Big surprise here.

An abortion-rights group is running an attack ad accusing Supreme Court nominee John Roberts of filing legal papers “supporting . . . a convicted clinic bomber” and of having an ideology that “leads him to excuse violence against other Americans” It shows images of a bombed clinic in Birmingham , Alabama .

The ad is false.

And the ad misleads when it says Roberts supported a clinic bomber. It is true that Roberts sided with the bomber and many other defendants in a civil case, but the case didn’t deal with bombing at all. Roberts argued that abortion clinics who brought the suit had no right use an 1871 federal anti-discrimination statute against anti-abortion protesters who tried to blockade clinics. Eventually a 6-3 majority of the Supreme Court agreed, too. Roberts argued that blockades were already illegal under state law.

The images used in the ad are especially misleading. The pictures are of a clinic bombing that happened nearly seven years after Roberts signed the legal brief in question.

Wow.

Don Young, R-AK, needs to be reigned in. He has brought home the bacon to Alaska, where he has appropriated funds to build a bridge from a city of 14,000 to an island with 50 residents (and an airport) with (apparently) a four minute ferry ride to and from it currently.

The second project, for $223 million, is for a bridge connecting Ketchikan, population 14,000, to an island that has the city’s airport. Currently, a ferry takes folks between Ketchikan and the Gravina Island airport, which offers seven flights a day on one airline.

“It’s probably the quickest airport commute in the universe,” said Keith Ashdown, spokesman for the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense. “The ferry takes four minutes.”

The bridge’s total cost is estimated at $315 million.

Incidentally, he’s Alaska’s only member of the House of Representatives and has been in office since 1973.

UPDATE: Lots of others have thoughts on this. Green Ginger, Atlas, Democracy Market, Agitator.

I agree with RedState.org:

If the Democrats had engaged in this level of wasteful spending, every Conservative in America would be raising their voice. We must not do less when the Republicans act like Democrats, lest we been seen - rightly - as political hacks having no principles, only concerned with power. The price of silence is hypocrisy.

Drudge is breaking news that is about a year old. He’s either asleep at the wheel, or it’s a slow newsday.

Here’s some info from Todd Bolen in Israel (where, incidentally it rained yesterday, after he washed his car!).

New York rolled out the welcome mat, but now …

“She’s asking us to become her doormat.”

Howard Dean thinks the Democrats need a message.

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, doesn’t like being exposed by his own search engine. Google has no objections to tracking and keeping records of everything you do, but don’t you dare reveal any information on the Google folks. Eric Schmidt is livid.

This story is full of irony and has inadvertently revealed a glaring double standard. It is the double standard of the liberal leaning CEO of Google. It is no secret that Google political contributions weigh in a decidely liberal direction.

CNet News reporter, Elinor Mills did a little search on Google…

Google CEO Eric Schmidt doesn’t reveal much about himself on his home page.

But spending 30 minutes on the Google search engine lets one discover that Schmidt, 50, was worth an estimated $1.5 billion last year. Earlier this year, he pulled in almost $90 million from sales of Google stock and made at least another $50 million selling shares in the past two months as the stock leaped to more than $300 a share.

He and his wife Wendy live in the affluent town of Atherton, Calif., where, at a $10,000-a-plate political fund-raiser five years ago, presidential candidate Al Gore and his wife Tipper danced as Elton John belted out “Bennie and the Jets.”

Schmidt is so upset he won’t speak to anyone from CNet News for a whole year. So much for freedom of the press. I wonder how Schmidt feels about freedom of the internet?

That’s not too hard to know. Google routinely blocks ads and searches it deems to be politically incorrect.

I wonder how Eric Schmidt feels about Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ adopted kids being harassed by the NY Times?

It seems like the liberal Schmidt doesn’t adhere to the adage, “What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.”

And as the real point of Elinor Mills’ article details, privacy is pretty much a thing of the past thanks to creative entrepreneurs like Eric Schmidt. But in Schmidt’s liberal world the double standard is still alive and well.