Howard Dean endorsed the terrorist-sympathizing agitators of Code Pink this weekend (hat tip: Kristinn T/FR): So, who's surprised by these comments? *** On a related note, Smash documents the counter-protest against Code Pink in San Diego.
What a mess: Detroit elections officials lost track of ballots in nine precincts -- or almost 3,000 votes -- in Tuesday's election, and did not count them until two days after polls closed. State Elections Director Chris Thomas ordered city officials late Friday to keep their hands off voting records until he meets with them...
Read More***135pm EDT update...Al Sharpton calls President Bush "evil...James Crow Jr., Esquire...broken levees are weapons of mass destruction...Our people are dying in Iraq and being drowned in New Orleans...We'll be in Baton Rouge on the 29th...this is the beginning of the regeneration of the movement for our people..."*** If you tune into C-SPAN right now, you...
Read MoreThe conspiracy-mongers at the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance held an art contest for students. (Hat tip: Reader John K.) Little Hannah Stutz, 11, won second place for a Crayola exercise in Bush-bashing. She got a little help from dad: The prize was a year's supply of Reynold's Wrap. : Just kidding. She received $100...
Read MoreLate last night, I received an e-mail from Air America's webmaster and former Howard Dean staffer, Adam Mordecai. He wrote "Some answers to your questions" and included a link to/text of a new statement from the beleaguered liberal radio network about the New York City corruption probe of alleged diverted funds from inner-city non-profit clubs...
Read MoreI know I'll be sentenced to Operation Respect: Don't Laugh at Me camp, but there is only one proper reaction to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's attempt to conceal her ignorance of the Kelo decision: Snort. Snort. Snort. Guffaw. BWAH-hah-hah-hah. The folks at The Corner called Pelosi out first, and the blogswarm has been rightly...
Read MoreFrom Karl Rove, quoted in today's NY Times: Right. On. Democrats are now calling on Rove to apologize. Apologize? For what? For distilling the fundamental difference between the left and the right's approaches to terrorism in the wake of 9/11. The Dems are having a hissyfit over the comments, as if stating the obvious is...
Read MoreYou already know how I feel about Mark Steyn. His latest instant classic column on the Gitmo-bashers is hanging on the home office wall. A few highlights if you haven't already read it: And: So, so good. Read and relish. *** Also good: Hugh Hewitt's piece in the Weekly Standard on "Breaking the Durbin Code"...
Read MoreThe Chicago Tribune fawns over Durbin's "passion." The paper's editorial page says "Ignore him." The Boston Herald editorializes: "Durbin must go." Investor's Business Daily: He "made Howard Dean look sane." The Wash Times: "Durbin's degrading drivel." The New York Times editorial page: Nothing. The Washington Post editorial page: Nothing. (There is an E.J. Dionne column...
Read MoreSome in the Washington press corps and on Capitol Hill are in a huff because Fox News Channel anchor/reporter Brian Wilson was too aggressive with DNC chair Howard Dean at his press conference with Sen. Harry Reid yesterday. Awwwwww. Wilson raised his voice. And he didn't wait his turn. And he didn't ask "substantive" questions....
Read MoreThe RNC should send a thank-you letter to the San Francisco Chronicle for its public service yesterday. Maybe the RNC should send new tape recorders to every liberal editorial board on Howard Dean's schedule. Generation Why? has a good response to Dean's "white Christian party" comments. FWIW, here's Susan Estrich writing today that Dean is...
Read MoreA state-run TV station in Germany just aired a mystery show perpetuating "Bush did it" paranoia theories about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Looks like they've been channeling Howard Dean and Cynthia McKinney. Hat tip to Cassandra at Villanous Company, who says: "Mystery solved."
As you may know, left-wing activists held a conference in D.C. this week called Take Back America. They invited Howard Dean and John Kerry to speak. Neither mentioned Iraq, which has the "progressives" up in arms. Reports David Corn: Dean was too preoccupied with his usual paranoia-laced spewing against Republicans. It was left to
According to Business Week, Howard Dean's foam-at-the-mouth schtick is a dud with Dem donors (hat tip: Daly Thoughts and The Hedgehog Report): How long before we hear the tin-foilers murmuring that Dean is a GOP plant? It's
A new state report shows the abortion rate in Wisconsin is at its lowest since the state began tracking abortions in 1974, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Wisconsin was one of the states that professor Glenn Stassen said was experiencing an increase in abortions. He later retracted that claim, but his now-discredited conclusions were echoed...
Read MoreYou probably haven't heard about the new analysis by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, released Thursday, May 19. The study indicates that both the number of abortions in the U.S. and the abortion rate declined in 2001 and 2002: The full study is available here (.pdf file). In the wake of the report's release last week,...
Read MoreLots of buzzing over Howard Dean's telling slip o' the tongue on Meet the Press yesterday in which he confused Saddam and Osama (video via Jackson's Junction; transcript at MSNBC): Whaaaa? Dean repeated the mistake again: Whoops. Looks like Dr. Dean can't keep his crackpot attacks straight. Recall that in December 2003, he waded into...
Read MoreHoward Dean on Meet the Press this morning claims abortions have gone up "25 percent since George Bush was president." The bogus numbers have been cited by Hillary Clinton and New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, among others. Tim Russert did not bother to challenge Dean's assertion. The truth? See here, here, and here. Tom...
Read MoreThat should have been the headline over this Boston Globe story. Instead, the newspaper misses the real story and headlines Howard Dean's rant against Tom Delay at the Massachusetts Democratic Party convention. Here's the lede: Here's what Rep. Frank said: I would love to hear more about Rep. Frank's opinons about Howard Dean. If he...
Read MoreBetsy's Page notes that college students are receiving alarmist e-mails warning them they may be drafted if President Bush wins re-election. The text reads as follows:
The indispensable Command Post is keeping on top of the terror charges filed today against suspected al Qaeda arrested last week. Excerpt from Sky News: What say you now, Howard Dean?
James Robbins at NRO responds to Howard Dean and the doubters. Update: E-mail of the morning from someone who works in one of the targeted buildings:
ABC News reports tonight: Heinz Kerry Tells Reporter To Shove It Hey, did I call this or what? Flashback, Jan. 28, 2004, Howard Dean in a Dress: Tick, tick, tick.