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As I’m sure you’re already aware, Michelle is off with her family on vacation for a couple of days. While she’s gone she left a set of her keys with me. From the JunkYard to the top of the ecosystem in one day–the view from up here almost makes me dizzy.
Like Michelle, [...]

Score one, perhaps two, for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Said to have terror group ties to Hamas and others, CAIR has succeeded in permanently removing WMAL/Washington talk show host Michael Graham from the airwaves.
That’s after the conservative ABC radio host criticized Islam in a blunt, but not particularly outlandish, manner.
The score could actually be [...]

I’m still on vacation and will be back Tuesday evening. In addition to Betsy Newmark and Lorie Byrd, Bryan Preston of Junkyard Blog and The Immigration Blog and Brian Maloney of The Radio Equalizer will be holding down the fort here. Enjoy–and be sure to make all of their blogs a part of your healthy [...]

John from Wuzzadem links to some “real war stories” from Centcom about some true heroes. Their stories deserve to be told.

If you haven’t already heard of Hugh Hewitt’s efforts to have bloggers read through all of the boxes recently released by the Reagan Library, you should head over here and look at what Hugh has wrought. What a cool use of the blogosphere! Hugh had the idea to “adopt a box” for [...]

Tom Bevan at Real Clear Politics has figured out the conditions under which the left would be willing to go to war in the future.

Roya Hakakian is an Iranian Jewish woman and author of Journey from the Land of No about her experiences growing up in revolutionary Iran. Today she writes movingly about Akbar Ganji’s hunger strike in an Iranian prison. He is dying in order to bring notice to his calls for a free referendum in Iran to [...]

We’ve had to turn the trackbacks feature off while Michelle is away. There was some nasty porno spam in the trackbacks and some other problems. I believe that Michelle’s kind assistants are working on the problem and hope to turn it back on when she returns. I’m sorry for the inconvenience. [...]

John Byrnes is a member of the New York National Guard. He was a full time student at Hunter College, part of the CUNY system, when he was called up for active duty first in the United States and then to fight in Iraq.
On his blog he details all of the aggravation he had [...]

On Friday, at my own site, I blogged about the despicable Kelo decision that gave municipalities the power to take people’s property away and give that property to private entities all in the name of doing good for the public. Why should you own and keep your home if some private company or individual [...]

Powerline points to this feature at Forbes.com with reviews of several of the biggest political blogs on both the left and the right. Forbes seems inclined to be nice to everyone.
Here is what they say about Michelle Malkin’s blog.
The site for columnist and author Michelle Malkin–known most for her book defending the internment of [...]

Here are some blog entries that are worth checking out.
Gateway Pundit on Hunter Thompson’s remains achieving liftoff.
Richard Baehr has a good, long look at Paul Krugman’s claim that two media consortiums found that Gore should have won the 2000 election. As most of you remember, those media recounts (which took about six months and [...]

I’m going on a mini-vacation for the next few days.
In the meantime, please welcome a few of my favorite bloggers–Lorie Byrd of PoliPundit and Byrd Droppings and Betsy Newmark of Betsy’s Page. They’ll be guest-blogging here and I know you’ll enjoy their work. Be sure to bookmark/blogline their blogs.

One of the basic rules of economics that my husband, an economics professor, has managed to drill into my untutored mind is that people respond to incentives.
Andrew Roth has an example of how even millionaires respond to incentives as he looks at famous golfers who are leaving California because of the high taxes [...]

Read Rich Lowry about what a travesty the Akaka bill would be. That is the bill that proposes to give descendants of native Hawaiians the right to create a “Native Hawaiian governing entity” that will then negotiate with the federal government on possession of land.
Here is Senator Akaka’s description of his bill. Is [...]

Thank you very much to Michelle Malkin for allowing me this opportunity to guest-blog at her page. I appreciate the honor. I’m Betsy Newmark of Betsy’s Page.
The Wall Street Journal is taking a look on how the media portrays the economy.
The paradox of the year is why so many Americans tell pollsters [...]

The latest installment of the Maloney-Malkin investigative series on Air America is up. Today, we take a close look at the lawsuit of former Air America host Lizz Winstead.

