive line that will be played over and over again on the news in the next 24 hours: And I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney’s daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she’s being who she [...]

Here is the opening paragraph of the AP post-debate propaganda masquerading as analysis: With cold efficiency, Vice President Dick Cheney sought to eviscerate the credibility of the Democratic presidential ticket Tuesday night.. Can you imagine an AP report focusing on Edwards’ performance that began “With gooey unctuousness, Sen. John Edwards etc…” The wire service’s anti-Bush/Cheney [...]

9PM last night: After I finished reading Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus to my daughter, she pleaded for me to read Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business. After which came prayers and 20 minutes of “Mommy, I’m thirsty…Mommy, I’m hot…Mommy, I have to go potty…Mommy, Dark Heart is in my [...]

CBS News isn’t the only one failing to disclose the political activism of purportedly ordinary Americans fearful of the return of a draft. NBC News has its own Beverly Cocco. His name is Jeremy Tor. Here’s the full transcript of the draft-mongering segment that ran on NBC Nightly News last night: TOM BROKAW, anchor: One [...]

I’m not going to bother linking to the story. It annoys me. I am still have nightmares about the dangling heads of Nick Berg and Paul Johnson and Kim Sun-Il, and all the mainstream media will be prattling on about today is Dick Cheney’s use of the F word. He shouldn’t have said it. He [...]

Last week, I keyed off a Drudge headline about Time magazine’s “revelation” of Dick Cheney’s secret location, Site R. Turns out that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette blabbed about it nearly three years ago! My bad for castigating Time. The Post-Gazette’s bad for endangering the Veep. Time’s bad for misleading people about not-new news. Drudge’s bad for [...]

Just got off deadline. So Drudge reports that the loose-lipped scribes at Time Magazine have divulged Dick Cheney’s secret location. Funny how the hysterical privocrats – the brilliant Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald’s term – shrug their shoulders at the casual disclosure of vital national security information. Who cares about the safety of the Vice [...]