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• Planned Parenthood makes excuses for getting caught sympathizing with the desirability of aborting black babies. Wire service proabort mouthpiece the AP laps it up (HT WND).
• If Gateway Pundit isn’t the best and most varied deep-digger out there, I don’t know who is. This post on how Nancy Pelosi and Congress are giving Colombia the free-trade shaft is outstanding.
• The idea that President Bush was “sending a message” to the presidential candidate I refer to as “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH” (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama - Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters) yesterday in his speech in Israel is comical. But, since the Obama campaign brought it up, their candidate resembles Bush’s remarks about appeasers. As Instapundit noted, “When somebody condemns appeasement, it doesn’t help things to jump up and yell ‘Hey, he’s talking about me!’”
• If Obama IS in control of the person putting out the YouTube vid questioning the ability of the candidate I refer to as JS3M3 (John Sidney the Mad Maverick McCain III) to get his business done in the bedroom, it may be the dumbest campaign move designed to alienate a major voting bloc I have ever seen.
• Correlation of the day: An anti-tax Massachusetts group is working to get repeal of the state’s income tax (HT Club for Growth) on the ballot. It only needs a ridiculously low 11,000 signatures. The correlation is this: If so few signatures are needed, why didn’t pro-same sex marriage advocates in the Bay State ever put the measure on the ballot — i.e., the way it’s supposed to be done — instead of running to the state’s Supreme Judicial Court to get the still-not-codified-into-law (at least that was the case the last time I checked) Goodridge ruling? You know why. It’s for the same reason those in favor of same sex marriage got the California Supreme Court to invent a right that isn’t in that state’s constitution yesterday.
• Megan McArdle is right (HT Instapundit): “It’s a miracle unemployment is as low as it is.” Read this CNN article about job interviewing tips, and you’ll wonder what planet some applicants are on that they don’t know these things already. Don’t miss the 10 apparently real examples near the end of what some applicants did or said during interviews. How many tenths of a percent should we handicap the current unemployment rate to make it comparable to 20 or so years ago when the vast majority of applicants had a clue?

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• Priceless: Taranto at Best of the Web last Friday, on Obama-Wright — “(Wright is) The man of whom Barack Obama says, “He was never my quote-unquote spiritual adviser,” although he served on the Obama campaign’s quote-unquote spiritual advisory committee.”
• The WSJ told us why the housing bill steamrolling through Congress is Frank-ly disgraceful. Barney Frank-ly.
• Pushback — 64% of Dems say Hillary should stay in the race (HT Instapundit).
• The alleged Obama steamroller tried to get Hillary to quit because a Clinton win by 38% in West Virginia, if it materializes (sorry, lost link to the poll; oh, here’s a reference to one that says 43%), will not be helpful.
• Hmmm — Speaking of Instapundit, those going there will notice in the URL that Pajamas Media is now hosting him.
• Jihad Watch has picked up Patrick Poole’s alarm over Khalid Yasin’s appearance at Sinclair Community College in Dayton on May 16. Go to either link and see why.

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• Gosh, how DO these radicals, including the guy talking with Hamas who was thrown under the bus once caught, get into the campaign of the presidential candidate I refer to as “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH” (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama - Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters) in the first place? A better question: How many would get into influential government positions in an Obama Administration?
• NixGuy caught news that Airbus is in deep, deep trouble, thanks partially to the strong Euro and weak dollar. That, and it’s a multigovernment-owned enterprise that is all too often more concerned with pleasing politicians and running a jobs program than competing with Boeing.
• Hmmm …. “Perhaps 60% of oil prices today pure speculation.” Another person who has followed this more closely has a credible theory that while Bush opening up the Strategic Reserve wouldn’t affect the underlying supply-demand equation much, it might burst the speculative runup. That’s worth considering.
• Eco-anxiety on the rise — Like someone else, I blame the Pelosi Premium.
• Just what we need — a Gong Show revival. But a traveling Gong that followed the two Democratic presidential candidates around — one that would get struck every time they fudge the truth, or get into personal attacks while pretending they’re above all that — might not be a bad idea.
• Patrick Poole wants to know how a misogynist, intolerant, probable-scam artist (and so much more) gets invited to speak at Sinclair Community College. Good question.

