Paintings of 23 fallen Marines, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division. One of the hardest hit single units in this war, 22 Marines and their Navy Corpsman.

It's eight life-size paintings, arranged in a circle, octagonally. On display at the Ohio Statehouse.

The paintings are the work of a Westerville artist named Anita Miller. Who became so touched by this story she felt compelled to capture it. And over the course of two years she invested her effort and livelihood. She met with and talked to the mothers and fathers, siblings, wives and friends of these men. To learn about them. To capture something about them. And tell their story.

Wish I had caught this for Memorial Day. My bad.

More here on the project.

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Note: Liveblog box removed from this post and made into its own post, above, because of complaints the liveblog interfered with normal commenting.

We're Gonna Lose: Bruce is inspired by McCain's signature weary, wistful, and weird speaking style.

And of course his inability to excite the Republican base.

...

Polls close in SD in a half hour, I think, and then in Montana later.

Obviously it's already over. But I guess... just for ceremony's sake.

And... McCain Up, Being Introduced by Bobby Jindal: Uggh. I like McCain so much better when I don't have to look at him or listen to him.

So instead here's Kylie Minogue's ass:

more...

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He calls it "taint." I call it "brand identity."

Own it, baby.

A “high level source inside MSNBC” tells the TVNewser blog that network stars like Tim Russert and Chris Matthews are “upset” and “pissed” that the far-left Keith Olbermann is tainting the network’s credibility with his “activism,” such as blogging for the hard-left Daily Kos site.

“What’s it going to be like in the general election now that everyone knows we’re the in-house network of Barack Obama,” TVNewser’s Steve Krakauer quoted the MSNBC insider as fretting. The source suggested Olbermann was allowed to get away with his activism because the network fears the Countdown host would quit:

“They are convinced that he will walk. He behaves like a man who has nothing left to lose. He is not central to MSNBC, he is the center of the MSNBC ratings strategy. We hang the entire schedule on him."

The insider continues:

"Every Tuesday night Keith is up there as the face of NBC News. That's a problem," says our source. "[Tim] Russert is upset about it. Russert has spent 20 years building credibility. All of a sudden he's taking questions from Keith Olbermann, the Daily Kos blogger?"

The insider says Olbermann's election night partner has reservations as well: "Chris Matthews is quite pissed about it. He knows a lot about politics and he takes it seriously. He's so close to it that he's not that political. He's not an activist — Keith's an activist. That's the difference."

Ahem. That's a pretty thin distinction, but I do admit there is something to it.

Keith Olbermann just emailed to say, "This is the finger I destroy MSNBC's dwindling credibility with."

Below, Keith Olbermann is caught on video reacting to the TV Newser piece:

Not really, of course.

Thanks to dri for the vid.

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One dead, ten injured. It happened in Monterrey, Mexico, just over the border.

Gerlado Rivera immediately noted that "right wing haters" such as Michelle Malkin never give credit to the "millions of Mexicans" who commit their vehicular manslaughters in Mexico, in full compliance with US immigration laws.

Finally. It took me forever to figure that joke out.

And... Wrong Again: DrewM. alerts me that the drunk, Juan Campos, claims to be a US citizen.

Eh, whatever. Geraldo claims that illegal criminals are here legally, so I'm allowed to do the opposite.

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More at Gateway Pundit.

Thanks to MikeM.

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...over the "news in the air," mostly involving his bobbysoxer crush-boy Obama.

Jesus.

Wait, It Gets Worse:

Lincoln and Obama, fused, by some idiot artist.

Thanks to Larwyn.

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And NYC is a relatively low-crime big city.

Context. You MSM fruitbats should appreciate this.

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The guys who got beaten up by the Dungeons & Dragons club are going to arrest me?

Hey, I was Captain of the Dungeons & Dragons club. Bring it on.

Form a team. We need teams in California, Texas, New York, and Washington, D.C., among other places. Your mission is to locate a war criminal from the list above in a public place, detain them, handcuff them, phone the police, read the criminal their rights and the charges against them, ask them if they have anything to say in response, videotape the arrest and post it online. Your team should include one or more people who can produce an excellent video and be extremely fast in editing and posting it online. Your team should include people capable of physically detaining your war criminal. Your team should ideally include a lawyer. And, of course, people who can read the charges and question the suspect. Everyone on your team should be able to keep a secret while you're planning your arrest.

I suggest they begin with Dick Cheney. I hear he'll be in a fairly isolated location soon. You know, on a hunting trip.

Also from Moonbattery: PETA proposes "Lobster Empathy Centers," to teach you empathy for large aquatic insects that feed on sea worms and fish-shit.

The last thought every lobster has as it realizes it's caught in a trap is "Damnit, and I had such a good thing going on here, too."

Thanks to Penfold.

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As if Mark Steyn's show trial weren't enough, we have another reminder this week that some of our neighbors to the north don't seem to know the first thing about the importance of free and open debate. The York Federation of Students, which serves as the school's student government, is planning to ban student clubs that are opposed to abortion. They vote this weekend.

Gilary Massa, vice-president external of the York Federation of Students, said student clubs will be free to discuss abortion in student space, as long as they do it "within a pro-choice realm," and that all clubs will be investigated to ensure compliance.

"You have to recognize that a woman has a choice over her own body," Ms. Massa said. "We think that these pro-life, these anti-choice groups, they're sexist in nature ... The way that they speak about women who decide to have abortions is demoralizing. They call them murderers, all of them do ... Is this an issue of free speech? No, this is an issue of women's rights."

The YFS provides money and access to facilities for registered student clubs. Massa claims that there is an organized external effort to impose "anti-choice sentiments" on the poor defenseless students at York. They must therefore be protected from the demoralizing words of pro-life groups and speakers. In reality, there's only one purely pro-life organization on campus, according to the article.

In the reverse of what we've come to expect from most universities in the U.S., the York University administration is standing up for speech.

Robert J. Tiffin, York's vice-president of students, said he was "disappointed" the policy was being enacted when virtually all of the student body has left campus for the summer.

"Student governments need to be aware that these are fairly significant decisions that are being made, and it would be useful to engage the much broader community," he said. "It's important to have some of these discussions at a time when the vast majority of students are here to participate."

He said denying students access to the various aspects of the abortion debate was not in keeping with the school's mandate, and that the administration would try to compensate by providing its own venues and resources to legitimate debates.

"It's part of the texture of Canadian society, this debate," he said. "We're committed to ensuring there are the opportunities for these debates."

My mother always says that if you have to resort to cover of darkness, you're probably doing something wrong. That aphorism was endlessly extended to things like wearing masks, using fake identities, and conducting secretive closed-door negotiations in darkened rooms with, um, our girlfriends. And you know what, she was right.

If you've got to wait 'til the rest of the student body is gone to enact a new speech code, you're probably doing something wrong. I bet these student politicians know it, too. They just don't care because it's for a greater good: protecting impressionable minds from pro-life "sentiments."

Joey Coleman at Maclean's (which suddenly I'm reading a lot more--thanks BC Human Rights Tribunal):

By silencing them, the YFS is making them stronger. I never write about the abortion debate in the context of the debate. I only write about it in the context of free speech. The anti-abortion side is benefiting from the attention they are receiving as free speech “martyrs.”

Hat tip to Professor Volokh for the article.

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Due to ever-rising fuel costs.

They're already only letting you check one bag. And they want to reduce the amount of water they have to haul, too, so don't expect that ritzy 4 oz. bottled water service to continue indefinitely.

UPDATE [Dave in Texas]: Yeah, they'll let you check one bag. If you let them have fifteen bucks.

Thirty if you want to like, bring it home.

I predict pay toilets.

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