Writing with her usual witty, biting flair, Ann Coulter has some interesting comments. I posted previously about the Indian heritage thing, which she goes into extensively, and then she adds this:

In addition to an absence of evidence about his Indian heritage, there is an absence of evidence that he was in combat in Vietnam. After the POW Network revealed that Churchill had never seen combat, he countered with this powerful argument: “They can say whatever the hell they want. That’s confidential information, and I’ve never ordered its release from the Department of Defense. End of story.” Maybe we should ask John Kerry to help Churchill fill out a form 180.

Read his brief closing remarks.

UPDATE (2/10): Looks like it’s getting some press today.

WASHINGTON — A conservative reporter who asked President Bush a loaded question at a news conference last month resigned Wednesday after liberal bloggers uncovered his real name and raised questions about his background.

Jeff Gannon, who had been writing for the Web sites Talon News and GOPUSA, is actually James Dale Guckert, 47, and has been linked to online domain addresses with sexually provocative names. He has been under scrutiny since he asked Bush how he could work with Senate Democratic leaders “who seem to have divorced themselves from reality.” The information about Gannon was posted on liberal sites including Daily Kos and Atrios.

Under the headline “A Voice of the New Media: The Voice Goes Silent,” Gannon wrote on his personal Web page that because of the attention, “I find it is no longer possible to effectively be a reporter for Talon News,” and that he is quitting “in consideration of the welfare of me and my family.” Gannon added in a brief interview that “my family has been victimized” and he wanted to “put some separation between Talon News and the White House.”

UPDATE 2 (2/10): CNN leads their article with:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A New York congresswoman asked the White House to explain Wednesday why a man who worked for a news Web site owned by a GOP activist was able to obtain White House press credentials under an assumed name.

Despite the fact that this is the network run by Eason Jordan, it’s still a good question. If it’s true then the possible answers could include “we had no idea it was an assumed name” or “we intentionally overlooked the fact that it was an assumed name because of his relationship with big money” or “there is a good reason and we can’t tell you for security reasons.”

UPDATE (2/10): Kevin Aylward weighs in with some questions for the lefty bloggers.

One wonders whether fascist-obsessed lefty blogger David Neiwert is going be equally critical of the bloggers in this case as he was of Wizbang for exposing Professor Hailey last year. Consistency would demand that he come down hard on his lefty brethren for libel and encourage Guckert to sue the bloggers into oblivion, as he did to us. We’ll keep you posted.

Funny.

HT: BlackFive

Check out this quote, as reported in the Washington Post:

Back on September 11, terrorists attacked our metropolitan cores, two of America’s great cities. They did that because they knew that was where they could do the most damage and weaken us the most,” O’Malley said. “Years later, we are given a budget proposal by our commander in chief, the president of the United States. And with a budget ax, he is attacking America’s cities. He is attacking our metropolitan core.”

Michelle Malkin dug up a previous quote by O’Malley that appears to express similar sentiments, in the Baltimore Sun last year.

I remember after the attacks of September 11, as mayor of the city, I was very, very worried about al-Qaeda and still am. But I’m even more worried about the actions and inactions of the Bush administration. (Doug Donovan, “O’Malley Takes The Heat For Remarks About Bush,” The Baltimore Sun, 7/1/04)

The guy certainly has a right to free speech, but he’s also a gubernatorial candidate in ‘06 and the voters can weigh in here.

TBO reports (HT: ALAET):

At one John Kerry presidential campaign event last year O’Malley said he was more worried about the Bush administration’s policies than he was about al-Qaida.

UPDATE: After comparing O’Malley to Ward Churchill, The National Ledger makes a similar point to mine above about free speech, but says it more eloquently.

It appears that this “mayor” wants Ward Churchill like attention. It would figure that at some point both will be seeking employment as they are dispatched from their taxpayer funded jobs. However, they will continue to retain their free speech rights to trash America and the president.

Whitecastle?

If you haven’t seen it yet: Scholar Defiant Amid Furor Over 9/11 Remarks

Previous posts here and here.

The New York Times today runs a story on the Peter Paul / Clinton / Fundraiser scandal. I’m sure there’s something new here if the story is running now, but I haven’t had time to read the full article. Just throwing it up for your reading pleasure.

Michelle Malkin’s column today is a basic primer on Easongate, and she calls for readers to push for the release of the video tape of the remarks in context.

Contact info here for the Mark Adams at the World Economic Forum and Eason Jordan.

From Keith Olberman via Dada Head we read:

The greatest mystery of 20th Century American politics may soon be solved.

We might shortly find out who “Deep Throat” was.

John Dean, the former White House Counsel to Richard Nixon, whose testimony unlocked the enigma and the insidiousness of Watergate, wrote in The Los Angeles Times that an impeccable source has informed him that “Throat” is in ill health, that Bob Woodward has notified his colleagues at The Washington Post of this fact, and that an obituary has been prepared — almost certainly identifying the man behind the pseudonym.

More Deep Throat stuff:

From the BBC:

Mr Bradlee, the former Washington Post editor, has acknowledged that he has already written Deep Throat’s obituary, Mr Dean said.

It must be said that apart from these tantalising morsels, Mr Dean remains in the dark.

He knows that it is one of his former colleagues at the White House, but he added: “I’ll be damned if I can figure out exactly which one.”

Some of the options on the table:

Their seven prospects: Pat Buchanan and David Gergen, now pundits, lawyer Jonathan Rose, speechwriter Raymond Price, press secretary Gerald Warren, Nixon assistant Stephen Bull and Dean assistant Fred Fielding.