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• Fabius Maximus delivers a resounding up-to-date debunk (HT Instapundit) of “Peak Oil” (link is to a search on previous related BizzyBlog posts), so I don’t have to.
• From the Useful Reminder Dept. — When people questioned the patriotism of the presidential candidate I irreverently refer to as “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH” (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama - Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters), and he, in his answer, confirmed the validity of their concerns, he turned around and questioned theirs. I thought we weren’t allowed to do that.
• It happened “way back” on Sunday, but Chris Wallace made Howard Dean look like such a fool (because he is), that if you haven’t seen it, you should.
• Oh, how the pro-aborts despise it when they are reminded of what they are sanctioning. Two years ago, a prolife memorial in Northern Kentucky was vandalized. This time, the destruction of a prolife memorial is on tape.
• This story (”10-year-old gives birth in Idaho; Suspected illegal immigrant charged with rape”; HT Stop the ACLU via Ace) made me think of this BizzyBlog post (”The ‘My Culture Made Me Do It’ Excuse for Statutory Rape”) in September of 2006. If the current suspect is indeed illegal and guilty, will he also make the claim that “this type of conduct is legal in his culture”?
• As an equal-opportunity critic: I don’t care that, after several highly-publicized “odds of recession” pronouncements, Alan Greenspan is now changing course, and telling us that “(the) worst of credit crisis (is) over.” He should be keeping his mouth shut, and letting Ben Bernanke do his job. Greenspan should imagine how he would have felt if Paul Volcker had constantly given his opinion after he left the Fed and Greenspan took over.
• Well, of course Code Pink’s witches are resorting to witchcraft.
• A “Why in the bleep do we bother?” moment — “House passes $300 billion housing rescue plan that will allow the government to back loans for struggling homeowners.”

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• The eeeeevil Wal-Mart, which has done more to make prescription drugs affordable than the government since it began its program in September 2006, is now doing even more — “(It) announced Monday it would expand its discounted prescription drug program to offer 90-day supplies for $10 and add several women’s medications at a discount. It also said it would lower the price of more than 1,000 over-the-counter drugs.”
• I like this term, coined in the London Daily Mail in reaction to the “environmental activisim” of jet-setting, carbon-guzzling celebs — “Hippy-crites.”
• I wonder how many soldiers are (now maybe “were”) fans of author Stephen King, or have seen one or more of his movies based on his books? Mark Levin had it right last night when he said that one of the most offensive thing about people like King (who recently said “…. the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don’t, then you’ve got, the Army, Iraq ….”) is how insufferably ungrateful they are.
• I haven’t done any math on North Carolina yet, but if the African-American Democratic electorate’s proportion of the population is close to South Carolina’s, why should we impressed with a Tar Heel State win by the presidential candidate I refer to as “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH” (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama - Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters) if it isn’t close to the 28-point margin he got in the Palmetto State in January? Rush is right, though; if Obama wins by even the slimmest of margins in either IN or NC, Old Media will try to play it as the Return of the Messiah.
• It’s no longer Obama the Chama. The presidential candidate I refer to as HR4C (Hillary Rodham Cackling Crying Complaining Clinton) appears to have turned into Hillary the Hospitable.
• Hmmm — The Reverend Jeremiah Wright counseled a married couple in distress in the early 1980s. Then, “after Delmer and Ramah Reed were divorced, she got remarried - to Wright.”
• First domino to fall? The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, where circulation has declined 15% in the past three years, is in deep trouble (HT Hot Air)

