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Mark Bogosian, an American Airlines pilot, is co-author of a helpful book for airline passengers. It’s Never Again: A Self-Defense Guide for the Flying Public. His co-authors are a SWAT team leader and a police commander. “Unless law enforcement is aboard, passengers and flight attendants are the first line of defense,” Bogosian notes.
Along with disarming [...]

Canada Free Press’s Judi McLeod provides a preview of Teresa Heinz-Kerry-subsidized protests being planned by the Ruckus Society at the GOP convention in New York.
More info on the Ruckus thugs at ActivistCash.com.

…at the Republican Party convention! The Washington Times and Bob Novak report separately on efforts by conservatives to diversify the Karl Rove-approved, namby-pamby, prime-time speakers line-up. The Times’ Ralph Hallow writes today:
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, New York Gov. George E. Pataki, New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani � all [...]

Something’s up (and it’s not just my teething baby and me). The Washington Post reports today on renewed efforts by the FBI to gather intelligence from Arab/Muslims via targeted voluntary interviews:
FBI agents have launched a series of interviews of Muslims and Arab Americans in the Washington area and across the country, hoping to glean information [...]

Sens. Judd Gregg and John Sununu of New Hampshire have discovered the feds’ old catch-and-release game…not with fish, but with illegal aliens. The Union Leader reports:
[Gregg and Sununu] want to know why federal immigration officials decided not to step in when New Ipswich police stopped a van carrying nine illegal aliens this week.
New Ipswich Police [...]

Ok, the kids are asleep.
1) Skeptics (yeah, even the ones who hate my guts) are having an interesting discussion here.
2) Still no word from any other passengers. It’s possible that after Jacobsen appears on the networks, folks will come forward.
3) Reader Liz Roewe has sent several questions to the editors of WomensWallStreet.com and [...]

The beautiful and brainy Marie Gryphon, an old Seattle gal pal and Second Amendment sister of mine, has a good piece at FOXNews.com on “The Affirmative Action Myth.” Also be sure to check out this great new group blog, Right on Race, for excellent commentary from my old friend Tom Wood of AADAP and many [...]

I have been speaking with Brendi Rawlin of Porter Novelli (PR rep for Womens Wall Street). According to Brendi, the Washington Post has been sitting on the true story of Annie Jacobsen’s “Terror in the Skies” account since last Friday, when WomensWallStreet.com approached him. Dave Adams, the air marshal’s spokesman, not only confirmed the story, [...]

Regarding Annie Jacobsen’s intriguing article, I just got word from Dave Adams of the Federal Air Marshals Service (FAM). Adams confirmed that he spoke to Annie Jacobsen, was quoted accurately in her story, and confirmed some of the basic facts outlined in her article (there were 14 Syrians on the flight; they were questioned by [...]

Julia Gorin, stand-up comic and Jewish World Review contributing editor, has a funny piece in the Wall Street Journal’s Taste page today. She attempts to unravel the mystery of the “Anti-Semitism is Anti-Me” campaign recently launched by the Anti-Defamation League:
I couldn’t help noticing, on a telephone kiosk in midtown Manhattan, a poster of an Asian [...]

Lonewacko notes an encouraging development in the case of legal immigrants who filed a lawsuit against a big orchard owner in Washington’s Yakima Valley. The plaintiffs charged that orchard executives “conspired to depress farmworkers’ wages by hiring large numbers of illegal workers to set low wage standards for orchard and packing house work.” Their class [...]

Unlike the miscreants in Bainbridge Island, Washington, the folks on American Airlines Flight 866 know how to show their gratitude to our men and women in uniform:
Eight soldiers flying home from Iraq for two weeks of R&R flew in style instead of coach after first-class passengers offered to swap seats with them.
“The soldiers were very, [...]

Don’t be drinking anything when you read the Incredible Hulk’s diary.
Update: Will the real Hulk please stand up? Meryl Yourish alerts me to these postings (here and here) from REAL Hulk on her excellent site. She adds:
Your Blogspot Hulk, quite frankly, sucks. He uses words that the Hulk would never use, and his style isn’t [...]

The good folks at the Becket Fund have returned from a fact-finding mission in Sri Lanka. Here’s a summary of their investigation of religious persecution:
While Americans worry about religious radicalization in the Middle East, most of them don’t know that it’s increasingly happening in South Asia. There has been a recent wave of anti-conversion and [...]

