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Following in Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s footsteps, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice phoned Afghan President Hamid Karzai seeking a “favorable resolution” of the Abdul Rahman case. Not sure why President Bush wasn’t on the line. But at least someone called.
Fox News has the story.
More details from the NYT:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice [...]

The latest…
The Washington Times weighs in.
Tony Perkins has an open letter to President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and to Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) and Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), the respective foreign affairs committee chairmen, over at Human Events:
On behalf of Family Research Council and the families we represent, thank you for your work [...]

The Islamists’ Bogus Blasphemous Cartoons (Large images here, here, and here)
I just received a tip from a reader in Denmark with more info about the lying delegation of Danish imams who fabricated anti-Muslim artwork and pinned it on the Jyllands-Posten in December to stoke the jihadists. (See Scott Johnson’s round-up at Power Line.)
In addition to [...]

Yesterday, I mentioned the Washington Post’s smelly little article on an unpublished study purporting to associate conservative support for President Bush with bias against blacks.
Newsbusters’ Tim Graham noted that the reporter who penned the piece had also mentioned the same researchers and the same study in a Washington Post magazine piece (titled, ironically enough, [...]

Paging the Department of Homeland Security. Hello? Hello?!
*New* via the San Diego Union Tribune : Two tons of pot found inside Mexico-U.S. border tunnel

Investigators discovered a sophisticated cross-border tunnel yesterday extending about a half-mile and found about 2 tons of marijuana on the Mexican end.
The tunnel begins about 85 feet below a small warehouse about [...]

Via Reuters:
The governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency will hold an emergency meeting on Iran’s nuclear work on Feb. 2 at the request of European Union powers, an IAEA spokesman said on Wednesday.
France, Britain, Germany and the United States are expected to push at the session to have Tehran referred to the U.N. [...]

My column takes on Monday’s Day of Demagoguery led by Hillary Clinton and Ray Nagin. Intro:
The freaks come out at night. The demagogues came out on Martin Luther King Day.
Democrat N.Y. Sen. Hillary Clinton perhaps looking to distract attention from those pesky Code Pink protesters who’ve been dogging her over the Iraq war, commemorated the [...]

Harry Belafonte and Hugo Chavez: Best buds (Hat tip: Shawn Wasson)
Barking moonbat has-been Harry Belafonte travels to Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez’s side and calls President Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world.” From ABC News:
The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world” on Sunday and said millions [...]

**scroll for updates…Condi Rice cancels Asia trip to keep watch on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s fight for life…Sharon will remain in medically induced coma until Sunday***
Jim Geraghty notes various reports on Sharon’s condition–one outlet saying he has died (unconfirmed)…UPDATE: Via Breitbart/AP 1040am EST “Stable but serious.”
Austin Bay weighs in on the death of Israel’s [...]

On page A25 of the print edition of today’s Washington Post (can’t find it online…maybe that’s deliberate - update: here it is), reporter Robin Wright has one of the snottiest, narcissistic pieces I’ve read this year. It’s a 977-word whine about journalists and State Department bureaucrats who don’t like the food served on Air Force [...]

Just sick.
Hat tip: Mike Talley at Wunderkraut
Question: Is there a newspaper cartoonist working in the MSM today who doesn’t have Bush Derangement Syndrome?
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Pat Oliphant: China’s favorite political cartoonist

Captain’s Quarters: Oliphant Rolls Into Ted Rall Territory (smearing the Swift Boat Vets)
American Digest: The Most Offensive Racist Cartoon Published In Major US Daily in 40 Years (smearing [...]

***see updates***
Ok, just got home and have been deluged with e-mails asking for comment and more info on the Drudge Report’s big story tonight about CNN’s X-tra special treatment of Vice President Cheney. It’s seemingly reminiscent of the MSM photo doctoring of Condi Rice’s eyes and the Netscape/CNN.com editors’ post-election photo pranks on [...]

Straight from the headlines, here’s exactly the kind of unhinged liberal hatred and bigotry against minority Republicans I talk about in my book– via the Washington Times today:
Black Democratic leaders in Maryland say that racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele in his bid for the U.S. Senate are fair because he is [...]

***scroll for updates, reax, and spoofs galore…plus another explanation from USA Today with new details…***
Hat tip: Tony J
The doctored photo of Condi Rice has been removed from USA Today’s website with this editor’s note:
Editor’s note: The photo of Condoleezza Rice that originally accompanied this story was altered in a manner that did not meet USA [...]

