Thursday Quick Fix Six (4/29/04):

A hearty welcome from be-you-tiful Coeur d'Alene: The Heart of an Awl, where the sun is shining again today. Which means housing prices are going up. Which is OK as long as you aren't a newly wed couple trying to buy a house with the wages earned from our minimum-wage tourism industry. Here's your fixes:

1. Cartoonist Chuck Asay offers a poignant reminder of how we look at the coffins of the war dead from different filters. Here's your Political 'Toon Fix.

2. Conan took a stab at So-Damn Insane's birthday wish in his monologue last night: Today is Saddam Hussein’s birthday. "You know you’re having a bad year when your birthday wish is to be back in a spider hole." Here's your Late Night Fix.

3. Don't look now, but a resistance movement is taking shape to help Americans deal with the insurgents. Dunno if it's too little too late. But it shows some Iraqis realize that their future rests in the hands of good old Uncle Sam. Click here.

4. Rainbow Demos are unhappy because the upper echelon of J. Flipflop Kerry's election campaign is mostly white. Here's your daily Flipflop Fix.

5. National polls may show Dubya barely ahead or even with Flipflop. But those aren't the polls to watch. The ones to watch are the polls in battleground states. The good news? Flipflop is even or trailing Dubya in the battleground states won by Algore four years ago. Here's your Poll Fix.

6. You shouldn't listen to what a congressman sez about the federal deficit; you should watch what s/he does about it. In most cases, s/he probably drafts bills or votes for bills to increase spending. A national taxpayers' group studied the phenomenon. Here's your Reality Check Fix.

--UMass grad student Rene Gonzalez of The Daily Collegian proves how nutty the Left can be with an idiotorial denouncing fallen Pat Tillman as an idiot here. Meanwhile, that Lefty Portland Web site with links to Teresa Heinz Kerry yanked its anti-Tillman comments here.

--Michael P. Tremoglie of FrontPageMag asks: "If liberals have a radio network and nobody listens does it make a sound." Air America is already on its last legs. Click here.

--CEO Bobby Eberle of GOPUSA reminds Americans why we're fighting in the Middle East here.

--Suzanne Fields talks about the women who can't march on D.C. whose champion is George W. Bush here.