I'm not sure how serious the threat was, but I am glad law enforcement folks are taking it seriously.

Federal and local authorities in Colorado are questioning several suspects to determine if one of the men made a threat against Sen. Barack Obama, who will be in Denver this week to accept the Democratic presidential nomination.

After pulling over Tharin Robert Gartrell, 28, for allegedly driving erratically early Sunday morning, police discovered two rifles, one of which is reportedly stolen, a scope, a bulletproof vest, ammunition, walkie-talkies and the drug methamphetamine in the rented 2008 Dodge Ram truck, Aurora Police Detective Marcus Dudley said at a Monday evening press conference.

When authorities questioned Gartrell about the findings, he pointed to an associate of his whom he claimed made a threat against Obama, officials told ABC News.

Frankly, these guys appear to be a bunch of neo-Nazi sskinheads, according to some other reports I've seen. They don't represent the mainstream of anything, and are worthy of nothing but contempt and condemnation.

The last thing this American wants is an attempt on the life of Barack Obama -- and I can say with confidence that my view is shared by every true Republican.

By the way -- where is the coverage of the street disturbances in Denver?

UPDATE: Oops -- maybe not a threat at all.

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He has appeared from on high, to speak to his people.

Isn't this the silliest thing you have ever sen?

Looks like a neon nightmare!

Tackiness and excess incarnate.

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Call me sentimental.

I cried tonight, watching the tribute to Ted Kennedy and his speech.

As a teen, he represented something special about America to me -- until I came to understand what he stood for and realized I disagreed with his approach to America.

As an adult, I viewed him as a worthy adversary -- though one I have not always treated with respect.

And as a student of history, I recognize his significance over the last half century of American life.

And so I made a point of watching Ken Burns' tribute to the ailing Senator, and his speech to the convention.

And as I said, I wept.

Because I know that this is likely the end of an era -- and that in 2012, one face and voice that will likely be missing from the rough and tumble of the election season will be that of the man who has served as Senator from Massachusetts since before I was born. I recognize that one of our links to the past will have been severed by mortality. And that does sadden me as an American.

God bless you, Senator Kennedy -- and thank you for your service to our nation.

Would you believe Georgia?

No, not the one where they make Coca-Cola -- the one where the Russians continue to violate their agreement to withdraw.

It's not every aspiring First Lady whose comfort zone is a war zone, but such is the case for Cindy McCain, who left today on a mission to Georgia to assess the civilian casualties of the Russian invasion.

McCain is traveling with the U.N.'s World Food Programme, whose work she monitored in Southeast Asia and Africa this spring and summer. McCain plans to meet with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and to visit wounded Georgian soldiers. She would also visit representatives of the HALO Trust, which works to remove land mines and on whose board she serves.

But this shouldn't be a surprise, given her long record of humanitarian work.

Contrast that with Michelle Obama's work dumping poor people from the hospital where she works -- and steering contracts to her husband's political allies.

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Democrats told us if George W. Bush were reelected in 2004, there would be attempts to use the Justice Department and the FCC to punish dissenting political speech.

And they were right.

Only it is the Obama campaign seeking to have the government punish political speech.

Sen. Barack Obama has launched an all-out effort to block a Republican billionaireÂ’s efforts to tie him to domestic and foreign terrorists in a wave of negative television ads.

Obama’s campaign has written the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of the “American Issues Project,” the vehicle through which Dallas investor Harold Simmons is financing the advertisements. The Obama campaign — and tens of thousands of supporters — also is pressuring television networks and affiliates to reject the ads.

As much as I've always disliked John McCain's cavalier attitude towards political speech, this attempt to criminalize such speech by Obama is much more frightening to me.

And not only that, but Barry Hussein's surrogates are threatening to revoke the broadcast licenses of any station that carries the ad -- a potent threat from a guy who will have appointment power over that agency's commissioners.

“The Obama campaign plans to punish the stations that air the ad financially, an Obama aide said, organizing his supporters to target the stations that air it and their advertisers.” … Obama’s campaign has written a pair of letters to station managers carrying the ads. The letter calls the ad’s attempt to link Obama to terrorism “an appalling lie, a disgraceful smear of the lowest kind on the senator’s patriotism and commitment to the rule of law.” Airing the ad “is inconsistent with your station’s obligations under Federal Communications Commission regulations,” the letter continues, saying Simmons’ group lacks formal incorporation.

In other words, the President of the United States (if we win) will personally argue that your airing of the ad is a violation of the terms of the broadcast license under which you operate -- a threat which could lead to a great many stations deciding to take a hardline view of any anti-Obama ad this year.

What is worst about the ad? How about the fact that everything in it is true. Barack Obama has a long association with a confessed terrorist who openly lamented not doing more to overthrow the American government. It doesn't matter that Obama was a child when the events happened -- his willingness to have such a close association with the man is a contemporary failure of moral judgment. If McCain had a close political and personal relationship with a former Kluxer who publicly lamented not doing more to save segregation, would he so easily be forgiven that association? Of course he would not -- nor would anyone with an ounce of decency suggest he should.

And in the end, that is why Barry Hussein needs to bludgeon his opponents into silence -- the truth will not set him free, but will instead cost him the election if the American public is confronted with the reality of Barack Obama's distasteful choice of friends.

H/T Patterico, Time, Belmont Club, Ben Smith, Malkin

UPDATE: Here's what Barry Hussein is afraid the American public might see.

You gonna come after me and the rest of the conservative blogosphere next?

