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Newly crowned leader of the unhinged Left:
Via GOP.com…
Dem Leaders Have Embraced Sen. Russ Feingold’s (D-WI) Censure “Principle” “Ecstatically”:
“The Left Wing Of The Party Has Greeted Feingold’s Censure Call Ecstatically.” (Shailagh Murray, “A Senate Maverick Acts To Force An Issue, The Washington Post, 3/15/06)
“[C]alifornia Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA] Said That She Could Vote For The Resolution.” [...]

…on the Senate floor:

Kathryn Lopez calls Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s stand “the anti-photo-op.”
Caption and photoshop contest over at GOP and College.
Reader Eric: “Say what you will about Sen Debbie Stabenow, at least she has the guts to stand in front of a big sign that accurately proclaims her
own capabilities. I mean, how many Senators would be [...]

Via Drudge comes word of Sen. John Kerry’s false claim on The Today Show that “53 percent of our children don’t graduate from high school.” Census data show that 84 percent of Americans over the age of 25 are high school grads.

Download the video (.wmv file).

When I chronicled the kraziness at the Daily Kos in Unhinged, left-wing critics shot back that the most highly-trafficked website on the left side of the blogosphere did not represent the Democrat Party leadership.
Now, not only is John Kerry a proud Kossack…Ted Kennedy is blogging there, too:

Irrefutable: The unhinged fringe is the mainstream of the [...]

CNN reporting:
Sen. John Kerry has decided to support a filibuster to block the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, CNN’s Congressional Correspondent Ed Henry reported Thursday.
Kerry, in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum, was marshaling support in phone calls during the day, Henry said.
He announced his decision Wednesday to a [...]

Many security experts believe that the success of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan is vital to our security here at home. Not Sen. John Kerry. Here’s what he said to George Stephanopoulos on This Week earlier today:
Yes, we have not been attacked here. Many people surmise that one of the reasons we haven’t been [...]

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 [...]

It’s Sheryl Crow (via NY Daily News’ Rush and Molloy):
Even when she’s perfecting her tan, Sheryl Crow can’t get George Bush off her mind.
Last weekend, the folks at Ritz-Carlton hired the Grammy winner to perform at the opening of their 60th hotel, on Grand Cayman. You may recall that Sen. John Kerry blamed the island [...]

“Iraq was not a breeding ground for terrorism. Our invasion has made it one.”–Sen. Ted Kennedy
“Iraq was not a terrorist haven before the invasion.”–Sen. John Kerry
According to a new report in the Weekly Standard by Stephen Hayes, new documents found in post-war Iraq confirm earlier reports that Saddam Hussein actively funded and trained [...]

Bill O’Reilly took on David Letterman last night. Advantage: O’Reilly. The Political Teen has video. Letterman recycled chickenhawk arguments, muttered “Honest to Christ!” when O’Reilly refused to back down from his criticism of Cindy Sheehan, and attacked O’Reilly’s show despite admitting he doesn’t watch it. Some highlights:
O’REILLY: No way that a terrorist that blows [...]

Media Backspin catches the Associated Press siding with the enemy. Again. (Hat tip: LGF.)
Send comments to feedback@ap.org.
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Liberal math: Boy Scouts=terrorists
Liberal math: Insurgents=residents
Brian Williams said what?
Who are they calling un-American?
Schooling the N.Y. Times

***scroll for updates…12:41pm EST. Cloture fails. Senate votes to block the defense spending bill 56-44..1020pm EST: ANWR provision dropped….***
Just in: “The Republican-controlled Senate passed legislation to cut federal deficits by $39.7 billion on Wednesday by the narrowest of margins, 51-50, with Vice President Dick Cheney casting the deciding vote.”
Unfortunately, the LA Times points out that [...]

Where’s John Kerry? American troops are “terrorizing” Iraqi children again (via Breitbart/AP):
An 11-year-old boy from Iraq underwent heart surgery Monday in New York, the first of four ailing children who will be treated this week after their families sought help from the U.S. military. Wsam Rabea was vulnerable to sudden death from a heart problem [...]

Look at how American troops are “terrorizing” Iraqi families.
More Kerry follies here.
And here’s a first-hand account of one of those “terrorizing” American troops. (Hat tip: Philmon)
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There she goes again:
“Hanoi Jane” Fonda is claiming that ever since Vietnam, U.S. troops have been trained to commit atrocities against innocent civilians as a matter of military policy.
“Starting with the Vietnam War we began training soldiers differently,” the anti-American actress says in an email to the Washington Post.
Fonda claims she learned of the policy [...]

