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One of America’s foremost military analysts returns from the battlefield and asks:
The U.S. military is fighting, the nascent Iraqi military is fighting, the Iraqi people are fighting, but where is the American political class?
Read his Weekly Standard piece here.

Read this from Smash, and this from Patriot Voices.

“Upholding the journalistic integrity of The New York Times requires a lot of care.”
Read (snort) the (snort) whole (snort) thing (snort).

Via vigilant MSM watchdog Patterico, you’re gonna love this one.

Don’t eat or drink anything while you read this piece of tripe from Dilpazier Aslam, a Muslim Guardian “trainee journalist” attempting to explain away the 7/7 terrorist bombing attacks:
“The Muslim community is no monolithic whole. Yet there are some common features. Second- and third-generation Muslims are without the don’t-rock-the boat attitude that restricted our forefathers. [...]

Clintonite Paul Begala speaking to college students about Republicans:
“They want to kill me and my children if they can. But if they just kill me and not my children, they want my children to be comforted — that while they didn’t protect me because they cut my taxes, my children won’t have to pay any [...]

So did Kate at Small Dead Animals, who was similarly fascinated.

…is named after this terrorist. Josh Trevino takes a closer look.

The Army Times reports on an American hero.
Read this account (PDF) of the incident from the 256th Brigade Combat Team.
Watch the incredible video.
Hat tip: Reader Larry S.

You’ve seen some of the news coverage by now of Bassam Khalaf, the self-proclaimed “crazy, suicidal Arabic” rapper fired from his job as a TSA baggage screener.
But did you know that he’s not the only Islamist who has been poking through your luggage?
Debbie Schlussel has the lowdown on both.
Repeat: Political correctness is the handmaiden of [...]

Blogger/embedded journalist Michael Yon provides some of the best coverage of the war in Iraq. Some of his readers sent the following alert:
We know you like Michael Yon’s Dispatches from Iraq and his photos, especially of the children. Are you aware that his camera is, and has been, in a bad state of repair? He [...]

If there is only one book you read the rest of the summer, make it investigative journalist Paul Sperry’s Infiltration.
Paul has been working the Pakistani-al Qaeda angle that is now the subject of renewed interest in the wake of the 7/7 terrorist attacks.
Read this May 2005 report from Sperry–It’s Pakistan, stupid!–for a quick crash [...]

It won’t be the lead story on the nightly news tonight, but a key War on Terror court ruling today upholding the legality of military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay is a significant victory for the Bush administration–and a big defeat for the Gitmo bashers, most of whom deny that these hearings have even taken place [...]

Compare and contrast…
NY Times headline: Rove Reportedly Held Phone Talk on C.I.A. Officer
AP headline: Source: Rove Got CIA Agent ID From Media
The NY Times clings to the Evil Genius narrative, despite what its own reporting and follow-ups from other press outlets shows…
NY Times lead graf:
WASHINGTON, July 14 - Karl Rove, the White House senior adviser, [...]

The battle over Ground Zero continues. Bloomberg.com reports that the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation is looking for alternative sites for the International Freedom Center and Drawing Center:
The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, acknowledging protests by relatives of Sept. 11 victims, is taking “one last look” at alternatives to placing a “museum of freedom” [...]

The New York Times shows its support for the troops by calling our female interrogators prostitutes. It admits it sees little difference between sexually suggestive interrogation methods designed to extract information from uncooperative Gitmo detainees and “what Mayor Rudolph Giuliani tried to ban from Times Square.”
Here’s how we will end up interrogating terrorists if the [...]

Magdy El-Nashar, an Egyptian man with North Carolina ties, is wanted by London police in connection with last week’s terrorist bombings.
El-Nashar had a PhD in biochemistry. He studied chemical engineering at North Carolina State in 2000. Based on this list of recent graduates, it appears he did not complete his course of study at NCSU.
Police [...]

The Grassroot Institute has released a survey of every household in Hawaii. The survey, conducted from July 8 to 10, 2005, and released yesterday, shows an estimated two out of every three responednts oppose the Akaka Bill aka the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005. According to the Hawaii Reporter:
The poll, which attempted to [...]

Check this out: St. Paul Pioneer Press editorial page associate editor Mark Yost, who served in the Navy, writes an interesting and provocative column criticizing media coverage of the military. Now, his colleagues in the MSM have joined in on a frantic, journalistic shark attack against him.

The Media Blog, BuzzMachine, and Cam Edwards are all [...]

Smash explains.
Doesn’t San Diego have more important business to attend to?

- If you haven’t been following the trial of Theo Van Gogh’s accused murderer, you should be. Cdr. Salamander has a good retrospective. And bookmark Pieter Dorsman’s Peaktalk for all the latest (here’s trial coverage of Day Two).
- If you haven’t already done so, take the time to watch this excellent Flash presentation [...]

The Globe and Mail highlights the role of a government-funded youth center in radicalizing the London terror bombers:
LEEDS — The transformation of four young British men into terrorists appears to have taken place at a government-funded storefront youth centre in Leeds that, according to youth workers, was a hub of radical Islamist activity.
The centre was [...]

Am scheduled to appear on FOX News Live at 2:50 pm eastern time.
Update: Trey Jackson has video.

There are plenty of reasons to bash Boston. But for Sen. Rick Santorum to single the city out as more of a fertile breeding ground for sexual abuse than the rest of the country is just wrong. And dumb. Here’s the three-year-old column that Ted Kennedy and friends are up in arms about–and I [...]

Bruce at GayPatriot and Gryphmon give you a very good reason to stay away.
Dianne Feinstein, believe it or not, agrees: “This isn’t the San Francisco that I’ve known and loved and grew up in and was born in.”

Blackfive reports on an Iraqi march against terrorism, with lots of photos courtesy of Army Specialist David Nunn. Over 1,000 Iraqi citizens participated. Check it out.

Is this what AP reporter Hope Yen meant when she wrote last month that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the property rights of cable companies would “limit competition and consumers’ choices” for broadband services?
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Last month, talk show host extraordinaire Neal Boortz wrote about a Greensboro, Ga., middle school that refused to allow a Marine to come visit a class of sixth-graders that had written him letters while he served in Iraq. After getting pressure from Boortz’s listeners and others, the local superintendent apologized.
Boortz updated the story yesterday:
Next Monday, [...]

The Washington Post does its best to put a negative spin on the military’s latest report about interrogation methods used at Guantanamo Bay (”Abu Ghraib Tactics Were First Used at Guantanamo,” page A01).
The New York Times (”Report Discredits F.B.I. Claims of Abuse at Guantánamo Bay“), USA Today (”Inquiry finds abuse, not torture at Guantanamo“), [...]

TVNewser says 10.3 million people visited MSNBC.com on the day of the 7/7 London terrorist attacks, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. By comparison, the most highly trafficked political blog, Daily Kos, had 212,000 unique visitors during the month of April 2005, according to ComScore Media Metrix.
That means MSNBC.com had almost 50 times more readers in a [...]