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An extraordinary exchange just took place on the Senate floor over the last 40 minutes. It’s the most important debate of the year, in my opinion. The questions are these: Who do we let into this country and how many? On one side of the debate: Democrat Sen. Jeff Bingaman of N.M. and Republican Sen. [...]

Ted Kennedy opens his mouth… Allah sez: Go, watch, laugh, and try to follow his logic when he comes out strongly in favor of a virtual fence — which, if it turns out to be a successful deterrent, logically should result in just as many immigrant deaths as the non-virtual version.

***scroll for updates…report of another Kennedy crash two weeks ago in Rhode Island…an interesting observation below about Kennedy’s “going for a vote” excuse…video: Roll Call reporter…*** ***1000pm EDT update…Kennedy blames sleep medication…RWV notes another weird Kennedy accident…7am EDT update 5/5…report: he was drinking*** Rep. Patrick Kennedy Drudge reporting on a Roll Call scoop… Officers Claim [...]

This morning’s MSM suck-up watch spotlights Reuters’ rehabilitation of Teddy Kennedy. Here’s the headline of reporter (term used loosely) Thomas Ferraro’s slobbery piece: At 74, U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy still roars Let the obsequiousness begin: At 74, Edward Kennedy still roars as one of America’s leading liberal voices, longest serving U.S. senators and most polarizing [...]

The Washington Examiner editorial page, headed up by recently departed blogging newshound Mark Tapscott, issues a challenge to President Bush: t received little coverage in the mainstream news dailies, but many bloggers highlighted the significant influence of “Reconquista” advocates and concepts in the recent pro-immigration marches across the country. Reconquista aims must be honestly confronted [...]

From the Santa Barbara News Press, some not-so-peaceful, open borders students wreak havoc on an elderly couple’s home: A peaceful school-sanctioned protest march in support of illegal immigrants turned ugly Monday when students from Santa Barbara High pelted the home of an elderly couple with rocks and eggs. The incident took place at the home [...]

***scroll for updates*** So, my Sony Handycam and I attended the illegal alien demonstration in D.C. yesterday. Here are some of the more interesting moments captured on tape of what I saw at the revolucion: The goofy, out-of-place-looking, non-Spanish speaker on the right was standing on a street corner with a bunch of astroturf “homemade” [...]

Photographed at the Dallas illegal alien demonstration yesterday: Kim Priestap at Wizbang: The fact that the Dems are recruiting at these protests isn’t a surprise. It fits into their big picture of race and politics (which is why the flyer’s visual puts Texas and Mexico together). The Democrats classify people based upon race and then [...]

***scroll for updates*** They’re baaack. Illegal alien public relations experts are advising their followers to put aside the Mexican flags and tone down their radicalism, but many reconquistadors and their friends can’t help themselves. Hat tip to John A. for the protest photos today from Dallas: Black Panthers came out to show solidarity with the [...]

Brian J. Doyle: Just one of many creeps and losers at DHS The arrest of Department of Homeland Security spokesman Brian J. Doyle on felony charges of sexually preying on a undercover cop posing as a 14-year-old girl this week is just the latest debacle for the bureaucratic behemoth. I dealt with Doyle a few [...]

***scroll for updates…reader photo submissions…Senate immigration legislation developments…Denver pro-patriotism rally tomorrow…a judge forced to recuse himself for leading the Pledge of Allegiance…Mexican flag-flyers defiant…*** ***1135am EST newsflash: cloture vote on Specter amnesty amendment…immigration deal announced*** It’s Take an American Flag to Work Day. Fly one high and proud. Printable flag here. Here’s the poster I [...]

There’s no rest for the reconquistadors. They marched this weekend in Costa Mesa: And Brooklyn: And more are planned in coming days (via Alternet): In the coming weeks, there will be plentiful opportunities to stand in solidarity with this nation’s undocumented immigrants. Below is a short listing of demonstrations being planned across the nation. Please [...]

***scroll for updates…new photo added below of a student in Dallas screamed at by an angry mob for carrying an American flag…plus fence-hopping at Montebello H.S…unreality-based Ted Kennedy gets the Clueless Blowhard of the Day Award…chanting in Las Vegas: “La raza unida jamas sera vencida,” or “The united (Hispanic) race will never be defeated.”…protests turn [...]

…with the illegal alien amnesty bill that the Senate Judiciary Committee passed this evening: “All Americans wanted fairness and they got it this evening,” said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., who played a pivotal role in drafting the legislation. I guess if you think “fairness” and “Edward M. Kennedy” can co-exist in the same sentence [...]

