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How did Delta Airlines and one its passengers treat a Marine trying to get home for her child’s second birthday while on a short leave from Iraq? A letter to the editor in the Benton Courier, linked by Marine Corps Moms, recounted the outrageous incident. Excerpt: This letter is to the young female soldier from [...]

My friend Michael Smerconish, Philly talk show host and columnist, has a soon-to-be New York Times bestseller coming out this week on the p.c. perils of airport security. His important book is called Flying Blind and government officials are already attacking Smerconish for advocating common-sense profiling. Department of Transportation spokesman Brian Turmail told the Boston [...]

Powerlineblog.com, one of my daily must-reads, is on a roll recently. Their coverage of bias at the Associated Press is especially good.

The New York Times now acknowledges that what happened in Beslan over the weekend was a “terrorist attack.” This is progress. Still no mention, however, of the perpetrators’ religion.

At WorldNetDaily, columnist Vox Day argues that “[t]here was never a genuine military threat to the West Coast” during World War II. Further, Mr. Vox argues that this is not merely a hindsight conclusion since “the facts and logistics of the Pacific situation were very well known to American military strategists at the time.” Mr. [...]

Shabbir Motorwala of the Institute for Islamic Education and Research in Miami is wary of FBI efforts to gather intelligence from Muslims. An excerpt: The ”F” in FBI does not represent ”friendly,” so it is amazing when FBI agents knock on your door and say that it’s a friendly visit to get some information. Whenever [...]

The Seattle Times discusses the controversy on Bainbridge Island about the teaching of the World War II internment. An excerpt: At Sakai Intermediate School, named after local internee Sonoji Sakai, Principal Vander Stoep acknowledged the internment is presented with one point of view. “We do teach it as a mistake,” she said, noting that the [...]

An outrageous Jihadi kiddie show that brainwashed Muslim youths about the glories of “martyrdom” is airing again on Palestinian Authority TV. The clip was yanked after a U.S. Senate hearing last year exposed the despicable broadcast. (The PA has received some $1.2 billion in State Department funding/foreign aid from the U.S. over the past decade.) [...]

My latest op-ed piece, “Reparations for internment were just a curtsy to political correctness,” appears in the San Francisco Chronicle today. An excerpt: Although it was almost universally hailed at the time, the decision was one of Reagan’s biggest blunders. In a rare capitulation to political correctness, Reagan ignored the advice of his own military [...]

Take a look at how this front-page New York Times article describes the perpetrators of the siege in Beslan. Notice anything? The killers are called “guerrillas” and “fighters” and “armed captors” but not “terrorists.” At one point the article grudgingly refers to these savage murderers as “people that Mr. Putin calls terrorists.” In more than [...]

This morning, I guest-hosted for the Monica Crowley Show on WABC 77, New York’s premiere talk radio station. Many thanks to Monica Crowley and WABC program director Phil Boyce for giving me the opportunity to try my hand at radio. Thanks also to syndicated columnist Joel Mowbray and blogger Kevin Aylward of Wizbang for appearing [...]

I wish former president Clinton well, and hope his surgery is successful. It has been reported that Clinton has been taking Zocor, a cholesterol-lowering drug whose reputation was bruised a bit earlier this week by a new study. After his surgery, Clinton probably will be prescribed one of the newest statins–medications that might not exist [...]

Don’t let the Labor Day holiday be an excuse to slack off and neglect the ongoing horror and suffering of Russian parents and children at the hands of Islamic terrorists. Read about this Sophie’s Choice nightmare. Take in the heart-wrenching photos and heart-stopping live-blogging at Logic & Sanity. (Hat tip: Jeff Quinton.) Read more about [...]

Rush on the Moderate Myth. Victor Davis Hanson on momentous months ahead. Jim Geraghty at The Kerry Spot on the Dems’ Ohio bloviations and other amusing observations. Holzer and Holzer on Kerry’s Silver Star “typo.” The New York Post op-ed page. And, for sobering reminders of what has been happening outside of Madison Square Garden, [...]

Some of the most moving moments of President Bush’s convention speech this evening involved his remarks about our brave troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. In one passage, Bush mentioned a letter from an Army specialist: Our troops know the historic importance of our work. One Army Specialist wrote home: “We are transforming a once sick [...]

I blogged a few days ago about Code Pink, the so-called “peace activists”/dictator groupies who flash their pink lingerie at antiwar and anti-Bush rallies. It looks like one or two of them slipped through security at the GOP convention this evening: One woman escorted off the second level seating area was wearing a pink slip [...]

Headline: UN Condemns Terrorist Attacks and Executions Excerpt: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday strongly condemned terrorist attacks in Israel and Russia and the gruesome murder of 12 Nepalese civilians in Iraq. The UN Security Council condemned the Israeli suicide bombings and “all other acts of terrorism.” In separate statements, the UN’s leader and most powerful [...]

Zell, Zell, Zell! 1) The whole speech. So many stirring lines. These were some of the best: What has happened to the party I’ve spent my life working in? I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. It was Democratic President Harry Truman who [...]

The history curriculum in Bainbridge Island’s middle school dealing with the so-called Japanese-American internment has come under fire, according to this article in the Bremerton Sun. An excerpt: A special social studies program for Sakai Intermediate School sixth-graders called “Leaving Our Island” is missing context and rises to the level of “propaganda,” some parents say. [...]

The court-martial of Spc. Ryan Anderson aka Amir Talhah has been in the news. According to the Seattle Times, Prosecutors contend that among the information Anderson gave was the exact size of round needed to penetrate bulletproof windows on Humvees that were equipped with added armor. Rene Gonzales, the Army’s top expert on vehicle survivability [...]

Just wondering.

For some reason my latest column isn’t at townhall.com this morning. However, you can read it here. An excerpt: The New York Times’ sanctimonious reporters and editorialists loudly declaim the mixture of religion and politics whenever conservative Christians are involved. But when the religious Left brings Democratic partisans to preach to the choir, the church-state [...]

A year and a half ago, I wrote a column questioning the decision to give much-sought-after organs to Jesica Santillan, an illegal alien. Now comes word from the New York Times of a new Jesica named Isidoro Jimenez: Mr. Jimenez, 47, has been hospitalized on and off for two years. He has congestive heart failure [...]