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The battle over Ground Zero continues. Today, at 12 noon EST, there will be a rally and press conference in NYC to “Take Back the Memorial. More comments from 9/11 families here. Thoughts from Jeff Jarvis on the left, LGF on the right. Cox & Forkum weigh in further. Good on the rally organizers for [...]

One of the most common complaints about Guantanamo Bay is that the detainees have been denied trials. Sen. John McCain made these charges on Meet the Press yesterday: “The weight of evidence [in Guantanamo Bay] has got to be that we’ve got to adjudicate these people’s cases, and…if it means releasing some of them, you’ll [...]

The Los Angeles Times wikitorial experiment has been shut down “because a few readers were flooding the site with inappropriate material.” I can relate.

The fishing report: Me: 0. Zip. Nada. My five-year-old daughter: 10 bluegill and crappie. No keepers. Me: A very unlucky Texas rig (lizards and pumpkin plastic worms). Daughter: Nightcrawlers under a Winnie-the-Pooh bobber (can’t beat it). The fish that got away: An at least 6 lb. largemouth bass that I will be sobbing about for [...]

Hope all you daddies had a great one.

Read this extraordinary piece in the Washington Post about Sen. Robert Byrd’s continued attempts to downplay his membership and activism in the KKK. Just read it. *** Previous: The vulnerable Bobby Byrd The life and times of Robert “Sheets” Byrd *** Update: Jayson at Polipundit on Byrd’s voting record.

Milblogger Matt at Blackfive, one of the best in the biz, turned two today. Check out some of his classic posts: the Someone You Should Know series; his post on Major Mathew Schram; and the After Action Report on the Raven 42 ambush. Then bookmark/Blogline him, read him daily, and buy a cool Blackfive t-shirt.

Weekend plans: Fishing! Sunfish, largemouth bass, something big. Later tonight: Scheduled to be on FNC’s Hannity and Colmes, sometime in the last half of the show.

- Jihadist…in Arkansas? – Meet an American hero, the first woman to receive the Silver Star since WWII…Sondra K headlines the story, “Not a Nazi.” Heh-heh. – Serbs, lies, and videotape…Julia and Lev Gorin have the scoop. – Ryan Sager’s fine tribute to a free speech champion…Mr. Smith Quits Washington.

Just received this e-mail from Steve Gill: Vice President Dick Cheney appeared this morning on Steve Gill Mornings in Nashville, Tennessee and was asked about Dick Durbin’s comparison of U.S. troops at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis. The Vice President noted that he had to be “careful about what I say since this is a family [...]

Read important posts at Willisms (Will Franklin almost gets arrested in Houston covering Iranian polls) and Publius Pundit (Robert Mayer reports on sham U.S. polls). *** More: President Bush’s response. Sean Penn’s adventures: The Actor and the Mullahs. Michael Ledeen: When is an election not at election? Full coverate at Regime Change Iran.

Bloggers are serving them up… Donald Sensing on what the Nazis did (Graphic). My Pet Jawa on what Saddam Hussein did (Graphic). Rand Simberg on Cambodian interrogation techniques. Varifrank weighs in with “Babykiller redux.” Rocco diPippo has some valuable background on the radicals behind the Bash-Gitmo bandwagon. Tom MacGuire on Chicago parallels. The ADL’s reminder. [...]

Maureen Dowd is washed up, burnt out, and tired of the competition. Don’t take my word for it. Take hers! The Salt Lake Tribune reports: She writes two columns a week for the most prestigious newspaper in America, heckling the powerful with her trademark sarcasm while making witty allusions to movies and pop culture. It’s [...]

The Chicago Tribune fawns over Durbin’s “passion.” The paper’s editorial page says “Ignore him.” The Boston Herald editorializes: “Durbin must go.” Investor’s Business Daily: He “made Howard Dean look sane.” The Wash Times: “Durbin’s degrading drivel.” The New York Times editorial page: Nothing. The Washington Post editorial page: Nothing. (There is an E.J. Dionne column [...]

