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Remember the campaign ad that Tom Daschle ran showing him hugging the President. The intent was to so how pro-war Daschle was. Yesterday?s Kranz column reveals the Daschle campaign was lying about that issue too:Tom Daschle sounded like something more...

Senate Democrats force closed session on Iraq data

Democrats surprised Republicans by forcing the Senate into closed session yesterday to raise the profile of prewar intelligence failures related to Iraq and last week's indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff.

Eh? Reality check in order?

"The Libby indictment provides a window into what this is really all about, how this administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to sell the war in Iraq," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said, moments before he and his top lieutenant forced the closed session.

Dusty Harry Ried et al have managed to cook up a grandstanding play, which ultimately accomplished nothing - the GOP had been working on this stuff for 15 months, and had already scheduled the meeting that Ried claimed to have wrung out of them. I guess he needed to do something to get his name back into the news cycle.

When the doors opened two hours later, Democrats said they got what they wanted because Republicans agreed to hold intelligence committee meetings and finish a report on prewar intelligence. Republicans said they didn't give up anything because the plan to hold a meeting next week had been made before the session. By yesterday evening, the Senate was back debating budget cuts.

So what in the world do the Donks think they accomplished here? There isn't anything the Chief can see, except for jabbing the eyes of GOP Senate Intel Committee Chair Roberts.

"If that's not politics, I'm not standing here," said Sen. Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The Kansas Republican said Democrats on the committee tipped their hand last year when a staff memo surfaced that they intended to exhaust the bipartisan process and then "pull the trigger" to demand an independent investigation sometime this year.

Hugh Hewitt, author of Blog (which you should buy), is noting that civility has gone out the window:Chuck Schumer just argued that it is possible that Judge Alito, as Justice Alito, would roll back the achievements of Rosa Parks. That...

Hey, kids! Having a hard time keeping all of the lingo of the nomination and confirmation process straight? Ever wish you could do some vocabulary building before wading into the latest twaddle churned out by our fair-minded media? Well, you're...

Much ado was made about boy genius Theo Epstein when he was hired as the Red Sox GM in 2002 at the ripe age of 28. The Sox won a World Series, yada-yada and so on. Big hero and all...

I am, as usual, cautiously optimistic about the Alito nomination. First, I think he will turn out to be just the kind of judge I would like to see on the court: committed to the rule of law rather...

Iranian Animated Film for Children Promotes Suicide Bombings

This has got to be one of the more chilling things that the Chief has seen in some time, made available by MEMRI, the Mid-East Media Research Inst.

Yes, Saturday morning in Iran, and time for the kids to watch cartoons, right? Well, their cartoons are showing a dramatized view of Islamoterr suicide homicide bombers attacking Israel. Of course the Israelis shown act as though they were graduates of the SS, so of course it's great to kill off the Jews.

Islamoterr pulls the pins out on his grenade belt.

MEMRI has the transcript here, but to get the full flavor of the implacable hatred, check out the clip itself. It certainly illustrates how the Islamofascist view of things truly reflects a culture of death.

Talk about caretoons from hell...this is it!

F.E.T.E.

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