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I’m hanging it up for the night, er, morning. Unlike Michael Moore in 2004, however, I will not be staying in bed for three days in a catatonic state. I will not need PEST shock therapy. I will not move to Australia.
A moonbat reader e-mailed a taunt earlier this evening:
How’s it feel to be [...]

John Kerry has been found! I don’t why this came into my mailbox this morning, but it did. Reprinting for the snort-worthiness of it:

Dear Friend,
We’ve been working hard to get to this moment. And, here we are — we can see the finish line.
But, if we want to produce the Democratic victories our nation so [...]

I wrote last week that we’d see more outbreaks of anti-military vandalism leading up to Election Day. In upstate New York on Halloween eve, “(expletive) Bush” and a depiction of a penis were scrawled on the 20-by-40-foot flag and similar pictures in the same shade of green were painted on the American Legion Mohawk Post.
Now [...]

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The Wall Street Journal reports on a “new breed” of poll watchers who will be out in full force tomorrow. Beware. Behind the civic-minded facade are far Left radicals whose main conern is not in ensuring a fair election process–but in preemptively undermining and delegitimizing it:
When Americans go to vote tomorrow, a [...]

John Kerry’s “botched joke”/habitual troop slander has soaked up most of the blogosphere and MSM’s attention the past week. But under the radar screen, another embarrassing controversy involving the Democrats and the military has been brewing.
Two separate Democrat ad campaigns–run statewide by Missouri Senate candiate Claire McCaskill and run nationally on CNN and FOX by [...]

A reader sent Matt at Blackfive another classic banner message from the troops to John Kerry, on display at the Army-Air Force Game last night:

Photo from Blackfive
Another soon-to-be viral photo you won’t see in the MSM!
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Related: Gold Star Families go to Iraq.

She’s sorry now
The blogospheric-led uproar, spearheaded by Winfield Myers, over University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann’s idiotic decision to pose for a Halloween photo with a student in suicide bomber gear has yielded results. Here’s her apology:
Each year, the president hosts a Halloween party for Penn students. More than 700 students attend. They all [...]

***update: Kerry un-apologizes***
My old friend D.F. Oliveria at the Spokane Spokesman-Review sends along an exclusive photo that you will not see on the front page of the New York Times or the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times. Do you see who’s signing the poster? (Hint below.)

I bet the Minnesota National Guard members who [...]

Roughly one in six or seven of my e-mails over the last 12 hours has included an attachment of the famous “Stuck in Irak” banner response to John Kerry. Hugh Hewitt notes MSM newspapers where you can’t find the photo and wants to know if it ran in your local paper.

But you know what you [...]

The Philly Daily News cover today: Right photo, wrong spin (hat tip: Richard Davis)
So much for John Kerry’s “joke” excuse. He meant what he said and, as Rove says, it’s a lifelong habit. Someone other than Jennifer Loven at the Associated Press reports on Kerry’s disparaging remarks in 1972 about America’s volunteer army–which he deems [...]

***9:12pm Eastern update: Video of Kerry’s remarks now up at Hot Air. Notice the perfect, seamless delivery of the “botched” joke. I’m with Dafyyd:
…it is also quite clear that Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA, 100%) said exactly what he meant to say. The reason he resisted apologizing for so long is that the “joke” was [...]

***2:15pm Eastern update: Watch the press corps frenzy***

Attention, John Kerry: Here’s a banner message from the troops “stuck in Iraq” that’s spreading like wildfire across the ‘Net. (Hat tip: Leonard and Anthony J.) Click for enlarged photo:

Laffing out lowd!
Update: Drudge just picked up on it. It’s gone viral. Well done, troops.
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President Bush on the [...]

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Dan Riehl notes that libs are rallying behind Kerry because he was just speaking “the truth.” Via the SFChronicle website:
(Note: Images removed 06/07/2007 to facilitate web site re-design. As of June 2007, the SF Chronicle link still works.)

Chickenhawk invocation? Check. Absolute moral authority card? Check. Unapologetic elitism? Check. Check. Check.
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It’s moonbat season and [...]

Guess the NYTimes couldn’t stand to see the Associated Press doing all the water-carrying for Kerry and the Dems. Here’s the Times’ contribution to the save-Kerry’s-backside campaign available tonight on the Times website. The headline? Nope, not “Kerry scorns troops, Bush defends military.” This:

You have to read 15 paragraphs down into the story before you [...]

***update: Kerry to speak at 2pm press conference…I expect nothing less than full-throated indignance, condescension, and blame avoidance…great news for the GOP…see, what did I tell ya: Kerry: “I apologize to no one for my criticisms of President Bush…”
***update: American Legion asks for apology:
The National Commander of The American Legion called on Sen. John Kerry [...]

