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Chávez Looks at His Critics in the Media and Sees the Enemy

“Sound the alarm in the hills, slums and towns to defend our revolution from this new fascist attack,” President Hugo Chávez said in a nationally televised speech this week as his government was under siege by student protests over his decision to take a dissident television network off the air. “We are waiting for you.”

With such chilling threats of retribution, Mr. Chávez seems prepared to harden his treatment of both the protesters and any media organizations that oppose him, even as the demonstrations ebbed somewhat on Thursday.

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The Michael Ramirez Files

Is Romney modulating on immigration?

Modulation?

No Flip-Flop

More FLIPS by Mitt:

Campaign finance reform

Illegal Immigration

Illegal aliens mowing his lawn

Flip on Abortion

Flip on Gay Marriage

Lied about hunting

Scientology book one of his favorites

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The Mitt Romney Posts

Clinton, Giuliani lead in S.C., poll says

Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani lead the races for the 2008 S.C. Democratic and Republican primaries, according to a new poll from Winthrop University and ETV.

The poll also showed Giuliani has more reason for concern. His lead over U.S. Sen. John McCainc of Arizona – 18.6 percent to 14.4 percent – is within the poll’s margin of error.

And Giuliani, whether he’s in first or behind McCain – uncertain given the margin of error – remains in shouting distance of victory in a state where many Republican voters would fall opposite him on social issues.

The GOP NUTS:

And the ISSUES:

A good showing for the Mayor. But, with the McCain campaign on ‘life support” because of the immigration issue, the laying off of McCain staffers in South Carolina and with Fred Thompson’s candidacy what will the polls in South Carolina show in a few weeks?

Stay tuned….

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The Rudy Giuliani Files

The Republican National Committee has fired all of its phone solicitors due to a rebellion over President Bush’s immigration policy.

There has been a sharp decline in contributions from RNC phone solicitations, another fired staffer said, reporting that many former donors flatly refuse to give more money to the national party if Mr. Bush and the Senate Republicans insist on supporting what these angry contributors call “amnesty” for illegal aliens.

“Everyone donor in 50 states we reached has been angry, especially in the last month and a half, and for 99 percent of them immigration is the No. 1 issue,” said the former employee.

And this is a surprise, how?

Watch the 2008 GOP Presidential candidates begin to run aggressively against the Senate Immigration bill and President Bush.

Polling does not support the bill’s passage.

The Senate takes up the bill again next week.

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Miss USA Booed by Mexican Miss Universe Audience

Mark Steyn Watch: So Much News, So Little Sense

Illegal Immigration Watch: The Gang of 12

Rudy Giuliani Watch: Rudy Opposes Senate Immigration Bill

Illegal Immigration Watch: Senate Postpones Immigration Bill

Illegal Immigration Watch: Rush to Border Judgment

The Illegal Immigration Archive

Precious moments from Hot Air.

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Cindy Sheehan Watch: Sheehan Quits Democrat Party Over Iraq War Funding Part Two

Technorati Tags: Cindy Sheehan

Hillary Clinton addresses Code Pink on March 6, 2003 and discusses Iraq, Saddam Hussein and the run up to the Iraq War.

Hillary AGAIN avoids anwering the question raised in Hillary’s War:

Did she read the entire 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq before voting to authorize the Iraq War?

The Quote:

“We were thoroughly briefed by the people who wrote that estimate, by the people who supervised its writing, on numerous occasions. And I believe that I received all of the information that was necessary for me to reach a judgment.”

But Clinton’s response raises more questions: If the vote was the “hardest decision” she has ever made, was a briefing by the people who wrote the estimate sufficient to reach that decision? And if then-Sen. Bob Graham (D) said he decided to vote against the war authorization because he had read the entire NIE report, as Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. write in the New York Times magazine, then did she really have all the information she needed to reach a judgment?

She won’t answer the question.

Somehow I think Obama will raise it and if not then the GOP nominee.

Update:

John Edwards cannot seem to answer the question either without flip-flopping.

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Hillary Clinton Watch: Hillary’s War

Iraq War Watch: Barack and Hillary Vote With Anti-Iraq War Democrats

Iraq War Watch: TORN

Iraq War Watch: Democrats Blink Over Iraq War Funding

Hillary Clinton

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice addresses the media at a Women Leaders conference for Peace and Security in the Middle East in Vienna, 31 May 2007. Rice told Iran to change tactics and freeze uranium enrichment, but Tehran remained defiant ahead of talks on its nuclear programme with the European Union.

It won’t make any difference.

Iran covets nuclear weapons and will not voluntarily halt uranium enrichment.

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Iran Nuclear Watch: Ali Larijani – Suspension of Uranium Enrichment is Not Acceptable at All

The Iran Nuclear Files

The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.