John in North Carolina tips us off to rampant prison abuse in Dick Durbin’s backyard. Captain Ed notes Durbin’s odd silence. Update: Don Singleton quips… I would urge that Gitmo be closed down and that all of the prisoners be transferred to the Cook County Jail, except I suspect it really would be against Geneva [...]

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Camp Delta) refuses to apologize for his unhinged remarks likening American interrogators and Gitmo military staff to Nazis, Soviet gulag operators and genocidal maniac Pol Pot. (Radioblogger has the audio; Trey Jackson’s got video.) Earlier today, as you know, White House spokesman Scott McClellan castigated Durbin. What America needs is for President [...]

Have you seen Steve Jobs’ commencement address at Stanford? Tons of blogs buzzing about it. An excerpt: Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your [...]

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Am scheduled to be on FNC’s O’Reilly Factor tonight, about halfway through the show. Update: Trey Jackson has video. You know when you wish you could push the life-rewind-button and go back and add what you should have said? Well, what I wanted to say about Bill’s put-the-shawl-over-the-baby line is that if a nursing mom [...]

Late last night, I took the time to read the 39-page autopsy report of Terri Schiavo–something which, it is clear to me, most of the callous gloaters on the other side of this debate have not bothered to do. And will never do. These are people who can only talk about the sanctity of life [...]

Trey Jackson conducted a multi-part, videotaped interview with Newt Gingrich–asking questions submitted by several bloggers. The latest installment includes questions from Glenn Reynolds. Check out the whole series here.

My column today is on the Barbara Walters’ breast-feeding brouhaha. If you are squeamish about these things–and I’m actually amazed that so many people are–just skip it. But here is one of my main points getting lost in the noise: When millions of parents complained about the outrageously inappropriate exposure of Janet Jackson’s breast during [...]

Reuters’ photo editors can’t help themselves (via Drudge). And neither can Rep. Dick Durbin (via Laura Ingraham). (More here and here and at LGF.) Meanwhile, the unrepentant Charlie Rangel (Iraq war=Holocaust) is accusing the ADL of racism against blacks. Looks like Jeff at Beautiful Atrocities is going to have to update his mile-long “Everyone will [...]

Now on sale here. From the authors’ description: If you’re tired of all the torture allegations, of hearing the media imply that handling a Quran without gloves on is the moral equivalent of beheading someone, and of all the hysteria about enemy combatants, you’ll enjoy the Gitmo Cookbook. It contains the actual recipes and menus [...]

Red State’s Mike Krempasky sends word of FEC commissioner Brad Smith’s (expected) resignation. Smith blew the whistle on McCain-Feingold’s designs on the blogosphere. As Mike notes: “If you work or live in online politics – you owe Commissioner Smith a tremendous debt of gratitude for alterting all of us to the potential danger of FEC [...]

Was on The Daily Show. I’m not a regular viewer of the show nor much of a fan of Jon Stewart’s, but the segment was tops. Now, if we never saw Michael Jackson’s face again on cable TV, life would be so much peachier.

There’s an intense debate in Bainbridge Island, Wa., over how the National Park Service should memorialize the WWII evacuation of ethnic Japanese. Comments are due today over several plans. Opposing sides here and here. Resident John Alpaugh, who has been active in the fight for a fair and accurate assessment of WWII relocation and evacuation [...]

Bird of Paradise imagines it. Hat tip: Joe Katzman at Winds of Change, who has more thoughts here and here. *** Meanwhile, Afghan clerics want an apology for Koran abuse (does this include the abuses by the detainees themselves?) And the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing today on Gitmo so we can hear [...]

Via AP: Prominent Senate Republicans said Tuesday that closing the Guantanamo Bay prison will not fix a U.S. image tarnished by allegations of American troops mistreating terrorism suspects. “To cut and run because of image problems is the wrong, wrong thing to do,” Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said. Hey, maybe the GOP leadership is [...]

Well, I’ve kept quiet about the Tom Cruise Happy Predator Freak Show. It’s not my usual subject matter, but I can’t get the Tom Cruise Death Grip out of my head. It was alarming enough to watch him clamping down on 26-year-old Katie during the Oprah show: (Screen shot via Defamer) Ouch. But this photo [...]