Condi Rice is so wrong. She thinks what the State Department needs is skin-based diversity. Here she is, counting racial beans the way the Left always does -- and talking like Bill "Looks Like America" Clinton. Wrong, wrong, wrong: Who cares what they look like? It's what they think like that matters. As I've blogged... Read More

Liberal racism? What liberal racism? How clueless and out-of-touch is CNBC Washington chief correspondent and NYTimes writer John Harwood? This clueless (hat tip -Mark Finkelstein at Newsbusters): OK, here's your assignment. John Harwood asked for it. Please help educate him. E-mail him a link to this blog post (or just use the handy 'send to... Read More

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Turkey discussing the Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq: Speaking after meeting with both Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Ali Babacan, Rice said she had emphasized that the United States is "committed to redoubling its efforts" to help Turkey in its struggle against the rebel... Read More

Fer cryin' out loud. Will she pull a Pelosi and put on a hijab, too? Just a reminder of what Vice President Cheney said a few weeks ago about Pelosi's meeting with Syrian president Assad: Talk about sending "mixed messages." Cripes. *** Background: State Dept reports on patterns of global terrorism

Well, here's the first name in the "D.C. madam" probe that has Washington in tizzy: Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias. Make that former Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias. Here's the State Department statement: Ambassador Randall Tobias informed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today that he must step down as Director of... Read More

The verdict against Kareem is in: three years in prison for insulting Islam and inciting sedition and another year for insulting Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Kareem will appeal. Help him. President Bush? Condi Rice? Promoters of democracy in the Middle East? Hello? Hello? Previous Free Kareem blogging.

I clicked through to the story linked on Drudge about the Hillary skirt featured on the runway in Rome. The designer is Gattinoni. In addition to Hillary, the other women featured are French presidential wannabe Segolene Royal, the British great-grandmother wannabe Queen Elizabeth and the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Hillary, Royal, and the... Read More

Audrey Hudson at the Washington Times investigates the Minneapolis Six and gets feedback from air marshals. We take a closer look at Omar Shahin over at Hot Air. Discussion on O'Reilly last night here. HA affiliate Charles Ryder has more video and spotted another hate-spewer at the praying imams' protest yesterday at Reagan National. Scott... Read More

Remember this Arabic-speaking State Department clown, Albert Fernandez, who went on al Jazeera TV and trashed the U.S. as arrogant and stupid? Well, speaking of arrogant and stupid, guess what? Charles Johnson notes that the State Department has decided to give Fernandez an award. Via Brit Hume's Grapevine last week on Fox News: No surprise.... Read More

A macho show of firepower: Israel is right--this is everyone's problem: In Israel, Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said he was not surprised by the missile tests, and warned that to leave Iran unchecked would pose a risk to the world. "Iran is following a direct line after North Korea. Therefore this problem is not Israel's... Read More

Meet Alberto Fernandez: State Dept. apologist for jihad Alberto Fernandez, director of public diplomacy in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the US State Department, is al Jazeera's favorite pet tool. He has been praised as "sassy" and is a fixture on Arab TV. From a Newsweek profile published in August, which proclaimed him... Read More

Christian convert Abdul Rahman: Still a marked man Remember Abdul Rahman, the Christian convert who fled Afghanistan and found safety in Italy after Muslim mobs demanded he be killed for abandoning Islam? Well, while the rest of the world has forgotten about Rahman, the sharia-embracers and Koran-thumpers who believe all apostates should be murdered have... Read More

Via Yahoo! News/Reuters: An effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is burned by South Korean protesters at a rally in Seoul, denouncing North Korea's nuclear weapon test October 9, 2006. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters) ***scroll for updates...U.N. has no immediate comment; emergency meeting scheduled Monday morning...Australian PM John Howard condemns NoKo test. ""North Korea is very... Read More

***originally posted 752am...bumping this back to the top...11am Eastern - White House says it is considering declassifying the NIE...1210pm new update: Bush will release parts of the report...video...*** President Bush on Tuesday said it is naive and a mistake to think that the war with Iraq has worsened terrorism, disputing a national intelligence assessment by... Read More

First, take a look at mob scenes across the Muslim world this weekend, ostensibly--ostensibly--in response to the civilian deaths in Qana, Lebanon (via Yahoo! News). Angry Muslims from Beirut to Gaza to Lahore are setting fire to American and Israeli flags. Burning effigies of Western leaders. Raising their voices in death chants: (Tigerhawk has more... Read More

Yesterday, I mentioned the wild mob of "peace" activists in Australia who kicked, punched and fired projectiles at PM John Howard's car to protest his support for Israel. Today, there's this from Lebanon: Lebanese protesters broke into the United Nations headquarters in Beirut on Sunday, smashing windows and ransacking offices, after an Israeli air strike... Read More

Headline: Arab Group To Sue U.S. Government I'll believe my own eyes.

Well, yes, that's exactly what it is: KnightHawk at PoliPundit notes the blame America meme. Alcibades at KesherTalk is waiting for the "diplomacy" tut-tutters to do their thing: I can't see that Israel has many options to get the soldiers back, except to bomb some site in Syria; as Sharon's government did, to much success,... Read More

Ian's got the video of Murtha on Meet The Press. Transcript here. After criticizing Karl Rove's "fat backside," Murtha put forth his fat-headed Okinawa plan: MR. RUSSERT: You say redeploy. Again, Mr. Rove challenges that comment. Let’s listen and give you again a chance to respond to the White House. (Videotape, Monday): MR. ROVE: Congressman... Read More

***update: Lucianne.com thread here*** You've read the story of the day, all day, on Drudge: Ann Coulter is antagonizing the Left with her comments about the liberal 9/11 widows known as "The Jersey Girls." Hillary Clinton is going ape. TV producers of all partisan stripes are ecstatic. So are Ann's publicists and publisher. Unfortunately, lost... Read More

***update: The professor hangs up on John Gibson*** A moonbat professor at Boston College quits over Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's scheduled graduation address: An open letter to William P. Leahy, SJ, president of Boston College. DEAR Father Leahy, I am writing to resign my post as an adjunct professor of English at Boston College.... Read More

***scroll for updates*** The Department of Homeland Security is working overtime to quell citizen outrage over the Border Patrol/Mexico/Minutemen story. The contradictory spin doctors are not doing a very good job. I'll have more in a moment. But now is a crucial time to step back and look at this disturbing episode in a larger,... Read More

House Democrats are bashing the Bush administration for its lack of "diversity." Via WaPo: Yeah, just ignore this inconvenient reality: What the report does not mention, however, is that Bush has established a record of diversity in his Cabinet. Bush's Cabinet, which includes the vice president and the heads of 15 executive departments, currently has... Read More

Secretary of State Condi Rice says that, unlike her boss, she has no problem with the radicalized illegal alien national anthem: Rice, unfortunately, is speaking from pure ignorance on this matter. "Nuestro Himno" is not merely a straight translation of the "Star-Spangled Banner" into Spanish. It's a politicized rewrite for the purposes of galvanizing pro-illegal... Read More

Two days ago, I reported on an idiotic math question crafted by a Bellevue (WA) Community College professor that took a racist swipe at Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Today, the Seattle Times follows up: In keeping with the CYA mentality of the education establishment,