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“Only in Massachusetts,” continued.

The Bay State’s deadly revolving door.

The name game.

Border security, homeland security.

Mitt Romney photoshopped (or rather, “photo/illustrated”) as Fidel Castro on the front cover of the Boston Herald (hat tip – Sondra K)
Hillary Clinton’s Southern accent and black vote pandering were awful.
Mitt Romney’s Spanish accent and Cuban vote pandering look just as bad. The Miami Herald reported yesterday:
Presidential candidate bungles speech in Miami
BY BETH REINHARD
People chuckled [...]

Bryan Preston, Ian Schwartz, Erick Stakelbeck, and I will be covering the 34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference for Hot Air. I’ll also liveblog events and photoblog here at mm.com throughout the 3-day conference. If you’re planning to attend, we’ll have a booth in the exhibitor hall that opens at 10am later today. In addition [...]

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference will kick off later this week. Hot Air and I will be there covering the action, manning a booth, shooting video, signing books, and reporting on the scene.
Patrick Ruffini sends word that Rudy Giuliani will attend. Via the Politico’s Jonathan Martin:
I reported a piece last month about how [...]

Rock star. Obama’s bathing suit shots just made a People Magazine spread.
Ana Marie must positively have the vapors.
As for good-looking candidates who won’t find themselves media darlings anytime soon, Mitt Romney was on the phone all day today, with pretty good results. The Boston Globe reports “more than a million,” but HotLine is saying [...]

Allah was on this from the get-go.
The “unruly passenger” was reportedly carrying Vaseline, matches, a screw driver, and a note referencing Al Qaeda.
The flight was carrying 182 passengers and 12 crew.
The flight, with 182 passengers and 12 crew members landed safely, UAL Corp. spokesman Brandon Borrman said. Borrman said a female passenger was [...]

So, White House chief of staff Andy Card is out and longtime Bush adviser/budget director Josh Bolten takes his place.
I think John Hinderaker’s reaction is just right:
Yawn.
Joe Sixpack has a different view.
Joe Gandelman has mega-round-up and analysis.
H-Bomb at ABP opines on why Card is really leaving:
My sources tell me that White House Chief of [...]

I must confess, none of these guys make me very excited:
More than 20 months before any real votes are cast, Republican Senate leader Bill Frist of Tennessee won a straw poll on Saturday of party activists choosing their early favorite in the 2008 White House race.
Frist, who packed the home-state crowd with supporters wearing blue [...]

Debbie Schlussel has a report on an alleged bomb found on a flight at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
Dianne Feinstein reneges. Here’s her announcement on her plans to vote no on cloture for the SCOTUS nomination of Sam Alito.
Gateway Pundit has a massive round-up on rioting in Gaza and violence between Hamas and Fatah.
Glenn Reynolds recommends Shadegg [...]

Haleigh Poutre, 11
The latest on Haleigh Poutre: Gov. Mitt Romney has announced an independent investigation into the state’s abominable handling of the case.
Here’s Romney’s full statement (via the Boston Globe):
“One cannot look at the life of Haleigh Poutre without being overwhelmed with sadness. My heart goes out to her.
“Now I ask the question, what could [...]

Haleigh Poutre, 11
Here’s the latest in Haleigh Poutre’s fight for her life: The Massachusetts Department of Social Services, which last week won court-ordered authority to remove Haleigh’s feeding tube, is now under fire for failing to detect and act on signs that Haleigh was abused:
Even as the Department of Social Services defended its supervision of [...]

At least on the legislative and judicial levels, a Massachusetts newcomer quickly learns the state sometimes resembles a banana republic. American-style justice can be elusive.
That’s what makes Gov. Mitt Romney’s reform agenda so difficult to implement: it might be easier to end corruption in Nigeria than the Democrat-ruled Bay State. That Rhode Island is even [...]

Within the conservative movement, is there a growing sense of malaise? Or is it merely something the other side desperately wants us to feel?
After relentless recent liberal media poundings, I’ve noticed at least a few on the right seeming a bit down-in-the-dumps.
Why I’m instead upbeat:
1) Republican fundraising is clobbering parallel opposition efforts. Howard Dean isn’t [...]

Do you remember what happened on May 5, the day of the British parliamentary elections? A bomb went off at the British consulate in Manhattan. Reminder:
The blasts occurred at 3:50 a.m. and originated inside a cement flower box outside the consulate located at 845 Third Avenue in midtown Manhattan, said police department spokesman Noel Waters. [...]

Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is shifting his position on abortion, just as George H.W. Bush did prior to the 1980 election:
Governor Mitt Romney said this week in a nationally published interview that he is ”in a different place” on abortion than at the time of his first run for public office in Massachusetts, when he [...]

If you’ve actually read my work, unlike, say, the entire Left side of the blogosphere, you know how hard I came down on the Armstrong Williams/Maggie Gallagher controversies. Government subsidies for conservative columnists are as odious as government subsidies for crucifix-defiling “artists.”
Now, comes word of yet another right-leaning columnist getting paid to flack for a [...]