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We’ve all heard the claim that black soldiers are frontline fodder in Iraq and are being killed disproportionately. In fact, as this New York Times op-chart makes clear, the truth is just the opposite. White and Hispanic soliders are overrepresented among military personnel killed in Iraq, whereas African American soldiers are underrepresented. (Blacks account for [...]

The Open Borders mob is going after Jim Gilchrist, organizer of the Minuteman project. The Orange County Register reports: Jim Gilchrist hopes most of his neighbors won’t believe the signs held by protesters at the entrance to his quiet, gated community. They included “Minuteman, a racist domestic terrorist” and “KKK supports Minuteman” scrawled in bold [...]

Charles Johnson reports that Google considers the neo-Nazi web site, National Vanguard, a legitimate news source. Google rejected Little Green Footballs twice. No news there! Michellemalkin.com was rejected too. Update: Power Line notices too.

There are strong indications that the Iraqi insurgency is weakening. (Hat tip: Belmont Club.) And before anyone e-mails me this article titled “45 killed in insurgent attacks,” read this post at Chrenkoff. Flashback: Pat Buchanan, “The Meaning of Fallujah.” Excerpt: “The questions raised by the events of April [2004] are far-reaching, even historic. Is the [...]

President Bush signed emergency legislation that will allow Terri Schiavo’s parents to ask a federal judge to extend their daughter’s life, AP reports. After signing the bill, Bush said, “In cases like this one, where there are serious questions and substantial doubts, our society, our laws and our courts should have a presumption in favor [...]

Have you heard the latest asinine comments from Britney Spears regarding her marriage to dancer Kevin Federline? We hit a little bit of reality, hardcore, after the first three weeks. But we handled it fine, and now things are starting to go really smooth. Before we got married we were on tour, and we were [...]

Rebecca MacKinnon reports that Chinese students are protesting after Chinese authorities began restricting access to some of China’s online bulletin boards. (Hat tip: Jeff Jarvis.) In related news, still no word from Michael Getler or Philip Bennett regarding Bennett’s reported claim that “China is the best place in the world to be an American journalist [...]

Check out some of the milbloggers’ coverage: Smash reports on the floundering anti-war movement–with pictures! Blackfive introduces a hero you should know and also provides info on Homes for Our Troops. Mudville Gazette has a milblog retrospective.

Trust you’ve seen the latest in the Schiavo case. Lots of last-minute action taking place today, Palm Sunday and the first day of spring, to rescue Terri: Congressional leaders announced a compromise between Senate and House Republicans that would allow the brain-damaged woman’s case to be reviewed by federal courts that could restore her feeding [...]

The insights of Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez, brought to you by the U.K. Times Online: Chavez on…. Assassination: “If they kill me, there will be a really guilty party on this planet whose name is the President of the United States, George Bush” Bush’s Administration: “It is a mafia, a true mafia of murderers” Cuba: [...]

In case you missed it, Andy McCarthy’s brilliant piece on the deafening silence of the civil liberties brigade in re. Terri Schiavo is a must-read. And a must-re-read. AP reports on House Republican efforts to save Terri’s life before a 1pm deadline today: In a two-pronged approach, a House committee was issuing congressional subpoenas ordering [...]

A man who threatened to blow up his old Ford van just down the street from the White House on January 18th pleaded guilty to making a false explosives threat yesterday in federal court, the Washington Post reports. Lowell W. Timmers issued the threat because he was angry that his daughter’s fiance, an illegal immigrant [...]

Check out the New York Times‘ bleeding heart profile of military deserters. They’ve coined a new term for abandoning a soldier’s sworn duty: Un-volunteering. Gag.

This is one of those stories you shouldn’t read if you have high blood pressure: Three invited pro-military speakers were shocked last Friday when they arrived for a West Seattle High student assembly to confront a theater stage strewn with figures costumed as Iraqi men, women and children splashed with blood…. For Nadine Gulit of [...]

On the New York Times op-ed page yesterday, columnist Nicholas Kristof dredged up the debunked talking point that the number of abortions has increased since George W. Bush became President: What has been lethal for Democrats has not been their pro-choice position as such, but the perception that they don’t even share public qualms about [...]

