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Reason number 95,385 to keep your kids out of government schools (via the Boston Globe):
BENNINGTON, Vt. –The school superintendent whose district includes Mount Anthony Union High School has labeled “inappropriate” and “irresponsible” an English teacher’s use of liberal statements in a vocabulary quiz.
“I wish Bush would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but [...]

Today’s Voice of Sanity Award goes to Akef Tayem of Dallas, Texas, who traveled to Crawford to counter Cindy Sheehan and her moonbat minions outside President Bush’s ranch on Thanksgiving. Via AP/CNN:
A few miles away in a field beside the main road leading to Bush’s ranch, a lone Bush supporter set up camp Thursday with [...]

Shawn Wasson is covering them.

Well, now that Thanksgiving’s over, the anti-Christmas season has begun. Darleen Click shares the latest salvo.
John Gibson’s book is chockful of similar examples of secularists gone wild.
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Ann’s Fuse Box investigates the USPS Christmas stamp issue.
Reader Mary M. also made a phone call:
I read your entry about religious stamps not being offered anymore, so I, too, [...]

Here’s the recipe for the Thanksgiving pies I’ve been making with the kids today:
Pumpkin chocolate crunch pie
3/4 cup milk
1 (3 1/2-ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
1/2 cup canned or fresh pumpkin puree
3/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
2/3 cup chopped almonds
2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 (8-ounce) container frozen non-dairy whipped topping, thawed
1 (9-inch) graham cracker pie crust
1. [...]

My latest column is up.
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Ken Masugi reflects on Lincoln and Thanksgiving as a public religious holiday.
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For contrast, take a look at nutball professor Robert Jensen’s latest un-Thanksgiving screed.

Via Breitbart.com/AP:
Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held for three years as an enemy combatant suspected of plotting a “dirty bomb” attack in this country, has been indicted on charges that he conspired to “murder, kidnap and maim” people overseas.
A federal grand jury in Miami returned the indictment against Padilla and four others. While the [...]

…against “Kerrying” our soldiers. Power Line and The Democracy Project have details. A snippet from O’Neill’s New York Sun op-ed:
Are the politicians like Mr. Kerry who led the campaign to send our kids to war (when it was popular) now to withdraw support while they are locked in combat and apparently succeeding because the task [...]

Marc Morano reports that some military folks aren’t happy about these “civilian hip-hop” shirts being sold at your local PX.

Not that anyone cares anymore in the land of the dwindling attention span, but French hoodlums continue to torch cars and wreak havoc (hat tip: Astute Blogger):
A high school guard suffered a heart attack and died today while trying to extinguish cars set aflame by vandals in the latest unrest in troubled French suburbs, police [...]

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Ok, just got home and have been deluged with e-mails asking for comment and more info on the Drudge Report’s big story tonight about CNN’s X-tra special treatment of Vice President Cheney. It’s seemingly reminiscent of the MSM photo doctoring of Condi Rice’s eyes and the Netscape/CNN.com editors’ post-election photo pranks on [...]

I’ll be offline until later tonight. Heading to Georgetown U. for an event co-sponsored by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute and the Georgetown University College Republicans.
Meantime, have you seen the trailer for Superman Returns? I know I’m a few days late, but it looks pretty cool.

Obviously the words “Never forget” mean nothing to Chris Matthews:
In a speech to political science students at the University of Toronto yesterday, the host of the CNBC current affairs show Hardball had plenty of harsh words for U.S. President George W. Bush, as well as the political climate that has characterized his country for [...]

Oh, my. Someone just sent me a link to the latest popular rant at the Democratic Underground. An excerpt:
I am an American, Born and Raised, but I am NOT a citizen of BUSH’S America. I want nothing to do with the country these people have created.
And for those who support them, Let’s get Something Nice [...]

Via Ann Althouse and others comes news from the San Francisco Chronicle of yet another disturbing 9th Circuit court ruling:
A Contra Costa County school was educating seventh-graders about Islam, not indoctrinating them, in role-playing sessions in which students used Muslim names and recited language from prayers, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit [...]

