I had to share this news with you now.
Today my daughter in law was in class doing her rotation at a hospital. She received a voice mail from the pathologist who diagnosed her cancer but couldn’t take the message.
He then called the hospital and asked to speak to her. He told her to [...]

Rick Moran with an interesting take on today’s Day by Day cartoon.
Many of you will recall when we conservatives came down hard on Jane Hamsher of Firedog Lake for her photoshopped picture of Joe Lieberman in minstrel make up. It is an unnecessary, hurtful reminder of days past when black people were thought [...]

Thank you Senator Lieberman for this:
Last week a series of coordinated suicide bombings killed more than 170 people. The victims were not soldiers or government officials but civilians — innocent men, women and children indiscriminately murdered on their way home from work and school.
If such an atrocity had been perpetrated in the United States, [...]

From today’s Omega Letter:
Contact your Congressman and ask him or her to vote AGAINST HR 1592.

And Now, the Time Is Here . . .
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn [...]

When I first ran across the headline of a US Army member being held for aiding the enemy I thought it was a low-ranking enlisted man who was too young to understand what he did.
Instead, I find out it’s a US Army Lt. Col.!
BAGHDAD — A senior U.S. officer has been charged with [...]

Captain Ed has a wonderful piece up about an editorial from David Broder about Sen. Reid.
The port side of the blogosphere rings with rage over David Broder’s Washington Post column today. Talking Points Memo has called for a “blogswarm” to shout down Broder for the unforgivable offense of pointing out that Harry Reid has [...]

I don’t even support McCain, but I find the false outrage by Congressman Murtha, demanding an apology to our troops in Iraq, to be rather hypocritical given the fact he wants to defund them and leave them twisting slowly in the wind while Congress takes its time funding their mission, which includes equipment to defend [...]

If you are a first-time reader or a recent reader of our blog you will notice one thing: We are not the average blog where all you get is an echo chamber.
Today and last night you have seen some heated discussions on the politics of our nation, and we hope you participate in those [...]

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she has already answered the questions she has been subpoenaed to answer before a congressional committee and suggested she is not inclined to comply with the order.
Rice said she would respond by mail to questions from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on [...]

This is a House Floor speech by Rep. Sam Johnson (R) Texas, who spent approximately 7 years in a prison camp in Viet Nam. The speech was given on March 23, 2007 and we all know how that vote turned out.
He knows how it feels to have Congress take funds from a war he [...]

DJ Drummond has a wonderful post up titled The Harry Reid School of “Governance”
I am linking the last two paragraphs and urge you to go over and read the whole thing.

Now Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has made a number of regrettable statements. Not only that any decent American would regret such sentiments, [...]

From The Drudge Report:
Ex-CIA Director George Tenet says the intelligence extracted from terror suspects in the Agency’s “High Value Detainee” program, which includes so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques,” was more valuable than all the other terror intelligence gathered by the FBI, the National Security Agency and the CIA. In his first network television interview, the [...]

Someone please get this man some help.
Zachary Moyle, executive director of the state GOP, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Kramer invited him to look at something in the trunk of his Mercedes before pulling out a rifle, pointing it at his face and warning that he would be back if President [...]

Today the Dow closed at a record high of 13,089.89 just 128 days after it broke the 12,000 mark.
April 25 (Bloomberg) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average surpassed 13,000 for the first time after profit reports from more than half of its 30 members bolstered speculation that the biggest U.S. companies will weather slower [...]

Captain Ed has done some research on Harry Reid and has put them all in one easy post to read.
These have floated in and out of the blogosphere in various forms, but I thought it would be useful to CQ readers to see the counterarguments to Harry Reid’s assertions in one easy format. I [...]

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Raw Video: Bush Busts a Move
Associated Press - (APTN)
Apr. 25, 2007. 03:30 PM EST
President Bush joined a group of dancers on stage during the first ever Malaria Awareness Day, to help combat malaria on the continent of Africa. (April 25)

Doesn’t look like it to me, either.

The media is called on its bias by a source one might never suspect:
While the war between Israel and Hezbollah raged in Lebanon and Israel last summer, it became clear that media coverage had itself started to play an important role in determining the ultimate outcome of that war. It seemed clear that news [...]

DNC chairman Howard Dean, when asked how to avoid just hearing the same old sound clips from candidates suggested barring the doors and keeping the press out.
Sounds like he wants us to go back to the age before even the telegraph in our campaigns.
But then again he misses the good old days of Walter [...]

From today’s Omega Letter, a Christian subscription newsletter:

A Cup of Drunkenness
An Israeli-Arab member of the Israeli Knesset resigned his seat recently under suspicion that he aided Hezbollah during the 2nd Lebanon War last summer.
Azmi Bishara is suspected of transferring information to Hezbollah during time of war, maintaining contacts with a foreign agent and [...]

We’ve been hearing the president described by various Democrats as “isolated”, compared to Nixon, a “spoiled child” etc.
It turns out it’s a concerted effort by the Democrats:
Emboldened congressional Democrats have turned up their rhetoric when talking about President Bush, comparing him to Richard M. Nixon and using sharp language that conjures up images [...]

New information on the Haditha Marines.
Writing at Macsmind, Clarice Feldman pens:
Bombshell In Haditha Case
Newsmax is reporting that an intelligence officer provided substantial exculpatory evidence in the Haditha case, evidence he says the NCIS sat on, evidence that supports the defendants’ version of the facts, and evidence which indicates the entire incident was [...]

On the lighter side:
Zoo: Don’t Stare at Chimps
ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — We all know not to feed the animals when visiting the zoo. Now the Antwerp Zoo has urged visitors to, please, stop staring at the chimpanzees.
A new set of rules was posted outside the chimp enclosure at the city zoo urging visitors, [...]

Words spoken on Capitol Hill Tuesday by Vice President Cheney:
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I usually avoid press comment when I’m up here, but I felt so strongly about what Senator Reid said in the last couple of days, that I thought it was appropriate that I come out today and make a statement that I think [...]

BBC News:
Terror chief warns of media leaks
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke of the Metropolitan Police said there were a “small number of misguided individuals who betray confidences”.
By doing so, they had compromised investigations, revealed sources of life-saving intelligence and “put lives at risk” during major investigations.
DAC Clarke also warned [...]

From an article by The Nation, not exactly a flaming Conservative publication, we read that Rove’s investigator is himself under investigation:
But who is Scott Bloch, and should his vow be taken at face value? The Times story did not provide background on the fellow who will be examining whether Rove and other administration officials [...]

Here we go. We don’t know the charges he plans to allege yet, but Rep. Dennis Kucinich plans to start impeachment proceedings against Vice President Cheney.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Dennis Kucinich hasn’t yet won any co-sponsors for articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney that he plans to introduce, but said he [...]

I have this video in my collection and was thrilled to find it on YouTube.
Listen to the explanation of the hymn’s origins and the way he sings it as though it were slaves singing this tune.

Congressional Democrats are looking ahead to the next stage of the political battle over Iraq cutting off funds for war operations after March though it puts lawmakers eyeing the White House in a bind.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has signed on as a co-sponsor of a bill to do that, [...]

The Democrat-controlled Congress yesterday moved to limit U.S. combat operations in Iraq immediately and withdraw troops as early as July, hardening its stance for a veto showdown with President Bush over war funding.
Congressional negotiators from both chambers agreed to the new language yesterday afternoon, hours after Senate Majority Leader Harry [...]