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Late last night, I received an e-mail from Air America’s webmaster and former Howard Dean staffer, Adam Mordecai. He wrote “Some answers to your questions” and included a link to/text of a new statement from the beleaguered liberal radio network about the New York City corruption probe of alleged diverted funds from inner-city non-profit clubs [...]

I know I’ll be sentenced to Operation Respect: Don’t Laugh at Me camp, but there is only one proper reaction to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to conceal her ignorance of the Kelo decision:
Snort.
Snort. Snort.
Guffaw.
BWAH-hah-hah-hah.

The folks at The Corner called Pelosi out first, and the blogswarm has been rightly merciless.
Betsy Newmark roars:
Where to [...]

From Karl Rove, quoted in today’s NY Times:
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
Right. On.
Democrats are now calling on Rove to apologize. Apologize? For what?
For distilling [...]

You already know how I feel about Mark Steyn. His latest instant classic column on the Gitmo-bashers is hanging on the home office wall. A few highlights if you haven’t already read it:
Nobody complained at Auschwitz that the guards were playing the 78s of The Merry Widow (the Fuhrer’s favorite operetta) with the volume knob [...]

The Chicago Tribune fawns over Durbin’s “passion.” The paper’s editorial page says “Ignore him.”
The Boston Herald editorializes: “Durbin must go.”
Investor’s Business Daily: He “made Howard Dean look sane.”
The Wash Times: “Durbin’s degrading drivel.”
The New York Times editorial page: Nothing.
The Washington Post editorial page: Nothing. (There is an E.J. Dionne column titled “Where’s the apology?” Not [...]

Some in the Washington press corps and on Capitol Hill are in a huff because Fox News Channel anchor/reporter Brian Wilson was too aggressive with DNC chair Howard Dean at his press conference with Sen. Harry Reid yesterday.
Awwwwww.
Wilson raised his voice. And he didn’t wait his turn. And he didn’t ask “substantive” questions. [...]

The RNC should send a thank-you letter to the San Francisco Chronicle for its public service yesterday. Maybe the RNC should send new tape recorders to every liberal editorial board on Howard Dean’s schedule.
Generation Why? has a good response to Dean’s “white Christian party” comments.
FWIW, here’s Susan Estrich writing today that Dean is “not [...]

A state-run TV station in Germany just aired a mystery show perpetuating “Bush did it” paranoia theories about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Looks like they’ve been channeling Howard Dean and Cynthia McKinney.
Hat tip to Cassandra at Villanous Company, who says: “Mystery solved.”

As you may know, left-wing activists held a conference in D.C. this week called Take Back America. They invited Howard Dean and John Kerry to speak. Neither mentioned Iraq, which has the “progressives” up in arms. Reports David Corn:
Former (and current?) presidential aspirant John Edwards addressed a crowd of hundreds at lunch. He talked earnestly [...]

According to Business Week, Howard Dean’s foam-at-the-mouth schtick is a dud with Dem donors (hat tip: Daly Thoughts and The Hedgehog Report):
One hundred days into his tenure as the high-energy, higher-decibel chairman of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean is in trouble with party moneybags. The former Vermont governor seems to be doing a better [...]

A new state report shows the abortion rate in Wisconsin is at its lowest since the state began tracking abortions in 1974, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Wisconsin was one of the states that professor Glenn Stassen said was experiencing an increase in abortions. He later retracted that claim, but his now-discredited conclusions were [...]

You probably haven’t heard about the new analysis by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, released Thursday, May 19. The study indicates that both the number of abortions in the U.S. and the abortion rate declined in 2001 and 2002:
The Institute estimates that 1,303,000 abortions took place in the United States in 2001—0.8% fewer than the 1,313,000 [...]

Lots of buzzing over Howard Dean’s telling slip o’ the tongue on Meet the Press yesterday in which he confused Saddam and Osama (video via Jackson’s Junction; transcript at MSNBC):
But the thing that really bothered me the most, which the 9-11 Commission said also wasn’t true, is the insinuation that the president continues to make [...]

Howard Dean on Meet the Press this morning claims abortions have gone up “25 percent since George Bush was president.”
The bogus numbers have been cited by Hillary Clinton and New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, among others. Tim Russert did not bother to challenge Dean’s assertion.
The truth?
See here, here, and here.

Tom Maguire at Just One [...]

That should have been the headline over this Boston Globe story.
Instead, the newspaper misses the real story and headlines Howard Dean’s rant against Tom Delay at the Massachusetts Democratic Party convention. Here’s the lede:
Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Party, said yesterday that the US House majority leader, Tom DeLay, ”ought to go back [...]

Sorry, that’s Brit as in British elections, not Spears.
John O’Sullivan’s qualified predictions are at NRO: “[A]lmost everyone assumes that Labor will win. Only the size of its majority is thought to be in doubt.”
Mark Steyn will place his bets on today’s Hugh Hewitt radio program.
Political Britblogging is blossoming, says CNet. Here’s one resource page, [...]

You’ve no doubt heard about this terrible story of a downed helicopter in Iraq carrying American, Fijian, and Bulgarian civilian security workers who were protecting U.S. diplomats in the area:
Eleven people, including six Americans working for a North Carolina private security firm, were killed Thursday when a commercial helicopter was shot down by missile fire [...]

John Kerry has a brand video: Giving voice to our values.
Here’s how DNC chair Howard Dean gave voice to the Democrat value of compassion.

The Hill reports today that pro-life Democrat Tim Romer is upsetting the DNC’s abortionista apple cart:
Nancy Keenan, incoming president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, snubbed former Rep. Tim Roemer (D-Ind.), a candidate to head the Democratic National Committee last week, fueling concern that the abortion debate has become a distraction and an impediment to stopping the [...]

Education Secretary Rod Paige broke his silence about the Armstrong Williams flap yesterday, insisting that the Department of Education’s payments to Williams were geared “exclusively toward the production and airtime of advertisements in which I described the law and encouraged viewers and listeners” to seek more details.
Exclusively?
The contract signed by Williams wasn’t just about advertising. [...]

Betsy’s Page notes that college students are receiving alarmist e-mails warning them they may be drafted if President Bush wins re-election. The text reads as follows:
Mandatory draft for boys and girls (ages18-26) starting June 15, 2005
There is pending legislation in the House and Senate, S89 and HR 163,to reinstate mandatory draft for boys and girls [...]

The indispensable Command Post is keeping on top of the terror charges filed today against suspected al Qaeda arrested last week. Excerpt from Sky News:
Charges laid against some of the men related to plans to attack major financial landmarks in the USA.
The men were among those seized in a series of raids in London, the [...]

James Robbins at NRO responds to Howard Dean and the doubters.
Update: E-mail of the morning from someone who works in one of the targeted buildings:
My co-worker here at one of the buildings on highest alert for the current warnings of truck bombs in northern NJ just came in and stated matter of factly that all [...]

ABC News reports tonight: Heinz Kerry Tells Reporter To Shove It
Teresa Heinz Kerry urged her home-state delegates to the Democratic National Convention to restore a more civil tone to American politics, then minutes later told a newspaperman to “shove it.”
Hey, did I call this or what? Flashback, Jan. 28, 2004, Howard Dean in a [...]