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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. *** Previous: John Kerry’s liberal math 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 [...]

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 [...]

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) *** Previous: John Kerry’s liberal math

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

***will update throughout the night*** 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. [...]

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 [...]

***scroll for updates*** 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 [...]

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 [...]

***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 [...]

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 happened [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Ugh. The Plame games are making me ill. And it’s not just the rhetoric on the left that is causing nausea. I am now seeing many of my friends on the right invoke the “John Kerry did it” card to pooh-pooh Rovegate. See here, here, and here, for example. I addressed this incident back in [...]

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? [...]

Power Line has them up now. Take a look. Update: More here and here.

One of the most common complaints about Guantanamo Bay is that the detainees have been denied trials. Sen. John McCain made these charges on Meet the Press yesterday: “The weight of evidence [in Guantanamo Bay] has got to be that we’ve got to adjudicate these people’s cases, and…if it means releasing some of them, you’ll [...]

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Camp Delta) refuses to apologize for his unhinged remarks likening American interrogators and Gitmo military staff to Nazis, Soviet gulag operators and genocidal maniac Pol Pot. (Radioblogger has the audio; Trey Jackson’s got video.) Earlier today, as you know, White House spokesman Scott McClellan castigated Durbin. What America needs is for President [...]

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. [...]

Apparently, John Kerry has released his Navy military and medical records to the Boston Globe. The paper reports: The records, which the Navy Personnel Command provided to the Globe, are mostly a duplication of what Kerry released during his 2004 campaign for president, including numerous commendations from commanding officers who later criticized Kerry’s Vietnam service. [...]

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 [...]

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 echoed [...]