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I've noticed a number of comments regarding Joe Biden's lengthy Senatorial career making him the ultimate insider. I've noted folks observing that Barack Obama was 11 when Biden first won election to that body (I was 9).

But there is another aspect to his Senatorial career that ought to be noted by those considering whether how out of place Biden is on the ticket of"Hope and Change" -- when Joe Biden became a US Senator, John McCain was still a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

Think about it -- liberals often denigrate McCain's heroic suffering on behalf of his country because it was so long ago. If that is the case, what place does a man who has been a senator for three-and-a-half decades have being on their national ticket?

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I agree with Nancy Pelosi.

Well, sort of.

"You know what," said Pelosi "I'm going to tell you something: lighten up folks. We have a planet to save."

"If Sen. Biden thinks that his wife is gorgeous, that's a-okay with me," she added.

I'll agree with the second half of the comment -- to this day I refer to my Darling Democrat as "my lovely wife" or "my darling wife" in the course of routine conversation. I didn't even realize how often I do it until one of my students a couple of years back walked up to me and asked how my beautiful wife enjoyed an event at which we had seen him at school. It is just how I feel -- and the same thing can be said about the Biden comment. It was something that was very genuine -- after a really stupid comment about her educational attainment.

Maybe he meant it was that her degree was a problem for Michelle Obama -- not only is Jill Biden better looking, but she is living the "giving back to people" lifestyle that Michelle Obama preaches about -- and that her hospital employer somehow can't live up to itself -- which points out the hypocrisy of Michelle Obama.

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To give maximum advantage to the GOP.

Barack Obama has chosen Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate, a pick designed to shore up the Illinois senator's foreign policy credentials in advance of the November election against John McCain.

Biden's selection was confirmed by a Democratic source after an evening of speculation that centered on the Delaware senator when it was reported that the other top contenders were no longer under consideration. Biden had been considered the frontrunner for the job in recent weeks -- a position confirmed by a last-minute, unscheduled trip last weekend to meet with the president of Georgia.

News of the pick was reported in advance of the Obama campaign's planned Saturday announcement to supporters via email and text message.

First, let me say that the confused, incoherent manner in which the Obama campaign handled the announcement was disturbing in and of itself. Days kept changing, and the proposed text-message idea was just absurd. Add to it the fact that the campaign had to leak the whole thing out hours in advance of the planned Saturday morning text message and you are left wondering if these folks will be able to handle a 3:00 AM overflowing toilet in the West Wing, much less a 3:00 AM phone call regarding an international crisis.

And that is part of why they picked Biden -- the ultimate insider and "non-hope and non-change" candidate. Obama recognized he needed a grown-up on the ticket, and so went for one who merely highlights all of his weaknesses even as he helps balance some of them.

And I bet a lot of folks on the left side of the spectrum are fuming. After all, here's a guy who supported the Iraq war and a surge (until he was against them for reasons of political expediency). He's got a history of insensitive remarks of a racial nature. And, of course, there is that speech he stole from Neil Kinnock -- something that didn't get Barry Hussein in trouble when he stole one from Deval Patrick earlier this year.

But most importantly of all, he isn't Hillary Clinton. He doesn't mend fences there, and he carries with him no great constituency. In the end, I don't see him as giving the campaign the sort of electoral heft it needs -- which will make a McCain victory more likely.

Oh, and how confused and mismatched are these two?

Consider Obama's introduction of Biden in Springfield.

And Biden's introduction of Barack.

Just most of them.

But one (indeed the only one I've encountered) has written a piece criticizing John McCain and arguing against his election to the presidency. He is Phillip Butler, who served this nation honorably and spent 8 years in the same hellish conditions that John McCain endured during his time as a POW. I honor that service.

He concludes as follows.

Senator John Sidney McCain, III is a remarkable man who has made enormous personal achievements. And he is a man that I am proud to call a fellow POW who "Returned With Honor." That's our POW motto. But since many of you keep asking what I think of him, I've decided to write it out. In short, I think John Sidney McCain, III is a good man, but not someone I will vote for in the upcoming election to be our President of the United States.

There are two sets of arguments at work in this commentary. The first set goes back to McCain's time at the Naval Academy and as a POW.

• John was a bit of a wild child during his late teens and early 20s. Of course, you have to ignore that having been a half-century ago to consider it to be relevant, but hey -- what is intellectual honesty.
  
• John McCain wasn't the only guy who suffered -- but then again, that is only relevant if you consider some unique experience of suffering to be a requirement to be president. In addition, John McCain's experience as a POW was not unique -- but then again, no one has ever claimed that it was.
  

All three of those arguments are irrelevant -- and come frighteningly close to an effort to denigrate McCain's service and experience as a POW. I presume that is not Butler's intent -- but given a point I will make later, I think it is important that I note it.

But Butler's other arguments are not irrelevant -- age, temper, and ideology. Let's look at them.

1. Age -- yes, many of the POWs are dying off, some at a younger age than their contemporaries, due to their treatment in Vietnam. But any number of them are still in great health -- and McCain is clearly one of them. Besides, there is nothing to say that 47-year-old Barack Obama won't drop dead of a heart attack tomorrow -- just like a 49-year-old former colleague of mine did the other day while attending an in-service session in the district where he worked.
   
2. Temper -- yeah, McCain has a temper. He's a passionate man. But there is nothing in his character that shows his temper is not restrained by intellect and morality. He may yell, and raise his voice -- even curse -- but he has time and again demonstrated that he acts in a rational fashion.
   
