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Reader M.E. points out: Just for the sake of argument let’s say the Newsweek article was true. No one’s pointing out that Newsweek is the same publication that had a non-disclosure agreement with the Kerry campaign last fall. The editors agreed that anything their reporters discovered while “embedded” with Kerry/Edwards would not be published until [...]

Just in from AP: Newsweek magazine, under fire for publishing a story that led to deadly protests in Afghanistan, said Monday it was retracting its report that a military probe had found evidence of desecration of the Quran by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. Earlier Monday, Bush administration officials had brushed off an apology that [...]

MarketWatch reports: The New York Times Co. on Monday said that, starting in September, access to Op-Ed and certain of its top news columnists on the paper’s NYTimes.com Web site will only be available through a fee of $49.95 a year. The service, known as TimesSelect, will also allow access to The Times’s online archives, [...]

Brian Maloney has the scoop. *** Related… Glenn Reynolds writes at MSNBC.com: “[J]ournalists shouldn’t be surprised that so many Americans are questioning their patriotism — to the extent that they feel there’s any question left.” Newsweek lied*. People died.

On MSNBC’s Don Imus show this morning, Newsweek’s Howard Fineman and Jonathan Alter patted themselves and their magazine on the back for their fine demonstration of media accountability…and continued the blame-the-Pentagon meme. Take special note of Fineman’s cinematic reference. Howard Fineman: “‘We regret that we got any part of our story wrong’ is what Mark [...]

- What was the president of Princeton University doing at an “All-Ivy Drag Competition?” Photo here. – “Blogs, Buzz, and Beyond.” A new report on the role blogs play in national politics. – The Return of Hillarycare. David Gratzer blows the whistle. – George Lucas: The Next Michael Moore? More on Lucas’ pandering to the [...]

“We’re not saying it absolutely happened but we can’t say that it absolutely didn’t happen either.” – Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker (Tip of the hat: Daniel G.) Scrappleface spoofs: “In an effort to help in the grieving process, the magazine’s publisher said that immediate family members of the dead would receive a free 90-day trial [...]

See update. Some sharp-eyed bloggers are looking at Sgt. Erik Saar, former Guantanamo Bay interrogator and co-author with Time magazine’s Viveca Novak of a tell-all book about alleged abuses called Inside the Wire–just released and being promoted by the Washington Post and everywhere else. See Mudville Gazette and Judicious Asininity for background. Milblogger Greyhawk writes: [...]

Newsweek lied*. People died. Help save lives: Give Newsweek’s editors a clue. E-mail Mark Whitaker (mark.whitaker@newsweek.com) a link to the al Qaeda training manual (via LGF), which teaches terrorists to make exactly the kind of deadly, propagandistic allegations the magazine spread as uncorroborated fact.

Did you know that there’s a government-subsidized monument in Baldwin Park, Calif., that contains the following inscriptions: It was better before they came.This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is, and will be again. Read all about the controversy at The Immigration Blog.

The errata page for In Defense of Internment has been updated. Seattle Times columnist Bruce Ramsey comments on my latest correction here. I’ll have more to say about this later. On a related note, I’ve been meaning to comment on Mark Levin’s book, “Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America. ” Tom [...]

Hospitals could be held criminally liable if hospitalized patients catch methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Britain’s new health secretary said yesterday, according to the London Telegraph: Asked on ITV’s Jonathan Dimbleby programme if that meant hospitals could be held criminally liable if patients contracted bugs such as MRSA [Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt] said: “That’s what we [...]

Demonstrators in Islamabad react to Newsweek’s report of Koran desecration at Guantanamo Bay (REUTERS) You have the read the story by now via the Times (UK) online and elsewhere: “At least nine people were killed yesterday as a wave of anti-American demonstrations swept the Islamic world from the Gaza Strip to the Java Sea, sparked [...]

That should have been the headline over this Boston Globe story. Instead, the newspaper misses the real story and headlines Howard Dean’s rant against Tom Delay at the Massachusetts Democratic Party convention. Here’s the lede: Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Party, said yesterday that the US House majority leader, Tom DeLay, ”ought to [...]

They are not just empty phrases. – Baby Alexander Locke Johnson, in memoriam. Deepest condolences to the family– via Little Green Footballs. – Baby Kalea Lynn Allen: She’s 11 ounces, and a fighter – A baby named Hope Meanwhile, in the death cult capital of the world, the Netherlands, a new bone-chilling survey has been [...]

