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It’s Take an American Flag to Work Day. Fly one high and proud.
Printable flag here.
Here’s the poster I have on my [...]

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 post information about [...]

***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 without snorting, [...]

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 and Hillary [...]

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 at the [...]

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 meeting of [...]

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 Antonin Scalia [...]

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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. President, is [...]

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 [...]

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 striking down the key [...]

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 servant [...]

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. Graham, but [...]

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 found [...]

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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 (D.-N.Y.), who [...]

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 scoffed at [...]

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 for young readers and [...]

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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.
The Oregonian’s David [...]

“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 [...]

Was once in thirty years not enough? Like the deadly black mold in New Orleans, the calls to cut and run in Iraq are spreading.
Warning that other global threats “cannot be ignored,” Rep. John Murtha, D-Pennsylvania, a leading adviser on defense issues, called on Thursday for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from [...]

So, the First Lady pulled out the sexism card in her defense of Harriet Miers on NBC’s Today Show.
Matt Lauer lapped it up.
Did the White House not inform Mrs. Bush that some of the most vocal criticism and questioning of the nomination comes from conservative women? Or does she buy into the Left’s conservative-women-are-self-loathing-traitors-to-their-gender line, [...]

I wrote about Chuck Hagels’ Vietnam comparison several days ago at Polipundit and the post generated quite a few comments, including some calling me a chickenhawk. (Those are some of my favorites.) Last night, Kerry Westerwick made some excellent points on the subject that I had not considered.
Drudge’s shouting reads “GOP Senator Says Iraq Looking [...]

83 dead.
Who will be first to blame Bush, Blair, and Iraq?
Joe Gandelman has an excellent round-up, as always, with reminders of al Qaeda’s longtime targeting of Egyptian tourism.
The Counterterrorism Blog also has comprehensive coverage. Andrew Cochran notes:
In looking for a motive, note that the trial of the October 2004 suspects is scheduled for July 24 [...]

Tony Mauro of the Legal Times reported in February 2005 that SCOTUS nominee John Roberts’ votes “have mainly fallen on the conservative side, but not always:”
Last December, in United States v. Mellen, Roberts ruled in favor of a criminal defendant who challenged his sentence in a fraud case. Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson — yes, an [...]

There are plenty of reasons to bash Boston. But for Sen. Rick Santorum to single the city out as more of a fertile breeding ground for sexual abuse than the rest of the country is just wrong. And dumb. Here’s the three-year-old column that Ted Kennedy and friends are up in arms about–and I [...]

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 Bush himself [...]

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 [...]

Just caught Sen. Kennedy this morning railing against the William Pryor judicial nomination as a “rush to judgement.”
The Pryor nomination timeline:
3/12/2003 Pryor nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit by President Bush
7/23/2003 Passed out of Senate Judiciary Committee with favorable recommendation
7/31/2003 Democrats refused to allow vote on nomination (cloture denied 53-44)
11/14/2003 Democrats [...]

Meet David Rosen, Hillary Clinton’s former campaign finance director:

He’s probably not smiling right now.
Over the weekend, Power Line picked up on new transcripts of secret tapes between Rosen and Dem operative Ray Reggie, Teddy Kennedy’s brother-in-law, published by the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Writes John Hinderaker:
The transcript is damning, in that it appears to support [...]