The terrorism-conspiracy trial of former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian has received virtually no coverage in the national MSM. A Florida jury resumes deliberations today on whether Sami Al-Arian and three other defendants are guilty of raising money to support the mission of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group.
Debbie Schlussel suspects Al-Arian [...]

The Wall Street Journal has an editorial retrospective on Sen. Tom Coburn’s small triumph of fiscal sanity–the defunding of the Alaskan bridge to nowhere–but as the editorial writers note, “alas, apparently this is merely a symbolic and tactical spending retreat.”
Fight back at Porkbusters.

Vice President Dick Cheney is set to give a major speech this morning defending the Iraq war at the American Enterprise Institute.
The Washington Times editorializes:
Ever since Mr. Bush’s Veteran’s Day speech rebutting the canard that he lied the country into war, congressional Democrats and parts of the mainstream media have responded by coming up with [...]

Haven’t seen much coverage of the standoff over the weekend between US Border Patrol agents and armed Mexican bandits. The El Paso Times reports:
A marijuana-laden dump truck got stuck in the Rio Grande on Thursday evening in Hudspeth County, leading to a standoff between U.S. law enforcement and what appeared to be the Mexican military, [...]

Paul Geary at The New Editor compares and contrasts NYTimes and other MSM headlines on the Iraq war pullout debate.
What liberal media?

There’s another report out on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s demise–No End But Victory is following the latest story.
Update: Stop the ACLU has a big round-up. More blog reax at OSM.
Protein Wisdom links to reports on DNA testing.
Update II: White House sez, “”highly unlikely and not credible.”

Update III: Evan Kohlmann has more at The Counterterrorism Blog.

“…so I joined the Marines.”
–The words of 26-year-old Donald Ryan McGlothlin McGlothlin, a Marine 2nd lieutenant assigned to Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, based at Camp Pendleton, Calif., who was killed this week during a firefight in Ubaydi, Iraq during a campaign to crack down on the insurgency.
God bless, deepest thanks, and [...]

The New Orleans Times Picayune follows up on the Hurricane Katrina prison break and local law enforcement cover-up:
Despite assurances from Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff Marlin Gusman in the days after Hurricane Katrina that no inmates escaped during a tumultuous three-day evacuation of Parish Prison, fugitive arrest warrants were issued for 14 inmates who were in [...]

And all I get is this lousy t-shirt…
During one of countless book-related radio interviews this week, a liberal radio host insultingly asked me whether I write my own column. His question was prompted by vicious anonymous bloggers who portray me as a greedy Asian whore/dupe/brainwashing victim who simply parrots what my white slavemasters program into [...]

Via the Jakarta Post: (hat tip: Jeff Kouba)
A cosmetics salesgirl was attacked and murdered on Friday morning by three machete-wielding men in Palu, Central Sulawesi, in yet another grisly terror attack on young females in the tense province.
Twenty-year-old Supriyanti — Yanti to those close to her — was attacked by three men riding a motorcycle. [...]

Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette has compiled a must-read History of a Long War (Iraq, 1990-2003). He added these comments in an e-mail:
Michelle -
I’ve been in the military since 1985, and one thing that truly gets me is the willful forgetting of the entire history of the 1990s - a requirement to uphold the idea that [...]

Deepest thanks to Bryan Preston, Lorie Byrd, Betsy Newmark, and Brian Maloney for holding down the fort this week. Terrific work! Be sure to bookmark their blogs and make them daily reads.
I’ll be working my way back up to normal speed shortly.

I wouldn’t interrupt the backbone vs. cut-and-run blogging for just anything tonight, but this one knocked my socks off.
Apparently, it isn’t bad enough that Zimbabwean tyrant Robert Mugabe first destroyed his country’s economy by forcibly removing white farmers from their land.
Then, after successfully chasing away every hard currency generation means Zimbabwe had [...]

I want to thank Michelle for inviting me to blog on her page. It’s been fun, but I’ll be happy to return to my little blog now that Michelle will be returning home from her peregrinations. Stop on by sometime when you’re cruising the blogosphere.
Here are some miscellaneous stories around the web.
There is [...]

Thanks to David Lunde for sending the Photoshop of the Night!