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The Bush administration is finally and concertedly pushing back against the Deaniac Democrat lie that President Bush somehow lied us into war in Iraq. The president has delivered two speeches in the past few days that take direct aim at those Democrats who voted in favor of the war but now claim that the [...]

It looks like Berkeley, but these are off the wire from Mar del Plata, Argentina, at the anti-Bush demonstrations during today’s Summit of the Americas:

Via Reuters/Yahoo! : Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona waves as he arrives to take part in an anti-Bush and anti-free trade agreement rally in Mar del Plata’s soccer stadium. Thousands of [...]

The New York Times has run yet another correction to columnist Paul Krugman’s numerous errors regarding the recounts in Florida after the 2000 presidential election. These errors were noted by bloggers more than a month ago.
The correction comes in the form of a “Letter From the Editor” by editorial page editor Gail Collins, who acknowledges [...]

Via Paul Mirengoff at Power Line, more bad news:
We’ve been unhappy lately with some of President Bush’s appointees. Generally, the problem has been lack of relevant experience and, perhaps, cronyism. Today, though, I want to focus on a Bush appointee who makes me unhappy precisely because of his relevant experience. I’m referring to the [...]

What’s old, underperformin’ Norman up to these days? With the continued blessing of George W. Bush, the Dept. of Transportation Secretary is still wasting your money and making us all less safe in the name of political correctness. Using this press release as a take-off point, my latest column takes a closer look at Mineta’s [...]

Richard Baehr just tears Paul Krugman apart. This is a followup to his first ripping of Krugman. Krugman doesn’t know enough to know when he’s should just surrender and issue an apology and tried to correct his mistakes from his previous column. Unfortunately, he put yet more errors into his correction.
Politicalities [...]

One of the most infuriating aspect of the GWOT is its circularity–we keep rehashing the same old arguments about the mission in Iraq, though speeches the President and his subordinates delivered to justify the war haven’t changed in about 2.5 years. I’m sorry, but if you don’t know the arguments that led to war [...]

Thank you very much to Michelle Malkin for allowing me this opportunity to guest-blog at her page. I appreciate the honor. I’m Betsy Newmark of Betsy’s Page.
The Wall Street Journal is taking a look on how the media portrays the economy.
The paradox of the year is why so many Americans tell pollsters [...]

Just read this. You won’t believe it. Here’s the intro…
Aug. 22, 2005 issue - The grieving room was arranged like a doctor’s office. The families and loved ones of 33 soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan were summoned to a large waiting area at Fort Bragg, N.C. For three hours, they were rotated through five [...]

You have to scroll all the way down to the 18th paragraph in this front-page Washington Post article, but there it is–an acknowledgement that Cindy Sheehan has changed her account of her first meeting with President Bush, which occurred two months after her son’s death in April 2004:
After the meeting, [Cindy Sheehan] was quoted by [...]

Trust you’ve seen the Drudge flash on fearless Ann Coulter’s comments about John Roberts. Ann’s full piece is up at her website.
It’s titled “Souter in Roberts clothing,” and concludes:
He has given us a Supreme Court nomination that will placate no liberals and should please no conservatives.
Maybe Roberts will contravene the sordid history of “stealth nominees” [...]

What Jeff G. said.
See also Ed Morrissey and Pejman Yousefzadeh, who uses a phrase I like to describe the NYTimes–”Talk Nanny.”
Snort-worthy!

Here we go again. Senate debate on the nomination of John Bolton for the U.N. ambassador’s post is scheduled to begin tonight at 5pm EST. RedState reminds you that there’s still time to contact some of the swing/squish votes.
It’s not clear whether President Bush would give Bolton a recess appointment in the (likely) event of [...]

Must-read of the morning comes from Keith Thompson, a northern California liberal–or rather, ex-liberal, who has a long essay in the San Francisco Chronicle today on why he left the Left. His day of reckoning was Jan. 30, 2005. Here’s the intro:
Nightfall, Jan. 30. Eight-million Iraqi voters have finished risking their lives to endorse freedom [...]

Future special correspondents for Air America’s Pyongyang bureau…

North Korean children play a shooting game with a toy gun aiming at a portrait of U.S. President George W. Bush at Namjun kindergarten in Shinwiju, Pyongan-Budo, North Korea. The photo was released by Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 9, 2005. (Reuters)
(Via Yahoo Photos and the [...]

