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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 [...]

Over the weekend, I pointed to a story in the blabbermouth NYTimes about the vacation homes of Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld and VP Dick Cheney as a news hook to talk about the Left’s selective apathy towards reckless, unnecessary invasions of privacy.
The reactions were predictable: the usual moonbats accused me of hypocrisy by dredging up [...]

Why publish maps and specific street names and photographs of the private (not anymore) homes where the Vice President and Defense Secretary and their families spend their vacations?
Why?
Because blabbermouth Bill Keller feels like it, right? (Interesting timing, no?)
Because the “people” (you know: Code Pink, Fred Phelps, jihadis) have a “right to know,” right?
Because neighbors are [...]

Norm Mineta resigns. Finally. But P.C. madness still reigns.
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Previous:
The curse of Norm Mineta, contd.
The curse of Norm Mineta
Racial profiling for dollar$

Ian’s got the video of Murtha on Meet The Press. Transcript here.
After criticizing Karl Rove’s “fat backside,” Murtha put forth his fat-headed Okinawa plan:
MR. RUSSERT: You say redeploy. Again, Mr. Rove challenges that comment.
Let’s listen and give you again a chance to respond to the White House.
(Videotape, Monday):
MR. ROVE: Congressman Murtha said, “Let’s redeploy them [...]

So, while the moonbats foam over the non-indictment of Karl Rove, watch for the MSM to start caterwauling about Bush’s secret trip to Baghdad.
Reader Stephen C. writes:
Care to make a friendly wager on how long it will take the Democrats to accuse the President of making the trip as a publicity stunt?
Or, for that matter, [...]

***update: Lucianne.com thread here***
You’ve read the story of the day, all day, on Drudge: Ann Coulter is antagonizing the Left with her comments about the liberal 9/11 widows known as “The Jersey Girls.” Hillary Clinton is going ape. TV producers of all partisan stripes are ecstatic. So are Ann’s publicists and publisher.
Unfortunately, lost in [...]

The beverage-spew-inducing line of the day goes to Al Gore for calling pro-illegal alien amnesty, Harriet Miers for Supreme Court-nominating, Medicare entitlement-expanding President Bush a “renegade right-wing extremist.”
Sides. Splitting. Oh. Oh. Ouch. Help.

Kathryn Lopez: If only!
Freepers: Rolling on the floor.
Lucianne.com: “Gore says he’s ‘carbon neutral’ - Doesn’t hot air count?

Tim Chapman reported last week:
To qualify for full Social Security benefits, a worker must register 10 years of work. Under current law, illegal immigrants who obtain legal status can use their previous illegal work history to apply for Social Security benefits.
A compromise immigration bill pending right now in the U.S. Senate (sponsored by Chuck Hagel [...]

The Senate ignores the Windbag from Massachusetts and votes:
The Senate voted to build 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border Wednesday and clashed over citizenship for millions of men and women who live in the United States illegally.
Amid increasingly emotional debate over election-year immigration legislation, senators voted 83-16 to add fencing and 500 [...]

***Update: Byron York reports on Leopold digging in…***
The Wall Street Journal has a piece today covering the left-wing blog storm over false rumors that Karl Rove was indicted and about to jump ship on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday.
We take a break from the border blues and have fun with the moonbats who’ve been [...]

There are a lot of rumors flying around the left side of the blogosphere about a Karl Rove indictment. (He’s among the top Technorati searches today.) The New York Sun reports otherwise.
But unhinged Democrats are already partying hard. The Detroit Free Press report:
Was it an improbable outside-the-Beltway scoop on the ultimate inside-the-Beltway story? A criminal [...]

***update: The professor hangs up on John Gibson***
A moonbat professor at Boston College quits over Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s scheduled graduation address:
An open letter to William P. Leahy, SJ, president of Boston College.
DEAR Father Leahy,
I am writing to resign my post as an adjunct professor of English at Boston College.
I am doing so — [...]

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The Department of Homeland Security is working overtime to quell citizen outrage over the Border Patrol/Mexico/Minutemen story. The contradictory spin doctors are not doing a very good job. I’ll have more in a moment.
But now is a crucial time to step back and look at this disturbing episode in a larger, informed [...]

House Democrats are bashing the Bush administration for its lack of “diversity.” Via WaPo:
President Bush’s crop of political appointees includes fewer women and minorities than did President Bill Clinton’s at comparable points in their presidencies, according to a new report by House Democrats.
Women made up about 37 percent of the 2,786 political appointees in the [...]

Secretary of State Condi Rice says that, unlike her boss, she has no problem with the radicalized illegal alien national anthem:
Unlike President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is not upset or offended by hearing the U.S. national anthem sung in Spanish.
Asked about the issue, which has become a topic of outrage [...]

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That’s the buzz. Tune in to Tony’s show starting now.
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Update: Scott McClellan resigning…
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Wednesday he is resigning, continuing a shakeup in President Bush’s administration that has already yielded a new chief of staff and could lead to a change in the Cabinet.
Appearing with Bush on the White [...]

Two days ago, I reported on an idiotic math question crafted by a Bellevue (WA) Community College professor that took a racist swipe at Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Today, the Seattle Times follows up:
Bellevue Community College President Jean Floten apologized Wednesday at an emotional open-campus meeting called after students complained about what they said was [...]

I’ve been getting lots of e-mail about an idiotic math question reportedly crafted by a Bellevue (WA) Community College professor that takes a racist swipe at Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Here’s a message forwarded to me from Rev. Wayne Perryman of Mercer Island, Wa.:
Dear Friends:
The following sample math problem was given to students as [...]

Too good not to blog, not good enough to warrant their own post: links to tide you over until the a.m.
· The hammer’s coming down on Iran … very, very gently.
Iran is not an imminent threat and sanctions against the Islamic Republic would be a “bad idea”, the UN nuclear watchdog chief has warned.
“We need [...]

AP reporting this morning:
An Afghan man who had faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity quickly vanished Tuesday after he was released from prison, apparently out of fear for his life with Muslim clerics still demanding his death.
Italy’s Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini said he would ask his government to grant Abdul Rahman [...]

***scroll for updates…Video: Condi Rice thinks Afghanistan has “come a long way” because when the Taliban ruled, they “wantonly” executed people for playing music (as opposed to now, you know, where executions of people for abandoning Islam are contemplated in a much more civilized, non-wanton manner.)…Kofi Annan dodges…***

Abdul Rahman: Still not safe
Just in…But this story [...]

Mark Steyn:
The fragile Afghan state is protected by American, British, Canadian, Australian, Italian and other troops, hundreds of whom have died. You cannot ask Americans or Britons to expend blood and treasure to build a society in which a man can be executed for his choice of religion. You cannot tell a Canadian soldier serving [...]

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 [...]

…on the Senate floor:

Kathryn Lopez calls Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s stand “the anti-photo-op.”
Caption and photoshop contest over at GOP and College.
Reader Eric: “Say what you will about Sen Debbie Stabenow, at least she has the guts to stand in front of a big sign that accurately proclaims her
own capabilities. I mean, how many Senators would be [...]

***scroll for updates…230pm EST Dem Senators Schumer, Clinton, Reid scrambling to organize press conference…248pm EST. Harry Reid looks irked at being outmaneuvered: “We want an up-and-down vote…the devil is in the details.” Fox News cuts away to President Bush signing renewal of Patriot Act. Bush (after thanking Cabinet officials, law enforcement, and GOP leaders, including [...]