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This little bit of batshit crazy is a week old, but it was lost in the Virginia Tech maelstrom. I share it with you now.

History will be made today when Copperas Cove resident Bill Thomas and his wife, Georgia, present President George W. Bush with a Purple Heart at the Oval Office. MORE »

A few weeks back Barack Obama was making his way around a post-rally scrum when he got a question from a 9/11 conspiracy theorist truth advocate. He handled it adroitly. This brings us to the subject of John Kerry.
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It’s not that we don’t appreciate all of you nice people who keep sending us the Laurie David/Sheryl Crow-Karl Rove story, hours after we posted it. We do! It just seems like David and Crow might not have been the kind-hearted ingenues they suggested they were in their Huffington post. Byron York of National Review got his own report of the confrontation.

Immediately after Dowd’s introduction, the witness says, David began lecturing Rove about global warming. This administration has done nothing on the issue, she told Rove. We face a crisis. The time to act is now. This administration has done nothing… MORE »

Two things you can say about North Dakota - it’s cold and it’s a haven from the coming robot apocalypse.

North Dakota made it illegal to force people to insert microchips into their bodies. MORE »

Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald died yesterday, less than a week after her cancer was made public. Speaker Pelosi gave her a press release sendoff:

As the first African American woman to chair a committee in Congress, Juanita Millender-McDonald was a trailblazer, always advocating for the full participation of all Americans in the success and prosperity of our country.

But Millender-McDonald wasn’t the first African American woman to chair a committee. That was Yvonne Brathwaite Burke.
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Let this video of Code Pink members protesting Sen. John McCain be the final statement on BrianWilsongate.

And let this comment in the YouTube thread be the final, final statement. Finally.
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In the spirit of Rich Little’s ripped-from-the-headlines-of-a-Smithsonian-exhbit routine, here’s how the Washington Post reported the last Little-hosted White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It was 1984, the year “Jump” came out and a hot blond woman smashed the telescreen beaming Hillary Clinton’s message to her army of morlocks.

Little’s impersonations included a mock press conference with Reagan plus some walk-on parts by Jimmy Stewart, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon. MORE »

David All notices that Rudy Giuliani’s MySpace page, uniquely among the 2008 candidates, is friends only. Rudy needs to check his e-mail, make sure you’re not his son Andrew, and then approve you in order for you to check out the limitless sweetness of JoinRudy2008.

And another thing. The last time “Rudy” signed in to myspace was on April 9. Think about all of the friend requests that are just sitting there, lonely in the cue. MORE »

The NRA’s already having a pretty bad week, so how about everyone pile on and accuse it of anti-Semitism?

After Diane Cardwell of The Times wrote about a National Rifle Association magazine’s broadside aimed at Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his gun proposals, a reader raised an issue about the image on the cover (at right), showing the Jewish mayor as an octopus. MORE »

Great catch by the American Mind blog:

Did CPAC toss Ann Coulter’s gay slur towards John Edwards down the memory hole? For only $100 you can have the “Best of CPAC 2007,” a six-DVD set of speakers and panels from this year’s conservative confab… Noticably missing is Ann Coulter.

Among the stuff ranked better than Coulter by a panel of druids and former POWs:

- Terrorism: Is Religious Extremism or Secular Extremism the Problem? a lively debate featuring Dinesh D’Souza and Robert Spencer
- Conservative Solutions for Urban America, featuring Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, John McWhorter, Niger Innis and more
- Balancing Individual Rights and National Security, a timely debate featuring Rep. Bob Barr and Professor John Yoo

Let the revisionism train roll on! In six months, Fox News will be reporting that there never was a leggy, gay-bashing blonde pundit and that “Ann Coulter” was actually one of Kurt Vonnegut’s pen names. MORE »

Reached inside his oxygen tent and told that his “bomb Iran” song met with only scattered applause, John McCain takes his best drunk-uncle-at-a-wedding swing at his critics.

“Please, I was talking to some of my old veterans friends,” he told reporters. “My response is, Lighten up and get a life.” MORE »

Good news from Variety, America’s #1 source on third-tier cable news channels:

MSNBC is trying out radio personality Michael Smerconish as the network looks for a permanent replacement for Don Imus. MORE »

Phew! The statute of limitations is up and the wingnutty “Virginia Tech happened because America forsook God” videos are rolling out. This American Family Radio production ropes Jeff Chamblee into reading some essay that’s been making the e-mail rounds, framed as a letter to God about why all these campus massacres happen. The answer:

Reply: “Dear concerned student. I am not allowed in schools. Sincerely, God.”

Then follow some examples of things America’s done to mock God, like:

“Then, someone said ‘Let’s let our daughters have abortions if they want, and they won’t even have to tell their parents. And we said, ‘that’s a grand idea.’”

If only Cho Seung-Hi had told his parents that he needed an abortion! Or something.