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• Here’s an unintentionally humorous offering from former Wide Open co-blogger and Ohio Daily Blog proprietor Jeff (”Dann’s the Man“) Coryell (bold is mine) — “What a shame. Dann stepped up the mission of the attorney general’s office and was producing good results. But, he is not the only visionary person who could be in charge there …..”
• The presidential candidate I irreverently refer to as “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH” (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama - Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters) won the Guam caucuses by 7 votes. Not to, uh, Guam up the works, but wasn’t he heavily favored?
• While three presidential candidates hyperventilate over oil and gas prices, free markets work. I would not rule out a big drop in the coming months.
• Anyone else wondering about “the nature of the trip” that compelled March Dann to fly to Arizona this past weekend? And who paid for it? (And, conceivably, because it’s only getting worse, if he’s coming back?)
• In transparently weak attempts at Obama-Wright equivalence, Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite wants John McCain to renounce Ron Parsley, and the New York Times’s Frank Rich whines about McCain and John Hagee. Not even in the same zip code, people. You have no idea…..
• First it was Merkel in Germany. Then Sarkozy in France. Then the recent return of Berlusconi in Italy. In yet another sign that those who think that “the rest of the world” has turned against the US under the eeeeevil George Bush are full of baloney, London’s radical Mayor Ken Livingtstone was defeated for re-election by Conservative Boris Johnson, who will be the city’s first Conservative mayor in 30 years.
• You think you’ve seen it all? How about Christianity without Christ?
• You STILL haven’t seen it all — “This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called “plant rights” is being seriously debated” (this was discussed on TIB Radio [last excerpted item at post] on Saturday).

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• Clinton requests $2.3B in earmarks - three times largest amount ever by a Senator.
• From Drudge: Katie Couric was down to a new record low 5.34 million viewers last week.
• The Supremes’ ruling on Indiana’s voter ID law went the right way, and was long overdue. John Fund has more (”A Victory Over Voter Fraud”; HT Instapundit).
• Obama talks about “provocative” Wright sermons — none on the truly “provocative” topics.
• Arianna is a global warming globaloney hypocrite. And your point is, what, that we’re supposed to be surprised…?

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• Can’t make this stuff up, from Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters yesterday — “Harrison Ford Gets Chest Waxed to Promote Environmentalism.”
• Long overdue, from Captain Ed at Hot Air yesterday — “Planned Parenthood protest in DC: Stop targeting African-Americans.”
• Yikes — This guy, who wrote this blindly partisan, MoveOn mentality riff ripping John McCain for supposedly “tolerat(ing) attacks” that are “Swifboating” Barack Obama (uh-huh — ask the NC GOP) used to be in charge of the Federal Communications Commission. This is a (mostly) free country, Mr. Hundt. Are we ever lucky Mr. Hundt didn’t do even more damage than he did while he was at the FCC. The presidential candidate I irreverently refer to as “JS3M3″ (John Sidney the Mad Maverick McCain III) is not a dictator. When will you ask the candidate I irreverently refer to as “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH” (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama - Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters) to stop the attacks on McCain by Howard Dean? (HT Rightwing Nuthouse)
• At the Wall Street Journal today — “Property Tax Revolt.” Money quote: “So (Arizona’s) Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano has devised a clever way to revive the housing market: Raise property taxes.”
• Also at the WSJ — “(British Prime Minister Gordon) Brown Takes From the Poor.” Government spending in the UK as a percentage of GDP has zoomed from 37% to 42% in 8 years. Most of it occurred on Tony Blair’s watch, but Brown was the UK’s equivalent of Treasury Secretary during that time.
• At LGF — “Hatem El-Hady, former chairman of the Toledo-based Islamic charity Kindhearts (closed by the US government in 2006 for terrorist fundraising),” is was a “friend” of Michelle Obama’s, and has used to have a web page at the official Obama web site.
• Sean Murphy of the Associated Press interviewed me briefly yesterday about the national trend-bucking decline in Oklahoma’s unemployment rate. I don’t mind that I’m not mentioned in his (unbylined) report (though there may be a longer version I haven’t seen yet); I’m just pleased that the possibility that the state’s enforcement-based immigration reform law might be a factor in the improvement has at least been mentioned. Economists Murphy apparently spoke to say that the “booming energy industry” is a more important factor. You can go to the bottom table here (Table 6) and decide for yourself (the energy industry is part of “Natural Resources and mining”). Whether Murphy’s report actually gets carried in the Sooner State’s major newspapers is also another matter.