And the BBC story above even cites Adrian Havill speculating that it might be President Bush 41.

UPDATE: Editor and Publisher has these speculations:

In the early returns, based on dozens of submissions, the clear frontrunner is (ailing) Chief Justice Willam Rehnquist. Mark Felt holds second, and (ailing) President Ford is in third. Other interesting picks include: Ben Stein, Bill Casey, Leonard Garment, Henry Kissinger, G. Gordon Liddy, Earl Silbert, Steven Bull, Fred Fielding’s secretary, and Richard M. Nixon himself (”he was so self-destructive”).

American Journalism Review suggests:

Al Haig, David Gergen, L. Patrick Gray, midlevel FBI agent W. Mark Felt and the recent favorite of journalism professor and former investigative reporter Bill Gaines - White House deputy counsel Fred Fielding.
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Other suspects considered were WH speechwriter Raymond Price, aide Stephen Bull, and then-White House aide Diane Sawyer.

And argument for Rehnquist, from a poster on KOS.

Deep Throat, the notorious insider-source that was crucial to the bringing down of the Nixon White House, is none other than Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Rehnquist, a smoker just like the character in the film “All The Presidents Men”, worked for Attorney General John Mitchell before being placed on the Supreme Court. Because John Mitchell was a key player in the affairs that eventually led to Watergate, Rehnquist had the inside scoop on MOST (if not, all) C.R.E.E.P./Committee to Re-Elect the President activities (i.e., Muskie’s self-destruction,Donald Segretti’s activities, the slush fund, etc.) directly and indirectly (when he was in the AG’s office and through friends still there after he was placed on the Supreme Court) that culminated in the Watergate fiasco. Rehnquist was also Bob Woodward’s source concerning the attempted assassination of presidential candidate George Wallace in 1972. Rehnquist met Bob Woodward at a party in 1970 or 1971. Rehnquist told Woodward that his motivation for “dropping the biggest dime” in U.S. history was that he couldn’t standby and watch the President (the Chief Executive of the U.S.) completely undermine and demolish the Constitution of the United States. Although a life-long Republican, Rehnquist took his legal charge and responsibility seriously and could not stand idly by as he saw the foundations of the nation eroded so significantly. Woodward knew that disclosing that a Supreme Court justice had been his source and had (in fact) met him in secret alleys and underground garages in the middle of the night would have blown the lid off of the D.C. legal community as well as caused significant reverberations throughout the country. So, they agreed not to disclose the information until the end. So, William Rehnquist IS Deep Throat. Semper Fidelis

This is 100% sick.

Art, design and politics meet in Joanna Rytel’s jewellery collection “Happy abortion-children”. Her earrings, brooches, necklaces and rings formed as aborted foetuses, takes a stand for abortion. The idea can be said to be a continuation of her project “Abortkyrkogard.se” on the internet. There many have told of the guilt they have felt after having an abortion. “I wondered about why this was and I believe that it is society that induces the guilt, particularly for girls. I want to do something about it.”

Translation by The Daily Bork, via Michelle Malkin.

Presumably the writer of this blog is serious. Check it out for the other perspective on this story.

Ms. Rytel is absolutely correct, the anti-abortion Christians have managed to convice nearly everyone that abortion is wrong and people should feel horribly guilty over it. The problem for the pro-abortion movement is that hardly anyone is taking a stand to reverse this societal brainwashing.
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It is a little sad to have an abortion. But one does it for the child’s sake. It would not have been good to have a child half-heartedly.

I couldn’t agree more. In the United States we have welfare mothers and crack addicts having children who will never amount to anything given the environment they are being brought into. We would be much better off if mothers unable to give their children the upbringing they deserve were encouraged to abort their pregnancies.

This takes me back to my analysis of Hillary’s talk. How is abortion sad? If it’s not a person it is not sad to eliminate it. If it is a person and it’s sad and they’re doing it for the “sake of the children”… well where do we stop on that slippery slope? Do we kill anyone we think is better of dead?

Clever stuff from Iowa Hawk. A bit heavy on the vulgarities for me personally, but nonetheless, funny reading.

[Eason Jordan:] But, I don’t want to be blithe about our the challenges we face. For example, if we don’t get some control on the US Military deliberately targeting as shooting our field reporters, we are certainly going to face some steep increases in health care premiums for our employees. Second… umm, yes? Congressman Frank?

US Congressman Barney Frank: With all due respect, Mr. Jordan, what the ****? I mean… what the ****!?

Jordan: Excuse me?

Frank: You just stood there and accused American soldiers of deliberately targeting, hunting down and shooting journalists.

[extended silence]

Jordan: Yes… I guess I’m just confused on the point you’re trying to make.

Frank: My point is, do you actually have any evidence of that? I mean that the US military deliberately killing journalists?

Jordan: Oh. Umm, okay, I think I see where you’re going with that. Well, there are certainly accusations of that, and obviously we wouldn’t be doing our jobs as journalists if we didn’t recognize the existence of the accusations.

Frank: But you just stated it as fact.

Jordan: Well, duh. It’s a fact: there have been accusations.

Fascinating reading this morning from Jay at Wizbang.

Every now and then, someone else announces “the death of the two-party system” and calls for the creation of a third party. The last time I heard that, it got me thinking of a possible strategy where a third party could actually win the presidency.

The first step for that to happen is for them to forget about the presidency.

At least, forget about it for several years. This is gonna take a lot of time, a lot of effort, and a lot of luck. Money won’t hurt, either.

The first step is to …

[You’ll have to read the rest for yourself] :-)