***12:30pm update.***Kerry adviser admits to National Journal’s Hotline that Kerry’s smear came out “mangled.” McCain to repeat demand for apology on camera at 1pm.
Here’s Kerry’s non-apology: Digging in, blaming conservatives, condescending as ever.
11:57am update. Drudge: McCain calls on Kerry to apologize. Well now that their favorite maaaverick has spoken, I guess the MSM will cover [...]

Feedback continues to pour in this morning:
Michelle,
I’m a reserve Army officer, currently employed as a professor overseas.
The DoD contracts with several universities to offer undergraduate and
graduate degrees to servicemembers, either online or face-to-face, in
darn near every corner of the planet. Many enlisted soldiers have
graduate degrees; many more have bachelor’s degrees, and the rest are
working on [...]

***10/31 7:35am updated with more reax below…
…909am update San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Pasadena Star News reports on the Angelides campaign event at Pasadena City College where Kerry trashed the troops…”Kerry then told the students that if they were able to navigate the education system, they could get comfortable jobs – “If you don’t, you get stuck [...]

Here’s a bit of a report by Candy Crowley at the Jihadist Sniper News Network putting people to a Democrat word association test (here’s the link, but you don’t need to click):
On the cusp of an election that could overturn the Republican majority on Capitol Hill, I jokingly asked a senior Democratic aide whether he [...]

Lurch falls flat
Lots of people are e-mailing me John Kerry’s remarks on the Bill Maher show last Friday and suggesting he has a Bush assassination fantasy.
I don’t think so. He was lamely trying to riff off a metaphor. Not bloodthirsty. Just really, really dumb.
Judge for yourselves. Warning: It is extremely painful to behold.
I know unhinged [...]

Drip, drip, drip?
In its original report leaking details of the National Intelligence Estimate on the Iraq war, the New York Times relied on anonymous, unnamed leakers to spin its contents and embarrass the White House.
Today, the Times includes comments from some named sources. Pay attention to this one:
What was most remarkable about the intelligence [...]

Terrible news:
A leading Afghan official working on women’s rights has been shot dead in the southern province of Kandahar.
Safia Amajan, head of the province’s women’s department, was leaving her home for work when a gunman on a motorcycle opened fire, police said.
She may have been targeted by Taleban militants because of their opposition to women [...]

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From the nutroots in full-blown Rove Derangement Syndrome mode…

To the top of the Democratic Party…

…the protests against ABC’s 9/11 docu-drama, “Path to 9/11,” have become completely unhinged.
The Ostroy Report says this morning:
In a story in Friday’s New York Times, former Governor of New Jersey and co-chair of the federal 9/11 Commission, Thomas H. [...]

NYTimes executive editor Bill Keller lied to readers about the paper’s anonymous leak-dependent NSA terrorist surveillance story published in December 2005. First, the relevant passage from NYTimes’ public editor Byron Calame’s Sunday column:
THE NEW YORK TIMES’S Dec. 16 article that disclosed the Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping has led to an important public debate about [...]

The manipulative detainees at Guantanamo Bay reportedly used the generous civil liberties protections we gave them to plot their suicide pact. Are you surprised? WaPo:
Three suicides at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may have been part of a broader plot by detainees who were using confidential lawyer-client papers and envelopes to pass [...]

Why publish maps and specific street names and photographs of the private (not anymore) homes where the Vice President and Defense Secretary and their families spend their vacations?
Why?
Because blabbermouth Bill Keller feels like it, right? (Interesting timing, no?)
Because the “people” (you know: Code Pink, Fred Phelps, jihadis) have a “right to know,” right?
Because neighbors are [...]

Told you today was Rove Derangement Syndrome Day.
This just in:
John Kerry’s spokesman goes after Rove’s….weight.
(And check out the comments.)

***update: Eric Shawn has a theory about the U.N.’s attack on the U.S. and Fox News…audio at Johnny Dollar’s***
The United Nations is complaining that Americans are undermining it with criticism–you know, because the actions of its own corrupt, incompetent officials have nothing to do with its squandered credibility. Rush Limbaugh and Fox News (which continues [...]

Tom Lipscomb at RCP shreds the revisionism of John Kerry and the NYTimes. Power Line has more.
David Holman in the American Spectator examines Kerry Yellow.
Patterico reports on a liberal blogger meeting with Kerry in which he reportedly called Supreme Court Justices Alito, Scalia, and Roberts “idiots.” According to lefty bloggers, Kerry also agreed with the [...]

If you know Philadelphia, you know Geno’s. Best cheesesteaks in the world. Reader Willie S. sends word via the Philly Inquirer that Joey Vento, the grandson of Italian-born immigrants who owns Geno’s, is taking a stand for assimilation and against illegal immigration. The Inquirer does its best to knock down Vento, but his blunt Philly [...]