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Sorry to mix food metaphors here, but if this devastating Washington Post story is accurate, Sandy Berger is officially chopped liver.
And the National Archivist staffers who nabbed him in the act should win some huge Librarians of the Year awards.
Update: Legal XXX groans at the bad Berger buns puns. I’m surprised no West Coast bloggers [...]

National Review Online has just posted an article by Clint Taylor, who seems to have identified the mystery band on Flight 327. Will have more after the kids are asleep, but it looks like Taylor has done the sleuthing that the deep-pocketed mainstream media wasn’t interested in doing (and all it took was Google and [...]

Byron York’s take on Trousergate is excellent.
He mentions something that caught my eye:
It is not clear why Berger would focus solely on the millennium-plot report. But it is clear that the report has been the object of intense discussions during the September 11 investigation.
The report was the result of a review done by Richard [...]

“Inadvertent?” What pure 100 percent FDA-approved B.S.
Instapundit has a good round-up of comments from folks who work with classified documents and are familiar with security procedures at National Archives and other libraries. Jonah Goldberg is getting an avalanche of similar e-mails. John Hinderaker shares his experience doing research at the State Department.
My own aside: [...]

Former Vice President Al Gore cheers the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Botox for reduction of underarm sweat.

My latest syndicated column is up: The dangerous game of catch-and-release. Following up on a post I wrote last week, I interviewed New Ipswich, New Hampshire, police chief Garrett Chamberlain, who blew the whistle on federal immigration authorities when they refused to take ten admitted illegal aliens into custody. Officials told Chamberlain to let the [...]

I’ve written a piece for USA Today that was posted online tonight and will appear in the print edition tomorrow: Candidates ignore security moms at their peril. A few excerpts:
I am what this year’s election pollsters call a “security mom.” I’m married with two young children. I own a gun. And I vote.
Nothing matters more [...]

The New York Times ran a piece today by Joe Sharkey purporting to report on “What Really Happened” on Flight 327 with the 14 Syrian passengers observed by writer Annie Jacobsen. The piece skews toward the Nothing Happened camp and concludes with a quote from Federal Air Marshal spokesman Dave Adams saying: “They gave their [...]

Gloria Arroyo, president of the Philippines (aka the Islamic Protectorate of the Philippines), on the terrorists’ release of Angelo de la Cruz:
We must rejoice at the good news, but our happiness must be tempered by the awareness that we live in dangerous times and that we must work to create a more peaceful world.
Go ahead, [...]

So, MoveOn.org and Common Cause are suing FOX News to stop them from using the slogan “Fair and Balanced.” FOX should agree to drop that label when Common Cause stops calling itself “nonpartisan.”

Just watched the excellent special report on MSNBC hosted by Joe Scarborough regarding Annie and Kevin Jacobsen’s account of what they saw on Northwest Flight 327. I am going to keep this short and simple, as this will be my last blogword on the matter unless anything new breaks.
I believe the Jacobsens. [...]

Whoa.
Well..,

It’s.
Not.
Like.
It’s.
Anything.
New.
Stefan notes the Kerry connection. (Via Captain’s Quarters)
OTB muses: “Perhaps his dog ate it.”
Hmmm. More likely culprit: Socks the Cat.
Update: Let the Sandy Berger Photoshopping begin! First out of the gate: Blogs of War.
More: Mark Levin in April noted some damning info that Berger wasn’t able to stuff down his pants.
The Washington [...]

Blogger Mark O’Brien at Seven Inches of Sense is father of Burke, who was murdered in New York City last year in front of an acquaintance’s apartment. The killer remains on the loose. Burke’s story will be the subject of tomorrow’s episode of NYPD 24/7. Michele is asking other bloggers to spread the word. Mark [...]

If you do not follow the work of Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald, shame on you. She is a fearless myth-piercer and intrepid investigative writer who has no patience for p.c. pablum–whether it’s coming from the anti-Patriot Act alarmists, anti-profiling whiners, or anti-police agitators. Her latest article for City Journal eviscerates the open-border [...]

