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The name will be unfamiliar to most, but Constantine Menges was a great American dedicated to the preservation of freedom and security. He served under President Reagan as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs and at the CIA as a National Intelligence Officer. He was a scholar, author, university professor. Menges oversaw the design of [...]

The recording artist known as “Jadakiss” is earning big bucks and bling-bling with a new hit single called “Why?” (Hat tip: Resurrection Song)
The song accuses President Bush of involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, with the lyric “Why did Bush knock down the Towers?” According to Reuters/Billboard, Jadakiss said:
“I just felt [he] had [...]

I’m adding the fearless Shannen Rossmiller to my list of Moms Who Rock–but with some reservations, which I’ll get to in a sec. The Houston Chronicle profiles Rossmiller today, going into great detail about how she works by day as a judge, at by night as a terrorist hunter:
By day, she’s the municipal judge of [...]

Fifty years ago, at Oxford University, Roger Bannister became the first human being to run a mile in less than four minutes. Today the record stands at three minutes, forty-three seconds. In the not-so-distant future, with the aid of gene therapy, we may see someone run a three and a half minute mile. Unfortunately, athletes [...]

1) Excellent column this morning by Jeff Jacoby, who takes a “New look at Bush’s 16 words.” Here’s the conclusion:
Intelligence failures are not the same thing as lies. And intelligence failures about Iraqi WMD did not begin with the Bush administration. It is worth recalling that the CIA was way off the mark in its [...]

“Sanitation worker.”
“Exotic dancer.”
“Domestic engineer.”
And now this: Watching commercials during the Olympic trials earlier this evening, I learn that the guy who slops together my Subway meatball sub (6-inch on white, salt & pepper, and parmesan cheese) is…a “Subway sandwich artist!”
Next up: Domino’s “pizza escorts?”

The mayor and other elected officials in Washington DC want to bring back a major league baseball team to the city. And, as in many other cities, they want to pay for it in large part with government funds. Fortunately, not all of DC’s leaders are going along with the program. Two council members, Adrian [...]

Or whatever the number is now. This time it’s the federal immigration ban on people with AIDS.
FLIP…
Kerry 2004 announced Saturday: “I will work with Congress to lift the immigration ban on HIV-positive people that has prohibited the United States from hosting [an annual AIDS conference].”
FLOP…
February 1993, Boston Globe: “The US Senate dealt President Clinton [...]

Former L.A. mayor and current California education chief Richard Riordan made some weird comments to a little girl named “Isis” last week. The proud little girl had asked if he knew what “Isis” meant (Egyptian goddess). Apparently having a senior moment, or a brain fart, or just plain sick and tired of pretending to like [...]

My old hometown of Seattle–the Berkeley of the Pacific Northwest–just can’t stop showing its contempt for America.
Take a look at this disgraceful incident on Bainbridge Island, a few miles west of Seattle proper (and the future home of Hollywood liberals Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston). One of the participants in Bainbridge Island’s annual Independence Day [...]

It’s not often that The Financial Times devotes coverage to a U.S. talk radio interview, but the staid British business publication did just that in this morning’s edition. The topic of the story was John Kobylt’s take-no-prisoners interview of Asa Hutchinson, the #2 official at the Department of Homeland Security. Calling the interview “extraordinary,” the [...]

Yesterday’s New York Times contained quite a “scoop” about the destruction of President Bush’s military records:
Military records that could help establish President Bush’s whereabouts during his disputed service in the Texas Air National Guard more than 30 years ago have been inadvertently destroyed, according to the Pentagon….
The disclosure appeared to catch some experts, both pro-Bush [...]

“When I think of the story of Rick Sanchez, it reminds me that America is the nation of the open door and must remain that way,” President Bush told the League of United Latin American Citizens national convention yesterday.
The problem with an open door is you never know who (or what) might come in. That [...]

Mike Adams, a conservative criminology professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, keeps tabs on the Ivory Tower of Babel and has a new column on how one campus is waging a half-hearted campaign against pornography.
Meanwhile, Ben Shapiro’s terrific book, Brainwashed, offers on-the-ground reporting from a conservative student under siege at UCLA.
Mike Antonucci [...]

Today is Frank J.’s second “blogiversary” over at IMAO –with a spanking new Sekimori redesign! (Frank was the first to offer me a chivalrous welcome to the blogosphere last month.)
In celebration of his red-letter day, we offer the obligatory link and a t-shirt plug (hope it’s okay with Sarah the IMAO t-shirt babe)…

And gets burned big time. Dale Franks at QandO has a great summary and analysis of the Homeland Security Undersecretary’s appearance yesterday on KFI-AM’s John and Ken show in Los Angeles. These guys are doing what the Los Angeles Times editorial page ought to be doing: holding government officials accountable when they make pander-driven decisions [...]

