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Jihad Watch has the scoop.

Stupidest. Media-manufactured. Non-scandalette. Possibly ever.
If only these people had a fraction of the same outrage about the U.N. Oil for Food scandal as they do over the Bush administration’s U.N. bathroom breaks…
(Via Drudge and BlogsNow)
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Update: A defensive Reuters photo editor explains who’s responsible and also admits how the image was Photoshopped. (Hat tip: reader Daniel [...]

***Please note 9/28 note correction: Terrero was employed at Gloria Wise, but did not work under Cohen***
Inside Air America: The loan scandal deepens
by Brian Maloney and Michelle Malkin
Part of a continuing investigative blog series
9/14/05
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If you believe Air America, Al Franken, and their clueless defenders, the liberal radio network’s now-notorious financial problems with the Bronx-based Gloria [...]

Despite reports of National Park Service faxes on the fritz and Interior Department e-mails bouncing, the objections of countless numbers of you to the proposed Flight 93 Memorial have been heard. And here, via AP, are the results to prove it:
WASHINGTON - The architect of the memorial to a plane downed in western Pennsylvania on [...]

Via Kim at Musing Minds…
Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly asked Secretary of State Condi Rice on The Factor this evening if she was hurt by Bush haters calling her a shill.
Answer:
“Why would I worry about that? The fact of the matter is, Bill, I’ve been black all my life, nobody needs to tell me [...]

Hitchens vs. Galloway (Hat tip: Mark Coffey, who liveblogged it)

Huffington vs. Hanson (Hat tip: LGF)

Blogger Donald Sensing sees his son, Stephen, off to war.

This just in…
(09-14) 10:59 PDT San Francisco (AP) –
A federal judge has declared it unconstitutional to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools.
Quick political analysis from Ankle Biting Pundits:

The lefties in the Senate and the groups against Roberts have to be PO’ed. This news is going to overshadow their other messages against Roberts - [...]

Via Breitbart/AP:
Senate Republicans on Wednesday scuttled an attempt by Sen. Hillary Clinton to establish an independent, bipartisan panel patterned after the 9/11 Commission to investigate what went wrong with federal, state and local governments’ response to Hurricane Katrina.
The New York Democrat’s bid to establish the panel _ which would have also made recommendations on [...]

John Hinderaker at Power Line calls Business Week on its anti-Bush bias, and gets results.
Meanwhile, Scott Johnson takes on the Star-Tribune.

You saw him emoting on Meet The Press. John at Wuzzadem takes a closer look at what looks like another Katrina Myth.

My latest column, “Monumental surrender,” on the Flight 93 Memorial controversy, bubbling in the blogosphere for nearly a week, is up:
War memorials should memorialize war. If you want peace and understanding and healing and good will toward all, go build Kabbalah centers…
…A proper war memorial stirs to anger and action. We all remember passenger Todd [...]

Ankle Biting Pundits has a statistical analysis of senatorial bloviation and a recap of yesterday’s SCOTUS nomination hearing. Excerpt:
Everyone knows Senators love to hear their own voices and that the confirmation hearings are supposed to be about John Roberts’s views, not theirs. But of course that’s not the case. A little experiment proved that. That [...]

Google has a new blog search engine. (Hat tip: Maria R.) I still prefer Technorati.
Gabe Rivera’s Memeorandum has been revamped. Very cool. Bookmark it.
Other staples: BlogsNow and the updated Truth Laid Bear.

Looks like civilians aren’t the only ones being disarmed in the Katrina disaster area.
An old Philadelphia acquaintance of mine who serves in a leadership position in a National Guard infantry company, deployed to Bogalusa, Louisiana, on security missions in support of Hurricane Katrina operations, sends along a plea for self-defense help:
We fall under Task Force [...]

Remember these images broadcast by French state-owned television in 2000 that inflamed the Muslim world and inspired al Qaeda recruiters?

David Gelernter debunks conventional wisdom about the images and highlights a provocative new Commentary essay, “Myth, Fact, and the al-Dura affair.”
David Kupelian has more.

Have you noticed the prevalence of this phrase in the aftermath of Katrina? It bugs me:
Kanye West: “…those are my people down there.”

Sean Combs: “These are my people.”

Aaron Neville: “That’s my hometown, that’s my people.”

Amaré Stoudemire: “I see a lot of my people struggling and I’m really trying to show a lot of support and [...]

John Hawkins has compiled his list of the 20 Most Obnoxious Hurricane Katrina quotes.
I think there’s one missing.
And this one.
Oh, and this.
Rosemary Esmay sends a reminder of Wolf Blitzer’s Katrina blooper.

The tireless chronicler of good news in Iraq and Afghanistan is bidding the blogosphere goodbye.
Stay in touch, Arthur, and come back soon. You will be missed.
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Arthur notes that other bloggers will keep the ball rolling on his continuing series at Good News Central. Bookmark it.

Did you watch the Discovery Channel documentary last night on Flight 93?
Did you weep and curse and cheer?
And do you wonder how this memorial design–benignly passive at best, offensive and inexplicably clueless at worst–possibly passed muster as the best representation of the spirit, courage, and resilience of the 40 passengers who saved [...]

Baby Susan Torres has died. Via Breitbart/AP:
An infant born last month to an unconscious, severely brain-damaged mother has died, the family said Monday.
Susan Anne Catherine Torres, born prematurely on Aug. 2, died of heart failure Sunday after emergency surgery to repair a perforated intestine, a family statement said. A spokeswoman at St. Rita’s Church [...]

An infantry marine talks back to the NYTimes’ Frank Rich (published in yesterday’s NYTimes letters section):
To the Editor:
I am an infantry marine with 12 years of service, and I am presently stationed in Falluja, Iraq. I am also a New Orleans native and my parents live in Mandeville, which is on the North Shore of [...]

Put your coffee down. The Rev. Jesse Jackson– Mr. Shakedown himself– is complaining about favoritism in government contracting.

Readers, you are the best. On Thursday, I posted a plea for help from Katrina victims in Pascagoula, Miss. Scores of you immediately sent aid and supplies to organizers at the New Town Baptist Church. One reader went above and beyond. Here’s his e-mail:

The SCOTUS nomination hearings for John Roberts begin today.
This will not surprise you:
GOP U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe have indicated support for Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, but both have yet to come out and say they would definitely vote for him.
Here’s a handy SCOTUS vocabulary guide.
10 likely questions senators will ask.
Five more [...]

Time bashes the Bush response here. Jack Kelly defends the feds here.
Jeff Goldstein reads Newsweek and takes on a Huffington Post socialist’s Wal-Mart-bashing so you don’t have to.

Reader Mike McConnell sends along information about deaf survivors of Katrina, who shared harrowing experiences and could use your help.

From the “Bias? What liberal bias?” files…
On Saturday, CNN.com had a piece [9/12 clarification carried by Reuters] titled “Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts:”
Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration’s first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of [...]

So the MSM wants to see bodies?
On this fourth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, let’s remember these:

Credit: Richard Drew, AP; see also Tom Junod’s must-read and re-read, “The Falling Man”

And these.
And these.
And these:

And these little angels, too.
Don’t forget the man who knew.
Don’t forget the heroes who fought back.
Don’t forget those who sacrificed.
Don’t [...]

Credit: Zombie
Tons of you are stunned, outraged, and sickened by the new Flight 93 Memorial, the “Crescent of Embrace.” I called the architect responsible for the redesign, Paul Murdoch of Los Angeles, yesterday for comment. He did not return my call, but he did speak with the Johnstown, Pa., Tribune Democrat, as quoted in the [...]