More than a month after Ron Harris of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch exposed the fraudulent anti-war veteran Jimmy Massey’s lies about alleged atrocities committed by him and his fellow Marines, the Associated Press has finally, finally acknowledged its own role in spreading Massey’s unsubstantiated smears:
In a lengthy telephone interview with The Associated Press, Massey repeated [...]

The president delivered a very necessary speech at the Naval Academy defending the war in Iraq. He also paid tribute to Cpl. Jeffrey Starr, whose memory was butchered by the New York Times, and read from his moving letter to his girlfriend.

You read about the NYTimes’ disgrace here first.
Good for the White House for fighting [...]

Via Breitbart.com/AP:
Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held for three years as an enemy combatant suspected of plotting a “dirty bomb” attack in this country, has been indicted on charges that he conspired to “murder, kidnap and maim” people overseas.
A federal grand jury in Miami returned the indictment against Padilla and four others. While the [...]

Two newspapers, the Modesto Bee and the Sacramento Bee, did the right thing this weekend and published lengthy explanations of how and why they came to publish the unverified claims of former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey, the anti-war Left’s favorite slanderer of American troops.
David Holwerk, Sacramento Bee editorial pages editor, wrote:
We should have done [...]

Sen. Lindsay Graham has been irksome of late, but the amendment he sponsored to rein in the ridiculous panoply of legal rights granted to foreign enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay is a welcome dose of sanity. The Senate approved the amendment to a military budget bill, 49-42, last night:
If approved in its current form by [...]

My latest column follows up on the lies of Jimmy Massey and his media enablers.
Doug Struck, the Washington Post reporter who covered Massey’s bogus testimony at Army deserter Jeremy Hinzman’s Canadian asylum hearing last year, has not responded to my e-mail inquiring about any follow-up.
USA Today reporter Rick Hampson, who wrote this March 2005 feature, [...]

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1006pm EDT update. The Dems may have claimed victory in NJ and Va., but I think it’s still too early to proclaim this the “Night of The Democrats,” as the Drudge Report headline is calling it. The Soros-backed election “reform” measures in Ohio look like they’re going down in flames. And [...]

Left-wing billionaire George Soros and his tinfoil-hat brigade are spearheading a package of so-called “reform” initiatives on the ballot in Ohio today.
Red State has a useful backgrounder on the measures.
Paul Weyrich weighs in here.
Newsday reports: Angry Kerry Supporters Seek Ohio Reform
Ohio State Sen. Gary Cates writes:
The proposed amendments are backed exclusively by a coalition of [...]

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If you read nothing else today, make sure it’s this devastating article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by reporter Ron Harris on an anti-war fraud named Jimmy Massey. Excerpt:
For more than a year, former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey has been telling anybody who will listen about the atrocities that he and other [...]

UPI reports:
A formal complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission Thursday claims Sean “Diddy” Combs violated federal law during the U.S. presidential campaign.
The National Legal and Policy Center, NPLC, claims Diddy violated the Federal Election Campaign Act and the Internal Revenue Service Code, when he rallied support of Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry, AllHipHop.com [...]

***315pm EDT updated below***
John Roberts has been confirmed. The vote (via Confirm Them):
Final vote was 78-22.
55 Republicans and 23 Dems voted yes. 22 Dems voted no.
How the Dems voted below the fold.
Democrats voting Yes:
Max Baucus of Montana
Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico
Robert Byrd of West Virginia
Kent Conrad of North Dakota
Russ Feingold of Wisconsin
Tim Johnson of South [...]

The war we are fighting, the one that includes Iraq as a theatre of combat but encompasses a second theatre in Afghanistan and many smaller ones in Africa, the Philippines and elsewhere, is a post-modern war. That is this war’s one striking similarity to the Cold War, of which Vietnam was a theatre we [...]

The Associated Press is reporting this evening:
The husband of Cindy Sheehan, the mother camped outside President Bush’s Texas ranch to protest the death of a son in the Iraq war, has filed for divorce, according to court documents.
Patrick Sheehan filed the divorce petition Friday in Solano County court, northeast of San Francisco. His lawyer [...]

Reckless judicial arrogance was on display in Seattle earlier today during the sentencing hearing for al Qaeda operative Ahmed Ressam, the would-be Millennium bomber.

Hugh Hewitt is all over the actions and statement of Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee who is an embarrassment to conservatives and an impediment to winning the War on Terror. The [...]

Bush-basher Jonathan Chait
New Republic writer Jonathan Chait, last heard from proudly confessing his pathological hatred for President Bush, is back with another rant about the president’s exercise habits:
A week ago, when President Bush met with Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III to interview him for a potential Supreme Court nomination, the conversation turned to exercise. When [...]