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Petrocracy.

The thanks we get.

Your tax dollars at work, splitting atoms in Saudi Arabia. PLUS: France is building reactors for Algeria and Libya.

Profile this.

Back in November, when the latest Julie Myers fiasco broke out, I said I had no tears for her. She’s the crony DHS head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau whose unpreparedness for the job I’ve spotlighted repeatedly over the years. When word spread about her photo-op at a Halloween party with a [...]

You don’t say!

Soporific.

“Coming clean.”

Targeted.

DLTDHYOTWO.

Fraudulent Emergency Mismanagement Asshats.

Don’t let the door…

Update 4pm Eastern. Radar talks to Fred Thompson rep Mark Corallo, who seems to shoot down rumors of a Rove jump to the campaign.
Update: Video highlights and a parting shot.
Update: Press conference at 11:35am. Update: 11:25am Eastern.
The President is talking about Rove’s family “making huge sacrifices. We’re going to be friends for a long time. [...]

Chertie has chosen to lie in bed with the very people who make a living intimidating and suing vigilant Americans who take homeland security seriously.

Update: 7/11 11:15am: Chertoff forgot to share his tummy troubles with the White House, which denies there’s any emergency meeting about an increased threat of attack. Buffoonery: ” U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had told the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board his “gut feeling” was that the United States faced an increased risk of attack [...]

Keeping tabs on the head of the Department of Homeland Insecurity: He’s off to Dearbornistan for a private meeting with a shady imam.

Update: Chertoff plays down report of imminent al Qaeda attack. Plays up shortage of lettuce pickers. And here’s more Chertoff finger-wagging.
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Actions have consequences. One of the negative consequences of the Department of Homeland Security’s push for shamnesty is its shrinking credibility. From the dog-and-pony show raids before shamnesty hit the Senate floor to the smearing [...]

Name-calling Michael Chertoff decries name-calling by exclamation point-wielding bloggers.

Click for our report:

He says, “Get real.” We say: Get a clue.
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Related: Hugh Hewitt’s interview with Chertoff earlier this week.
If Chertoff makes the Sunday rounds, will someone please ask him about his smearing of immigration enforcement proponents and expressed contempt for grass-roots conservatives. Please?

This is Manuel Flores. He is an illegal alien fugitive from the law. He is accused of raping and sodomizing his girlfriend’s nine-year-old daughter.
Nine-year-old daughter.
Manuel Flores is free, reportedly headed back to Mexico, because federal immigration officials screwed up, according to a local Denver report. I linked to this story earlier today, but it [...]

7:35pm Eastern update: Here’s the cloture vote.

I’ll be guest-hosting The O’Reilly Factor tonight and tomorrow night. We’ll be covering the immigration debate wall-to-wall. Catch the show at 8pm Eastern.
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Here’s your lunchtime blood-boiler: Video of the Michael Chertoff comment I mentioned this morning.
MICHAEL CHERTOFF, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: You know, Wolf, first, I understand there’s some people [...]

Berger and a side order of lies

Fer cryin’ out loud. Will she pull a Pelosi and put on a hijab, too?
Just a reminder of what Vice President Cheney said a few weeks ago about Pelosi’s meeting with Syrian president Assad:
This is an evil man. He’s a prime state sponsor of terror…So for the speaker to go to Damascus and meet with [...]

Well, here’s the first name in the “D.C. madam” probe that has Washington in tizzy:
Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias.
Make that former Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias.
Here’s the State Department statement:
Ambassador Randall Tobias informed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today that he must step down as Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and [...]

For a hearty lunchtime chuckle: Check out my interview with Ron Ott of Coptix, one of the masterminds behind the April Fools’ joke that caused a Rove Derangement Syndrome feeding frenzy.

April Fools!

A rant by Cindy Sheehan, posted by defeatist David Swanson on his website advocating the impeachment of President Bush:
More Reich-Wing Horse Pucky
The Gathering of Eagles is supposedly a veterans’ ad hoc group who are allowing themselves to be despicably stage-managed by Rove and Move America Forward using fascist tactics to lie about an anti-war group, [...]

The verdict against Kareem is in: three years in prison for insulting Islam and inciting sedition and another year for insulting Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Kareem will appeal. Help him. President Bush? Condi Rice? Promoters of democracy in the Middle East? Hello? Hello?
Previous Free Kareem blogging.

“Blogmaster” Amanda Marcotte has resigned from the Edwards’ campaign (the site is currently down). Of course, it’s all the right wing’s and Catholic activists’ fault (a blame-avoidance strategy I highlighted on The O’Reilly Factor tonight before news of Marcotte’s resignation broke). Writes Marcotte this evening:
I was hired by the Edwards campaign for the skills and [...]

I clicked through to the story linked on Drudge about the Hillary skirt featured on the runway in Rome. The designer is Gattinoni. In addition to Hillary, the other women featured are French presidential wannabe Segolene Royal, the British great-grandmother wannabe Queen Elizabeth and the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Hillary, Royal, and the [...]