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Austin Bay liveblogs the president’s speech on the “long war:”
I am listening to President Bush’s speech at West Point and thinking “Why didn’t he give this speech three years ago?”
WaPo coverage:
The U.S. will take the fight against terrorism to every shore and outpost in pursuit of enemies like none before, not relenting until their defeat [...]

Vote was 62-36.
Here’s the lowdown.
Any hope now rests with the House.
Start here.
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News coverage:

Bloomberg…
The Senate’s 62-36 vote sets up a clash with the House, which in December approved legislation that emphasized strengthening barriers at the U.S.-Mexico border and didn’t account for guest workers or undocumented immigrants.
The congressional debate on immigration has sparked demonstrations across the [...]

Secretary of State Condi Rice says that, unlike her boss, she has no problem with the radicalized illegal alien national anthem:
Unlike President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is not upset or offended by hearing the U.S. national anthem sung in Spanish.
Asked about the issue, which has become a topic of outrage [...]

Have you been reading the advance coverage of tomorrow’s May 1 Illegal Alien Strike Day? “Mainstream” journalists are dutifully playing stenographers for the open-borders lobby. Check out the Dallas Morning News, which might as well turn over the presses to the boycott organizers and go home:
Dallas area protests and rallies
In addition to an all-day consumer [...]

A follow-up on the Falun Gong protester who shouted down Chinese president Hu Jintao last week (via Breitbart/AP):
A woman who heckled Chinese President Hu Jintao on the White House lawn, said her protest was a spontaneous reaction to China’s suppression of the Falungong spiritual movement.
Wang Wenyi, 47, interrupted the elaborate welcome ceremony laid on [...]

***scroll for new updates, fresh info on McCarthy***
Fox News has the story.
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Update: NBC identifies the leaker as Mary McCarthy…
In a rare occurrence, the CIA fired an officer who acknowledged giving classified information to a reporter, NBC News learned Friday.
The officer flunked a polygraph exam before being fired on Thursday and is now under investigation [...]

These White House shake-up rumors been bubbling all day:
CNN…
Presidential press secretary Scott McClellan and Treasury Secretary John Snow could be next in a shake-up in the Bush administration, according to White House and GOP sources.
The possible departure of both men could be among “several senior-level staff” announcements to come within the next couple of weeks, [...]

Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, Democrat presidential aspirant, is calling for President Bush’s censure over the NSA terrorism surveillance program.
The KosKids are eating it up.
The White House responds this morning:
The White House on Monday dismissed as politically motivated a Democratic senator’s attempt to censure President George W. Bush for ordering domestic eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without [...]

Lots of readers and bloggers are buzzing about a purported “Last Warning to American People” from an “al Qaeda undercover soldier” identified as “Rakan Ben Williams.”
MEMRI has the translation and details, with this preface:
On March 10, 2006, the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) posted, on the Islamic websites, a final warning to the American people, [...]

I must confess, none of these guys make me very excited:
More than 20 months before any real votes are cast, Republican Senate leader Bill Frist of Tennessee won a straw poll on Saturday of party activists choosing their early favorite in the 2008 White House race.
Frist, who packed the home-state crowd with supporters wearing blue [...]

Via Reuters:
A car bomb outside the Marriott Hotel and U.S. consulate in Karachi killed at least two people and wounded 18 on Thursday, security and hospital officials said.
The bomb exploded on a road used for parking behind the hotel and comes just days before U.S. President George W. Bush was due to visit Pakistan.
Brigadier Taqdees [...]

Once again, a recap:
Depictions of Mohammed are not allowed.
Depictions of ordinary human beings and animals are not allowed.
Depictions of mosques are not allowed.
Depictions poking fun on the prohibition of depictions are not allowed.
And now, it’s images of Mecca on playing cards–or rather pictures of playing cards with images of Mecca:
SRINAGAR, India, Feb 28 (Reuters) – [...]

Check this out:

Kashmiri earthquake survivors set fire to a puppet representing U.S. President George W. Bush during a protest against the publication of cartoons and caricatures depicting Prophet Mohammad, in the earthquake-devastated city of Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir February 24, 2006. REUTERS/Thierry Roge
That’s the kind of thanks we get for this:
…U.S. Central Command has [...]

I added this at the bottom of the post below, but Karl Rove’s significant concession (camouflaged in face-saving rhetoric) deserves to stand alone:
President George W. Bush would accept a slight delay in permitting Dubai Ports World to acquire a British company that operates six key U.S. ports, senior White House adviser Karl Rove told Fox [...]

