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Headline: Poletown seizures are ruled unlawful
More:
Reversing more than two decades of land-use law, the Michigan Supreme Court late Friday overturned its own landmark 1981 Poletown decision and sharply restricted governments such as Detroit and Wayne County from seizing private land to give to other private users.
The unanimous decision is a decisive victory for property owners […]

From a Marine sergeant expressing disgust with John Kerry after the candidate interrupted the sergeant and three fellow Marines’ lunch at Wendy’s for an unwanted photo-op:
“I speak for all of us. We think that we are doing the right thing in Iraq.”
Update: Baldilocks gives Kerry some pointers.

Check out Operation Flip-Flop–no, it’s not the Kerry-Edwards campaign. It’s a wonderful effort by a Houston couple to collect slippers and shoes for Iraqi children:
A Montgomery County couple who launched a shoe-collection drive for Iraqi children delivered 2,010 pairs of flip-flops to Fort Hood on Friday for distribution in theBaghdad area beginning next week.
Gary and […]

On July 26, the ambassador of Syria had an outraged letter published in the Washington Times regarding Northwest Flight 327:
I am responding to Audrey Hudson’s article “Scouting jetliners for new attacks” (Page 1, Thursday). We are shocked by this article. It only reflects paranoia verging on the point of hysterics. The woman mentioned most prominently […]

Via Drudge and the Associated Press, we learn: “Kerry in favor of U.S. bin Laden trial:”
John Kerry said Friday he would put Osama bin Laden on trial in U.S. courts rather than an international tribunal to ensure the “fastest, surest route” to a murder conviction if the terrorist mastermind is captured while he is president.
“I […]

Kimora Lee Simmons says: It’s all your fault!
From the Woe-Is-Me Celebrity Files…
The wife of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons faces drug and motor vehicle charges after police said she was driving erratically and ignored the flashing lights of a cruiser for nearly two miles. Kimora Lee Simmons was arrested just after midnight Monday outside the couple’s […]

The Washington Post reports that Abdurahman Alamoudi, once embraced as a “mainstream” and “moderate” Muslim activist who courted both the Clinton and Bush administrations, will plead guilty today to accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from Libya in violation of U.S. law and attempting to hide it from the government:
Abdurahman Alamoudi has agreed to admit […]

From Kerry’s convention speech: “You don’t value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service…”
Truth: The body armor bake sale myth is debunked by Eliana Johnson here.

From John Kerry’s convention speech: “What does it mean when twenty five percent of the children in Harlem have asthma because of air pollution?”
Answer: It means Kerry is peddling junk science at the behest of his meddling wife. As science journalist Mike Fumento has noted,
Since 1970, the total national emissions of the six principal pollutants […]

Mark Steyn whacks the girlie men of Europe and America upside the head, including the author of this wussy article in Foreign Policy proudly touting the European Union as “The Metrosexual Superpower.”
On a similar note, blogger Jennifer Martinez calls on real men to rise up and revolt against the metrosexuals:
Ok folks, I have had it. […]

From the Associated Press: Violence Scares Kids Into Avoiding School.
The number of U.S. teenagers skipping school for fear of getting hurt climbed over the past decade, even though violence in schools actually declined, the government said Thursday….More than one out of every 20 high school students - 5.4 percent - skipped at least one day […]

Via CNSNews: Has-been gasbag actor Alec Baldwin “slammed the influence of religious conservatives on Wednesday, telling Democrats that the Republican Party ‘has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos.’”
Meanwhile, Alec’s brother, Stephen Baldwin, who became a born-again Christian two years ago, has teamed up with Christian evangelist Luis Palau to produce an extraordinary documentary on Christian […]

Unfit for Command : Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry
Current Amazon.com rank: 2

The University of Michigan released a study purporting to show widespread abuse and harassment of Arabs and Muslims in America. From the Washington Post:
Derogatory comments — “Go back where you came from!” or “Ooh, are you a member of al Qaeda?” — were the most common form of abuse. Others alleged job discrimination and a […]

Looks like Washington is paying attention to the Annie Jacobsen story. The Washington Times reports that “federal officials were summoned to Capitol Hill yesterday to brief Senate and House Judiciary Committee staff in response to reports of the incident, and the Federal Air Marshals Association requested a meeting with top officials in the Homeland Security […]

The Boston Herald reports that the “Kerrys raced to dump foreign stocks:”
John Kerry’s family dumped millions of dollars of foreign holdings as he launched his White House bid, gobbling up Made in the USA stocks in a huge politically savvy international-to-domestic shift.
The investments, mostly in the name of Kerry’s multimillionaire wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, sold […]

