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Blogging was light today. Went on a special field trip for Hot Air that I’ll tell you more about in just a bit. In the meantime, a special guest stopped by yesterday. I was honored to hang out for a too-brief chat with milblogger/journalist extraordinaire Michael Yon. It’s not every day that one of this [...]

President Bush may finally be coming around to beefing up the border with National Guard troops, but it’s not stopping foreign governments and activist judges from interfering in the enforcement of our immigration laws. The Mexican consulate is investigating our immigration agents for arresting illegal aliens in northern Kentucky: The Mexican Consulate in Indianapolis has [...]

Message to the MSM from Americans with their heads screwed on straight: We’re not scared. WaPo poll out today reports: “Most Americans Support NSA’s Efforts.” A majority of Americans initially support a controversial National Security Agency program to collect information on telephone calls made in the United States in an effort to identify and investigate [...]

Did you catch this NYPost editorial yesterday? The leak-dependent elite media have no shame: The 2004 Republican National Convention presented New York City with an age-of-terror public-safety challenge of unprecedented scope – and the NYPD, with characteristic brisk efficiency, did Gotham proud. Not to hear The New York Times tell it, though. The paper’s campaign [...]

I’ve been getting a new influx of jihadi screeds related to my publishing of the Mohammed Cartoons again. Was wondering about the timing. Here’s a possible answer via Forbes.com: A video by an Al-Qaeda member posted on the Internet called upon Muslims to attack Denmark, Norway and France for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. [...]

Feckless Arlen Specter is joining the Dems in another round of Beltway braying over NSA’s counterterrorism programs: Lawmakers demanded answers from the Bush administration Thursday about a spy agency secretly collecting records of millions of ordinary Americans’ phone calls to build a database of all calls within the country… …The top-ranking Democrat on the Senate [...]

First, the NSA scare-mongering. Now this. Maybe we should start sending nails to the editorial board.

***scroll for updates*** The Department of Homeland Security is working overtime to quell citizen outrage over the Border Patrol/Mexico/Minutemen story. The contradictory spin doctors are not doing a very good job. I’ll have more in a moment. But now is a crucial time to step back and look at this disturbing episode in a larger, [...]

A Team Hot Air production.

***update: Bush speaks…VIDEO…*** USA Today tries its hand at scare-mongering today with a piece disclosing a secret–well, not anymore– NSA program analyzing phone call patterns and data that private phone companies AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth collect: The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary [...]

I have a feeling the Wall Street Journal is going to get a lot of feedback about this unbelievably muddled piece by a Greenwich, Conn., neurosurgeon who ultimately sings the praises of an illegal alien with tuberculosis. A social worker tracked down the illegal alien’s friends and family. They all tested positive for TB and, [...]

The American Forces Press Service reports on the dedication of a 9/11 memorial in Virginia: The people of Prince William County gathered here yesterday to dedicate a memorial that honors the 22 county residents who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It took four years and many donors to fund and build the [...]

Dateline Jakarta: Seven suspected Islamic terrorists have confessed to beheading three Christian schoolgirls on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island, police said on Wednesday. The seven detained suspects confessed under questioning that they planned and carried out the October 29 beheadings in the Sulawesi town of Poso, police chief Lieutenant Colonel Rudi Sufahriadi told The Associated Press. Another [...]

***update from Daily Bulletin: ” Scott James, a former Tucson agent, resigned after eight years of service in February, citing a lack of support for agents by the Department of Homeland Security. He said that U.S. Border Patrol officials provided office space inside their headquarters to Mexican consulate officials, allowed the consulate to dictate the [...]

The scoop.

Unbelievable. Well, not really. Cuba is now a member of the UN Human Rights Council. Ok. If that doesn’t floor you, look who else was voted onto the panel: China, Russia, Pakistan, Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia. Jim Hoft liveblogged the vote yesterday and follows up here. Fausta is fuming and has an audio reminder of [...]

The Customs and Border Protection agency at DHS has issued a statement, much-ballyhooed by blind Bush supporters, which calls the Inland Valley Bulletin’s story on the Border Patrol/Minutemen/Mexican government “inaccurate.” Let’s examine the full bluster: Today’s report by the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, “U.S. tipping Mexico to Minuteman patrols,” is inaccurate. Border Patrol does not [...]

***update: we’ve got audio of Ali’s Harvard remarks at Hot Air…Charles Johnson gets a shout from Ali plus a first-hand account…Miss Kelly was also in attendance*** Reader Michael S. writes in: I just went to Hirshi Ali’s presentation at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. It was held in the form of an interview [...]

I’ll keep updating my first post on this subject with reader feedback. Meantime, the Minutemen Blog has details not reported by the Daily Bulletin: Sara Carter, a reporter with the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, reports today that she found documentation on Mexican government websites that show higher ups in the United States Border Patrol have [...]

I salute them.

***scroll for updates*** Who does the U.S. Border Patrol work for? Apparently, not for us. If you have high blood pressure, don’t read on. The Daily Bulletin reports: While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen — and telling [...]

In “Digital Lynch Mob,” Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen recounts getting barraged with left-wing letters over his criticism of Stephen Colbert and writes about the raw sewage floating in his e-mailbox. The e-mails pulse in my queue, emanating raw hatred. This spells trouble — not for Bush or, in 2008, the next GOP presidential candidate, [...]

Via The Scotsman (hat tip: reader Jenn) comes this far-left diatribe from the actress who portrayed The White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia movie. She reportedly thinks Hollywood is too right-wing and too heavily influenced by conservative Christians. Snort: ONE OF Scotland’s leading actresses has lashed out at Hollywood, demanding “more wise and courageous [...]

Hysterical. Related: O’Reilly’s Most Ridiculous Item of the Day

Watch out! Say a prayer for the people of Honolulu. My former police chief, the utterly incompetent Charles “Still waiting for the white van” Moose, has resurfaced. (Hat tip: reader JB) According to WTOP News, he is now training to be a street officer in Hawaii. Charles Moose was at the forefront of the hunt [...]

Howard Kurtz’s piece on the MSM’s differential treatment of Rep. Patrick Kennedy vs. Rush Limbaugh got a lot of buzz today, but Mark Levin nails it best: Early on, prosecutors claimed they had evidence of over ten felonies. They demanded that Rush plead guilty to some felony—any felony. He refused, always insisting on his innocence. [...]

One police officer killed, several others injured in a bloody shootout at the Chantilly police station in Fairfax County. Details still sketchy but one sniper may be on the loose. CNN: Two police officers are in critical condition after a shooting Monday at a police station in Fairfax County, Virginia, an FBI source told CNN. [...]

CENTCOM has translated an important cache of documents and videos “ranging from plans to critiques including al Qaida in Iraq’s strategy in Baghdad, and how the terrorist organization lacks leadership, military capability and Iraqi support.” Many of the docs have been posted online. Ed Morrissey takes a closer look: Far from optimistic, the documents captured [...]

Doubts raised about the identity of the person in the cellphone video. See here and here. Doesn’t change the fact of Bahjat’s senseless murder. And somewhere out there is the grieving family of the beheaded victim in the cellphone video who was sacrificed in the name of Allah. Don’t forget them.

Scheduled to appear on The O’Reilly Factor tonight at around 8:30pm EDT.