3. Ideology -- for all some of us on the right might find McCain to be a bit less conservative than we like, it is clear that the Left finds him much more conservative than Barack Obama. So you have a choice -- a strong liberal or a moderate conservative. Take your pick.
   

Of course, one might consider Butler's biography beyond his time as a POW.. His biography includes his work as a "peace and justice" activist -- and member of "Veterans for Peace". yeah -- that Veteran's for Peace. You know, a group that objects to military recruiting and the Blue Angels. In other words, a group of extreme Leftists who regularly attack and insult our troops. I'm not hanging that tag on Phillip Butler -- he hung it on himself. So if you read his opinion piece and think it sounds like it belongs on Kos or DU, please recognize that its author would be welcome and comfortable on either of those two sites.

UPDATE: Looks like Obama surrogates are now using Butler against McCain. Can you say "Swiftboat"?

Here are my questions:

1. Will Obama try to get these ads pulled?
   
2. Will he seek to get those behind the ad jailed, as he has those running the Bill Ayers ad?
   
3. Will he threaten to use the FCC to punish stations that air this ad?
   
4. Given that no one on his side heeded his call to lay off Bristol Palin, is the statement by its sponsors that they will not pull the ad even if Obama asks them to simply more evidence that Obama is not even taken seriously by his supporters, much less America's enemies abroad?

On the other hand, significantly more of McCain's brothers in arms support him. Proof once more that Butler is what pollsters call an "outlier"..

H/T Hot Air, Don Surber

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One based upon measurable goals, not just an arbitrary date.

The United States has agreed to remove combat troops from Iraqi cities by next June and from the rest of the country by the end of 2011 if conditions in Iraq remain relatively stable, according to Iraqi and American officials involved in negotiating a security accord governing American forces there.

And that is the difference between this agreement and the proposals of Barack Obama and the "Defeat at any cost" Democrats. While they want out immediately, consequences be damned, this proposal is based upon the security of Iraq and the stability of the region. As such, it is not a cut-and-run strategy, but instead is a plan for victory with honor.

And while that means that the goal for withdrawal is 2011, that could change depending upon the conditions on the ground. But given the consolidation of the gains made as a part of the successful surge still opposed by Barack Obama, I expect the bulk of the troops to be home by 2012.

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A reasonably fair article, too.

Now for those of you who have forgotten about the fundraising campaign, I'd like to direct you back to the original piece I wrote on it, lending my support (after I contributed to the effort, putting my money where my mouth is on the issue).

Unfortunately, fundraising has been slow, as information about the effort has not gotten much coverage.

She rushed to fill the financial void, forming a California nonprofit to funnel money to the African school. With a flair for drama, she named it "Save Senator Obama Kogelo School" and held a mini fund-raiser. She's raised $3,500, so she's a long way from the $750,000 she wants to raise within two years.

This isn't just politics. It is also an opportunity to work wonders in the lives of impoverished people who need your help. Several years ago, friends from church started a ministry that has done wonders for Kenyan orphans. The effort to save this one school in one village has a similar potential to improve the lives of the people of one village. I'd like to encourage you to consider a donation to this effort to fulfill the promise made and broken by Barack Obama.

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And it is about damn time that his campaign released the original of the document certifying his birth in a Hawaii hospital into the hands of an objective party.

FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as "supporting documents" to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said.

The piece cited above makes pretty clear what I asserted earlier -- the image of the document released earlier was a true image of a real document. And for what it is worth, it contains more information than the document the my wife used a couple of weeks ago to get back in the US after our trip to Canada -- a document I know with 100% certainty was issued by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania because I ordered it myself on her behalf.

I still think he ought to issue a copy of the original birth record filled out by the staff at the hospital where he was born, but I have always taken the earlier release to be legitimate. I do, however, still wonder if there might be some embarrassing information that keeps a true copy of the original document from being released.

H/T RedState, LGF, Right Angles, Hot Air

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In a sane world populated by people with even a rudimentary morality, support for allowing a premature newborn to die because its mother didn't want it would be inconceivable.

That is not the view of Barack Obama, as the very words of his own mouth demonstrate.

TRANSLATION: She paid for a dead baby, so she's entitled to a dead baby by any means necessary, damn it!

How can anyone with a scrap of moral decency vote for Barry Hussein now?

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Imagine this.

Someone makes a statement that is primarily about health care for veterans, and at the end throws in an aside about reinstituting the draft.

The candidate responds "I don't disagree" -- and launches into a long answer about veterans benefits, especially as regards medical care.

Is he
A) Agreeing with the need to improve health care for veterans;
or
B) Agreeing with the need for a new draft.

Well, if you have an IQ above room temperature, context should make it clear that what the candidate agreed with was the part about health care for veterans, NOT the part about the draft, which he did not address at all.

But if you are a partisan liberal, you attempt to spread the notion that the candidate supports the draft (which is actually the position of a number of members of your own party -- including your own candidate, who supports "mandatory voluntary national service"). You post this snippet on your website to support your case.

QUESTIONER: If we donÂ’t reenact the draft, I donÂ’t think weÂ’ll have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell.

[Appaluse]

MCCAIN: MaÂ’am, let me say that I donÂ’t disagree with anything you said.

What you don't do is post the full answer which goes on to say this.

