Reported on Michelle Malkin from KIRO TV:

National Guardsman Brutally Attacked In Pierce County

PARKLAND, Wash. — The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department is searching for five people who allegedly attacked a uniformed National Guardsmen walking along 138th Street in Parkland Tuesday afternoon.

The soldier was walking to a convenience store when a sport utility vehicle pulled up alongside him and the driver asked if he was in the military and if he had been in any action.

The driver then got out of the vehicle, displayed a gun and shouted insults at the victim. Four other suspects exited the vehicle and knocked the soldier down, punching and kicking him.

“And during the assault the suspects called him a baby killer. At that point they got into the car and drove off and left him on the side of the road,” Detective Ed Troyer with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

The suspects were driving a black Chevy Suburban-type SUV.

“This is something new for us, we have not had military people assaulted because they were in the military or somebody’s opposition to a war or whatever,” Troyer said.

Mark is a greast writer who I deeply respect.  I don’t always agree with him, but in cases like this, he just nails it.

Enjoy.

Call me crazy. I blame terrorists.

How can 36 per cent of people polled think U.S. officials knew of or participated in 9/11?

MARK STEYN

Who is A. K. Dewdney? He’s an adjunct professor of biology at the University of Western Ontario, and he has pieced together the truth about what happened on 9/11. You may be familiar with the official version: "To account for the events of Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush White House has produced a scenario involving Arab hijackers flying large aircraft into American landmarks," writes the eminent Ontario academic. "We, like millions of other 9/11 skeptics, have found this explanation to be inconsistent with the facts of the matter."

Sister Toldjah asks that question tonight:

John Hawkins notes that former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been getting some favorable attention from conservative corners recently and in response, writes a post in which he lays out his case against Rudy being the Republican nominee for president in 2008.

What do you think

While I am not willing to offer him an early endorsement, I think he is certainly a contender.  I would go as far as to say that there are many prominent Republicans I would not want to see on the ticket.

And there is a certain appeal to the scrappy New Yorker.

John makes his case that Rudy is not electable due to his moderate centrist stances, and that may be a good point.  But the fact is that Rudy is topping a lot of polls, so it makes you wonder whether the issues that John notes as being the crucial issues for conservatives are really all that critical to many Republicans.

Many of the issues John highlights are ones that I personally do not feel are stoppers, and many Republicans agree.

The battle has been shaping up between Maria and Mike.  In this exchange the issue is my favorite where she is concerned, the Trifecta tax Bill.

Mike in his ad says:

"Maria Cantwell voted with her party, against our deduction and against our families," 

…and notes that the deduction was worth $550 to Washington families.  It continues amd says:

"Sen. Cantwell said she voted ‘no’ because she disagreed with parts of the bill, yet when she was offered a compromise, she refused to talk,".

Both of these statements are true on their face, but like most political speech they do make a few liberties with semantics.  Maria and Sen Frist, it should be noted did meet, but where he claims he offered to ease her concerns, she claims he was not making an offer in good faith.

Cantwell responded in a press release that:

"Mike McGavick is running an ad on the air right now that he knows is ‘not an accurate reflection’ of her views," said Cantwell campaign chief strategist Michael Meehan. "McGavick knows full well that Senator Cantwell supports the Cantwell sales tax deduction bill."

The Amazing part of this is that they continue to operate under a belief that this helps their case.  Apart of a childish "look what we did" feel good moment, a stunt like this serves no practical benefit, and only serves to ignite their opposition.

From Michelle Malkin:

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005818.htm

Here we go again.

This has gotten zero attention in the MSM. Over the weekend, militant illegal alien activists marched onto a post office station in Maywood, Calif., and replaced the American flag with a Mexican flag while chanting anti-American epithets. Yup, here we go again. Remember this spring?

Nice.

Video coverage here (starts at around 3:05), also courtesy of Michelle.

When you see reports that towns all over America are cracking down on illegal immigration, and you ask yourself what has spurred these laws, look at the picture above and ask yourself if that is a part of the reason why.

Immigration reform is necessary, most Americans support that.

Most Americans however do not support bullying tactics and Reconquista.

McGavick made the unprecedented move of disclosing his own political skeleton, that being a 1993 DUI.

My initial reaction was *YAWN*.

A DUI 13 years ago is not a show stopper in a political world such as ours, with "Checkpoint Cynthia" McKinney and Ted "Chappaquiddick" Kennedy, or his son Pat "DUI" Kennedy.

Yes it is a matter of character, and is something that should be noted, but what is more important to me is patterns of behavior, not single events.

In his disclosure, Mike says:

Here it is: I have lots of faults, and I have made some mistakes that I deeply regret.

In my personal life I reflect on two great failures:

Most important, my first marriage ended in divorce, and as a result my eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a “part-time” dad.

Well, here he gets a lot of resonance from me, as I understand this issue from both sides, as a child with a part time dad, and a divorced dad, who was for a while a single dad.

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Here is Friday’s link round up

Bush meets with fallen soldiers familes one of whom was anti war, but not psychotic ala Cindy Sheehan.

In a real UN shocker Russia rejects sanctions against Iran

The new season of TV’s Survivor has the contestents starting the game in racially segretated tribes, prompting NYC Officials to demand that the "Race-Based" show be pulled

Racism is apparently not totally dead in Shreveport as a school bus driver rolls back the clock to an uglier time.

Black students ordered to give up seats to white children

Status of Red River Parish bus driver is unknown.

COUSHATTA — Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children.

The situation has outraged relatives of the black children who have filed a complaint with school officials.

And it is outrageous…the sheer stupidity of this amazes me. 

Superintendent Kay Easley will meet with the family members in her office this morning.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also is considering filing a formal charge with the U.S. Department of Justice. NAACP District Vice President James Panell, of Shreveport, said he would apprise Justice attorneys of the situation this week. He’s considering asking for an investigation into the bus incident

Which is appropriate…

This caught my eye:

State Senate OKs bypassing Electoral College

Sacramento — The state Senate on Tuesday approved an Assembly bill that seeks to bypass the Electoral College system and institute a national popular vote to elect the president of the United States.

AB2948, which received a 23-14 vote in the Senate, calls for an interstate compact where states would commit all of their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote regardless of which candidate wins in each state. The compact would kick in when enough states join that the sum of their electoral votes would represent at least 270. If the largest states join in the agreement, only 11 would be needed.

Proponents argue that such a plan would avoid instances such as the 2000 presidential election when George Bush was declared the winner despite garnering fewer popular votes than Al Gore.

The idea, which was first formulated by Stanford University Professor John Koza, is receiving serious consideration by lawmakers in other states, including New York, Colorado, Illinois and Missouri.

I don’t support the constitutional amendment on flag burning, and agree that as distasteful of a practice I find it, it is still free speech, as the SCOTUS has ruled.

But in class?   People argue that porn is protected free speech, I hope the teacher does not try to show porn videos in class too.

Honestly, what is going on with the teachers and our public schools?

Teacher burns U.S. flags during class

A middle-school teacher in Kentucky who burned small U.S. flags in two classes during a discussion of free speech has been removed from teaching.

Lauren Roberts, a spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, said that at least one parent of a student at the Stuart Middle School had complained about Dan Holden’s actions, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. 

Holden teaches seventh-grade social studies, but has been placed on non-teaching duties pending an investigation. 

Roberts said Holden’s judgment was in question. She said the district had also notified fire officials. 

"Certainly we’re concerned about the safety aspect," Roberts said