You and me, according to Jeff Johnson at CNSNews.com:
The Open Society Institute, a private foundation controlled by liberal billionaire and political activist George Soros, received more than $30 million from U.S. government agencies between 1998 and 2003. Last year, Soros donated at least $20 million of his own money to such liberal groups as Moveon.org, [...]

In today’s column bemoaning the declining credibility of the MSM, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times argues that the press needs to take bolder steps to reconnect with the public:
More openness, more willingness to run corrections, more ombudsmen, more acknowledgement of our failings - those are the kinds of steps that are already under [...]

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. [...]

Reader Brian Leone passes on the following observations related to the Atlanta courthouse shootings:
[T]he California Supreme Court issued an opinion in 2002 that sent ripples through the legal community. They ruled it was a violation of a defendant’s rights to have him fitted with a shock belt as a security measure.
The case sent shockwaves [...]

Just happen to be on sick baby overnight shift and caught The David Letterman Show, which I never usually watch. MSM relic Dan Rather is on his farewell tour and bloviated for a few segments about his 1968 Democratic National Convention scuffles in Chicago, his Deep Thoughts on Iraq, and, yes, the little “error” (too [...]

Convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid’s sidekick admitted his role in the plot to kill American airline passengers yesterday. From the British tabloid, The Sun:
Saajid Badat, 25 — dubbed Shoe Bomber Two — carried a deadly device identical to one that Reid had attempted to set off. Fanatical Badat trained to become a suicide bomber at [...]

Joe Lieberman comments about the other hug that made news on SOTU night. From the Connecticut Post:
In a startling display of bipartisan spirit, President Bush, after his State of the Union speech, gave Connecticut Democrat Joe Lieberman much more than an olive branch.
Descending into the well of the House and into a swarm of well-wishers [...]

Have you seen this home in Hialeah, Fla.? Local6 News reports:
The people who live in a Hialeah neighborhood say they are outraged by displays of hatred on a house there. The home has six swastikas splashed across a fence and another one etched into the door. But it is a message apparently directed at President [...]

Mindless liberal critics like to paint every conservative journalist as a Republican-subsidized cheerleader. The wasteful, foolish, and shameful Armstrong Williams/Education Department’s “Pay to Pander” scandal certainly doesn’t help. For the record, I am reprinting my column on “No Child Left Behind” published Aug. 2, 2000. Some of us are not for $ale.
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According to a press release issued by the William C. Velasquez Institute, NBC News has admitted its exit poll showing that 44% of Hispanics voted for Bush was incorrect:
In a stunning admission, an elections manager for NBC News said national news organizations overestimated President George W. Bush’s support among Latino voters, downwardly revising its [...]

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 [...]

Many pundits have been trumpeting President Bush’s success among Hispanics as one of the keys to his victory last week. Dick Morris, for example, wrote in the New York Post:
GEORGE W. Bush was re-elected on Tuesday because the Hispanic vote, long a Democratic Party preserve, shifted toward the president’s side. The USA Today exit poll [...]

How much more Democrat hate can you take? First, Jeff Danziger strikes out at Condi Rice with the most heinous political cartoon of the year.
And now this disgusting campaign flyer from Tennessee Democrats (hat tip: Traditional Values Coalition):

Maureen Dowd no doubt approves.
Update: According to TVC, the person responsible for the flyer is Democrat Craig Fitzhugh. [...]

Julia Gorin, a wonderful humor columnist and conservative stand-up comic, recently set up a Bush/Cheney table near Madison Square Garden. She recounted her experience with angry liberals in the Washington Post yesterday. Here’s a tease:
“Haven’t you seen ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′ ?” one man screamed at us as he passed. “You’re close-minded!” (Wait a minute, [...]

Question: What do the following talk radio hosts have in common?
- John and Ken, KFI Los Angeles
- Bill Handel, KFI Los Angeles
- Barry Young, KFYI Phoenix
- Liddy and Hill, KFYI Phoenix
- Tom Sullivan, KFBK Sacramento
- Roger Hedgecock, KOGO San Diego
- Peter Boyles, KHOW Denver
- Mike Rosen, KOA Denver
- Bill Cunningham, WLW Cincinnati
- Chris Baker, KPRC [...]