***scroll down for updates…345pm EDT flash: THE PHOTO HAS BEEN REMOVED from USA Today’s site with an editor’s note…reax from readers here…I’ll be talking about more unhinged examples of Condi hatred next week. More details here.***
Check out the photo of Condoleezza Rice that was published by USA Today last week:

Notice anything peculiar about her [...]

Via Paul Mirengoff at Power Line, more bad news:
We’ve been unhappy lately with some of President Bush’s appointees. Generally, the problem has been lack of relevant experience and, perhaps, cronyism. Today, though, I want to focus on a Bush appointee who makes me unhappy precisely because of his relevant experience. I’m referring to the [...]

As you’ve likely read, the Pentagon blocked members of the Able Danger data mining project from testifying today before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee:
Bryan Whitman, a Defense Department spokesman, said in a statement that open testimony about the program “would not be appropriate - we have expressed our security concerns and believe it is simply [...]

Via Kim at Musing Minds…
Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly asked Secretary of State Condi Rice on The Factor this evening if she was hurt by Bush haters calling her a shill.
Answer:
“Why would I worry about that? The fact of the matter is, Bill, I’ve been black all my life, nobody needs to tell me [...]

The blogosphere is buzzing with excellent commentary and analysis of the Operation Able Danger revelations and the 9/11 Commission’s CYA act.

Jim Geraghty has a comprehensive review of what we know and don’t know over at TKS.
Then head over to Captain’s Quarters, where Ed Morrissey has created a new category for his invaluable posts on the [...]

Can the New York Times–yes, the New York Times–make this any clearer to the Democratic tinfoil hat-wearers who cling to “Ohio was stolen” election conspiracy:

In Ohio Vote, Woes, Yes, Fraud, No
David Limbaugh spells it out further: Black voter suppression? No. Exploitation? Yes.
Meanwhile, most of the MSM are ignoring the story of Iranian election shenanigans at [...]

Ugh. The 9/11 Commission is back for another round of self-aggrandizement, armchair general-ing, and Bush-bashing. Winfield Myers at The Democracy Project has predictions and some advice:
If you were worried about a dull season ahead, the media feeding frenzy that would result from the reconstitution of this committee should relieve you of those worries, albeit at [...]

Just in from AP:
Newsweek magazine, under fire for publishing a story that led to deadly protests in Afghanistan, said Monday it was retracting its report that a military probe had found evidence of desecration of the Quran by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay.
Earlier Monday, Bush administration officials had brushed off an apology that Newsweek’s editor [...]

Check this out:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Pat Oliphant will be the first American editorial cartoonist published in China by a Chinese-language newspaper, Universal Press Syndicate said Thursday.
Oliphant, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967, is expected to begin appearing in The Beijing Youth Daily within the next month, Universal said.
The message will be that [...]

More on Larry Franklin and the national security scandal few seem to care about…
-AIPAC seems to be breathing a sigh of relief and is expecting Washington to go about business as usual when the lobbying group holds its annual conference in two weeks. The Jerusalem Post reports…
In a little over two weeks, AIPAC holds its [...]

You all remember Annie Jacobsen, whose article about Northwest flight 327 set the blogosphere abuzz last summer. Don’t miss her latest installment, in which she recounts a visit she got from four federal Homeland Security Department officials. Here’s the most interesting part:
For the record, I explained, I had never heard of the James Woods incident [...]

The insights of Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez, brought to you by the U.K. Times Online:
Chavez on….
Assassination: “If they kill me, there will be a really guilty party on this planet whose name is the President of the United States, George Bush”
Bush’s Administration: “It is a mafia, a true mafia of murderers”
Cuba: “I am the second [...]

There’s lots of buzz about Condi’s black leather, high-heeled boots.
Robin Givhan of the Washington Post spins an entire, breathless article out of the Secretary of State’s attire (it’s Givhan’s schtick). An excerpt:
When looking at the image of Rice in Wiesbaden, the mind searches for ways to put it all into context. It turns to fiction, [...]

The Condoleezza Rice action figure–”dressed in navy blue pant suit, powder blue blouse & imitation faux pearl necklace included”–is now on sale for $24.95.
Story at the Scotsman.

Via the NY Post and Jeff Quinton, we learn that “poet” Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones has been spouting off against President Bush and Condoleezza Rice (”What kind of sleaza is Condoleezza?”).
I wrote about how your tax dollars help keep Baraka afloat a few years ago:
Amiri Baraka hates America. Yet, in the land of the free that [...]

Steven Warshawsky goes after Dick Morris with a provocative piece in The American Thinker: Beware the Condi bandwagon.
Check it out and see if you agree.