Go to The Corner. Kathryn Lopez reprints a typical response to her syndicated column from a moonbat Seattle Times reader. You have my sympathies, Kathryn. I spent more than three years sifting through similar garbage–most written in ALL CAPS or a special font I call 15-point Left-Wing Freakout Script– during my stint at the Times. [...]

Jane at Armies of Liberation watchdogs al Qaeda and Yemen like no one else. Her latest dispatch reports on the kidnapping of her friend, Nabil al Wazer in Yemen. Spread the word. Update: al Wazer has been released.

Denver mourned the loss of Det. Donnie Young this weekend as National Police Week opened. If you have never been to a police funeral, I can tell you that you will never be able to listen to the sound of bagpipes again without your heart aching. You can see video of Det. Young’s funeral here. [...]

Will be on FOX News Live this afternoon with Brian Wilson at around 1pm EST and am also scheduled to appear tonight on Heartland. Update: Video of FNL here. Video of Heartland here. Thanks to Trey and Ian, the dynamic videoblogging duo.

FBI agents have begun asking reporters about conversations they had with former Department of Defense analyst Larrry Franklin, the New York Times reports: The interviews by the Federal Bureau of Investigation are starting with four reporters, among them at least one newspaper journalist and others whose work has been published on the Internet, the officials [...]

For once, a good ending–although the child will bear the physical and emotional scars of abuse for years to come. *** Background: Fla. police hope photo will help them find victim of child abuse Sifting Clues to an Unsmiling Girl Police hope photo of possible witness leads to child porn victim

One of Michael Moore’s “Minutemen” in the making: Mohammad Hossein, 4, plays with his toy gun, in front of his mother, who is a member of a suicide commandos unit, during a meeting where more than 200 young men and women volunteers prepared themselves for special training to carry out suicide bomb attacks against Americans [...]

Via AP: The officer who presided over a pretrial hearing for a Marine suspected in the murder of two Iraqis has submitted his recommendation on whether the case should go to court-martial, a military spokesman said Friday. Maj. Mark E. Winn has sent the paperwork to Maj. Gen. Richard Huck, said 2nd Lt. Barry Edwards, [...]

This didn’t make the front page of the New York Times, but thought you’d like to read it: U.S. troops donate 800 pairs of shoes to kids in rural Iraq “I went through villages when I first got here and noticed that some of the kids didn’t have shoes,” said Sgt. William Bailey, 29, of [...]

The Senate Minority Leader has what we call in our house “diarrhea of the mouth.” The Washington Times reports: Minority Leader Harry Reid strayed from his prepared remarks on the Senate floor yesterday and promised to continue opposing one of President Bush’s judicial nominees based on “a problem” he said is in the nominee’s “confidential [...]

Yes, boys and girls, time for the regular round-up of fawning references to the MSM’s favorite non-Democrats: “maverick” Republicans. New York Times: As Mr. Voinovich’s refusal to support Mr. Bolton’s nomination demonstrates, “the vanishing center”-as another centrist Republican, Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, often says – can still play a powerful role. There are [...]

It’s a Clinton/Gingrich lovefest. Gack: For Ms. Clinton, standing side by side with her husband’s onetime nemesis gives her the chance to burnish her credentials among the moderates she has been courting during her time in the Senate. But in comments this week, she portrayed the rapprochement as one born of shared policy interests, not [...]

Dirty Harry at Jackson’s Junction gives it to unhinged liberals John Conyers and Jim Lampley good. Really good. BTW, as noted here previously and by many other bloggers, Jackson’s Junction and The Political Teen are asking for help to suport their videoblogging services. It’s a real public service. Help ‘em out here or here.

Am getting word that the BRAC list of bases slated for closure or realignment is out. It’s supposed to come out officially tomorrow (blogged about yesterday here). Jeff Quinton has the scoop via W. Thomas Smith. The list is unconfirmed and at a quick glance matches up with the list In From the Cold posted [...]

They just won’t give up. When Bush-bashers have no substantive criticisms to make, they resort to Michael Moore’s “My Pet Goat” strategy. “My Pet Goat,” you’ll recall, was the book the president read to Florida schoolchildren for several minutes after he was informed of the terrorist attacks on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. (Correction: [...]