The Washington Post’s Richard “Fluff Daddy” Leiby announces that the other half of the Skankette twins has signed on as a reporter/analyst/what-EVER for MTV News (”News”) during the Democratic National Convention:
That foul-mouthed red-haired vixen known as the Wonkette (Ana Marie Cox of Arlington) has leveraged her popular political gossip site, Wonkette.com, into a gig with [...]

My friend Mike Fumento has written a provocative article (he doesn’t write any other kind!) on the F/A-22 Raptor fighter for the American Spectator. Excerpt:
It made sense to kill the Crusader self-propelled howitzer program, a bulky cold war left-over developing so slowly it wouldn’t be available before the Starship Enterprise. We also didn’t need the [...]

Two bloggers–Bill at INDC Journal and John Tabin–report on their Democratic National Convention press credentials getting revoked by the supposedly blog-friendly Party of the Little People.
Some hapless DNC cogs explain the revocations by telling the bloggers that there is not enough “overall site capacity” to accomodate them.
Not enough space? Sounds like a phony [...]

Ted “Bottom-feeder” Rall is at it again. His latest crude-toon includes a frame depicting Condoleezza Rice proclaiming herself Bush’s “HOUSE NIGGA.” A black man demands that Rice “HAND OVER HER HAIR STRAIGHTENER.” His t-shirt reads “YOU’RE NOT WHITE, STUPID.” The caption below the frame reads “SENT TO INNER-CITY RACIAL RE-EDUCATION CAMP.”
I am not going to [...]

Captain Ed notes that my parents’ native land is going soft in the wake of threats by Islamofascists who have apparently kidnapped a Filipino in Iraq. In response to the kidnappers’ demand that the Philippines withdraw from Iraq, the island nation has barred Filipino workers from traveling to Iraq. Ed comments:
[W]hat Manila has done is [...]

Well, I see Sen. Robert “Kleagle” Byrd has a book coming out later this month, and the reviewers are already lavishing praise on the old pork-monger. Publisher’s Weekly writes: “This volume is a searing criticism, informed by Byrd’s knowledge of history, leavened with his vast experience and written with his legendary rhetorical flourish.” Amazon.com reviewer [...]

Column’s up: Just your average Democrat donors
Excerpt:
So, let us hail the diversity of everyday Democrat donors: The pardon-pushing socialite. The Communist-coddling corporate sellout. The reckless Asian-American rainmaker. And the nicotine-stained heiress/almost-felon who keeps on giving.
It’s a bankroll that looks like America. Really.
FYI: The full list of DNC “patriots” is here. The full list of [...]

According to this report, the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service will be providing special security for American athletes competing in the Summer Olympics in Greece next month.
Let’s hope the State Department can keep bozos such as the one I reported on last May from penetrating its security forces.

The Associated Press reports:
Four close brothers are being sent to Iraq together, all in the same Army Reserve unit, and for three of them it’s the second tour of duty there in less than a year. The Scherzberg brothers — Jeff, 27, Brett, 23, and 21-year-old twins Matthew and Justin — all are due to [...]

…to all of the John & Ken listeners visiting for the first time. Here are links to the immigration-related items I discussed with John:
John Kerry’s Sister Souljah Moment?
Ashraf Ahmad Abdallah
You can read more about my book, Invasion, by clicking on “Books” on the left. And there are plenty of other immigration/national security-related posts below and [...]

Longtime readers know I’m an avid fisher. So you can understand the sympathy I feel for this poor guy, who caught a beautiful 40-pound halibut in Alaska, had it wrapped and packed in two ice chests to share with friends and family in Seattle, and then had the fish stolen by baggage handlers at the [...]

The folks at Townhall.com’s C-Log are debating whether John Edwards is hot or not. Carolyn Davids likes the Southern accent; Emily Shaheen says he’s “prissy.”
Meanwhile, the voters at Am I Annoying? give the Golden Boy a 57.04% annoying approval rate in 2003.
(Your humble correspondent, by comparison, scored a 42.35% annoying approval rate. But that’s before [...]

Believe it or not, NASA employees will get sensitivity and diversity training tomorrow from representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Anti-CAIR responds:
We ask, again, what is it about Islam that is so sensitive and delicate that all non-Muslim Americans must be trained in how to react to them? Why is Islam, above [...]

He may have dumped Mandy Moore and lost Wimbledon, but American tennis star Andy Roddick won my heart with his answer to a German reporter from Der Spiegel who pestered Roddick about his views on the war in Iraq this weekend:
SPIEGEL ONLINE: What about the war?
Roddick: What’s that supposed to mean?
SPIEGEL ONLINE: What do you [...]