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Two years ago this week, U.S. forces yanked Saddam Hussein out of his miserable rathole.
Two years [...]

There she goes again:
“Hanoi Jane” Fonda is claiming that ever since Vietnam, U.S. troops have been trained to commit atrocities against innocent civilians as a matter of military policy.
“Starting with the Vietnam War we began training soldiers differently,” the anti-American actress says in an email to the Washington Post.
Fonda claims she learned of the policy [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is at it again:
The White House assailed as “outrageous” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comments dismissing the Holocaust as a myth and saying Israel should be cut from the Middle East. “I think all responsible leaders in the international community recognize how outrageous such comments are,” spokesman Scott McClellan said of the [...]

Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman’s killer is still on the loose.
And so are the two alleged attackers of University of Kansas professor Paul Mirecki. He claims he was targeted and beaten by a pair of white men driving a pickup truck on a rural highway outside Lawrence, Kansas early last Monday morning. Sheriff’s officials [...]

The worshipers of Stanley Tookie Williams are promising to give him a “statesman’s funeral.”
Crikey.
Meanwhile, the European Left continues to deify Williams, Glenn Greenwald reports.
La Shawn Barber weighs in on atonement, redemption, and the role of government.
It’s all-Tookie, all-the-time at the San Francisco Chronicle, reports Chronwatch.
(Hat tip: reader Daniel G.)
Zombie Time chronicles the Tookie freak show.
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And where is it?
Tony Snow tells you what you need to know.

I’ve mentioned the wonderful Project Valour-IT several times over the last year. Chuck Ziegenfuss, the wounded Army captain who helped found the program, has a request:
I am begging you to please post about an organization called Salute America’s Heroes. They are donating $500 to every wounded Soldier, Sailor, Airmen or Marine who registers with [...]

President Bush will deliver a speech on the Iraqi elections in just a few minutes at the Wilson Center.
Meantime, Dustin Hawkins has a beautiful photo montage of Iraqi voters.
John Hinderaker has a good interview with Colonel John Kline, who has just returned from Iraq.
Apparently, Jay Leno gets it. A reader e-mails:
I’ve been wondering why the [...]

Have at it.

Jim Hoft is all over the story.
The latest from Breitbart/AP:
Water poured through a breach at a hydroelectric plant’s rural reservoir in southeast Missouri Wednesday morning, washing away homes and vehicles and leaving at least one person missing, authorities said. A family of five was rescued after the breach about 5:30 a.m. at AmerenUE’s Taum Sauk [...]

More than a month after Ron Harris of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch exposed the fraudulent anti-war veteran Jimmy Massey’s lies about alleged atrocities committed by him and his fellow Marines, the Associated Press has finally, finally acknowledged its own role in spreading Massey’s unsubstantiated smears:
In a lengthy telephone interview with The Associated Press, Massey repeated [...]

…On the side of a single, anonymous source who apparently enlisted Times reporter Dexter Filkins’ help to fraudulently discredit the Iraqi elections, Bob Owens reports.
Ed Morrissey lays the smackdown:
Oops! I guess Dexter Filkins and the several layers of editors at the Paper Of RecordTM didn’t think to check out the well-reported fact that the roads [...]

Blunt words from Iraqi voter Betty Dawisha for the Cindy Sheehan Left (hat tip: The Political Pit Bull):

“Anybody who doesn’t appreciate what America has done, and President Bush, let them go to hell!”
Go, Betty.
Watch the video at The Political Teen.

The Politics of CP continues to dig into the terrorist group Jamaat ul-Fuqra. Coming to a neighborhood near you?
More background at Gates of Vienna (see links on left sidebar).

The MSM distortion of President Bush’s remarks is spreading like wildfire.
Mudville Gazette corrects the record.
Will the media?
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Results!
Several readers e-mailed the San Francisco Chronicle, including blogger Jeff H. of Think Sink. An excerpt from his e-mail exchange:
Will you correct the clearly misleading headline? Civilians are not the same as military, police, insurgents, translators.
Response:
I [...]

