With the exception of Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth II is the only other monarch in the history of the United Kingdom to reach 60 years on the throne.  To better understand the significance of this, that covers 1,000 years.  This remarkable anniversary, called a Diamond Jubilee, was celebrated this weekend with all the pomp and circumstance that the British monarchy is known for.  Today, an estimated one million spectators stood on the sidelines of the Thames River to watch a record 1,000 boats join in a flotilla tribute to the queen.  It is touted to be the largest pageant on the river in 350 years.

From ITN News, here is Prince William’s tribute to his grandmother, 86-year-old Queen Elizabeth II.

Today, James Delingpole, writer for the Telegraph and staunch Libertarian conservative, shared his British perspective (and humor) on Ricochet.

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s accession to the throne. I think I can speak for pretty much all of my compatriots when I say that this is a joyous moment, well worth celebrating, for the Queen is a remarkable woman, the very model of a modern constitutional monarch. She has reigned over her peoples (not just us British, of course, but the Commonwealth nations too) with the perfect balance of wisdom, discretion and dignity. There is simply no national figurehead who comes even close to matching her. Truly we are blessed and if I had my way she’d be reigning for at least another 60 years. (That should put her wretched son out of the picture, at least).

Congratulations to Queen Elizabeth II and the United Kingdom.

You can’t handle the truth!

‘Al,’ the big guy wearing red in the center, and two other enforcers stand guard at an event for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. (Will Swaim)

Wiscsonsin Democrat gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett escorted a conservative reporter from Chippewa Falls rally this weekend.

When the Reagan administration barred critical news media from White House press conferences, liberals quite rightly protested. So where is liberal outrage now that gubernatorial candidate Tom  Barrett has blocked a reporter from his public events?

Four male Barrett campaign staffers escorted Wisconsin Reporter’s Dustin Hurst from a Chippewa Falls rally for Barrett, the Democrat hoping to oust Republican Gov. Scott Walker in Tuesday’s Wisconsin recall vote.

Hurst is the Wisconsin Reporter journalist who caught on tape the arrest of a pro-Walker protester at a June 1 Barrett rally featuring former President Bill Clinton.

But limiting Hurst’s access to the Barrett campaign was more likely a reprisal for Hurst’s reports (here and here), earlier that day, revealing that Barrett, Milwaukee’s mayor, hired a convicted felon to work in his administration. That poor hiring decision wouldn’t be newsworthy except for the fact that Barrett has accused his Republican rival of employing a staffer charged — not yet convicted, mind you — of committing a felony.

Barrett’s ties to felons doesn’t end there, as Hurst points out in a June 2 story. Politifact, an online political fact-checking titan franchise of the Tampa Bay Times in St. Petersburg, Fla., found that a former Barrett secretary, Joseph N. Cantu, was charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor in connection with a 2010 assault. Reports say Cantu was accused of suffocating his girlfriend.

It was sort of like watching a fight at an #Occupy camp.
You didn’t want it to end.

(Free Republic)

Obama’s top political adviser David Axelrod and Attorney General Eric Holder almost came to blows and had to be separated during a White House scuffle.
The Telegraph reported:

Eric Holder, Barack Obama’s attorney general and David Axelrod, his top political adviser had to be separated after squaring up during a furious row over attempts to impose White House operatives in the justice department.

Eric Holder, who heads Mr Obama’s justice department, is said to have become “incensed” after being accused by David Axelrod of complaining publicly about political interference in his office.

“That’s bull****,” Mr Holder said in a confrontation after a cabinet meeting, according to author Daniel Klaidman. He writes: “The two men stood chest to chest. It was like a school yard fight”.

The relatively mild-mannered Mr Axelrod is said to have told the attorney general: “Don’t ever, ever accuse me of trying to interfere with the operations of the Justice Department”, a taboo in US politics.

In ‘Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency’, Klaidman discloses the struggles within Mr Obama’s White House at it mounted its controversial campaign against al-Qaeda.

He writes that Mr Holder and Mr Axelrod were separated by Valerie Jarrett, a White House adviser and confidante to Mr Obama. Ms Jarrett “pushed her way between the two men, her sense of decorum disturbed, ordering them to ‘take it out of the hallway’,” says Klaidman.