Artwork by Adri Eleveld Among the upwards of 20 million illegal aliens currently in the U.S. are an estimated 50,000 from Ireland. They’ve joined the rest of the open borders lobby in pressing for the feds to grant them amnesty, citizenship, and other rights. Leading the pack of St. Patty’s panderers are Sens. John McCain [...]

Fox News is reporting that VP Dick Cheney was involved in a hunting accident yesterday. Breitbart/AP: Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday. Harry Whittington, 78, was “alert and doing fine” after Cheney sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday [...]

The NYDaily News reports on Alec Baldwin’s mini-meltdown and Meryl Streep’s depression over Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito: Alec Baldwin is appalled that Sen. Ted Kennedy and other liberals could muster only 25 of the 41 votes needed for a filibuster to block Samuel Alito’s Supreme Court confirmation. The problem, he told us at Tuesday’s [...]

Via Breitbart/AP: New Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito split with the court’s conservatives Wednesday night, refusing to let Missouri execute a death-row inmate contesting lethal injection. Alito, handling his first case, sided with inmate Michael Taylor, who had won a stay from an appeals court earlier in the evening. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices [...]

***updated with video link*** I am watching Sen. Ted Kennedy on C-SPAN unraveling before my eyes. He is screaming. The face is fire-engine red. The fists are waving furiously. Here’s my rough transcript of his ongoing diatribe smearing the Alito nomination as a step backwards toward mass discrimination: KENNEDY: …All you have to do, Mr. [...]

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 [...]

The anti-Alito brigade makes one last stand. Teddy Kennedy led the charge last night with a speech to the Center for American Progress. Download and watch this video clip (.wmv). Transcript: KENNEDY: In another area of controversy, his views on issues of particular concern to women should give every woman pause, from his role in [...]

This is U.S. Appeals Court Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, a Clinton appointee who gave a glowing endorsement of her colleague, Sam Alito, earlier today, along with six other judges from the appeals court who appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to support Alito. Chuck Schumer walked out before the judges started to speak. Teddy Kennedy [...]

We’re an hour and a half into the hearings and I need to hear no more. It’s all about the Dems beating dead horses. Over and over again. Unitary executive. CAP. Vanguard. Vanguard. Vanguard. John Podhoretz marvels: “A Kennedy who has never known a moment’s worry about money is now grilling a lifelong middle-class public [...]

Why is this woman crying? The Political Teen has the video of Judge Alito’s wife breaking down as Sen. Lindsey Graham offers an apology for the past three days of relentless smear attacks by the Dems. I’ve isolated video of Sen. Graham’s apology: Download the video (.wmv file). 3.5MB. I have many differences with Sen. [...]

To save you the trouble of sitting through the Democrats’ unrelenting condescension, arrogance, and Category 5 windbagginess, I bring you a video clip of today’s Alito confirmation hearings that epitomizes the Left’s desperation. You’ve read by now of Teddy Kennedy’s ridiculous call to subpoena the papers of William Rusher, former National Review publisher who helped [...]

***scroll for hearing updates*** Robert Bluey at Human Events Online has the results of yesterday’s AlitoBlog poll: Which Democratic senator was the biggest windbag at the Judiciary Committee’s round of opening statements about Judge Samuel Alito? With 500 votes cast, Kennedy received 69.6% of the vote — far outpacing his nearest rival, Sen. Chuck Schumer [...]

Baseball Crank takes a close look at another of the Dems’ wacky witnesses who opposes Judge Alito. The Washington Times weighs in on The Closing of Ted Kennedy’s Mind. (Or better: The Losing of Ted Kennedy’s Mind.) An excerpt: Something unusual happened on the way to this week’s nomination hearings for Judge Samuel Alito: Reporters [...]

You can’t make these things up… Via Yahoo News: Meet the latest children’s author, Sen. Ted Kennedy, and his Portuguese Water Dog, Splash, his co-protagonist in “My Senator and Me: A Dogs-Eye View of Washington, D.C.” Scholastic Inc. will release the book in May. “I am very excited about the opportunity to create a book [...]

***scroll for updates*** Townhall.com has an “Alito Central” clearinghouse with tons o’ links. Stephen Bainbridge dissects the NYTimes’ Alito-bashing editorial. More at Instapundit. Confirm Them notes that C-SPAN coverage begins at 11:30am ET, although the actual hearing isn’t set to begin until noon. There will be a re-air Monday night at 8pm ET on C-SPAN. [...]

“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 [...]