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New kid on the blog block, Eric Pfeiffer at NRO’s Beltway Buzz, says President Bush will name the Director of National Intelligence today. AP story here. Among those thought to be in the running are White House homeland security adviser Fran Townsend, Army Gen. Tommy Franks, the retired commander of U.S. Central Command, National Security [...]

I know I’m late to the party on this, but Don Rumsfeld’s knuckle-rapping of Tim Russert over the weekend was choice. Right-leaning Newsmax and left-leaning Editor and Publisher have two different takes. E&P’s Greg Mitchell wants to know whether you think “the press deserves Rumsfeld’s knock.” E-mail him at gmitchell@editorandpublisher.com. He promises to print some [...]

My hero Ward Connerly has finished his term on the University of California’s Board of Regents. I was surprised but pleased to read here that he received a standing ovation at the end of his final Regents meeting. Fortunately, Connerly will continue to lead the fight against race and gender preferences in government hiring, contracting, [...]

He’s got the votes of the grass-roots organization Move America Forward, which is spearheaded by the forces behind the Gray Davis recall. According to WND: “The United Nations is a corrupt and failed institution that dedicates much of its time to attacking American policy and passing anti-American initiatives,” said Move America Forward co-chairman Melanie Morgan, [...]

Andrew McCarthy takes down the anti-Gonzalez blubbers who testified at yesterday’s confirmation hearing and concludes: By the end of the session, under questioning by Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the two law-school deans had even [backpedaled] on the Geneva Conventions, conceding that stateless al Qaeda terrorists did not qualify for honorable prisoner-of-war status � [...]

So, she’s going to blast Bush and moan about the “antiregulatory lobbyists and extreme antigovernment ideologues” in the GOP? Well, what did you expect? The Republican Party and President Bush have only themselves to blame for the curse of Christie. Bush knew exactly what he was getting when he named her EPA chief–and so did [...]

Via Drudge, I see that former Attorney General Ramsey Clark will be part of Saddam Hussein’s legal defense team. No surprise there. As I noted in this column nearly three years ago, Clark has a long record of allying himself with America’s enemies–the gorier the better. Michael Tremoglie’s FrontPage magazine articles provide more details: What [...]

Joe Gandelman takes note of the Hollywood angle on Bernard Kerik’s downfall. The MSNBC headline reads: Scandal might cancel Bernie Kerik biopic. Jeannette Walls writes that “a source says that Miramax ? which bought the screen rights to Kerik’s autobiography ? is seriously reconsidering the movie it’s making on the controversial lawman. Miramax bought the [...]

Peter Kirsanow has the scoop on the imperious U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner who doesn’t understand the meaning of “Your Time Is Up.”

Steve Hayward over at The Corner celebrates.

According to this article, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales is the leading candidate to replace John Ashcroft as Attorney General. This column by Robert Novak, written in January 2003, suggests that Gonzales is no friend of conservatives. An excerpt: Gonzales’s views on affirmative action became widely known in Washington last year when, at a meeting [...]

John Ashcroft has resigned. He was the most underappreciated, most maligned, most ridiculed, and most demonized member of the Bush cabinet. He endured a brutal, vicious nomination process. After 9/11, he was damned for doing his job too aggressively, and damned for not doing his job aggressively enough. He withstood the secular Left’s assaults on [...]

So former anti-terrorism adviser and best-selling author Richard Clarke is now writing a novel. Fiction shouldn’t be too much of a stretch.