McCain: I'm grateful for all of our veterans. I carry with me quite often a quote from General George Washington in 1789. He said, "The willingness with which young Americans will serve their country in future wars is directly related to the treatment of those who have previously served and sacrificed in conflict." He was right in 1789 and he's right today.

All too often our veterans do not receive the care that they have earned, and the scandal of Walter Reed is a blot on the honor of the United States of America and we can never let it happen again.

Now here's what.. I'll make this as short as possible, our veterans have earned our highest priority. And yet we know that there is also routine health care needs that veterans have that in my view, they should not have to go to the VA to receive. OK?

We have tragically and unfortunately in this war a dramatic...well, we're going to have a lot of PTSD. We also have severe combat injuries. Because thank God, we're able to get the wounded from the battle field to medical treatment more quickly than any time in history. That puts an increased burden on our medical, military medical care, as well as our VA.

So, you mentioned Albuquerque VA I believe. I could take you to Albuquerque VA or the Phoenix VA quite often and the waiting room is crowded, the veterans are standing in line to stand in line to get an appointment to get an appointment. That's not the fault of the people that work there. The people that work there are some of the finest in the World. It's just that they're overloaded.

So we have to focus our attention, expand our capability to treat PTSD, combat related injuries, brain injuries, etc. that we're best at. And for a veteran with a routine health care need, why shouldn't we give that veteran a card and take it to the health care provider; or the doctor of their choice and get the routine health care that they need.

That's what...and that way we could utilize the VA and the medical, the military medical, system to it's greatest affect. And also relieve this burden. I don't ever again want to have a veteran stand in line to stand in line to get an appointment to get an appointment. That's not...that's just not acceptable in America. And again, I do praise the people that work there. They're some of the most dedicated people I've ever known in my life. The problem is that there's just not enough of them.

There is really only one term for such behavior -- intellectual dishonesty. But then again, we've seen a great deal of intellectual dishonesty from the Obama campaign and its supporters this year, so why are we even surprised.

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But then again, what else is new. Even when the group is on the right side, it often espouses thoroughly wrong-headed principles to get there.

The case itself seems pretty straight-forward (sorry about the term) to me.

When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children.

He suspended some of her friends who expressed their outrage by wearing gay pride T-shirts and buttons at Ponce de Leon High School, according to court records. And he asked dozens of students whether they were gay or associated with gay students.

The American Civil Liberties Union successfully sued the district on behalf of a girl who protested against Principal David Davis, and a federal judge reprimanded Davis for conducting a "witch hunt" against gays. Davis was demoted, and school employees must now go through sensitivity training.

Let's be real honest here -- the principal was wrong in how he handled the situation. While I don't have a problem with his having the position he does on homosexuality (or even with expressing it), I do have a problem with the directive to "stay away from children. And while I don't have a problem with his telling the girl's parents (she was clearly "out" in the school setting, and it would not be unreasonable for a faculty member to discuss such public information with her parents), I do have a problem with his efforts to suppress the First Amendment rights of the students who supported her. And while I oppose "sensitivity training" as nothing less than indoctrination, I would thoroughly support a workshop on how to deal with bullying, harassment and student rights.

But I'm particularly bothered by this statement by a representative of the ACLU.

"I think a shirt that says 'I support gays' is very different from a shirt that says 'Gays are going to hell,'" said Benjamin Stevenson, an ACLU attorney. "One can be very disruptive for a child's self-esteem; the other supports other people and their ideas."

And that is where I have a problem -- the notion that schools should be censoring one side of the debate on a controversial social issue. I've seen it all too often -- support for homosexuality or abortion is OK, but support for traditional morality is banned as "hateful and intolerant". Apparently all it takes for the ACLU standard to be invoked is one student on the right (make that "left") side to be troubled by the message for it to be banned -- but if a conservative or Christian student were to object to the right (make that "left") views supported by the ACLU and d teh kid would be deemed a hate-monger and referred to a sensitivity class a brainwashing program.

For the ACLU to support such a message ban while also supporting the rights of the KKK creates the warped situation where the most extreme views are protected by the Constitution, but mainstream views are not. And for us to attempt to raise students to be responsible citizens fully aware of and prepared to exercise their rights by showing them that government actors are free to censor "unacceptable" speech at every turn is utterly absurd.

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But then again, we've all been waiting for the moment when the American people recognize that the choice is between experience and image. And as that has happened, Barack Obama's lead has diminished, disappeared, and perhaps become a deficit.

John McCain leads Obama 46 percent to 41 percent among likely voters.

John McCain has overtaken Barack Obama in the presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released Wednesday morning.

McCain leads Obama 46 percent to 41 percent among likely voters, which is outside the poll's margin of error. Reuters/Zogby had Obama ahead by 7 points as recently as mid-July.

McCain's resurgence comes at the doorstep of the Democratic Convention, and follows other polling that collectively indicates the presidential race has become a dead heat.

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Today's Reuters/Zogby poll, conducted Aug. 14-16, by contrast, seems to follow a recent trend.

Frankly, I think this development was inevitable given Obama's naked resume and John McCain's long record of service to his country and significant accomplishments in the course of that service. While there may be many of us who disagree with some positions taken by McCain over the years, we still recognize quality and substance when we see it.

Simply put, Obama peaked too soon (not by a matter of weeks, but by about a decade) and is likely to continue to slip in the polls -- until America dismisses him back to the obscurity from which he emerged in a burst of media-driven celebrity four years ago.