Washington Post managing editor Philip Bennett has not yet responded to my request that he release a copy of the tape of his interview with People’s Daily Online. I’ve just sent the following letter to Post ombudsman Michael Getler (ombudsman@washpost.com): Mr. Getler: I’m sure by now you’ve heard about the controversial remarks that People’s Daily [...]

Speaking of moonbats, have you read the latest on Colorado’s nuttiest professor? From 9News: DENVER – A 12-year-old audio tape of an angry answering machine message left by Ward Churchill has surfaced. Much of the audio is unintelligible, but a person identifies himself as Ward Churchill on the tape. The message was left on Vernon [...]

My new column pokes fun at the anti-war activists who will be descending on N.Y., Washington, San Diego, Fayetteville, and other major media markets this weekend to protest the Iraqi “occupation.” Among the loony luminaries turning out for the parades: Rep. Maurice Hinchey Charles Barron Convicted terrorist conspirator Lynne Stewart Saddam Hussein legal counsel Ramsey [...]

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Reader Richard Davis just heard on the radio (Michael Smerconish, WPHT Philadelphia) an interview with Widener University President Dr. James Harris. According to Davis, Harris said Widener will begin giving four-year full scholarships to children whose military parent was killed in either Iraq or Afganistan. The program, called “Widener Cares,” will give away four scholarships [...]

Yesterday I expressed doubts about Jeff Jarvis’s view that the top 100 blogs get less traffic and links, and generate less interest than the bottom 7,999,900 blogs. A few readers wrote me defending Jarvis’s observation. The long right-hand “tail” is where all the action is, they say. (If you don’t know what that means, skip [...]

Jack Kemp has been getting quite a bit of attention lately for his relationship with Samir Vincent, a secret agent of Saddam Hussein who was recently convicted in the United Nations oil-for-food scandal. Now, in the DC Examiner, Thor Halvorssen raises troubling questions about another Jack Kemp associate: Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez: Jack Kemp, the [...]

Washington Post managing editor Philip Bennett tells Hugh Hewitt the People’s Daily of China misquoted him–a possibility I acknowledged in the second sentence of my initial post on this topic last week. Bennett says: The version published in the People’s Daily includes numerous and important inaccuracies. In many places words and sentences were removed to [...]

The Detroit News has an update on that dispute between the UAW and local Marine reservists: The United Auto Workers union waved a white flag Monday in its parking skirmish with neighboring reservists, but the 1st Battalion, 24th Marines are not accepting surrender. Facing intense criticism, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger reversed his decision to ban [...]

You’ve no doubt read about the reported detection of anthrax in two Pentagon mailrooms yesterday. There’s lots of activity going on in D.C. this morning and conflicting/unconfirmed info: As testing continued Tuesday, President Bush was being regularly updated on the situation, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. “The initial testing came back positive. There [...]

The feminists and post-modernists have gotten their hands on the New International Version of the Bible. Some of the results: Out: “When God created Man, he made him in the likeness of God.” In: “When God created human beings, he made them in the likeness of God.” Out: “Saints” (deemed “too ecclesiastical”). In: “God’s chosen [...]

The chaos never ends. Today, the Seattle Times reports that as many as 660 provisional ballots in the governor’s election were counted without proper eligibility checks. Democrats promise to do better next time, now that their candidate Christine Gregoire has been installed in office. They are also blaming talk radio–natch– for the mess: Julia Patterson, [...]

The MSM has moved on from the Brian Nichols story, but courthouse insecurity remains a problem. Diggers’ Realm has the story of an alleged MS-13 member who slashed his female public attorney with a smuggled razor during his murder trial yesterday. According to the L.A. Daily News, criminal defendants at the L.A. courthouse–even those classified [...]

Jeff Jarvis says, “don’t judge the blogosphere only by 100 blogs on top of some list. That’s so old media. There are eight million blogs — and 7,999,900 of them that get more traffic and more links and more interest than those mere 100.” Jarvis is always worth reading, but on this particular point, I [...]

La Shawn Barber has a Q&A with John Smallberries, a former Marine and a volunteer pilot for the Minuteman Project. A snippet: Come out to Arizona — you and anyone that wants to see this with their own eyes. If you are not totally flipped out by the unbelievable chaos that is taking place — [...]