The left’s latest attempt to derail Governor Scott Walker fails miserably.

(Daily Beast)

Pathetic. Wisconsin Democrats dropped a Scott Walker love child story today – two days out from the recall election.
The far left Wisconsin Citizens Media Co-op reported:

Bernadette Gillick was a college freshman in 1988 when she first met Scott Walker. It was spring semester, and she had just transferred to Marquette University. She was assigned a room in O’Donnell Hall (then a women’s dormitory), which she shared with her new roommate, Ruth (not her real name). Ruth was dating Scott Walker, who was 20 at the time, and, according to Bernadette, Ruth was deeply in love with him.

Midway through that spring semester, Bernadette alleges, Ruth found out she was pregnant. She informed her boyfriend, Scott, and initially he was supportive. That support changed to callous indifference for his girlfriend’s predicament after Scott informed his parents of the pregnancy.

Bernadette reports that at this point Scott began denying that he was the father of the baby, and when Ruth said she was considering an abortion, he claimed he didn’t care, as he wasn’t the father anyway.

Bernadette remembers being present when Ruth was dealing with the wrath of Scott’s mother, who allegedly admonished Ruth for trying to “ruin [her son's] reputation.”

“I supported her [Ruth] as he [Scott] went from encouraging her to get an abortion, to telling me it was in my best interest to keep my mouth shut, to denying that he was the father and having his own mother call her and tell her to stop erroneously accusing her son of paternity,” Bernadette recounts.

It was a “horrible time” for her friend. “Imagine her being 18 years old and pregnant, walking around Marquette’s Jesuit Catholic campus with her boyfriend denying he was the father,” says Bernadette.

How sad and desperate. Wisconsin Democrats should be embarrassed.
It took one call and about an hour to refute the bogus report.
The Daily Kos, not exactly a bastion of conservatism, reported on the developments.

The story that Scott Walker abandoned his pregnant girlfriend in college (dKos diary link) failed the first test of verification by a professional reporter. Daniel Bice, the “Watchdog” reporter of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online interviewed the anonymous woman who had the baby, but she adamantly denied that Scott Walker was the father according to a comment by Daniel Bice to the linked story.

Daniel BiceJune 3, 2012 at 3:15 amReply

I am getting a lot of emails because of this post. Two things: (1) I tracked down and talked to Dr. Gillick’s freshman-year roommate at MU yesterday, and she adamantly denies that Walker is the father of her child. Yes, she got pregnant as a first-year student, but she believes Dr. Gillick is mixing up stories; and (2) I Can Read CCAP has taken a family court suit involving Scott Alan Walker and mixed it up with the governor, Scott Kevin Walker.

Another fail for the Wisconsin Democrats.
What a bunch of losers.

FOX News analyst and CBN News Chief Political Correspondent David Brody told the FOX News Sunday panel today the Wisconsin recall vote this week will be a clear defeat for unions. Brody praised the Tea Party, FreedomWorks, AFP and others for their outstanding work in the state.

David Brody discusses the Wisconsin recall election on FOX News Sunday:

“It’s a huge defeat for unions clearly. I think what you’re seeing here is what Scott Walker, Paul Ryan and others, you’re seeing this word courage come up a lot. That they had the courage to take on the tough problems… I got to tell you, I think the unreported story here is what’s going on on the ground in Wisconsin as it relates to the Tea Party. You have a conglomerate of Tea Party groups there: Tea Party Express, Tea Party Patriots, Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks, you could go on and on. You put all of those folks together. This is going to be the number one crowning jewel of the Tea Party movement between 2010 and 2012. Murdoch over Lugar? Yes, huge and there will be others. But what’s been going on there, they’ve been on the ground for a year there, Chris, all of these groups. It shows you the real power of the Tea Party, what they can do in terms of taking on unions.”

Take a bow, Tea Party conservatives!

This was cross posted at FreedomWorks.

Ouch. This hurt.
Even Juan Williams blasted the latest Obama Campaign ad with Anna Wintour.

