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*VDARE.com columnist and National Guardsman Allan Wall has been called up for Iraq duty. His farewell thoughts are here. Good luck and Godspeed.
*Milblogger Signaleer , a member of the 45th Infantry Brigade in Afghanistan, returned home this weekend. Welcome back and thank you for your service.
*Sgt. Hook, currently serving in Afghanistan, has an eloquent reflection [...]

Brian Sain, a police SWAT member for 15 years who works as a detective in the Port Arthur (Texas) Police Department, has established a program to support snipers serving in the War on Terror. The goal is to “help real snipers get the real gear they need to help keep us safe.” From the “Adopt [...]

The New York Times discovers the phenomenon of jet-setting liberals (registration required) who preach environmentalism and practice Gulfstream eco-hypocrisy:
When the leftist film maker Michael Moore used his publisher’s plane on a recent book tour, for example, critics lambasted him for enjoying the corporate high life. The Hollywood activist Laurie David, the wife of Larry David [...]

There’s a new movement, modeled on the South Africa divestment campaign, to put pressure on public companies that do business with terrorist-sponsoring states:
Throughout our history, Americans have risen to the challenge of defending our beloved country and our liberty. Following the 9/11 attacks, however, most Americans felt powerless. Powerless to respond to the tragic attacks [...]

Lawrence Auster discusses Yale University military historian Mary Habeck’s important insights into the key to Jihadist ideology and strategy.

Steve Sailer is asking Michael Barone to put up or shut up.

According to the New York Post, Jim McGreevey is enjoying an out-of-the-closet bounce in the polls. (Do note, however, that the sampling error margin is plus or minus 5 percentage points.)
No wonder he was so giddy at the press conference last week.

Am back home after a week on the road for the book tour. While I was gone, my son sprouted two more teeth and learned to pull himself up in his crib and my daughter learned to do the hula hoop.
As I started sifting through e-mail and catching up with the blogosphere this morning, I [...]

A lot of buzz about the book this week.
Tom Ikeda and Scott Oki attack it in a Seattle P-I op-ed. Like Greg Robinson, they say none of the information in my book is new, which is untrue. They cite the conclusions of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians without addressing any [...]

I’ll be discussing my book in an in-studio interview on the John and Ken show (KFI Los Angeles) at 5 pm Pacific time today. I’ve been a John and Ken fan since they worked in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on WOND-AM. They moved to Southern California around the same time I did. I’ve [...]

Two weeks ago, the New York Times and other media outlets reported with much alarm that the Census had given data to the Department of Homeland Security on where Arab-Americans live. Civil liberties groups called the disclosure a “dangerous breach of the public trust” and likened it to the Census’s compilation of similar information on [...]

I was saddened to see that Brian Lamb’s C-SPAN program, “Book Notes,” is being cancelled. When I appeared on the program a year and a half ago (to discuss my first book, Invasion), I was deeply impressed by Brian Lamb’s thoughtful questions. It was clear that, unlike many other interviewers, he had actually taken the [...]

New column’s up.
All (or almost all) of the intervenors in Arthur Jacobs’ case were Japanese-American leaders or groups. Jacobs comments, “It is interesting to note that those who we are told fought so hard for justice for members of their ethnicity, fought even harder against a person who was not a member of their ethnicity.” [...]

By now you’ve probably heard about Kamran Shaikh, the Pakistani man who allegedly took videotapes of skyscrapers, a Texas dam, and various public transportation systems. The news reports note that Shaikh is being detained for immigration violations, but I’m not sure any major news outlet mentioned that Shaikh says he entered the U.S. illegally by [...]

The San Francisco Chronicle reports today that Bay Area leftists are heading to New York to protest the Republican National Convention. Some organizers are discouraging the infamous “Black Bloc” guerilla group from creating havoc–or, at least, are advising them to do so in Gap and Eddie Bauer attire:
Even though it’s chic in Manhattan to wear [...]