Several readers have sent me the link to this fascinating article from WomensWallStreet.com, which brings to mind James Woods’ experience prior to September 11, 2001.
Update: Over at Redstate, Martinipundit says the story is a hoax (hat tip: Instapundit).
Update II: Reader Liz Roewe cc’d me on an e-mail to the editors of WomensWallStreet.com. [...]

At Tony Pipitone’s request, I removed this morning’s post about Pipitone’s role in the Jesse Maali case. Pipitone stated in an e-mail that the Orlando Sentinel article that I relied on for this morning’s post inaccurately reported the testimony of lawyer Mark NeJame. I contacted Pedro Ruz Gutierrez, who wrote the article for the Sentinel [...]

The Wonkette-ization of the Washington Post continues. I’ve just learned that the Post is planning a Washington Post Magazine front-page cover story on Jessica Cutler because, you know, she just hasn’t gotten the attention she deserves. Here’s the e-mail I received from April Witt, a Post staff writer:

—– Original Message —–
From: [...]

It has become so cliche: The next-door neighbor murders his wife. The handsome jock is nabbed for serial rape/killings. The distant son hijacks a plane and drives it into a tall building. Somebody, somewhere, commits a deed of pure, naked evil, but there’s always an available idiot shaking his/her head and blubbering to a reporter, [...]

Jon Lauck has the latest on Michael Moore, Tom Daschle and Hug-gate. Moore says Daschle is a liar.
There’s a pot and a kettle.

Chief Wiggles needs help! More information on Operation Give is here.

It has come to my attention that Nathan, a very cool blogger at at Brain Fertilizer, is irked that I mentioned him in a previous post, but failed to provide a link to his fabulous blog. My bad. Please help me make amends and visit him at Brain Fertilizer.
(And no, I’m not doing this for [...]

Paul Sperry reports on the latest Department of Homeland Security woes, including a directive ordering detention facilities to free illegal aliens because of a budget crunch. More of the same old catch and release policies.
Threat advisory level: Screwed.

Over and over again, we are reminded that the intelligence on WMDs in Iraq was flawed. Over and over again, we are informed that there was no collaborative relationship between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. The strong implication is not just that the case for war was built on “lies” and “hype” but that [...]

Column’s up: The mollycoddling milksops of Manila. Excerpt:
Add the flag of the Philippines to the International Hall of Appeasers. Sign this pitiful nation up for a lifetime membership to the Axis of Weasels. And remind me never again to brag about the proud fighting spirit of my ancestors.
See also Philippine Commentary, Wizbang!, The Moderate Voice, [...]

A reader writes: “You’ll be happy to know that the public school system has taken a step further in promoting counterculture reading in schools, by encouraging their students to write based on the subject matter they read, using computers furnished with gangsta compliant software. See attached.”

Headline in the Washington Times today:
Mfume calls black conservatives puppets
So, what else is new?
Well, apparently Latino liberal actor John Leguizamo is dissing Hispanic Republicans along the same lines. At the DNC fund-raising hate-a-thon in New York last week, he jibed: “”A Latino voting for a Republican is like a roach voting for raid.” (Hat tip: [...]

Athenae, posting on the premiere liberal blog run by Atrios, seriously thinks the public displays of affection (or rather, affectation) between Teresa and John Kerry are admirable and healthy. Athenae swoons:
I know I’ve said this before, but if we truly are electing people based on who you want to have a beer with, the last [...]

“You’ve gotta like a senator who is a pooper picker-upper,” said Connie Thompson of Laurel, Md., upon seeing Senator Ted Kennedy cleaning up after his dog, Splash (!).
I’ll leave the comments to you all.

Via Drudge, we learn that European scientists are trying to grow an affordable AIDS vaccine in genetically-modified plants. You might think this is good news, but not everyone thinks so. So upset are environmentalists in Europe that the crops will probably have to be grown in South Africa, where the threat of sabotage is lower. [...]

A few days ago, I blogged on the Philippines going wobbly in the face of threats by Islamofascists who kidnapped a Filipino truck driver in Iraq. Now, just as I feared, it looks as though President Gloria Arroyo has fallen over completely. According to Reuters:
“The Philippines will withdraw its forces from Iraq “as soon as [...]