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For those who may still be laboring under the illusion that we are not at war, I strongly suggest that you visit Cryptome.org’s Homeland Security Operations Morning Brief page before it gets taken down. The proprietor, John Young, was leaked sensitive but unclassified homeland security briefs and posted five months’ worth of the briefs (Sept [...]

Russia has resurrected Stalin…in marble, anyway. The Putin government is erecting a new Stalin statue in Moscow. Meanwhile, a writer for the lefty alternative rag, The Seattle Weekly, is actually calling for the Lenin statue in the kitsch-loving Fremont neighborhood (a few miles from where I lived in Seattle) to be torn down: [T]opple him [...]

Just caught this AP report published 10 minutes ago. This seems like a major defeat for the civil liberties absolutists: A federal judge threw out a lawsuit Wednesday by foreign-born terror suspects challenging their detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ruling that last year’s landmark Supreme Court ruling did not provide them the legal basis to [...]

If you can’t access the Drudge-linked report of the dirty bomb threat in Boston, go to The Counterterrorism Blog–one of my new daily reads. The southern border figures prominently in the story, a threat we’ve documented copiously here, here, here, here, and…you get the idea. The story also brings to my mind suspected al Qaeda [...]

We got a few inches and the mixing bowl we put out on the deck this morning is now full. My daughter has been dying to make snow ice cream. Be back later. Here’s our recipe… Large bowl full of fresh, clean snow 1 cup of whole milk 1/2 tsp. of vanilla extract 1/2 cup [...]

Congrats to bloggers Dean and Rosemary Esmay, who welcomed baby Drake into the world today. Dean reflected on his hopes for his new child. Here’s a touching excerpt: What one lesson would I like him to take away from his old man as he goes through life? Well that’s easy, and it’s the same thing [...]

The Hill reports today that pro-life Democrat Tim Romer is upsetting the DNC’s abortionista apple cart: Nancy Keenan, incoming president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, snubbed former Rep. Tim Roemer (D-Ind.), a candidate to head the Democratic National Committee last week, fueling concern that the abortion debate has become a distraction and an impediment to stopping [...]

News from my neighborhood… A 37-year-old man was charged with the rape of a Montgomery County[, Md.] teenager and is a suspect in a rash of other attacks on women over the past two years, authorities said yesterday. Jorge A. Rivera-Aleman, who prosecutors said lived in a room on Kodiak Drive in Silver Spring for [...]

An Army journalist/blogger describes his journey home from a stint in Iraq here. Note especially the rude treatment he and his colleagues received from airport security. There’s a reason insiders say the TSA stands for “Those Silly Asses.” Anyway, read the whole thing. Great last line: After all, home is where the heart is and [...]

My latest column is about Lance Corporal Andres Raya of the U.S. Marines. If the name rings a distant bell, it’s because Raya was all over the TV news last week in surveillance videos and still pictures of his ambush on police officers at a Ceres, Calif., liquor store. Before we go any further, let [...]

Media Matters, the Soros-funded left-wing media watchdog, made a big stink last summer about talk show host Michael Savage’s assertion that some illegal aliens vote. Here is what Savage is quoted as saying on his July 26, 2004, show: “I’ll go down the list of people who should not have the right to vote. Let’s [...]

The controversy about how Japanese internment should be taught continued last week on Bainbridge Island, Wash. The Kitsap Sun reports: New and improved? Not everyone thought so as a revised curriculum for sixth-graders on Japanese internment was presented Thursday to the Bainbridge Island School Board and sent on its way to classrooms. Some 120 persons [...]

Well, well. Look who supports immigration enforcement. This is beginning to look like a trend. No one will mistake me for a Ted Rall fan, but, as the saying goes, politics makes strange bedfellows.

Time for a Democrats Gone Wild! flashback: Remember those tire-slashing incidents in Milwaukee that occurred at a state Republican Party office, where vehicles that were to be used to transport voters to the polls had been parked? The alleged perps may be charged with felonies by the end of the week. From the Milwaukee Journal [...]

Yes, I’ve just read the story about the f-bomb dropped at the Inaugural Youth Concert. I’m sure Kid Rock is raising a scotch glass to Brett Scallions, lead singer of the band Fuel, who told the young concertgoers: “Welcome to the greatest ——ing country in the world.” Well, I’m glad he’s patriotic and all. But [...]