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• Confirming an observation at the 2008 Media Research Gala that his health seems to have improved, Tony Snow has taken a new gig at CNN. Congrats.
• Allegedly prolife US Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania has endorsed the presidential candidate I refer to as Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama - Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters). Obama is “the most pro-abortion presidential candidate ever.” The only conclusion one can reach is that Bob Casey really isn’t prolife.
• There’s no love lost here for either Democratic presidential candidate, but it’s hard to disagree with this assessment of media coverage of Obama compared to the candidate I refer to as HR4C (Hillary Rodham Cackling Crying Complaining Clinton) — “the Clintonites are fundamentally correct in their complaint that she has been flying throughout this campaign into a headwind of media favoritism for Obama.”
• From the “We Already Knew” Dept. — “Michael Moore endorses Obama“
• Earth Day Snorter of the Day — “Gore’s Alarmism Failing: Concern for Global Warming Same as 19 Years Ago!” That’s because the idea that humans are causing global warming, or that it is even happening, is a bunch of globaloney. As noted over a year ago, much of the scientific community remains unimpressed as well. Consensus, conschmensus.

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• Wow, NewsBusters is on a roll, or should I say Old Media has generated a lot for NB’s bloggers to post about. This one by Lynn Davidson very early this morning is a doozy — “LAT Claims George Washington Only Served One Term in Office.” I don’t care if it is in the entertainment section, that’s pitiful.
• NBer Tim Graham noted the Huffington Post’s latest offering of elitism from the Democratic commentariat. It’s from Nora Ephron, who wrote, “This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women. And when I say people, I don’t mean people, I mean white men.” She’s not joking.
• There are two NB posts (here by Paul Detrick and here by Jeff Poor) about Time Magazine’s Iwo Jima-mocking cover.
• Elsewhere, if you’re looking for a reason why oil prices have skyrocketed, look no further than Venezuela, where production continues to fall — about 25% in the past 10 years, and, based on eyeballing the graph at the link, at least 10% in the past two. Some think it’s due to incompetent management (that’s my vote), others think it’s by design to maximize revenues.
• I’m hearing on the bottom-of-hour radio news that the negative campaigning in the Pennsylvania Primary has reached a fever pitch. What a shame (/sarcasm).
• From the Associated Press’s Jeannine Aversa earlier today — “Survey: 30 percent believe economy will shrink (in the first half of this year).” Gee, Jeannine, 2-1/2 weeks ago you wrote, “It’s no longer a question of recession or not. Now it’s how deep and how long.” You then backtracked to “widening agreement” four paragraphs later in the same report. Now only a minority of the people who look closely at these things thinks the economy will shrink. What gives?
• Here’s an interesting Ohio story from last week — “Cleveland Clinic’s Michael Roizen criticizes Strickland over tobacco money.” Specifically, he called Ohio’s governor “stupid.” I posted about this in more civil terms a year ago, emphasizing, as Roizen did not, that much of the money being taken away will not go to farmers in the district Strickland used to represent. But the “fun” part of this is that the Plain Dealer chose to put Roizen’s clearly political statement into its Science & Medicine online blog instead of its Openers political blog. Obviously I don’t know where it ended up in the print edition, but the placement of the story in a blog political junkies wouldn’t normally go to is way too convenient.