David Brock’s media watchdog group, Media Matters, spends its multi-million dollar budget trying to point out errors made by conservative talk show hosts and columnists. In yesterday’s edition, talk show host Michael Savage is accused of lying about illegal aliens and voting rights. Here is what Savage is quoted as saying on his July 26 […]

“Michael Wagner” is a black Muslim convert who was pulled over by an Iowa State Trooper for not wearing a seatbelt. No doubt the professional grievance-mongers are rushing to provide their pro bono services to an innocent man wrongfully profiled by racist cops. Never mind what was in his car:
A 9mm pistol
Three bulletproof vests
Hundreds of […]

Ok, all you open-borders Pollyannas on both the left and right. Here is yet another example of terrorists traipsing across our southern border that you will no doubt ignore.
Meet Farida Goolam Mohamed Ahmed. Federal News Radio reports:
She was stopped at McAllen Miller International Airport on July 19 headed to New York.
Eddie Flores of the U.S. […]

I have a feeling my 8-month-old isn’t going to like him: John Kerry joins the Teletubbies. (Courtesy of Allah Pundit.)

A number of bloggers have come up with excellent responses to Michael Moore’s question to Bill O’Reilly, “Would you sacrifice your son to secure Fallujah?” Here are three of my favorites:
“No parent makes that choice for their child. You can enlist in the army when you are 18 years old, an adult. An adult who […]

Andrew Sullivan’s “pay for my bandwidth” pledge drive has inspired several imitators.
The Spoons Experience writes:
[P]urely out of spite, I have decided to hold my own pledge drive. My only goal is to beat Sullivan on a pro rata traffic basis. As of today, According to Sitemeter, Andrew’s average daily traffic is 56,809. Mine has […]

My new column is up: Five reasons to fear the Democratic Party.
Well, six if you count Al Sharpton, who will speak tonight, believe it or not, to reinforce the Democrat theme of a “Stronger More Secure America.”
Here’s a quick refresher course on Law-and-Order Al’s record on cops, crime, and security:
1) Sharpton’s post-September 11 attacks […]

(The first part of this file is buried so deep, I figured I better start a new one.)
7/28 Edition.
Best bloggy round-ups. I have limited access to TV tonight. Here are a few good places to visit for convention nuggets: Poliblogger’s got “bite-sized” facts and funnies. INCITE is live-blogging every night.
7/27 Edition.

Best description of […]

Did you know that there is an organization called “Democrats for Life of America?” No, it’s not a club for entrenched liberal incumbents. It’s a remarkable group of Democrats who oppose abortion. Monday night, they held a convention dinner. I have searched for mainstream media news accounts of the pro-life dinner and have yet to […]

Things I miss about…
Seattle: Dick’s Drive-In fries and homemade vanilla milkshakes. Copper River salmon. Ivar’s clam chowder.
Los Angeles: In-n-Out burgers.
South Jersey: Funnel cakes and lemonade on the Boardwalk. Fralinger’s Original Saltwater Taffy. Joe and John’s pizza. Hoagies from anywhere.
Reminds me of one of the late, great Michael Kelly’s lovely, witty, classic columns on South Jersey […]

From the e-mailbox:
Is that really you posting at ungodly hours of the night?
Actually, ungodly hours of the morning. Yup, it’s me. No gold-plated interns here at Malkin Central. Just me and my keyboard and my incurable insomnia.
Insomnia…it does a blogger good.

The Holy Land Foundation, the largest Muslim charity in the U.S., and seven of its top officials have been officially indicted for providing financial and material support to the Palestinian militant group, Hamas:
The 42-count indictment, returned by a federal grand jury in Dallas, alleges that the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development provided more […]

From the never-ending Flight 327 files…Writer Heather Wilhelm looked a bit closer at the Syrian Wayne Newton Nour Mehana’s tunes. Not exactly Danke Schoen.
Heather reports:
Mr. Mehana has a nice little song on his recent CD, by the way. It’s called “Um El Shaheed.”
In English, that’s “Mother of a Martyr.”
I noticed “Um […]

Remember that awful New York Times piece about abortion activist Amy Richards’ decision to “eliminate” two of her unborn children through “selective reduction?” Well, the New York Sun got on the case and questioned the paper’s failure to disclose Richards’ line of work. Jacob Gershman reports:
Ooops.
Editors at the New York Times Magazine say they are […]