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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 [...]

A lie detector test.
As the FNC story points out, the document-filching Clinton aide did agree to take a polygraph test as part of a plea deal reached in September 2005. Now, some GOP lawmakers want to know why the Justice Department won’t follow through:
The Justice Department should administer a polygraph test to former National Security [...]

Remember the new Congressman from Wisconsin who took great pride in the fact that he greeted Laura Bush in Green Bay and deliberately called her “Barbara”? (oooooooh, BURN!)
White House official says no, that didn’t happen. Now Congressman Kagen has climbed down a bit.
Now that Kagen’s longer story about his White House visit is [...]

And now, another PSA from See-Dubya:
Tinfoil-hat syndrome can affect earnest, sincere lefties anywhere, at any time. Wherever progressives gather, whether in a hotel lobby in Vegas, or now at a protest on a beach near San Francisco, you never know when the spontaneous, irresistible urge to swaddle one’s noggin in tinfoil will strike.
Won’t you [...]

Photoshop: Shieldsnet
Under a trailer. Oh, my:
Former national security adviser Sandy Berger removed classified documents from the National Archives in 2003 and hid them under a construction trailer, the Archives inspector general reported Wednesday.
The report was issued more than a year after Berger pleaded guilty and received a criminal sentence for removal of the documents.
Inspector General [...]

Audrey Hudson at the Washington Times investigates the Minneapolis Six and gets feedback from air marshals.
We take a closer look at Omar Shahin over at Hot Air. Discussion on O’Reilly last night here.
HA affiliate Charles Ryder has more video and spotted another hate-spewer at the praying imams’ protest yesterday at Reagan National.
Scott Johnson at Power [...]

Remember this Arabic-speaking State Department clown, Albert Fernandez, who went on al Jazeera TV and trashed the U.S. as arrogant and stupid?
Well, speaking of arrogant and stupid, guess what? Charles Johnson notes that the State Department has decided to give Fernandez an award. Via Brit Hume’s Grapevine last week on Fox News:
Fernandez was selected [...]

***update: a reader notes that the RNC chair has to be elected by GOP state chairmen (they meet in January)…are there any out there who are listening to conservatives and who will oppose Martinez?…A RedState blogger calls Martinez “the Harriet Miers of RNC chairs”…send your comments to info@gop.com***
Oh, well. Michael Steele has been passed up [...]

A macho show of firepower:
Iran test-fired dozens of missiles, including the Shahab-3 that can reach Israel, in military maneuvers Thursday that it said were aimed at putting a stop to the role of world powers in the Persian Gulf region.
The show of strength came three days after U.S.-led warships finished naval exercises in the [...]

Don’t measure your drapes yet, lady
A few weeks ago, while blogging on the road (always a somewhat risky thing to do), I glibly mentioned the possibility of sitting at home for the midterms over heated disagreement with the Bush administration on immigration. Many grass-roots conservatives have grievances with how the White House has handled a [...]

Meet Alberto Fernandez: State Dept. apologist for jihad
Alberto Fernandez, director of public diplomacy in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the US State Department, is al Jazeera’s favorite pet tool. He has been praised as “sassy” and is a fixture on Arab TV. From a Newsweek profile published in August, which proclaimed him “the [...]

Christian convert Abdul Rahman: Still a marked man
Remember Abdul Rahman, the Christian convert who fled Afghanistan and found safety in Italy after Muslim mobs demanded he be killed for abandoning Islam?
Well, while the rest of the world has forgotten about Rahman, the sharia-embracers and Koran-thumpers who believe all apostates should be murdered have not forgotten [...]

Via Yahoo! News/Reuters: An effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is burned by South Korean protesters at a rally in Seoul, denouncing North Korea’s nuclear weapon test October 9, 2006. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
***scroll for updates…U.N. has no immediate comment; emergency meeting scheduled Monday morning…Australian PM John Howard condemns NoKo test. “”North Korea is very gravely [...]

***originally posted 752am…bumping this back to the top…11am Eastern - White House says it is considering declassifying the NIE…1210pm new update: Bush will release parts of the report…video…***
President Bush on Tuesday said it is naive and a mistake to think that the war with Iraq has worsened terrorism, disputing a national intelligence assessment by [...]

***scroll for updates and liveblogging…side by side video comparison***
Remember that “viewer discretion is advised” post I did on Friday featuring TS’s mock warning slate for ABC?
Allah captured the real-life slate ABC aired before “Path to 9/11″ began this evening. Click for the vid and live comment thread. More to come:

Running commentary from Glenn Reynolds and [...]

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From the nutroots in full-blown Rove Derangement Syndrome mode…

To the top of the Democratic Party…

…the protests against ABC’s 9/11 docu-drama, “Path to 9/11,” have become completely unhinged.
The Ostroy Report says this morning:
In a story in Friday’s New York Times, former Governor of New Jersey and co-chair of the federal 9/11 Commission, Thomas H. [...]

I had to read it several times to make sure it was genuine, but it really is true: Washington Post columnist David Broder calls out the left-wing media for its Rove Derangement Syndrome:
For much of the past five years, dark suspicions have been voiced about the Bush White House undermining its critics, and Karl Rove [...]

US Senate candidate Ned Lamont of Connecticut, darling of the left-wing blogosphere, is now running as fast as he can from the nutball bloggers who have zealously promoted his campaign against Sen. Joe Lieberman from its inception. (Today’s Vent gives the overview.) And he’s lying through his teeth in his effort to rid himself of [...]

First, take a look at mob scenes across the Muslim world this weekend, ostensibly–ostensibly–in response to the civilian deaths in Qana, Lebanon (via Yahoo! News). Angry Muslims from Beirut to Gaza to Lahore are setting fire to American and Israeli flags. Burning effigies of Western leaders. Raising their voices in death chants:

(Tigerhawk has more [...]

Yesterday, I mentioned the wild mob of “peace” activists in Australia who kicked, punched and fired projectiles at PM John Howard’s car to protest his support for Israel.
Today, there’s this from Lebanon:
Lebanese protesters broke into the United Nations headquarters in Beirut on Sunday, smashing windows and ransacking offices, after an Israeli air strike killed at [...]

Headline: Arab Group To Sue U.S. Government
An Arab group said the federal government has failed to protect Americans from the fighting in Lebanon.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is suing on behalf of about 30 people.
The lawsuit filed in Detroit alleges that Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld didn’t take all possible steps to secure the safety and [...]

***update: I’m scheduled to talk about the Raza schools tonight on The O’Reilly Factor at approx. 830pm Eastern.***
So, Karl Rove gave his “We are all Americans” speech to the National Council of La Raza–The Race–yesterday. Today, my syndicated column digs into the millions of dollars in Bush administration federal education grants The Race has received [...]

Well, yes, that’s exactly what it is:
The Hezbollah militant group captured two Israeli soldiers during clashes along the Lebanese border on Wednesday, triggering an Israeli assault with warplanes, tanks and gunboats as Israeli troops crossed the frontier to hunt for the captives.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the guerrilla attack “an act of war” and [...]

Funny how the Wall Street Journal editorial writers have no problem smearing immigration enforcement advocates as “nativists” while Karl Rove holds hands with the National Council of The Race.
I promise you more on this subject tomorrow.
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Human Events advises Rove on what he should say to The Race this afternoon. We can dream.
While we’re talking about [...]