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• Here’s yet another question about the presidential candidate I refer to as Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama - Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters), and his association with terrorists and/or terrorist sympathizers — Who is Rashid Khalidi? IBDeditorials.com, doing the job in its opinion section that Old Media won’t do with all of its assembled reporters, also looks into “Obama’s Terror Ties.” Patrick Poole picks up a Toledo connection, in “Terrorist Fundraisers 4 Obama.”
• Another big oil discovery in Brazil (HT to Captain Ed at Hot Air).
• OK, it’s not the best headline the Pajamas guys could have formulated, but I hope this is as true as advertised, and that it will continue — “Muslims Leaving Islam in Droves.”
• Last Friday, in the UK Times Online — “Athletes who take Tibet stand ‘face Olympic cut.’” The IOC may not like hearing this, but they are acting as Chicom enablers.
• Last Friday, this New York Times article seemed to yearn for the “good old days” of Welfare, pre-reform.
• I’m sorry this is ridiculous, outrageous (”Liver transplants for illegal aliens”) — and a whole bunch of other words I won’t type. Alternative title: “Some Taxpayers Dying While Those Here Illegally Are Saved.”
• Oh, brother (HT LGF), a fishing expedition — “Obama would ask his AG to ‘immediately review’ potential of crimes in Bush White House.” Kossacks unite.
• From the “Get a Clue” Department — “Farley Wants to Break ‘Pattern of Apathy’ Toward Ford.” Here’s a concept, Mr. Farley: Make a special effort to court the 12-20 million or so who decided not to buy a Ford during the two years of the now-concluded American Family Association boycott. The predictable response of a boycott participant after a long campaign like AFA’s is the very apathy Farley decries. If those who were boycotting stay apathetic, Ford is in a world of hurt.

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• One Hot Air commenter’s response (as relayed by Allah) to the news that the presidential candidate I refer to as Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama - Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters) says that Jimmy Carter shouldn’t meet with Hamas –”….. if they’re good enough for the church bulletin they should be good enough for Jimmy Carter.”
• Jim Abrams at AP whines that “Fewer Large Corporations Audited by IRS.” It’s at least somewhat likely that the mostly odious Sarbanes-Oxley legislation passed six years ago has enabled companies to improved their tax information systems and tax reporting. If so, the need for less but more focused audit coverage of the big cahunas would make sense — as would the idea of putting more resources towards medium- and smaller-sized companies that are less likely to have those systems and controls in place.
• This story at Hot Air re-opens a question that I have never heard a satisfactory answer to — “Why does Planned Parenthood receive any taxpayer money?”
• From the “You’ve Got to Be Kidding Me” Department — “US Seeks Own Drug Inspectors in China.” Is there any other country producing pharmaceuticals for US patients that has kept US inspectors out?
• From Scientific American last Thursday — “Are Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs Dangerous?” Answer: Very dangerous, when they break.
• Betrayal of the month (HT Captain Ed at Hot Air) — “Zimbabwe is not in crisis, says Thabo Mbeki (of South Africa).”
• Another from Captain Ed, From the “How Does Anyone Keep Up with All of This?” Department — “A firm that has donated to ….. (former president Bill Clinton’s) charity is accused of collaborating with the government in its crackdown on Tibetan activists.” Mr. Clinton’s wife, the presidential candidate I refer to as HR4C (Hillary Rodham Cackling Crying Complaining Clinton), has criticized that crackdown.

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• Yesterday, Classical Values caught a New York Times report going through what I like to call memory-hole revisions, as whole paragraphs in previous reports disappeared in subsequent ones, while the originals became inaccessible. Been there, done that, CV. As long as the clowns in Old Media engage in this kind of track-covering behavior, bloggers should feel no guilt over saving iterations of their reports and linking to copies they save.
• Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters last night — “Men Blamed for Hillary and Katie’s Failures.” Well, Noel, it’s never their fault.
• Jake Tapper noted yesterday how the Obama (*) excuse-making over his “Cling Along with Hicks” statement isn’t cutting it.
• Martin Finkelstein at NewsBusters caught what he called a “Pelosi Potshot” aimed at Bill Clinton — “Maybe Bill Had ‘A Late Night Adult Moment.’”
• The “retired” Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright was back yesterday at Trinity United Church of Christ. He blamed Fox News for his travails, calling it “Fix News.” The only problem is that Brian Ross of ABC (HT Captain Ed at Hot Air) is the guy who gave life to the story about Wright’s guttural utterances. Anyway, I like the “Fix News” nickname, because Fox does fix and repair a lot of what Old Media misreports and distorts.
• Late add: Don’t miss yesterday’s “Cling Along with Hicks”-related Day by Day cartoon.