Set your watches. From AP… They parodied politicians and presidential candidates in a popular Web video last summer. Now JibJab Media Inc., is back with an animated tribute to President Bush’s inauguration. In “Second Term,” which will appear on JibJab’s Web Site Wednesday, four characters in bathing suits — Vice President Dick Cheney, French President [...]

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) are co-sponsoring the “HEROES Act”–a bill to greatly expand death benefits for America’s military personnel and their families. Rep. Terry Everett (R-Ala.) is sponsoring the House version. It’s something politicians on both sides of the aisle should unite behind. Blogger Bill Faith, who runs Small Town [...]

He’s got the votes of the grass-roots organization Move America Forward, which is spearheaded by the forces behind the Gray Davis recall. According to WND: “The United Nations is a corrupt and failed institution that dedicates much of its time to attacking American policy and passing anti-American initiatives,” said Move America Forward co-chairman Melanie Morgan, [...]

Have you seen this home in Hialeah, Fla.? Local6 News reports: The people who live in a Hialeah neighborhood say they are outraged by displays of hatred on a house there. The home has six swastikas splashed across a fence and another one etched into the door. But it is a message apparently directed at [...]

I’ve been hearing from several citizen watchdogs about allegations of massive Democratic election fraud in Wisconsin. Reader Ron LaCanne sent me this summary: A state representative has been asking the Milwaukee Election Commission for information on the number of votes cast by voters who voted and registered on the same day (Wisconsin Law allows voters [...]

Lo and behold, CAIR-NJ has condemned the vicious Armanious murders. A few other new angles and developments: ABC News reports that a cousin of the slain family has been a translator working for the prosecution in the trial of Lynne Stewart. She is the radical lawyer accused of smuggling messages from imprisoned Sheikh Omar Abdel [...]

Not that Seymour Hersh and his Kool-Aid drinkers in the “reality-based community” will accept it, but here’s the Pentagon’s statement on his Iran piece. An excerpt: Mr. Hersh’s source(s) feed him with rumor, innuendo, and assertions about meetings that never happened, programs that do not exist, and statements by officials that were never made. A [...]

This is KTNV TV weatherman Rob Blair, fired for using racial slurs (“coon” and “Kong”) about Martin Luther King during a Saturday forecast. Here’s a quote from his official TV bio: I have one of the best jobs in the world. I get to give important information in a weather forecast and hopefully sprinkle a [...]

What others are saying around the ‘sphere in commemoration of Martin Luther King Day… Juliette Ochieng says “Thank you” Casey Lartigue tackles Dr. King’s legacy and the school-choice angle. Dawn Eden highlights MLK’s niece Alveda, an outspoken opponent of abortion. Dustbury on Why This Day Matters Molotov at Booker Rising on the centrality of Rev. [...]

Adding some needed levity, Beautiful Atrocities has the real scoop on which conservative bloggers got what from the White House. Frankly, I would have preferred the IHOP gift pass.

Harvard University President Lawrence Summers gave a provocative talk last Friday on innate gender differences and the reasons for the dearth of female professors in science and engineering at elite universities. According to the Boston Globe, the first point Summers touched on was the reluctance or inability of women who have children to work 80-hour [...]

Tavis Smiley is a black radio/TV talk show host who takes himself waaaay too seriously. Check out Howard Kurtz’s column this morning, which spotlights Smiley’s fallout with NPR. Explaining why he didn’t choose to renew his radio contract with the left-leaning public radio station, Smiley said this: What NPR is apparently upset about is not [...]

The story of Ahmad Al-Qloushi, a college freshman from Kuwait who was reportedly told by a Marxist political science professor to get “psychotherapy” for writing a pro-America essay, has been kicking around for more than a month. It got renewed attention this weekend when Washington Times spotlighted Al-Qloushi on Sunday. In response, a number of [...]

We all know about Bernard Kerik’s withdrawal in the wake of his disclosure that he had hired an illegal alien nanny. But two other Bush choices–AG nominee Al Gonzales and Agriculture Secretary nominee Mike Johanns –have far worse records on immigration enforcement. Gonzales was (and may still be) a member of the National Council of [...]

I notice the L.A. Times has a new feature called “Outside the Tent,” which it describes as… An experimental column in which the Los Angeles Times invites outside critics to take their best shot at Southern California’s heaviest newspaper. I’ll believe they’re sincere about taking criticism when they invite the mighty Patterico to submit a [...]