It's now being reported that former VP Dick Cheney suffered a mild heart attack last night. He is expected to be released from GWU Hospital in the next few days. Please join me in sending your best thoughts, prayers, and well wishes his way. In case you missed it, here's VP Cheney's surprise appearance at... Read More

Scroll for updates... It's the Obama-Cheney showdown this morning. I, for one, am gratified to see this White House forced to put national security on the front burner. If not for the forceful public defenses by Vice President Cheney of the aggressive, proactive measures the last administration took to keep us safe, the current commander-in-chief... Read More

Doing some multi-tasking tonight, I half-listened to coverage of the annual media lovefest-the Washington Radio and TV Correspondents' Dinner. Comedy Central's Mo Rocca gave a cringe-worthy performance. No, not cringe-worthy for any notable left-wing diatribes. Just cringe-worthy for its awfulness. He seemed to have just given up by the end and fizzled out. Mumbled a... Read More

***update:*** The Washington Post blasts the Pelosi plan. Writes the editorial board: "It makes perfect sense, if the goal is winning votes in the United States." Wow. There's more: THE RESTRICTIONS on Iraq war funding drawn up by the House Democratic leadership are exquisitely tailored to bring together the party's leftist and centrist wings. For... Read More

From my column today: How many times have you sat in front of the TV over the last four years, watching anti-war activists march on Washington, chase the ROTC off your local college campus, vandalize war memorials, insult the troops and wreak havoc under the surrender banner? How many times have you thought to yourself:... Read More

***update: HuffPo has closed its comments section after receiving 437 mostly unhinged messages...a reader saved a PDF file of the entire comment thread for posterity...posted here...*** ***update ii: exclusive photos from the operating room at Bagram added below*** ***update iii: i've been notified by military officials that DVIDS should not have released the photos. i've... Read More

The Sheehanistas are turning on Sen. Patty Murray in Washington state over the war. Allah's got the video of Murray getting chewed out by Evergreen State lefties, who are pushing impeachment legislation. My old Seattle Times colleague David Postman reports on the panic the measure is causing among Beltway Democrats: Sen. Patty Murray and Congressman... Read More

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... Read More

I don't like to mud wrestle, but sometimes the slime-flingers need to be held accountable. All week, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and his left-wing vassals have tried to blame female conservative commentators for one nutball's fake anthrax letter attacks. Reportedly, the suspect was a Free Republic.com member whose pseudonymous profile noted that he "worshipped" Ann... Read More

Harold Ford's wearing a camouflage hunting cap in his last-minute campaign flurry. Glenn Reynolds videoblogs Corker supporters in his neck of the woods, who are probably not impressed with Ford's panderwear. Real Clear Politics has Corker up by six in final numbers. Speaking of hunting, Dick Cheney's doing the real thing.

Byron Calame: NYTimes' lapdog tucks tail I am sure that the New York Times public editor, Byron Calame, is hoping we will all go away now. Fat chance. Three months after defending his paper's decision to blow the cover of a top-secret terrorist banking data surveillance program, he issued a weasel-worded retraction yesterday in his... Read More

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... Read More

Video at Expose the Left. *** James Joyner at OTB: More AP lies in Scalia/AEI story Reader KT e-mails: I was at AEI yesterday and saw Scalia speak and was, I am not sure you could call it heckled and I thought of your book. First, Justice Scalia was excellent, especially on the main issue,... Read More

Insane. Unhinged. Scott Johnson: "Deranged sophomoric hysteria." I'll let Alan Simpson, interviewed on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, have the last words: SIMPSON...Dick Cheney has become the hate symbol from the beginning. He was the hate symbol when he was with Halliburton. He was the hate symbol when he came in and the votes... Read More

Via Drudge/WCBS: Via AP: How about a moratorium on the jokes from all sides, please? Reader O.R. in Austin: I agree with your call for a moratorium on the jokes. Harry is one of the finest men I have ever known. You or almost anyone wou

***scroll for updates*** White House press secretary Scott McClellan is getting mauled over the delay in the public disclosure of Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident. NBC's David Gregory is fuming (I know, what else is new). Other reporters are shouting and interjecting. More to come... *** Ok, here's a taste of the MSM hunt:... Read More

Fox News is reporting that VP Dick Cheney was involved in a hunting accident yesterday. Breitbart/AP: I'm very thankful Whittington is doing fine. Unfortunately, this is very bad news for the White House--and not just because of the inevitable late-night jokes that will inundate the airwaves over the next week. The Dems will exploit this... Read More

Scott McClellan is holding his daily White House press briefing and VP Dick Cheney is speaking at the Manhattan Institute. McClellan: Cheney: Cheney calls for renewal of the Patriot Act and defends the NSA program: Another absolutely vital requirement in the War on Terror is that we use whatever means are appropriate to try to... Read More

Following up on my column and post yesterday about Hillary Clinton's exploitation of the body armor issue, here's the latest push back from the Pentagon (via ABC): The Pentagon is pushing back hard against allegations soldiers' lives have been lost in Iraq because they were not issued adequate body armor. "There is nothing more important... Read More

***scroll for updates...12:41pm EST. Cloture fails. Senate votes to block the defense spending bill 56-44..1020pm EST: ANWR provision dropped....*** Just in: "The Republican-controlled Senate passed legislation to cut federal deficits by $39.7 billion on Wednesday by the narrowest of margins, 51-50, with Vice President Dick Cheney casting the deciding vote." Unfortunately, the LA Times points... Read More

Here we go, kids. Via AP: WASHINGTON - The proposal to drill for oil in an Alaska wildlife refuge will create the most environmentally friendly oil field in the world, Interior Secretary Gale Norton said Tuesday - a claim disputed by drilling opponents. They said the legislation before Congress could allow oil companies to skirt... Read More

***scroll for updates...The ACLU wants a special prosecutor (but not for the leakers)...Some on the Left aren't happy with the Times, either...Arlen Specter says the Judiciary Committee will investigate (the Bush administration, not the leakers)...12/17 Bush fights back...*** This morning, the Drudge Report--HUGE RED FONT and all--chose to aid and abet the civil liberties Chicken... Read More

John Hawkins at Right Wing News kicks things off with The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes For 2005. A sample: 40) "I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal. It was awesome." -- Drew Barrymore 39) "I think (the NBA's dress code is) a racist statement because a lot of the guys... Read More

Vice President Dick Cheney is set to give a major speech this morning defending the Iraq war at the American Enterprise Institute. The Washington Times editorializes: Ever since Mr. Bush's Veteran's Day speech rebutting the canard that he lied the country into war, congressional Democrats and parts of the mainstream media have responded by coming... Read More

***scroll for updates*** Democratic temper tantrum taking place behind closed Senate doors via Breitbart/AP: Byron York hits the nail on the head: Perhaps the best explanation for the Democrats' decision to virtually shut down the Senate today can be found in one passage from CIA leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's news conference last Fr