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I don’t know about you, but I view it as the responsibility of every person to take the time and make the effort to ensure that they and their families have health insurance. And while many Americans receive that insurance as a part of a benefit package through their employers, not everyone does. While it is possible to rely on the government programs to pay for your medical care if you have no other insurance, this is neither desirable nor ethical if one has other options – and there are any number of good plans available that are within the budget of most Americans.

If you don’t have health insurance, you really ought to check out what Kaiser Permanente has to offer at KPHealthPlans.com. And I’ll tell you right now that it doesn’t matter if you need a plan for an individual or are seeking family heath insurance. And if you are a business owner looking for an affordable group health insurance plan for your employees -- KPHealthPlans.com probably has something that will help get you (and your employees) decent insurance. In Georgia, for example, KPHealthPlans.com offers some of the lowest rates available, and has flexible and affordable plans that will go a long way in meeting your insurance goals. And this is important – after all, a serious illness without health insurance has truly frightening consequences. So take the responsible step and seek health insurance now.

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And here is exactly the sort of stuff that we knew would happen in Red China during the Games, which is why freedom-lovers around the world called for the cancellation or boycott of the 2008 Tiananmen Olympics.

Two elderly Chinese women have been sentenced to a year of “re-education through labor” after they repeatedly sought a permit to demonstrate in one of the official Olympic protest areas, according to family members and human rights advocates.

The women, Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang Xiuying, 77, had made five visits to the police this month in an effort to get permission to protest what they contended was inadequate compensation for the demolition of their homes in Beijing.

During their final visit on Monday, public security officials informed them that they had been given administrative sentences for “disturbing the public order,” according to Li Xuehui, Ms. Wu’s son.

While the women were released with an admonition that they could be sent to the camps at any time if they continued their efforts, at least half a dozen would-be protesters have been detained for the crime of seeking a protest permit.

So even though Mao's hardliners are dying out, the Maoist hard-line is not going anywhere.

H/T Malkin

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UPDATE -- 7:15 PM Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones has died. May she spend all eternity in the presence of the Almighty, and may her family and all those who loved her be comforted in this time of loss.

This news story is quite sad -- though I am glad to find that reports of her death are somewhat exaggerated.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, had a brain hemorrhage and was in critical condition with limited brain function, a doctor said Wednesday.

Tubbs Jones, 58, suffered the hemorrhage while driving her car in Cleveland Heights on Tuesday, said Dr. Gus Kious, president of Huron Hospital in East Cleveland. The congresswoman had been driving erratically and her vehicle crossed lanes of traffic before coming to a stop, police said.

Tubbs Jones "collapsed when she suffered a very serious brain hemorrhage caused by an aneurysm that burst in an inaccessible part of her brain," Kious said during a news conference. A team of doctors who evaluated her determined she has limited brain function.

I'm not a fan of the Distinguished Lady from Ohio. I disagree with her politics. But as I have said several times of late, political differences should generally be set aside when we are talking about matters of serious illness or death. After all, some things simply matter more than politics -- and chief among them is our common humanity.

Unfortunately, the last sentence of the excerpt above is rather troubling, and leads me to believe that the medical team is merely waiting for a family decision on this one before unplugging the machines and making official the erroneous reports of earlier in the day. So in addition to prayers for a miraculous act by the Almighty to heal the congresswoman, I also ask for guidance for her family to know what the best course of action in accord with God's will is in this instance.

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Just when you thought he couldn't sink any lower, we get this report on classy Democrat John Edwards.

John Edwards assured his mistress that they'd be together after his cancer-stricken wife died, according to a new bombshell report.

Just before the former presidential contender confessed his adultery to ABC News on Aug. 8, he secretly flew Rielle Hunter and her 6-month-old child, Frances Quinn, from California to the US Virgin Islands, according to the National Enquirer, which first exposed their affair.

And after the interview, in which he denied loving Hunter or fathering the baby, he called her to say, "We'll be together when Elizabeth is gone," the tabloid reported.

Hence my translation in the headline -- "Just wait -- the bitch is gonna die."

Is there anyone left in America -- besides a few corrupt Democrats -- who has any respect left for this hypocrite?

And when will we get the investigation of the Baron-Edwards money trail going to Hunter and Young?

UPDATE: Maybe that explains the visit to play with the little darling.

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But somehow I doubt that we will be hearing complaints from the Democrats that the network is skewed in its presentation of the issues.

Just in time for the closing rush of the presidential election, MSNBC is shaking up its prime-time programming lineup, removing the longtime host Dan Abrams — its onetime general manager — from his 9 p.m. program and replacing him with Rachel Maddow, who has emerged as a favored political commentator for the all-news cable network.

The moves, which were confirmed by MSNBC executives on Tuesday, are expected to be finalized by Wednesday, with Mr. AbramsÂ’s last program on Thursday. After MSNBCÂ’s extensive coverage of the two political conventions during the next two weeks, Ms. Maddow will begin her program on Sept. 8.

The scary thing is that, as skewed to the left as Abrams often was, he was at least professional in his approach most of the time. I'm not sure that we will see any such thing out of Maddow, whose time in the cesspool that is Air America should disqualify her from work in any sort of news organization.

But key to all this is that MSNBC is abandoning all pretense of ideological neutrality and balance. And in doing so, it raises serious questions about the entire NBC brand, given the cross-over work between the two networks in the NBC stable.

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International kidnapping of Americans in border states -- including right here in Texas.

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - American businesswoman Veronica was stepping out of her car in California when two men forced her into the passenger seat at gunpoint, pushed her teenage daughter into the back and drove them into Mexico...

