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Thanksgiving blogservations…
Robert Spencer of JihadWatch gives thanks that no major terrorist attack has occurred in the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001.
BlackFive is thankful for American GIs; so is Marvin Olasky. Jen Martinez is thankful for our Special Forces.
Scrappleface reports that Maryland has renamed Thanksgiving “Lucky Thursday:”
Faced with the constitutional prohibition against teaching about the Christian [...]

My Thanksgiving column is here.
Hope you all have a wonderful holiday tomorrow. At the risk of offending the p.c. police, God be with you!

Republican Dino Rossi has won the gubernatorial recount in Washington State. Sore-losing Democrats, who thought beleaguered attorney general Christine Gregoire was going to coast to victory, are preparing to demand not only a hand recount–but also a second full recount as well.
Get all the lowdown at Sound Politics. This one looks like it will drag [...]

I will let the excellent responses to this open borders op-ed in the Wall Street Journal speak for themselves.

Move America Forward has launched an ad campaign calling for the expulsion of the U.N. headquarters from the U.S:
Americans must demand our government remove the United Nations from our borders and cease serving as the major financial supporter of an organization that has veered from its original purpose.
The United Nations was originally founded according to [...]

FYI: Am scheduled to be on FNC’s Hannity & Colmes tonight to talk about airport security gropes and gripes, something I’ve had a lot of experience with over the past two weeks. More later…

Great story here about a trio of medics, Sgt. Jessica Fisher, Sgt. Kristen Pagel and Sgt. Angela Magnuson, serving soldiers and civilians in Iraq. God bless them all!

(Hat tip: Chuck Simmins)

Too many black people are dependent on the Democrats for handouts and racial preferences. Black politicians depend on the Bush haters for financial resources enabling them to gain office. Black civil rights organizations are beholden to liberal foundations. The bottom line of all of this is that he who pays the piper calls the tune [...]

Lots of readers are asking me to comment on the Virginian-Pilot’s decision to drop my syndicated column.
The most amusing thing is that the paper’s decision was news at all. I’ve been nationally syndicated for five years now, and papers come and go routinely. I’ve been fortunate over the years to have gained far more than [...]

Reuters reports on despicable acts by United Nations peacekeepers in the Congo:
The United Nations is investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by U.N. civilian staff and soldiers in the Congo, some of them recorded on videotape, a senior U.N. official said on Monday.
The accusations include pedophilia, rape and prostitution, said Jane Holl Lute, an [...]

From Fox News…Students Free to Thank Anybody, Except God:
ANNAPOLIS, Md. � Maryland public school students are free to thank anyone they want while learning about the 17th century celebration of Thanksgiving � as long as it’s not God.
And that is how it should be, administrators say.
Young students across the state read stories about the Pilgrims [...]

Headline: Mexico seeks greater ties with Iran mullahs
Meanwhile, President Bush forges ahead with his amnesty award package for Mexican President Vicente Fox.
Whatever happened to that “You are either with us or against us” stuff?
(Hat tip: Jim)

The Young America’s Foundation has a helpful new list of the top 10 conservative colleges:
* Hillsdale College
* Grove City College
* Franciscan University
* Indiana Wesleyan University
* Thomas Aquinas College
* Harding University
[...]

Newsmax recently noticed that Hillary Clinton is starting to play up border security and illegal immigration:
More than any other leader of either political party, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has been focusing on the issue of immigration reform and border security - taking hard-line positions that appeal to frustrated Republicans in a move that could [...]

Last week, I noted the MSM’s abysmal treatment of minority conservative politicians. Today, the Grand Rapids Press came through with a fair and balanced profile of one of the minority Republicans I highlighted, Vietnamese-American Van Tran:
GRAND RAPIDS — The memories still are a blur for Van Tran.
He was 10 when he landed in Grand Rapids [...]

John Little at Blogs of War highlights spiteful Dems reacting to a Houston jet crash. (The plane was en route to pick up former president George H.W. Bush.)

