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The Washington Times weighs in.
Tony Perkins has an open letter to President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and to Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) and Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), the respective foreign affairs committee chairmen, over at Human Events:
On behalf of Family Research Council and the families we represent, thank you for your work [...]

Our troops teamed with British forces to rescue three left-wing, anti-war activists kidnapped by terrorists in Iraq. Those freed were Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32; and Briton Norman Kember, 74. The men, who were members of the Chicago-based Christian Peacemaker Teams, were kidnapped on Nov. 26 along with their American colleague, [...]

The California Patriot, UC Berkeley’s conservative student publication, has an amusing story of liberal undergrads gone wild–with must-see video and photos. Andrew Quinio reports:
Students from PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, drew an angry crowd on Sproul after displaying images that compared animal treatment to the lynching and enslavement of black Americans. About [...]

John Fund and Clinton Watson Taylor continue to break new ground on the blood-boiling story of the former Taliban spokesman at Yale.
Taylor digs up damning quotes from Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi and a telling photo:

Leave Islam, go to the gallows. That’s still the rule in Afghanistan, as we see in the sad case of Christian [...]

Ahmed Akkari
Danish Imam Ahmed Akkari, who helped inflame the Cartoon Jihad, has reportedly been taped on a hidden camera threatening to kill Naser Khader, a member of Denmark’s Parliament who recently founded an organization for moderate Muslims.
According to Bibelen and Agora, this Jyllands-Posten article reports that Akkari said of Khader: “If one day he [...]

Reader H.J.T. has kindly sent me the full, 16-page “whiny kids grow up to be conservatives” study in PDF format.

Click here to download and read the entire document.
Update: Removed for copyright
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RightWingDuck spoofs.
Dr. Helen: The Politicization of Psychology Continues
Helen and Glenn’s recent podcast explores this very topic with Dr. Nicholas Cummings, a past President of the [...]

New developments in the Lodi terror trial (hat tip: Dave Logan):
A juror who was dismissed Wednesday from the federal terrorism trial of a father and son from Lodi said prosecutors have so far failed to prove that the younger man attended an al-Qaida training camp.
Andrea Clabaugh, 39, was dismissed after revealing that she once dated [...]

Received from a reader working in the Canadian government…Conservative Canadian PM Stephen Harper cared enough to pick up the phone:
Statement by the Prime Minister on the Raham case and freedom of religion in
Afghanistan
March 22, 2006
Ottawa, Ontario
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today issued the following statement after the
conclusion of his telephone call to Afghanistan President Karzai.
“I called [...]

AP: Clinton vows to block bill criminalizing illegal immigrants
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Related: Uncommon sense from Robert Samuelson.

…to dump tinfoil hat-wearer Charlie Sheen.

***scroll for updates…CAIR calls for Rahman to be freed…yes, CAIR…Australia joins the fray***

Cam Edwards of OnTap e-mailed me yesterday with an excellent idea–a rally for Abdul Rahman outside the Afghan embassy in Washington, D.C. Thanks to the D.C. Freepers, a permit has been submitted to the D.C. police.
Cam reports:
The way it works is the D.C. [...]

This should be good.
Hat tip: Matt B.
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Jim Paine has a different take.

About the Abdul Rahman case, reports Tim Graham. More to come…
Update from The Political Pit Bull:

Watch video and read transcript of the mealy-mouthed statement.
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Meanwhile, the Danes are not mincing words (via Agora):
Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller, Conservatives, Berlingske, March 22:
“We are working full steam to shed some light on this case, a case which we [...]

If whiny kids grow up to be conservatives, how do you explain the sniveling psychosis on the Left side of the blogosphere , where unhinged haters are so threatened by conservative Washington Post blogger Ben Domenech (my former book editor) that they have resorted to attacking his education and his homeschooling parents. A sample (profanity [...]

Typical bureaucratic answer: Everyone and no one.
Report: State let Haleigh Poutre down
Agencies’ failure cited in girl’s case
Probe has no justice for Haleigh: Gov panel clears DSS in tragic beating case
ProLife Blogs rounds up the finger-pointers and blame-avoiders.
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Haleigh Poutre: Making progress
Happy Birthday, Haleigh
Haleigh’s story continued: hope lives
Haleigh vs. Tookie
Blogging for Haleigh
Haleigh wants to live

3/22 morning update: Afghan officials are accusing Rahman of being mentally unfit. Watch him for yourself. Who is insane: Rahman or the jihadists who want to kill him?
1015am EST: The White House is “watching the case closely.” Twiddle-dee-dum. Wash Times: “Mr. Burns and State Department officials were clearly struggling to condemn the prosecution without [...]