Mexican intelligence officials say Veronica is one of around 30 Americans abducted in southern California and taken to Tijuana since last November. Many of the victims are of Hispanic origin and hold double nationality.

"We have seen an increase in the number of kidnappings of U.S. citizens in Tijuana, including cross-border abductions," said FBI special agent Darrell Foxworth in San Diego.

Several Americans have also been kidnapped in Texas this year and held for ransom in Mexico, the FBI said...

It is fairly well-known that criminal gangs in Mexico make money tons of cash every year through massive kidnapping enterprises. Now it appears that they are becoming trans-national operations, grabbing Americans (and Mexican citizens in the US) for even higher stakes. Just call it one more aspect of our the failed policy that has effectively given us open borders and 15-20 million illegal aliens and their anchor babies.

But then again, maybe we should be celebrating this development as one more case of multiculturalism enriching our society.

H/T Jawa

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Everybody knows about the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. Now, there is one more worth considering -- RankNoodle.com. It is a new search engine that displays all web result for your search phase on one page, rather than requiring you to look at different pages for news, images, webpages, and other sources or media. RankNoodle.com is therefore a search engine that you can count on to provide accurate information for you, and which will save you time due to the single page results.

In addition, RankNoodle.com is user-friendly. While this may be true about the big search engines, the convenience offered to you by the other search engines, the easy availability of search results on a single page cannot be over-estimated as an attractive feature.

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Here are the results for the most recent vote of the Watcher's Council. The end of my vacation and return to teaching duties has made me somewhat tardy in posting them, but we got the matter taken care of. And I'm pretty pleased by the results as they stand, though my votes differed somewhat from the final results tallied below.

Council:
1. Wolf Howling
“Obama, Criminalizing Politics & Thinking The Unthinkable”
2.(tie) The Glittering Eye
“Civis Americanus Sum”
2.(tie) Soccer Dad
“Not up to the standards of the national enquirer *UPDATED*”
4. Joshuapundit
“Fear And Loathing: The Psychosexual Element In Islam”
5. Done With Mirrors
“Laid to Rest”
6.(tie) Cheat-Seeking Missiles
“Edwards Fesses Up; Let The Games Begin”
6.(tie)
The Colossus of Rhodey
“Great — One More Thing for Which to Blame the Jews.”

Non-Council:
1. Slate
“The Columbia Journalism Review’s Division Over Dissent”
2.(tie) National Review Online
“An Unplanned Education”
2.(tie) Pundita
“To any and all U.S. forces in Georgia: STAND DOWN”
2.(tie) a href="http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2008/08/12/using-ridicule-as-a-weapon-could-backfire-on-mccain/" target="_blank">Right Wing Nut House
“Using Ridicule As a Weapon Could Backfire on McCain”
2. (tie) RogerÂ’s Rules
“The crisis in Georgia, 9/11, and the lessons of gratitude”
6.(tie) The Hashmonean
“Common Denominator: Israel at Every Level is Prepared to Strike Iran”
6.(tie) Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
“It Was 20 Years Ago Today…Everything Changed”
6. (tie) Slapstick Politics
“Top Ten Ways The DNC Is Like The Beijing Olympics”
9. Discriminations
“Is It An Insult To Call Obama An Affirmative Action Candidate?”

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I often agree with William Donohue on matters of religion and politics. Now that shouldn't surprise anyone, given that twenty years ago I was a candidate to head up West Coast operations of the Catholic League and was interviewed for the post by the group's founder, Father Virgil Blum, SJ at the League's original headquarters in Milwaukee.

But Donohue and the League get this one exactly wrong.

Over 120 blogs have been credentialed as members of the media for the Democratic National Convention; those who have received credentials are allowed to cover the Convention at the Pepsi Center. While most of them offer legitimate commentary, some do not.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue is protesting two of the blogs:

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“Both of these blogs should be cut immediately from the list of credentialed sites. Neither functions as a responsible media outlet and both offend Catholics, as well as others. To allow them access to the Democratic National Convention sends a message to Catholics they will not forget. We look for Leah Daughtry, CEO of the Convention, to nix them ASAP.”

Now the two blogs Donohue cites, Bitch PhD. and Towleroad are both profane and offensive by any reasonable standard, not just Catholic ones. But the reality is that they both have high readership among left-wingers. The same is true of a number of other bloggers that Donohue does not choose to seek to have banned. But given the nature of the blogosphere, that isn't surprising -- after all, the left side is noted for its angry, vitriolic, and hateful rhetoric.

Rather than seeking the revokation of blogging credentials, Donohue should instead be highlighting the numerous offensive, ant-Catholic bloggers that are credentialed.

After all, if he were to win his argument as it now stands, we would have demands for similar censorship by the RNC. CAIR and Muslim groups would be well-within their rights to demand the banning of bloggers who have taken a strong line against extremist Islam. Those who oppose our immigration laws would be demanding that bloggers who oppose border-jumping immigration criminals be banned. Supporters of gay marriage would be demanding the banning of bloggers who support traditional morality.

H/T Urban Grounds

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About Obama and Ayers?

What we do know is that high-ranking public employees at the University of Illinois -- Chicago are restricting access to document in their library that will likely shed light on that relationship -- but only after a conservative journalist/commentator attempted to gain access to the materials.

