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The conservative, pro-economic growth Club For Growth is going to endorse Nebraska's 3rd District Congressional candidate Adrian Smith of Gering today at 10:00 my time. This is a very big deal. The Club For Growth is going to lend a...

Obstruct, obstruct, obstruct. It's the Democratic way. Senate Democrats pushed on Tuesday for a 2006 date for hearings on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, challenging President Bush's call for confirmation by year's end. "There's no way you can do an...

Ron Guidry's number 49 is going to have to come out of mothballs, because the Lightnin' has signed on to be the Yankees pitching coach....

Joe Knippenberg sends along this story. It includes lots of important details such as: Alito, bespectacled, hair askew, suit rumpled and ill-fitting, walked into Sen. Tim Johnson's office this week to pay a courtesy call on the South Dakota Democrat....

Sen. Hatch, Chris Matthews Slam Donk Talking Points!

A talking-points memorandum being circulated by Democrats to friendly media outlets attacks Judge Samuel Alito on the basis of his Italian heritage.

Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch stormed Monday night that the memo was "despicable" and a sign that desperate Democrats are "hysterical" over the Alito nomination.

What's interesting here also, is that Sen. Hatch found out about the memo from MSNBC's Matthews:

Matthews alleged that Democrats are passing around a memorandum that he called a "complaint sheet" about Alito. The cable talk show host said the lead item in the memo claims that as a federal prosecutor, Alito failed to convict members of the Lucchese crime family in a 1988 case. The implication is that because Alito is Italian-American he went easy on the prosecution, or worse.

The Chief has NO hesitation about ripping a strip off the back of the MSM when warranted, but to give credit where credit is due, Chris Matthews made a good play on this one!

An obviously angry Matthews said, "I'm sitting here holding in my hands a pretty disgusting document. This is put out not for attribution, but it comes from the Democrats. They're circulating it; I can say that. The first thing they nail about this Italian-American is he failed to win a mob conviction in a trial ... way back in '88. In other words, they nail him on not putting some Italian mobsters in jail from the family. Why would they bring up this ethnically charged issue as the first item they raise against Judge Alito?

"This is either a very bad coincidence or very bad politics," he added, and warned Democrats that their sneak attack will backfire. "Either way it's going to hurt them. ... Not abortion rights, not civil rights but that he failed to nail some mobsters in 1988 -- this is the top of their list of what they've got against this guy. Amazingly bad politics."

The memo failed to note that Alito won a major prosecution against the Genovese crime family.

The Donks have also damaged their relationship with what has been a sizeable part of what's left of their base:

A. Kenneth Ciongoli, Chairman of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) on Monday demanded an apology for the media's frequent references to the judge's Italian heritage and the use of the term "Scalito" to describe him as a clone of Justice Antonin Scalia.

What can one say - the Donks ARE getting desperate!

A couple weeks ago I noted a couple stories where left-wing authors made horribly racist comments about African-American Republicans. Today it gets worse. Look at this story about Michael Steele, an African-American Republican running for Senate in Maryland. Here is...

Jeffrey Rosen, the highly respected legal affairs writer for The New Republic, borrowing from John Tierney, dubs the indictment of former Cheney Chief-of-Staff Lewis Libby Nadagate. It's the investigation about nothing. See Rosen's piece here (free registration required). Rosen argues...

Outlawed Muslim Brotherhood walks the streets of Cairo

Earlier this week on a main commercial street in Doqqi, a middle class suburb of Cairo, there was a scene unthinkable even a few months ago. Not a single uniformed policeman was in sight as a procession of hundreds of supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, both men and women, marched in an orderly formation down the street chanting slogans in support of Hazem Abu Ismail, their parliamentary candidate.

F.Y.I. - The Islamic Islamofascist Brotherhood is one of the early and most hard-core Islamofascist groups around.

Iran removes 40 ambassadors, diplomats

Iran's hard-line government said Wednesday it was removing 40 ambassadors and senior diplomats, including supporters of warmer ties with the West, from their posts in a shake-up that comes as the Islamic republic takes a more confrontational international stance.

This of course is under the leadership of their President - who was one of the hostage-takers in 1979, and has a long history with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

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