Well, well, well. The United Nations has removed its anti-Danish poster from its website. This morning, it was featured prominently as a graphic and available as a special download in PDF.

It was also available in Arabic:

Now, no trace of it at all. No explanation.
Dr. Steven Taylor at Poliblog offers a common defense of [...]

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Italy and Germany have raised their voices:
Italy has joined with Germany in protesting a death threat reportedly hanging over an Afghan who became a Christian in Germany and is now charged under Afghanistan’s religious laws .
The sharia laws, which rule many Muslim countries, forbid conversion to other religions on pain of death .
Italian [...]

Already.
See, I told you so.

Lunchtime viewing: Bryan Preston has posted “The Dud,” a short video of our encounters with the fizzling anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C., yesterday. A few stills…

Cindy Sheehan: “The enemy is our government.” Background.

How’s that sandwich?
Age of Hooper has more video.
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Carlos Santana and Sharon Stone are singing the moonbat blues.
While we’re on moonbats, here’s another [...]

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The Chicago Tribune is paying attention to Abdul Rahman, the Afghan man facing the death penalty for being a Christian convert. The paper provides background on Rahman’s troubled relations with his family, which has spurned him and accused him of mental illness. Jail officials and prosecutors are bloodthirsty:
Abdul Rahman told his family he [...]

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Today is The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is celebrating the day with this vile poster portraying Denmark’s most famous company as racist:

Your tax dollars at work.
Support Denmark. Buy LEGO.
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Some readers seem to be missing the context of this ad campaign and [...]

Over the weekend, I noted the trial of Muslim-born Abdul Rahman, who faces execution in Afghanistan for converting to Christianity.
The NYSun headlined the story on the front page today and blogs are all over it, but most of the MSM is ignoring the case.
ABC News is covering the story and adds new details:
Despite the overthrow [...]

- Free computer data recovery services, if you write for the NYTimes.
- Golf club memberships, Persian rugs, airline tickets and massages, if you work for NPR.

I don’t have much time to be a couch potato, but I turn into one in 2 minutes. I know there are a lot of “24″ devotees on the right side of the blogosphere who will be tuned to FOX tonight, but I’m a “Prison Break” fan myself.
Forget Jack Bauer. Michael Scofield/Wentworth Miller rules.

My very smart and talented editor, Ben Domenech, of Regnery Publishing, has been tapped to head up a new conservative blog at The Washington Post.
Yes, the Washington Post.
It’s called “Red America.”
Check it out and show him some love and support.
He will need it.
The moonbats will go nuts. I promise you.

Yaaawn. My friend Bryan Preston and I went to the moonbat fizzle in Washington, D.C. earlier today. Journalists and camera crews made up one-fifth of the crowd of about 100. (No sign of Susan Sarandon.) I interviewed several protesters, including, yes, Cindy Sheehan–who seemed to have no problem making the long walk from the Lincoln [...]

Not her words. Her muffin top (hat tip: Gateway Pundit).
Before:

After:

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Speaking of anti-war silliness, I’m off to see the moonbats in D.C. this morning.
Small Wars Journal has an excellent overview of the three-year anniversary of the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Last week, I noted action by Pakistan’s government to block blogs that published the Mohammed Cartoons.
Dr. Awab Alvi e-mailed me about a campaign by free-speech activists across Pakistan to protest the censorship. From Dr. Alvi’s site:
LAUNCHED BY THE ALVI-E TEAM (Awab Alvi & Omer Alvie) on March 3rd 2006, this is an online campaign to [...]

Betsy Newmark is back and blogging up a storm.
She notes other blogs affected by Blogger’s incompetence (Viking Pundit, Fausta, and Stolen Thunder) and adds:
I got a message from Blogger saying that they had recovered my blog and that somehow I had gotten caught up in some massive “automated spam prevention system” action that had thought [...]