The Special Collections section of the Richard J. Daley Library agreed to let me read them, but just before I boarded my flight to Chicago, the top library officials mysteriously intervened to bar access. Circumstances strongly suggest the likelihood that Bill Ayers himself may have played a pivotal role in this denial. Ayers has long taught at UIC, where the Chicago Annenberg Challenge offices were housed, rent-free. Ayers likely arranged for the files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge to be housed in the UIC library, and may well have been consulted during my unsuccessful struggle to gain access to the documents. Let me, then, explain in greater detail what the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) records are, and how I have been blocked from seeing them.

Given that Ayers is an employee of the University, it is very possible that there is going to be an attempt to spirit the material out of the library and destroy it -- after all, remember Sandy Berger. And given that this admitted terrorist now claims that his political activity -- which includes his long-time support for Barack Obama -- is simply a continuation of his effort to achieve his terrorist goals, I would suspect that there are multiple shredders in operation at UIC.

After all, if you are willing to blow up the Pentagon or a police station -- or bomb an officer's club with the intent of killing military officers and their spouses during time of war -- then what is destroying a few inconvenient documents in the name of electing an unqualified candidate whose personal history you want to obscure?

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To exercise a constitutional right.

Dick A. Heller, a security guard whose lawsuit resulted in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling favoring gun-ownership rights, was given his handgun registration certificate at D.C. police headquarters this morning. He applied for it last month, a few weeks after the June 26 court ruling, and had been waiting for police to complete a background check.

No word on whether or not this will derail his suit challenging the District's new handgun regulations as unconstitutional.

I'm curious -- if we are going to license guns and gun owners, when will we start licensing printing presses and journalists, or houses of worship and clergy?

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First, word is that Obama will make his announcement before next week's convention.

Senator Barack Obama has all but settled on his choice for a running mate and set an elaborate rollout plan for his decision, beginning with an early morning alert to supporters, perhaps as soon as Wednesday morning, aides said.

Mr. ObamaÂ’s deliberations remain remarkably closely held. Aides said perhaps a half-dozen advisers were involved in the final discussions in an effort to enforce a command that Mr. Obama issued to staff members: that his decision not leak out until supporters are notified.

Mr. Obama had not notified his choice — or any of those not selected — of his decision as of late Monday, advisers said. Going into the final days, Mr. Obama was said to be focused mainly on three candidates: Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware

Now I've seen other versions of the list from other sources, and note that the only commonality among them is Joe Biden. Does that mean he is simply being thrown out there as an also-ran, or that he is the leading candidate? Hard to say -- but my response to his potential selection is "oh please oh please ofh pleeeeeeeeeeeezzzzz!" I'd love to see a commercial of him plagiarizing Neil Kinnock and Obama plagiarizing Deval Patrick and pointing out that neither of them has had an original thought in his head in the course of his political career. The one thing I don't expect to see is Hillary Clinton -- after all, they wouldn't be placing her name in nomination for President if she were taking the #2 slot.

On the other hand, current speculation has John McCain making his announcement on his 72nd birthday the day after the Democrat Convention ends -- and in Ohio. Is this a sign of an Ohioan as the nominee? Or given that he also has major events planned in Pennsylvania and Michigan that day, could the speculation be wrong and the announcement come a different day -- or of a non-Ohioan (Michigan native Romney or Pennsylvanian Ridge)?

More info on potential McCain picks at Hot Air and Hugh Hewitt.

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Robert Ferrigno has become one of my favorite authors over the last couple of years, with his two most recent books, Prayers for the Assassin and Sins of the Assassin. Now he envisions the first meeting between President Barack Obama and Justice Clarence Thomas.

‘Mr. President?” The Secret Service officer inclined his head, but kept his posture rigid. “Justice Thomas is waiting to see you.”

“Well, don’t leave the man sitting out there, bring him in,” said President Obama. He propped his feet up on the desk in the Oval Office as the Secret Service officer ushered Justice Thomas inside. “Leave us alone, would you, Jimmy?”

As the Secret Service officer passed by him, Justice Thomas said, “How’s your boy, James?”

“He’s rejoining his unit next week, sir,” said the Secret Service officer. “Thank you again for visiting him at Walter Reed — ”

“You can leave now, Jimmy,” sad President Obama.

The Secret Service officer made eye contact with Justice Thomas, held it, then excused himself, closing the door quietly behind him.

The rest is wonderfully written stuff that illustrates teh character of the dignified Supreme Court Justice and teh self-important buffoon who would be President.

Enjoy the read.

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Looks like the media was really willing to help John Edwards cover up his affair -- even though John Edwards begged one editor to protect his cancer-stricken wife from an affair he had already told her about a year before!

About 9 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 11, former Sen. Edwards reached me on my office phone.

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By the time Edwards called, we had decided not to publish the story in the Friday paper. But Edwards didn't know that. I wanted to hear what he had to say. We still could have reversed our decision.

Edwards told me that the allegations were not true.

He said The N&O was the paper that arrived on his doorstep every day, the one read by friends of him and his wife, Elizabeth.

He said he'd never called before to complain or state his case. Given Elizabeth's health -- she has cancer -- he said it was especially important to him that the story not run in The N&O.

He was calling from an airport, and we spoke only a few minutes.

I made no promises.

Edwards' comments were off the record. Because he has acknowledged he lied, I feel free to report them.

Now wait -- Edwards acknowledges that he had told Elizabeth about the affair a year before, so he didn't need to protect her from the story. What's more, it is obvious that she (and many of her friends) would have already heard about the story elsewhere. And besides, John had just made a statement denying the affair that day. So there was really nothing to protect Elizabeth -- even if she hadn't known about the affair and been a party to the cover-up.