* - That would be the presidential candidate I refer to as Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama - Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters).

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• In the New York Times Friday — Katie Couric a “virtual lame duck”? Cherish the imagery.
• In the Washington Post Sunday (on Page A06, while putting this near-puffery on Page A01; the New York Times at least had the sense to put the story on Page 1, above the fold; bold is mine) — “‘Bitter’ Is a Hard Pill For Obama to Swallow; He Stands by Sentiment as Clinton Pounces.” Keep digging, guy.
• Best comment yesterday on the presidential candidate I refer to as BOOHOO (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama), from “in_awe” at Hot Air (last paragraph): “For all the mocking of George Bush we have endured for the past 7 years, Obama speaking extemporaneously is no better. It is getting tiresome to have his defenders always explaining to us nimrods how nuanced he meant to be, but somehow it all just came out wrong when he said it. Face it: he is a racist, elitist, socialist who views typical white people with contempt. Not great credentials for a Presidential candidate.” I’ll wager that George Bush also knows that Pennsylvania isn’t in the Midwest, where “Mr. Brilliant” Obama placed it.
• Did you know there was a Democratic caucus do-over (ahead-of-time HT to WaPo’s “The Fix” blog) in one Nevada county on Saturday? Obama may have gained one delegate. The reason for the do-over: “Clark County Democrats’ first convention ended in disaster after an unexpectedly big turnout overwhelmed organizers. The Democratic National Committee ordered the county party to try again or face penalties.”
• Objectively Unfit Mitt RomneyCare update: “Costs Soar for Mass. Health Care Law”

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(items brought up during tonight’s TIB All-Stars Broadcast)

• The objectively unfit presidential candidate I refer to as BOOHOO (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama) has stepped in it yet again. “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” Beyond the transparent elitism everyone is beating him up over — since when is Pennsylvania part of “the Midwest”? If George Bush had said this, he’d be ripped over being “geographically challenged” for weeks.
• Follow up: “Obama Concedes Remarks Were Ill Chosen.” AP writes all of four paragraphs that say nothing. That’s because anything beyond vague descriptions embarrasses Obama even more. Patrick Hynes piles on.
• Hillary: Gun grabber in 1999; gun-rights advocate in 2008.
• Why Bill Ayers matters.
• On Rev. Wright, Lanny Davis gets it (that’s a first). Reaction from the “old news” hacks has been harsh.
• Superdelegate Obama supporter pressured to step down for calling children climbing in trees “monkeys.” Apparently she isn’t going to.
• Judge dismisses core of Rather lawsuit (discussed on break).
• Jay Rockefeller’s out-of-control criticism of McCain (yes, followed by an apology).
• Colombian trade deal nixed by Nancy Pelosi-led Congress in the process throwing fast-tracking of agreements out the window. Editorialists right (IBDeditorials.com) and left (NY Times) are outraged, as we all should be. IBD is especially harsh: “Nancy Pelosi’s craven altering of House rules to kill off Colombia’s trade pact brings that danger to the Andes. If war breaks out, her name will be on it.”
• March Dann is in a heap of trouble. Ohio’s Old Media is playing defense.
• Patrick Poole reports on another Hamas supporter for Obama.
• MRC visit and Gala 2008 discussion.