Did your history teachers ever tell you about what happened on the tiny Hawaiian island of Niihau shortly after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor? If not, check out this townhall.com excerpt from my book.

The New York Times reports that Transportation Security Agency officials will take over screening of passengers on New York City helicopter tours. The new policy comes on the heels of intelligence suggesting that al Qaeda may utilize such helicopters to carry out terrorist attacks.
What kind of checks were being done by the private helicopter-tour firms [...]

This Washington Post account of a drunk, naked intruder who broke into a Wheaton, Md., house and tried to rape a four-year-girl is horrific enough. But look at the t-shirt the alleged intruder is wearing in his mugshot:

Check out this headline from the Arizona Daily Star:
Border agent fires at SUV as it tries to run him over
The incident actually involved 12 illegal aliens with two vehicles trying to crash through the U.S.-Mexico border. Not only do the headline and story fail to mention the law-breakers who tried to mow down the [...]

The FBI is damned if it tries to gather intelligence, and damned if it doesn’t.
Its agents are damned as bigots when they attempt the most modest of surveillance measures based on race, religion, or other politically incorrect criteria, and they are damned as bumblers when they fail to act on information gathered through those means. [...]

Department of Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta, who was evacuated as a young boy from San Jose, Calif., to a relocation center in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, has been the Bush Administration’s most ardent foe of racial profiling. Read my new New York Post column on him here.

Update: 9/11 Commissioner John Lehman agrees with me. According [...]

Two weeks ago I noted that David Brock’s media watchdog group was mocking Michael Savage for saying that illegal aliens can vote. Now that the New York Times is saying pretty much the same thing as Savage, will Brock issue a retraction?

This afternoon, during the 5 o’clock hour (eastern time), I’ll be discussing you-know-what on Sean Hannity’s radio show. Tonight, it’ll be a double-header with appearances on both Hannity & Colmes and Scarborough Country. I’ll wrap up the day with an appearance on Alan Colmes’ radio show.
Want more? Check out townhall.com’s book review and Q&A.
Update: Ken [...]

Time magazine has a broad outline of the contents of the al Qaeda computer files seized in Pakistan last week.
On a related note, my airplane reading included a fascinating and stunningly detailed article in The Atlantic Monthly (subscribers only) that sheds light on just how important the Pakistani computer confiscation really is. The author is [...]

A few weeks ago, I discovered a blog called See What You Share on P2P. The site’s owner, Rick Wallace, was alarmed at the amount of sensitive military information that could be accessed by the public via peer-to-peer networks such as Gnutella. He was able to cull photos, documents, and letters from American soldiers and [...]

Here’s a great story of a small-business owner in Seattle fighting onerous regulations that restrict competition in the name of the “public interest.” From yesterday’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
A Senegal-born hair braider who learned that traditional trade from her grandmother is challenging Washington laws she says could drive her out of business, or out of the state.
Attorneys [...]

It was wet and dreary outside in a typically Pacific Northwest way, but the big crowd at Cedar Park Church in Bothell last night provided a remarkably warm welcome. Thanks to all who came out. The showing from the other side was rather anemic, and contrary to the biased Seattle Times report (and yes, that [...]

Looks like I’ll be getting a warm welcome in Seattle later today…
“Book defends internment: Japanese Americans react to argument by ex-Seattle writer”

University of North Carolina law professor Eric Muller has been guest-blogging about my new book this week over at The Volokh Conspiracy. He enlisted the aid of his friend and author Greg Robinson in his endeavor. I welcome the debate from the Eric-Greg tag team and others who have actually read the book and are [...]

E-mail of the day:
Hi Michelle,
I am activated to go to NYC for the Republican National Convention security mission.
In spite of the fact that Mayor Bloomberg doesn’t want the NRA at the convention, the ironic thing is that many of the soldiers in my unit are NRA members, have NYS pistol licenses (which by [...]