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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 [...]

Last week, I wrote “They are all profilers now“–mocking Democrats for their expedient embrace of profiling to exploit the ports fiasco. This week, I’m sick of conservatives playing the race card to attack skeptics of the ports deal. From my syndicated column today:
It’s one thing for feckless grievance-mongers on the Left to accuse Americans [...]

Drudge is hyping Bill Sammon’s new book, “Strategery,” this morning and publishes an interesting passage from the book on the White House’s warm views of the blogosphere and cyberspace.
Or the “ether space,” as President Bush calls it. (At least they got him to stop saying “Internets.”)
“I think what’s healthy is that there’s no monopoly [...]

I added this at the bottom of the post below, but Karl Rove’s significant concession (camouflaged in face-saving rhetoric) deserves to stand alone:
President George W. Bush would accept a slight delay in permitting Dubai Ports World to acquire a British company that operates six key U.S. ports, senior White House adviser Karl Rove told Fox [...]

After a rather rude (and criminal) disruption, I’m back. Let’s return to the ports, shall we?
Lesson One of Portgate: Scream “Islamophobia/xenophobia” often enough, and people will start to back down.
Lesson Two of Portgate: Mislead and mischaracterize your critics often enough, and people will start to back down.
Here are two key talking points being pushed by [...]

Now (via Breitbart/AP):
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid wrote at least four letters helpful to Indian tribes represented by Jack Abramoff, and the senator’s staff regularly had contact with the disgraced lobbyist’s team about legislation affecting other clients.
The activities _ detailed in billing records and correspondence obtained by The Associated Press _ are far more [...]

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 [...]

Vote: 58-42.
“Without objection, so ordered.”
Breitbart/AP:
The former U.S. appeals court judge will quickly be sworn in at the Supreme Court before his expected appearance at Bush’s annual State of the Union speech Tuesday evening with the White House’s other new Supreme Court judge, Chief Justice John Roberts. Alito will be ceremonially sworn in a second [...]

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, [...]

CNN reporting:
Sen. John Kerry has decided to support a filibuster to block the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, CNN’s Congressional Correspondent Ed Henry reported Thursday.
Kerry, in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum, was marshaling support in phone calls during the day, Henry said.
He announced his decision Wednesday to a [...]

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 [...]

Much has been made of the rabid Left’s online swarm that shut down the Washington Post’s blog comment section. The comments seemed comparatively tame to me. Maybe I’ll copy off Chapter 6 of Unhinged and send it off to the WaPo ombudsman and her editors to help them feel better.
Meantime, the moonbat manipulation of Amazon.com’s [...]

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 [...]

Picture this: You’re a retail store clerk. It’s the busy Christmas season. A half-dozen men of Middle Eastern/South Asian descent walk into the store. They want to buy between 60-150 disposable cell phones–you know, the kind that can’t be traced. The kind that have been used by terrorists as detonators.
What do you do?
Do you [...]

Baseball Crank takes a close look at another of the Dems’ wacky witnesses who opposes Judge Alito.
The Washington Times weighs in on The Closing of Ted Kennedy’s Mind. (Or better: The Losing of Ted Kennedy’s Mind.) An excerpt:
Something unusual happened on the way to this week’s nomination hearings for Judge Samuel Alito: Reporters scoffed at [...]

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 [...]

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the selective outrage of the left’s privacy hypocrites–led by the likes of NY Dem Sen. Charles Schumer, the privacy champion who has yet to apologize to Maryland GOP Lt. Gov. Michael Steele over his stolen credit report (pilfered by two of Schumer’s former Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee staffers currently [...]

To the dismay of the MSM, the blogosphere didn’t go away in 2005. Here are some of the more memorable moments in the clash of the bloggers vs. MSM:
10. Commentator Bill Press’s condemnation of bloggers as people “with no credentials, no sources, no rules, no editors and no accountability.” Press’s idea of good [...]

*AP names Hurricane Katrina its top story of the year. Can’t argue with that. The rest of the top ten:
2: PAPAL TRANSITION: John Paul II’s death marked the passing of the first non-Italian pope in 455 years and ended a 26-year pontificate, third-longest in history. In a remarkable show of affection, many millions attended services [...]

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 [...]

On Friday, Editor and Publisher hyped this Sunday NYTimes magazine piece by Michael Crowley about the influence of conservative vs. liberal blogs.
Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman offer stiff competition on a weekly basis, but Crowley’s embarrassing little squib (283 words) has to be one of most insipid, shallow, and uninformed wastes of space to grace [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Fox News reporting tonight that the White House will announce its SCOTUS pick tomorrow.

Washington Post, A1 for Monday:
President Bush appears poised to announce a new Supreme Court nomination today, moving quickly after a weekend of consultations to put forward a replacement for the ill-fated choice of Harriet Miers in hopes of recapturing political momentum, according [...]

***scroll for updates throughout the day…223pm EDT liveblogging Fitzgerald news conference…240pm EDT Fitzgerald: “We have not made any allegation that Libby knowingly/intentionally outed a covert agent…300pm EDT “This indictment is not about the war. Not about the propriety of the war…” 310pm EDT “We’re not quite done, but I don’t want to add to a [...]