But this leads me to ask another question -- isn't a call by a presidential candidate to a newspaper begging them not to run a story that is news nationally a story in and of itself? Doesn't the act of trying to personally manipulate the coverage of such a story in his hometown paper a big story itself? After all -- he didn't want the paper to cover his public statement, not the affair itself. One would think that this would cause a reevaluation of the story's newsworthiness -- as well as any notion that the conversation in which the attempted news suppression occurred should be considered off the record.

H/T Hot Air

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By engaging in an attack on Clarence Thomas as having lacked sufficient experience to serve as one of nine justices on the US Supreme Court.

After all, consider Thomas' record at the time of his nomination to the High Court.

By the time he was nominated, Clarence Thomas had worked in the Missouri Attorney General's office, served as an Assistant Secretary of Education, run the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and sat for a year on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation's second most prominent court.

Oh, and what does Barack Obama have on his resume as he runs to be the President of the United States, with all of its military and foreign affairs responsibilities?

Mr. Obama isn't yet four years out of the Illinois state Senate, has never held a hearing of note of his U.S. Senate subcommittee, and had an unremarkable record as both a "community organizer" and law school lecturer.

And while both Barry Hussein and his wife, Michelle the Perpetually Angry, grew up in rather comfortable middle class environments, Thomas dragged himself up from truly impoverished circumstances to heights that could not have been imagined at the time of his birth. But somehow it is Obama who is the oppressed -- and rather than respecting the accomplishments of Clarence Thomas, he disrespects them in the same fashion that racist Democrats trashed Thurgood Marshall a generation earlier (and let's be honest -- Marshall turned out to be a rather mediocre justice, despite having been the greatest courtroom advocate of the middle third of the twentieth century during his days with the NAACP).

But back to the key point -- if Thomas was insufficiently experienced for the Supreme Court, how can Barack Obama claim to be ready for the White House?

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As much as I despise the man, I'm worried about the future of Pakistan without him.

Bowing to pressure from Pakistan's newly-elected civilian government, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, once a top U.S. ally, said Monday that he will resign from office immediately, effectively ending nearly nine years of military rule in the country under his leadership.

Musharraf announced his decision to step down in a nationally televised public address 10 days after leaders of Pakistan's two ruling coalition parties called for his impeachment. Demand for his resignation became increasingly vocal last week after Pakistan's four provincial assemblies voted overwhelmingly for his ouster.

Who will succeed Musharraf? Will that successor be an ally in the war on terror, or an ally of the terrorists? And what of Pakistan's nukes? Until I see some clear answers to those questions, I'm not ready to celebrate.

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Is ACORN plotting big-time fraud on behalf of Democrats in Houston this year?

To find the most effective mass voter registration drive in Houston, check bus shelters, public hospital waiting rooms, job search centers and welfare offices.

There — as opposed to PTO meetings, art festivals, naturalization ceremonies and other typical sites for civic activity — is where ACORN has been methodically signing up poor and working-class citizens this year.

In fact, the local chapter of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has registered more voters in Harris County this year than the combined totals of all other local groups using deputized voter registrars, according to county officials.

One of their workers claims to have registered nearly 1100 voters personally. Anyone suspicious of those numbers? I sure am, especially given the history of voter fraud in ACORN registration drives -- with over 20 documented cases of major voter registration fraud in 13 states in the last 10 years alone.

With ACORN in town conducting a voter registration drive, I sure hope Paul Bettencourt's office is hiring new staff to look for fraudulent registrations. He's sure going to need the extra bodies and a lot of overtime to review each and every one of the applications.

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The bill he voted against as an Illinois legislator was identical to the federal legislation he said he would have voted in favor of if he had been in the Senate.

The presumptive Democratic nominee responded sharply in an interview Saturday night with the Christian Broadcast Network, saying anti-abortion groups were "lying" about his record.

"They have not been telling the truth," Mr. Obama said. "And I hate to say that people are lying, but here's a situation where folks are lying."

He added that it was "ridiculous" to suggest he had ever supported withholding lifesaving treatment for an infant. "It defies common sense and it defies imagination, and for people to keep on pushing this is offensive," he said in the CBN interview.

Except, of course, the bill he voted against was one requiring lifesaving treatment for an infant born alive after an attempted abortion. And while he argued that he opposed the bill because it might have potentially restricted abortion by giving legal status to unborn children (how horrible!), the legislation explicitly stated that "nothing in this section shall be construed to affirm, deny, expand, or contract any legal status or legal right applicable to any member of the species homo sapiens at any point prior to being born alive as defined in this section." In other words, it clearly did not give legal status to unborn children in any way that would have restricted abortion.

And what's more, that same language appeared in the federal bill that Obama claimed he would support.

Now Obama's campaign admits it -- Barry Hussein lied in the CBN interview.

His campaign yesterday acknowledged that he had voted against an identical bill in the state Senate, and a spokesman, Hari Sevugan, said the senator and other lawmakers had concerns that even as worded, the legislation could have undermined existing Illinois abortion law.

Simply put, Obama's own campaign has now confirmed that their candidate will say anything to cover his own ass in an interview -- and that he either doesn't know what he is talking about or doesn't care what the truth is. In either case, the trait is not desirable in a President -- especially not one who claims that formulating and discussing policy related to abortion "above my pay grade".

H/T Jill Stanek, Michelle Malkin

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