On page A25 of the print edition of today’s Washington Post (can’t find it online…maybe that’s deliberate – update: here it is), reporter Robin Wright has one of the snottiest, narcissistic pieces I’ve read this year. It’s a 977-word whine about journalists and State Department bureaucrats who don’t like the food served on Air Force [...]

A brilliant Six Meat Buffet creation:

It’s the perfect moonbat Christmas gift!
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Best comment so far: “Are there instructions in French?”
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Paul Mirengoff analyzes the Dems’ “Cut-and-Run-Lite” strategy.
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True colors
Howard the Coward Dean
Howard Dean’s true colors
Mark Steyn on the Defeaticrat Party.

Ugh.

Read this Paul Greenberg column that deftly puts Howard the Coward Dean in his place. It’s good. Really good.

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It’s a zoo outside San Quentin prison, where convicted murderer/Crips gang co-founder Stanley “Tookie” Williams is scheduled to die by injection at San Quentin Prison at 12:01am Pacific time for murdering four people during two 1979 holdups. Live KPIX video feed outside San Quentin here. (Hat tip: Reader Dave.) Photos via readers [...]

Last week, black survivors of Hurricane Katrina compared themselves to Holocaust victims. Via AP:
“We were abandoned. City officials did nothing to protect us,” Patricia Thompson, a New Orleans evacuee said.
“We saw buses, helicopters and FEMA trucks, but no one stopped to help us. We never felt so cut off in all our lives. “No [...]

Frank J. of IMAO fame and Sarah K of Mountaineer Musings got married this weekend. I couldn’t make it, but Spoons was there. Tons of photos here.
Congrats, kids!

Make James Lileks’ year-in-review piece at The American Enterprise online your lunchtime read.

Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace reportedly says his father, veteran CBS News anchor Mike Wallace, has “lost it.”
Yowch.
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Keep a close eye on Mike Wallace
The bias of Mike Wallace

President Bush encourages Iraqis to vote. (Video here.)
Jim Hoft has joyous photos of Iraqi soldiers and other citizens voting.
The Officers’ Club highlights bitter moonbat reaction.
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Omar at Iraq The Model has photos of early voters.
Pajamas Media: Poll finds Iraqis optimistic
Saleno Zito in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review writes:
As deputy chief of mission at the U.S. [...]

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Late last night, the California Supreme Court refused to grant a stay of execution for convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams. He’ll be executed early Tuesday unless Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger grants clemency or a last-ditch federal appeal succeeds. Via AP:
Williams’ supporters also made another pitch directly to the governor Sunday to spare his [...]

John Hawkins at Right Wing News kicks things off with The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes For 2005. A sample:
40) “I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal. It was awesome.” — Drew Barrymore
39) “I think (the NBA’s dress code is) a racist statement because a lot of the guys who are [...]

Australian blogger Tim Blair has the story covered.
Pajamas Media has a round-up.
A few photos at Bare Knuckle Politics.
Is Sydney the next Paris? Tim Priest, a retired detective in Sydney, weighs in.
More:
Wretchard at The Belmont Club has coverage and analysis of the latest outbreaks of violence.

On Friday, Editor and Publisher hyped this Sunday NYTimes magazine piece by Michael Crowley about the influence of conservative vs. liberal blogs.
Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman offer stiff competition on a weekly basis, but Crowley’s embarrassing little squib (283 words) has to be one of most insipid, shallow, and uninformed wastes of space to grace [...]

Still no decision from Gov. Schwarzenegger. The clock is ticking. SFChronicle reports:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did not announce his decision Saturday regarding Stanley Tookie Williams’ request for clemency, giving him less than two days to decide whether Williams should be spared the lethal injection he is scheduled to receive at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.
Administration officials have not [...]