One of the special treats of the NR cruise was an advance screening of I Am David, a family-friendly movie that chronicles a 12-year-old boy’s escape from a Bulgarian labor camp. It’s scheduled for limited release in theaters on December 3. Check it out.

Do you know where your kid’s school bus is? In Beantown, city officials want to install GPS tracking devices to make sure unionized drivers aren’t goofing off or endangering schoolchildren. Naturally, the ridiculous labor goons have turned this into a racial issue. The bus drivers are threatening a strike. Carpundit says, “Go for it:”
Yet another [...]

Am back after nearly two weeks on the road and on the high seas. In Detroit, about 800 folks turned out for my national security lecture for the Downriver Town Hall series. At the Restoration Weekend in Boca Raton, the highlight was meeting Swift Boat Vet John O’Neill. And the National Review cruise was quite [...]

When it comes to minority conservatives, liberal bigotry knows no bounds. Readers of this blog will recall the recent racist scribblings of liberal cartoonists in hoods, Ted Rall and Jeff Danziger.
The great Rush Limbaugh has picked up on this thread, with links to new anti-Rice cartoons. Winfield Myers, who blogs at The Democracy Project, [...]

My column today examines the outrageous case of two-year-old Bradley McGee and warns about the potential fate of his half-brother, Billy, in the hands of his mother in name only, Sheryl Hardy. She was convicted of second-degree murder and aggravated child abuse for the torture and killing of Bradley 15 years ago. The Illinois Supreme [...]

Hey, everyone! Sorry for the non-blogging. Been on the road since last week. Spoke in Detroit and Boca Raton at the Restoration Weekend, and have been on the National Review cruise with my family since Saturday. Lots of cool celebrities on board, but even more important…blog readers and bloggers. Met Spoons and his wife (from [...]

By now most of my readers have seen the picture of the young illegal immigrant girl who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border while hiding inside a piñata.
You may not have heard that the two smugglers responsible for this will not be prosecuted. “The arrests of individuals smuggling people far exceeds the ability to prosecute [...]

Reader Jose Canas asks what happened to the Marine featured on my web site a few days ago. Answer: He wants more Marlboros, but otherwise is fine. More information here. OohRah!

The New York Times editorial board is happy because cardiologists are paying attention to racial differences in responses to pharmacological treatments. The Times encourages the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve a drug aimed at a single racial group–something the FDA has never done before.
Fair enough.
Naturally, the Times can’t leave its readers with the [...]

“Jury Finds Scott Peterson Guilty of Wife’s Murder,” reads this morning’s New York Times headline. In truth, as the body of the Times article points out, the jury found Peterson guilty for the double homicide of both Laci Peterson and her unborn son, Conner.
California is one of 31 states that protect unborn victims from violence, [...]

Four years ago, the world watched as election officials scrutinized hanging chads in Florida. Now residents in Washington State, where the outcome of the super-close gubernatorial election is still in doubt, are getting their own taste of election drama. The Post-Intelligencer reports:
A Superior Court judge ordered King County election officials to give Democrats the names [...]

A reader named Marc informs me that “right now the most needed item[s] by our troops are phone cards.” Those who would like to give a prepaid calling card to a member of our armed forces can do so online by going to the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, the Navy Exchange Service Command, [...]

In response to an e-mail from Truth Laid Bear ’s N.Z. Bear, the New York Times ran a correction earlier this week. Apparently, the Times had confused the number of unique visitors at Daily Kos with the number of visits. The correction read as follows:
An article on Oct. 28 about Internet sites that criticize mainstream [...]

Most of my readers will remember Republican Bruce Herschensohn, a wonderful conservative commentator, who narrowly lost a Senate race to Democrat Barbara Boxer in 1992. Herschensohn’s campaign was derailed a few days before the election when it was reported that he had visited strip clubs and viewed pornographic materials. The allegations were the central focus [...]