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One of the most common charges from the anti-war Left made against those supporting the war is that they are chickenhawks. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been accused of being one of these on several occassions (I guess because I am not in the military and neither are my five [...]

Interesting, and disturbing:
One in five Arabs still live on less than $2 a day. And over the past 20 years growth in income per head, at an annual rate of .5%, was lower than anywhere else in the world except sub-Saharan Africa. At this rate, says the report, it will take the average Arab 140 [...]

Ralph Peters reports on a story that hasn’t got much press although if the news were the opposite, you know you’d be reading about it all over.
But my nomination for the “Greatest Story Never Told” is a quieter one: Locked in a difficult war, the U.S. Army is exceeding its re-enlistment and first-time enlistment goals. [...]

In response to my post from Sunday about the bureaucratic hassles that John Byrnes experienced at Hunter College when he was called up to active duty, one reader followed the suggestion by John in Carolina to contact colleges to see what they were doing to help students in the military.
David Horton wrote his alma mater, [...]

The Reliapundit at The Astute Blgger makes an interesting observation about the priorities expressed in an email he received from his senator, Hillary Clinton. Evidently the war on terror did not rank high.
The emailed letter is exactly 1810 words. Not one of them is Iraq. Not one of them is terror. Not one of [...]

Patrick Ruffini’s August straw poll is up. Go vote and then view results sorted by referring blog. This straw poll will also allow for sorting by respondent’s state.
I have never quite understood the popularity of George Allen as a presidential candidate, but never had anything against him either. Since he commented that [...]

— Wow- a well-designed conservative, pro-American, Italian blog! This one makes my day.
One from Ireland (preferably anti-EU) might be even better, if it existed.
Adding to the joy is that everything at Ideazione (The Right Nation) is now translated into English!
— What’s a “media jihad”? Wizbang explains.
— Captain Ed is working his tail off [...]

Joining Lt Col Tony Shaffer are the until now unknown Navy officer who briefed the 9-11 commission shortly before it issued its final report and a former DoD contractor, both of whom confirm the essentials of the story: that AD existed, that it was a successful datamining operation and that it IDd Atta a year [...]

I wrote about Chuck Hagels’ Vietnam comparison several days ago at Polipundit and the post generated quite a few comments, including some calling me a chickenhawk. (Those are some of my favorites.) Last night, Kerry Westerwick made some excellent points on the subject that I had not considered.
Drudge’s shouting reads “GOP Senator Says Iraq Looking [...]

Bulldog Pundit at ABP noticed this at Daily Kos:
Two more weeks, folks, before we take them on, head on.
No calls for a truce will be brooked. The DLC has used those pauses in the past to bide their time between offensives. Appeals to party unity will fall on deaf ears (it’s summer of a [...]

Help Smash find a new job.
Help Stop the ACLU put an ad in the Washington Times.

Don’t miss Eric Pfeiffer’s posts at NRO (including lots of pictures) as he covers the activities surrounding Camp Casey in Crawford this week. This is just a sample:
Across the street from “Camp Casey” is “Camp Qualls” a pro-Bush campsite set up by supporters of American efforts in Iraq. Granted, the site is much [...]

Richard Baehr just tears Paul Krugman apart. This is a followup to his first ripping of Krugman. Krugman doesn’t know enough to know when he’s should just surrender and issue an apology and tried to correct his mistakes from his previous column. Unfortunately, he put yet more errors into his correction.
Politicalities [...]

Michelle has written before about plans to turn the 9/11 memorial in New York City at Ground Zero into an International Freedom Center that would focus on threats to freedom throughout history and around to world instead of a tribute and memorial to those who died on 9/11. She blogged about it here and [...]

Cindy Sheehan has proven an old prediction of mine to have been right.

We’re losing the great Arthur Chrenkoff, but All Things Conservative is stepping up to fill his big shoes. Iraq News Roundup - Part 3 is a must-read.

Perhaps the only real way to contain my irritation with Washington’s WMAL radio situation, where host Michael Graham has apparently been fired after a fringe Islamist group’s pressure campaign, is by resorting to a bit of silliness.
After all, MAL stands for Maloney, for Malkin and Mal was my grandfather’s nickname. Every Irishman must have one [...]

Or, the Poetry of Don Rumsfeld.
Aside–it’s quite humbling to see the quality of my own blog improved by my absence.

I know, I know, we’re not supposed to question any leftist’s patriotism. So how then should we make sense of this?
The USS Iowa joined in battles from World War II to Korea to the Persian Gulf. It carried President Franklin Roosevelt home from the Teheran conference of allied leaders, and four decades later, suffered [...]

Thanks to OTB, I see that Michelle’s blog, this one you’re reading right now, is the biggest, baddest blog in the world. On behalf of my co-guest bloggers, I’d like to take all of the credit for myself.
Of course I would like to take that credit, but it would be absurd to do [...]

Lead and Gold speculates on the impact that the Navy’s 1991 Tailhook scandal may have had on enterprises like Able Danger. L&G notes that more officers had their careers ruined over Tailhook than Pearl Harbor. That had to ripple through the military for years.

and Kaus flouts campaign finance law to tell you about it.
As for the actual story, Jim Gilchrist will run for the House as a third-party candidate in a safely GOP district, and his main issue will be–wait for it–illegal immigration. The calculus would suggest that he’ll pull the GOP candidate toward a tougher stance [...]

One of the most infuriating aspect of the GWOT is its circularity–we keep rehashing the same old arguments about the mission in Iraq, though speeches the President and his subordinates delivered to justify the war haven’t changed in about 2.5 years. I’m sorry, but if you don’t know the arguments that led to war [...]

Michelle and I have spent much of the last month investigating the Air America scandal, where $875,000 in taxpayer-funded community center grants were allegedly diverted to the liberal radio network.
Today our New York Post piece, “Money Pit”, appears on the op-ed page. See it here.
Also, at the Radio Equalizer, Al Franken’s softball interview from The [...]

The former Speaker shows why he’s still the GOP’s Idea Man.

Last week there was a brief flurry of interest in the idea of comparable worth - the idea that the law should require that women and men working similar jobs should earn the same salaries. This idea was popular in the 1980s as feminists tried to get legislation passed to erase what they saw as [...]

John Fund has a column in today’s Wall Street Journal about how some Democrats are alleging voter suppression at the merest hint of efforts to reform voting such as requiring a voter ID or using electronic vote machines.
The Voting Rights Act, whose 40th anniversary we celebrate this month, has helped minorities elect 81 sitting [...]

Pat Curley explains Why It Took The Anti-War Movement So Long To Get Started.

Polipundit, who is a recent legal immigrant with very strong opinions on immigration, is encouraging readers to make a bold statement on the issue by supporting Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minutemen, in his run for the U.S. Congress.
There’s a special election to fill the Congressional seat left open when Rep. Chris Cox (R-CA) accepted [...]

For those checking in for their Monday morning Malkin fix, only to find me instead, I feel your pain. I miss Michelle, too, but she really does deserve a vacation, and I am incredibly thankful for the opportunity to blog here. As if guest blogging for Michelle Malkin was not challenging enough, the [...]