Lizz Winstead

UCLA corporate law prof Stephen Bainbridge, a man ahead of his time, analyzes MultiCultural Radio Broadcasting Inc.’s complaint against Air America Radio, which Brian Maloney and I first reported on here.
A reminder that attorney Eric Costello’s analysis is here. Costello sends this addendum:
An oddity, from reading the default judgement…The judgement refers to a $156,000 bond [...]

- Austin Bay debates press coverage of Iraq in Rollback vs. Roll Forward. Excellent discussion. Check Austin’s comments section as well.
- The always trenchant David Gelernter examines Sheehan-mania.
- Michael Fumento looks at race-baiter Nativo Lopez.
- Debbie Schlussel has a brutally honest assessment of the do-nothing FBI and argues it would have ignored Able Danger warnings.

The “Abdullah al-Azzam Brigades of the al Qaeda Organization” is claiming responsibility for the multiple rocket attack on a U.S. Navy ship in Jordan.
Athena at Terrorism Unveiled has thorough coverage and photos, and shares some insights about the claimed attackers and their M.O.:
This is the same group who claimed responsibility for the deadly Sharm el-Sheikh [...]

The liberal Village Voice and I agree: the New York Times’ real estate dealings stink. Journalist Paul Moses reports:
When The New York Times and Forest City Ratner Companies open their grand new office building on Eighth Avenue, it won’t have a Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, or Nathan’s, because they are specifically forbidden under terms of [...]

My column last week spotlighted the exploitation of 9/11 homeland security funds by New Jersey Democrats.
GayPatriot is tracking all the latest political developments in the story, and is breaking news. Democrat NJ Attorney General Peter Harvey faces an impeachment move.
The Trentonian follows up:
A state lawmaker peeved over revelations that homeland security money was doled out [...]

David Lombino of the New York Sun updates yesterday’s article about MultiCultural Radio Broadcasting’s lawsuit against Air America/Piquant. This morning Lombino reports that the $255,754 lawsuit first reported on by Brian Maloney and me two days ago is part of a larger attempt by MultiCultural to collect more than $1.5 million it says Air America [...]

Part II is up at The Radio Equalizer.
Brian Maloney and I take a close look at the financial plans of Sheldon and Anita Drobny, the deep-pocketed, far left Illinois Democrat couple who dreamed up Air America and have been involved in its many strange and dubious business reorganizations. The key questions that curious radio [...]

It has been 10 days since I first posted on Cindy Sheehan, and after sticking my neck out and taking massive amounts of ongoing abuse and ridicule for giving her the scrutiny she deserves, I am more than happy to let others pick up the slack.
Byron York highlights just how radical Sheehan and [...]

Bill at INDC Journal, accuses me of “shoehorning science and medicine in order to fit an ideological agenda, misrepresenting risk and utilizing hyperbole” because I “hyped” the deaths of four Californian women who used RU-486, the abortion pill.
Bill implies that RU-486 is safe because only a small number of deaths have been linked to it. [...]

Congrats to the intrepid Robert Spencer, whose new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), hit the NYTimes best-seller list at #17 this week. It’s an important guide from a brave man. Also make Spencer’s Jihad Watch daily reading if you haven’t already.
Speaking of jihad, there are a lot of new developments [...]

The New York Sun is the first print outlet to pick up on yesterday’s Air America post authored by Brian Maloney and me. Reporter David Lombino writes:
A lawsuit filed by an owner of radio stations claims that the transfer of ownership of the Air America radio network from Progress Media to Piquant LLC in May [...]

*see updates below*
Inside Air America: An Investigative Blog Report
Part 1: A Trail of Debts
By Michelle Malkin and Brian Maloney
michellemalkin.com/radioequalizer.blogspot.com
August 17, 2005
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It’s not just the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls that’s knocking on Air America Radio’s door looking for lost money. According to court records obtained by Radio Equalizer/MichelleMalkin.com, another major creditor has been demanding that [...]

A very moving story in Stars & Stripes today: Twin Towers steel used in construction of USS New York.
Hat tip: Reader Anthony J.