“That was hilarious. That looks like a parody. It looked like the Romney Campaign planted Dr. Evil in the House of Obama. And, he said, you know, on the day the grim job numbers come out, let’s have someone who reeks of ornamental excess announce that the peasants can have a place at the table. It’s just unbelievable.”

Quick. Someone notify the Truth Team! The Obama Camp won’t like this one bit.

“Just don’t be late.”

You know it’s going to be a bumpy road ahead when you lose Juan Williams and Maureen Dowd in one week.

Do you get the feeling he’s just grasping at straws?
Hoping something, anything will work?

Barack Obama’s latest economic stimulus plan – replace the “thingamajig” on your furnace.
Via Common Cents:

Good grief. Democrat Elizabeth Warren told reporters this weekend that if elected she would be the first Native American Senator from Massachusetts.

Cherokee Indians dispute her claims. They set up a website demanding the truth from Elizabeth Warren on her phony Indian ancestry. Although she claimed to be Native American when she was hired at Harvard there are no Native Americans in Elizabeth Warren’s genealogy.

14 more Christians slaughtered in Nigeria–

The Islamist group “Boko Haram” is believed to be behind the bombing today. Religious clashes between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria are not uncommon. “Boko Haram”, which translates to “no Western culture.” The militants in Nigeria has killed more than 480 people, including Muslims.

Fourteen Christians were slaughtered today in Nigeria when a bomb went off in church near the capital.
ZeeNews reported, via Free Republic:

At least 14 people were killed when a bomb went off in a church near the capital of Nigeria’s northern state of Bauchi, police said on Sunday.

A police source said that security forces have gone to the scene of the incident to verify the extent of damage.

No group has claimed responsibility but the attack bears the signature of a radical Islamic militant sect – Boko Haram – which has been bombing churches and other public squares in the oil-rich African country with the intention of installing an Islamic state.

The group had targeted and killed several politicians and Muslim religious leaders in the northern region for not conforming to their aspiration.

Cherokees Demand Truth From Elizabeth Warren
“You claim to be Cherokee. You forget, it isn’t who you claim, but instead, who claims you. We don’t claim you!”

Mission Statement

Cherokees Demand Truth from Elizabeth Warren is a group of authentic Cherokees and descendants devoted to sharing the truth about our history. Our mission is to help people understand what a real Cherokee is and to show why Elizabeth Warren claiming to be Cherokee without proof is harmful and offensive to us.

A group of Cherokee Indian set up a website this week disputing Elizabeth Warren’s claims. They don’t claim her.
The Christian Science Monitor reported:

As Massachusetts Democrats meet at their nominating convention today, some members of the Cherokee Nation are stepping up a campaign to get answers about candidate Elizabeth Warren’s claims of tribal ancestry – a sideshow controversy that has nevertheless begun to wobble one of the most closely-watched Senate campaigns in the country.

This week, Indian reporters say they were snubbed by Warren’s campaign as they sought clarification on why Ms. Warren was listed as a minority Native faculty by Harvard in the 1990s, even though she has no evidence to back that claim and apparently never sought out other Native Americans on campus.

Jim Barnett, a spokesman for the incumbent Republican, Scott Brown, did talk to Indian Country magazine, noting that “any time a person tries to attach themselves to a group of people without rationale for doing so, except for maybe personal gain, it seems very seedy to me.”

A group of Cherokees has set up a website disputing Warren’s claims, and some tribal members said they may protest the Democratic nominating convention in Springfield, Mass., today.

Indeed, signs are emerging that the Native claim controversy has begun to take a toll, as the number of Warren detractors rose by 9 points in the latest University of New Hampshire poll, released Friday. While polls have shown that the vast majority of voters still believe the ancestry issue is overblown, 42 percent of presumptive voters in the UNH poll said Warren had not adequately explained her assertion, compared to 37 percent who said she had. More troubling for her campaign, when asked who they thought would win the race – a question that sums up views and attitudes respondents are picking up from family and friends – 52 percent picked Brown and 27 percent picked Warren.

Although she claimed to be Native American when she was hired at Harvard there are no Native Americans in Elizabeth Warren’s genealogy.