***scroll for updates…Danish ping-pong team cancels trip…Iranian demonstrators stone Norwegian embassy…2nd try to storm Danish mission in 2 days…***
President Bush phoned the Danish Prime Minister today to express support:
U.S. President George W. Bush called Denmark’s prime minister on Tuesday to voice support for the Nordic country, whose embassies are the target of violent protests over [...]

Tom Bevan at Real Clear Politics is on top of the southern border incursion disaster and the war on the border that Washington doesn’t want to fight.
Bryan Preston at Junkyard Blog reports on a Dallas PBS station kowtowing to Islamist pressure.
Thomas Lipscomb stays on the China Google story.

Lisa De Pasquale investigates Business Week reporter Eamon [...]

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Yahoo!/AP caption: In this photo released by Venezuela’s Miraflores Press, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez embraces visiting U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, during his national broadcast ‘Hello President’ in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2006. Chavez said Sheehan told him that ’soon, in Holy Week, she is going [...]

***update – Alito passes the committee on a party-line vote – 10-8***
The Dems are gearing up on a party-line vote against SCOTUS nominee Samuel Alito. Here’s the latest from AP:
The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to approve the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito Tuesday, with the vote expected to be along party lines.
Chairman [...]

Much has been made of the rabid Left’s online swarm that shut down the Washington Post’s blog comment section. The comments seemed comparatively tame to me. Maybe I’ll copy off Chapter 6 of Unhinged and send it off to the WaPo ombudsman and her editors to help them feel better.
Meantime, the moonbat manipulation of Amazon.com’s [...]

Today, FYI, is National Sanctity of Human Life Day. Here’s the text of President Bush’s proclamation:
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
Our Nation was founded on the belief that every human being has rights, dignity, and value. On National Sanctity of Human Life Day, we underscore our commitment to building a [...]

Nebraska’s Ben Nelson announces his vote for SCOTUS nominee Sam Alito. Via Reuters:
Ben Nelson of Nebraska, a moderate voice in the U.S. Congress, on Tuesday became the first Senate Democrat to announce his support for conservative Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, who is expected to be confirmed later this month by the full Republican-led Senate.
“I [...]

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 [...]

A new Military Times poll is being gleefully spun by the moonbats as proof that President Bush has lost the support of our troops. (The Military Times cautions that its mail-in poll, of 1,215 active-duty servicemen who subscribe to the Military Times and its family of newsweeklies, “is not necessarily representative of the military as [...]

To the dismay of the MSM, the blogosphere didn’t go away in 2005. Here are some of the more memorable moments in the clash of the bloggers vs. MSM:
10. Commentator Bill Press’s condemnation of bloggers as people “with no credentials, no sources, no rules, no editors and no accountability.” Press’s idea of good [...]

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 [...]

Via Reuters:
Ailing British playwright Harold Pinter used his Nobel prize lecture on Wednesday to deliver a fierce attack on U.S. foreign policy and urge the unflinching pursuit of truth to restore “the dignity of man”.
Forbidden by doctors from going to Stockholm to receive the 10 million crown literature prize, 75-year-old Pinter, who has been battling [...]

Um, no one.
Sorry to disappoint the moonbats and Mother Ship riders, but the flooding of New Orleans wasn’t a Republican conspiracy to kill black people. Via Paul at Wizbang, Bob Marshall of the New Orleans Time-Picayune penned a summary yesterday of the real reasons for the failure of the 17th Street Canal levee in New [...]

The White House is webcasting the President’s speech paying lip service to immigration enforcement now.
Liveblogging…
Most ridiculous line so far: Introducing his temporary “guest worker” plan by saying we need to “bring workers out of the shadows and reject amnesty.”
More tough talk: Those who enter our country illegally violate the law. To keep the promise of [...]

…and Ramsey Clark is there to hold his hand. From Breitbart/AP:
The trial of Saddam Hussein for alleged crimes against humanity resumed Monday in a heavily guarded courtroom, with the former Iraqi president trying to take command of the proceedings and angrily complaining about having to walk up four flights of stairs in shackles under foreign [...]

Obviously the words “Never forget” mean nothing to Chris Matthews:
In a speech to political science students at the University of Toronto yesterday, the host of the CNBC current affairs show Hardball had plenty of harsh words for U.S. President George W. Bush, as well as the political climate that has characterized his country for [...]