The latest from Baghdad:
A SUICIDE bomber in a fuel truck blew it up early today at a police station in southwest Baghdad, killing nine people and wounding around 60 as the inferno engulfed civilians and officers waiting for their daily assignments, officials and witnesses said.
Later, the Defense Ministry said militants killed Essam al-Dijaili, the [...]

The Seattle Times details the security troubles with Internet Explorer. I finally got fed up with it two weeks ago and switched to Mozilla. Have been very pleased. (By the way, if you use Movable Type and find that your style buttons/customization bar disappears when you switch to Mozilla, see Sekimori and Dale Franks.)
More geek [...]

Courtney Love reveals the reason for her crack-up:
The last thing I want to say is, ‘I’m a victim’, but I am. I believe it’s a trickledown from Bush … I should have done an audit. I should have done face-time with people. That is true. But did I bring it on myself? I don’t think [...]

Via Michael Smerconish’s radio show this morning, we learn that Annie Jacobsen will be posting a follow-up to her Terror In The Skies, Again article at womenswallstreet.com around 9amPST/12noonEST.
Jacobsen’s parents e-mailed me some family background:
Annie Jacobsen is our daughter!! She is NOT the science fiction writer nor the psychic (with the same name). [...]

Frank Gaffney has the latest on the troubling appointment by the Bush administration of Faisal Gill, “policy director” of the Department of Homeland Security’s Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection division. Gill, who has served as spokesman for the controversial American Muslim Council, has no intelligence background and has been able to keep his job and [...]

Oh, God. This just in from the Philippines Daily Tribune:
A ransom of $6 million was offered and paid out to the Iraqi rebels holding Filipino truck driver Angelo de la Cruz hostage, to ensure his release before President Arroyo’s scheduled State of the Nation Address on July 26, a high level Philippine intelligence officer [...]

Which is scarier:
A or B?

I loved, loved, loved the Little House on the Prairie series when I was a kid. Apparently, there are still girls around the world who read the books, too. If you can ignore Hank Steuver’s snide tone, this Washington Post feature on Prairie girls will have you longing for Plum Creek.
I wrote about my [...]

This is pretty amazing – a searchable database put together by an enterprising team at FundRace that allows you to find out who your neighbors have been giving political donations to and how much.
Personally, my husband discourages me from talking politics with the neighbors. Our kids wouldn’t have anyone to play with if [...]

Rod Dreher over at The Corner points to this creepy New York Times piece (registration required, it’s worth it) by a cosmopolitan woman who recounts her decision to undergo “selective pregnancy reduction.”
Let me translate that for normal people who reject the euphemisms of the pro-death camp. The privileged woman finds out she is carrying triplets. [...]

Cool! The Associated Press discovers the young conservative activist group, Protest Warriors. Get ready for Operation Liberty Rising. They may not have any Ketchup money, but they are all heart. You can donate to the group and buy cool gear (I like the Right-Wing Extremists t-shirt…hint-hint!) here.
FOX News also ran a feature on the group [...]

I’m scheduled to be on Fox News this afternoon at around 1:30pm to talk about the Filipino cave-in to terrorism. Meanwhile, as Islamic head-choppers sharpen their blades in search of more Angelo de la Cruzes to use as extortion tools, the Philippines is in an uproar over…Jay Leno. Leno had joked on his show [...]

And Jesus answering saith unto them, “Have faith in God.”
- Mark 11:22.
The story of this teenager’s survival, which she credits to her faith in God, is an inspiration:
She began praying the moment she saw the gun. She kept praying as he forced her into a truck, drove for miles, repeatedly raped her and left [...]

Congrats to Hugh Hewitt, whose new book, If It’s Not Close, They Can’t Cheat: Crushing the Democrats in Every Election and Why Your Life Depends on It, is #1 on Amazon.com’s Non-Fiction Best-Seller list today!

Check this mess out. Where are the environmentalists when you need them?

Get out your hankies. The civil liberties alarmists are bawling and the sky is falling because…
…they can’t take photos of sensitive areas without scary men in uniforms asking them for ID!
…they can’t sell their crappy records to pro-American Americans!
…they can’t break immigration laws in California without someone trying to enforce the law against them!
Henny Penny! [...]