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• Congrats to cartoonist Michael Ramirez on his Pulitzer, and to Investors Business Daily for hiring him after the dumber-than-a-box-of-rocks Los Angeles Times dumped him in 2005.
• Brian Fitzpatrick of the Culture and Media Institute, at Townhall yesterday (HT to an e-mailer) — “No Forgiving Charlton Heston.” The column’s recitation of Heston’s accomplishments is outstanding. There’s also this noteworthy sentence: “In 2003 actor and leftist political activist George Clooney joked about Heston’s illness [Alzheimer’s disease], and, after Heston criticized him for the remark, he retorted, ‘I don’t care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.’”
• Last night, Jake Tapper at ABC’s Political Punch Line takes down Bill Clinton’s Defense of His Wife’s Bosnia Sniper-Fire Story.” His wife is the presidential candidate I refer to as HR4C (Hillary Rodham Cackling Crying Complaining Clinton).
• Matt at Weapons of Mass Discussion has posted the text of Congresswoman Jean Schmidt’s newsletter honoring Matt Maupin.
• NixGuy has a roundup about the mess Ohio’s Attorney General (aka Eliot Sptizer Mini-Me) Marc Dann is in. Do follow his links. The latest related stories from Columbus Dispatch and Dayton Daily News are here and here. DDN editorializes: “Mr. Dann has been attorney general for fewer than 18 months, and he’s brought more embarrassment upon himself than even his enemies could have manufactured.”

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• Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, front page, “Crossings By Migrants Slow as Job Picture Dims” — As others have noted (here and here, for starters), improved enforcement and the perception of improved enforcement. An even bigger factor is tough leglislation passed in Arizona relating to employer verification. But a dimming “job picture”? Give me a break. Arizona, whose tough law went into effect January 1, saw unemployment drop from 4.3% to 4.0% in February. Looks like they found some citizens to do the jobs illegals aren’t allowed to do.
• Katherine Kersten at yesterday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune, “Wall of silence broken at state’s Muslim public school” — a Muslim charter school in Minnesota is said to be blatantly violating guidelines relating to religious content using state dollars. This is an issue in Ohio, as Patrick Poole has noted from time to time.
• Mark Finkelstein at NewsBusters — Chris Mathews for US Senate?
• Allah, at Hot Air yesterday — Paul Weyrich wasn’t just for the recently released ad arguing against Objectively Unfit Mitt Romney, he was a signer of the ad’s statement. Now he’s disavowing it. Huh?
• The Mark Steyn/MacLean’s case has been dismissed. Steyn writes: “So in effect the Ontario ‘Human Rights’ Commission, the world leaders in labiaplasty jurisprudence, have decided that, even though they don’t have the guts to hear the case, they might as well find us guilty. Ingenious!” For the umpteenth time, where in the bleep is Stephen Harper in all of this?

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• Carnegie Mellon’s The Tartan, from Monday (HT LGF) — (my title) “Michelle Obama’s handlers: ‘We need more white people in our artificially diverse crowd background.’” Memo to the objectively unfit presidential candidate I refer to as BOOHOO (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama): You’re going to need a lot more white people in November. As long as you don’t truly repudiate “black liberation theology,” along with the Trinity United Church of Christ, which intends to continue preaching it, you’re not going to get them. Count on it.
• Absolut-ly pulled. A company with a brain would never have run such an ad, showing most of the American West as part of Mexico, in the first place.
• Seventeen Iraq War combat vets are running for Congressional seats as Republicans. Y’think Old Media will fawn over them as they did Democrats Paul “I’m Pretending to Be a Republican” Hackett and Tammy “I Won’t Live in My District” Duckworth? Fortunately, both lost.
• Barack Obama’s candidacy “has unleashed a barrel of bilge from within the black community.” Yup.
• Task Force Marne, from mid-March — “3rd Infantry Division completes re-up goal in record time” (HT Mudville Gazette) — Thank goodness the war is considered a just cause by those whose job it is to defend us.
• Politico — Oprah’s popularity has taken a hit (HT Instapundit). The cause appears to be an O-Bomb-a.