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To the, uh, rescue?

**Written by Doug Powers On the night Kim Jong-il’s death was reported, I wrote half-jokingly (or maybe quarter-jokingly) that Jimmy Carter had volunteered to lead a US delegation to the funeral. According to the state-run media in North Korea, Carter has done the next best thing: Former President Jimmy Carter has sent North Korea a [...]

**Written by Doug Powers By way of the Laura Ingraham Show — I think Obama’s speech writers might owe Carter’s speech writers some royalties: **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe

Pyongyang Jimmy

Mix-up

**Written by Doug Powers The Chinese government isn’t too happy with the Nobel Peace Prize recipient this year: Since Liu Xiaobo’s selection, China has vilified the 54-year-old democracy advocate, called the choice an effort by the West to contain its rise, disparaged his supporters as “clowns,” and launched a campaign to persuade countries not to [...]

A hug therapy seminar, perhaps

President Obama is headed to New Orleans this weekend to mark the 5th anniversary of Katrina. The papers and airwaves will be clogged with all sorts of retrospectives. My column today reminds you of the ugly racial demagoguery by leading Democrats and “civil rights” leaders from Jimmy Carter to Charlie Rangel to Malik Zulu Shabazz. [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The push to get taxpayers to pay for the upkeep of Jimmy Carter’s brother’s gas station and turn it into a national park (suggested name: “Mount Lushmore”) began last year, but it was dealt a blow yesterday: The gas station of former President Jimmy Carter’s beer drinking brother will not become [...]

Chilly.

Blight.

My column this week looks at the Dems’ Dhimmi Carter problem. Even the left-wing SF Chronicle is advising him to stay home. The Palestinians deride the Postman. Samuel Segev fills in the blanks of what Carter left out of his progress report. Jay Ambrose jibes: “Carter has demonstrated that one determined individual can do harm [...]

Mouthful.

Tool.

Chickens coming home to roost. (Photoshop hat tip: Wuzzadem)

Nuts.

Smearing America. Again.

Jimmy Carter says he has signed more than 100,000 books during his book tour. Book publishing insider Brad Miner’s B.S. detector has been activated. Update: Whoops.

The New York Sun weighs in on “The Axis Bomb:” To the extent that America needs to be particularly wary, it is of the danger that the North Korean test could be, like the war in Lebanon and Israel this summer, an Iranian-Syrian stunt aimed at diverting world attention from Tehran’s own nuclear program. The [...]

A quick look around the ‘series of tubes’: **Dawn Summers wonders why the UN recognizes Hezbollah but not Taiwan. **Allahpundit notes there have been no demands or taking of responsibility for kidnapped FOX news employee Steve Centanni. **James Taranto agrees that the George Allen ‘kerfuffle’ is pretty silly as far as kerfuffles go. **Kathryn Jean [...]

Watch Ed Peck, chief of the U.S. mission to Iraq under Jimmy Carter, if you can stand it.

Jim Hoft notes that Iran threw itself a party celebrating 27 years of Mullah-cracy–and millions boycotted. Publius Pundit has more on the sit-out. Clark Mountain Musings has a FlashPoint greeting card for the mullahs, with special guest appearances by Jimmy Carter and Jacques Chirac. Regime Change Iran has the Monday daily briefing on Iran. Winds [...]

Babalu Blog has the scoop. Here’s the ABC News write-up: Hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched by the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana to protest a U.S. ticker tape flashing messages. President Fidel Castro charged that the Bush administration was not only trying to torpedo relations but that the United States was also coddling anti-Cuban [...]

- Using racial slurs against each other during legislative debates over flying the flag. – Getting convicted for election fraud in East St. Louis. – And starting to dislike themselves more than Republicans do: A poll on the political mood in the United States conducted by the Democratic Party has alarmed the party at its [...]

Bob Novak visits California and finds “surprising and substantial opposition” among Democrat elites to nominating Hillary Clinton for President in ’08: At a dinner party in a private room of a Los Angeles restaurant attended by eight Democratic politicians (including City Council members and a county supervisor), I was asked to assess the political scene. [...]

At his May 31st press conference, President Bush’s response to reckless claims about Guantanamo Bay was inadequate and superficial at best. Unfortunately, that performance was Reaganesque compared to W.’s interview last night with FNC’s Neil Cavuto. Here is the full transcript. This is the relevant portion (with a few of my comments in brackets): CAVUTO: [...]

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. *** Leave the [...]

Here’s the “news quote of the day” from Chris Matthews, which is featured on Don “Execute the Swift Vets” Imus’ website: “When you lose an election, it’s horrible especially if you have been President for four years. Can you imagine being President for four years, living in the White House, thinking that you are part [...]