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Dear American Marines, sailors, soldiers, and airmen:
The complainers and critics may have neglected to show proper gratitude to you for helping to evacuate them from Lebanon. But there are many of us here at home who appreciate all you do.
THANK YOU.

More photos at DefenseLink and details at Marine Corps Times.
Hat tip: Swilling and It [...]

***update: Byron at My Own Side is blogging the story from Kirkland and has photos of the makeshift Milkin family memorial ***
Sgt. Leonid Milkin of the Army National Guard returned home from duty in Iraq earlier than planned today. His wife and two children, along with his wife’s sister, were brutally murdered in Kirkland, Wash. [...]

Via Ynetnews
Spanish PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is only the latest in a long line of moonbat dupes who’ve literally wrapped themselves in jihadi fashion.
Remember Ricky Martin, whose keffiyeh was inscribed with the Arabic rallying cry, “Jerusalem is ours:”

And Hot Air on Hate Couture:

And more recently seen among the Hez and Hamas supporters in [...]

Via AP, the White House makes nice with the grievance-mongers at the NAACP:
Bush Acknowledges Racism Still Exists
Full text of the speech is here.
What a squandered opportunity. Bush could have hit back hard at the race exploiters who shamelessly accused him of hating black people and suppressing black votes and causing Hurricane Katrina.
As for the lingering [...]

Getting lots of alarmed e-mails asking about beheadings at the southern border and why they’re not being reported. Some readers are claiming the murder victims were US Border Patrol agents. Wrong. Others are attacking the media for ignoring it. Terrible crimes, no question. But there’s no cover-up. Here’s the story. Here’s more. Q&O blogger [...]

Having fun on World Jump Day. Click:

Comments and links here.

Flashback: Are We Ready for Hizbollah Attacks in the US?
New from Counterterrorism Blog: Hizballah Activity in North America

More on India’s bone-headed attempt to censor bloggers from the BBC today:
India’s burgeoning blogging community is up in arms against a government directive that they say has led to the blocking of their web logs.
The country’s 153 internet service providers (ISP) have blocked 17 websites since last week on federal government orders.
Some of these sites [...]

Hot Air affiliate Charles Ryder has photos and video of the rally for Israel at Freedom Park in Washington DC.
Meanwhile, Randy at RightWinged calls out the MSM’s whitewashing of the jihadists, now labeled “supporters of Lebanon.”
Judith Weiss at Kesher Talk keeps a running tab on rallies. Latest:
TODAY at 7 PM CST - if you are [...]

Here’s my Vent on that dumb Arizona voter lottery initiative.
The Onion weighs in. (hat tip: reader David C.)

***scroll for updates…1pm added links/photos of pro-Hez, pro-jihad rally in NYC…***

My syndicated column today begins:
Sheeple thought of the day: “Hezbollah is not my problem.”
You think Hezbollah is only Israel’s headache? Wake up. Iranian Hezbollah’s spokesman Mojtaba Bigdeli’s threat on Tuesday to dispatch 2,000 operatives “to every corner of the world to jeopardize Israel and [...]

It’s Day 16 of the Troops Home Fast. Florida Cracker spotted Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin, and Cynthia McKinney commiserating last night:

Is that a pizza on the plate?
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Previous: Gaining weight on the Sheehan plan

FWIW, the Senate resolution passed this evening. N.Z. Bear has the full text. FoxNews.com:
The Senate approved by voice vote Tuesday a resolution condemning Hezbollah and Hamas and their state sponsors, which include Syria and Iran, and supporting Israel’s exercise of its right to self-defense.
“I applaud my Senate colleagues for their overwhelming support of this resolution, [...]

***update: runoff!***
It’s primary election night in Georgia tonight. Will Crazy Cynthia McKinney feel the heat or won’t she? AJC reports:
Voters trickling in and out of Holy Trinity Church on East Ponce de Leon Avenue, walking distance from Decatur’s downtown square, said U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney’s run-in with Capitol police prompted them to vote against her.
Anne [...]

Roger Simon has a podcast with a 17-year-old Israeli blogger in a Haifa bunker.
Check it out!

Filed my column earlier this afternoon on Hezbollah’s American presence. Especially timely given the Iranian Hezbollah threat to U.S. interests:
“We have 2,000 volunteers who have registered since last year,” said Iranian Hizbollah’s spokesman Mojtaba Bigdeli, speaking by telephone from the central seminary city of Qom.
“They have been trained and they can become fully armed. We [...]

Couric thinks news is “too depressing” and viewers want “solutions.”
We introduce her to a cluebat.

The Old Gray Lady is going on a diet (a real one, not a Cindy Sheehan one):
The New York Times Co. plans to narrow the size of its flagship newspaper and close a printing plant, resulting in the loss of 250 jobs, the company said in a story posted on its Web site late on [...]

Thanks to my wonderful web guy, Mark Jaquith, you’ll notice a new feature at the end of every post that I started including over the weekend. It says “Digg This.” If you click on it, it’ll take you to Digg, the hot user-powered content site that now has a Politics section.
Registered members of the site [...]

Thousands turn out in NYC. Pamela at Atlas Shrugs was there and posts video, pics, and commentary.

In a word: “Overwhelming.”
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Charles Ryder sends word:
The Jewish Community Relations Council is holding a rally of solidarity with Israel this Wednesday, July 19, at noon at Freedom Plaza (Pennsylvania Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets in North West).

Charlie a Op-For is deploying. Go wish him Godspeed.

N.Z. Bear needs your help mapping Internet-connected eyewitnesses to war.

Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing sounds the alarm (hat tip: Nancy).
Advice on how to get around the censors here.
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Who’s banning your website?
Another blog banned in the UAE
Banned in the UAE
The China-Google Protest Logo Album
More China Google protest logos

Like you needed anymore proof.

The sense of illegal alien entitlement swells:
Shots were fired at a Hamilton Twp. construction site in Warren County Friday and the owner of a construction company beaten in retaliation for the firing of an undocumented worker, according to
Hamilton Twp. police.
Police responded to a “shots fired” call around 1 p.m., in which the male caller told [...]

***scroll for updates***

Here’s Bush on video cursing Hezbollah. Sometimes, profanity is called for.
Cowboy diplomacy lives.
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A commenter at HA on the Sky News reporter’s narration: “If it wasn’t so serious, I’d swear I was watching a Monty Python skit.”
Meanwhile, Israel moves forward.
Roger Simon has an exclusive interview with Israel’s ambassador to the US Daniel Ayalon over [...]

Interesting: In an About-Face, Sunnis Want U.S. to Remain in Iraq
As sectarian violence soars, many Sunni Arab political and religious leaders once staunchly opposed to the American presence here are now saying they need American troops to protect them from the rampages of Shiite militias and Shiite-run government forces.
The pleas from the Sunni Arab [...]

Statement issued this afternoon:
“We demand first that the Israeli soldiers be returned to Israel healthy, that the attacks on Israel cease, and then naturally for Israel to halt military action,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters.
At least Merkel’s got the priorities right.
Then this from the ABCNews.com report:
Group of Eight leaders on Sunday blamed extremists for [...]

Tim Blair spots the blooper. Hint.

Which side are they on? The New York Times settles the question definitively with a hysterical, unreality-based lead editorial today recycling the BDS attacks on the War on Terror–but even more so with this disgusting pictorial tribute to Iraqi terrorists killing American soldiers, spotted by the vigilant Charles Johnson at LGF. The picture featured by [...]