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Throw your hands up in the air…
Hizballah “boy band” hits the big time.
Listen here.
Lyric translation:
I hail thee, hawk of Lebanon
I welcome thee, Hassan Nasrallah
Here are your men, Hezbollah
Victory, victory with the help of God.
Nasrallah, this brave person
He responded to the calls to take vengeance
The Arab blood became hotter and hotter
The boldness and the courage [...]

Move over, Bob Laurence. Former Snohomish County, Wash., Democrat party official Mike Whitney has taken your place as anti-Fox News Channel scum of the week. From “uruknet.info,” a pro-terrorist propaganda outlet deemed a legitimate news source by Google News:
Are FOX employee’s innocent bystanders or an integral part of the American war machine? That may turn [...]

At Hot Air, we’ve been expanding programming and welcoming new faces and voices to the conservative videoblogging world. Our megawatt guest hosts Mary Katharine Ham of Townhall and Bethany of realVerse have garnered much buzz. Today, a new vlogging star is born. We are debuting a new weekly political comedy show from the brilliant Jeff [...]

Tim Sumner of Take Back The Memorial smacks Ray Nagin for his petulant comments on Ground Zero.
Allah sums it up: “[C]alling Ground Zero a ‘hole in the ground’ that’s still not ‘fixed’ is, well, about par for the course for the king of the memorial motor pool.”
Let me put it more bluntly: He’s an ass. [...]

Apostasy. The last time I visited the subject, an ex-Muslim man’s life was at stake in Afghanistan. Remember Abdul Rahman?
Now, meet Lina Joy. Like Rahman, she was born Muslim, converted to Christianity, and is facing death threats for abandoning Islam. She wants to marry a fellow Christian man in her native Malaysia. A Muslim legal [...]

Hot Air’s Ian Schwartz was in Baltimore tonight and captured video of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons’ endorsement of GOP Senate candidate Michael Steele. It’s a highly significant event for the Steele campaign. Steele and Simmons became friends a few years ago “because the two share interests in minority entrepreneurship and housing,” reports WJLA. The Washington [...]

***updated with disturbing new details…Allah lays out more theories…JPost: rogue Fatah?***
A response to the “Holy Jihad Brigades” video from Steve Centanni’s brother. MKH rounds-up theories about what the thugs want.
Update: Rusty Shackleford has a grim report and urges you to redouble your prayers:
The Global Islamic Media Front today released a copy of the Steve Centanni [...]

***updated with MSM contact info below…Dan Riehl follows up with observations about the ambulance license plates…Related: Daniel Freedman on Hezbollah’s helpers at the Red Cross…Somewhat related: NYer arrested for broadcasting Hezbollah TV…***
***update II: video of Brit Hume’s coverage of Zombie’s report tonight…now where’s the rest of the media?***
Take a good look at these three images [...]

The CBS reality game show has spoofed itself with its new plan to divide contestants by race announced yesterday:
Race will matter on the upcoming season of the CBS show as contestants will be divided into four tribes by ethnicity. That means blacks, whites, Latinos and Asians in separate groups.
The announcement was made on CBS’ Early [...]

Yes, it’s true. America’s Shakedown Artist is headed to the Middle East “to meet with political and religious leaders about troubles in the region, including the kidnapping of two Fox News journalists.” More via AP:
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Wednesday he would lead an ecumenical delegation to the Middle East this week to meet with [...]

***update: winner of the anti-Bush stop sign contest announced below***
Getting into the swing of things again, I’ll be back on O’Reilly tonight at around 8:30pm Eastern to talk immigration. *Update: Here’s the video.*
Meantime, here’s a lovely photo I took while on vacation. There’s no escaping BDS. Free signed copy of Unhinged to the first person [...]

***see update***
Katie Favazza sends word of a massive blogger initiative to memorialize those murdered on 9/11.
DC Roe explains:
On September 11, 2006, 2,996 volunteer bloggers will join together for a tribute to the victims of 9/11. Each person will pay tribute to a single victim.
I just registered and will be paying tribute to Giovanna Porras, age [...]

My column this week: An open letter to snotty cosmetics manufacturers.
Cheers to The Cotillion for flagging the original story.

Bethany of realVerse, guest-hosting at HA, roasts a moonbat videoblog hero. Watch it!

***Update: Statement from FNC***
“We trust that the abductors understand they are responsible for Steve and Olaf’s welfare and safe return,” John Moody, a senior vice president at Fox, wrote in an email sent to Reuters.
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The kidnappers of Steve Centanni and Olag Wiig have stepped forward and demanded the release of “Muslim prisoners.” The thugs call [...]

***scroll for updates…a TV critic attacks Fox News…see below for Fox-hater’s donor record…Aug. 23 1240am…Christian Science Monitor covers the kidnappings and context:
“We have confirmed many times that foreign journalists are not to be attacked. On the contrary, we should protect them, because they work very hard to reveal the real image of the Palestinians, and [...]

The blogosphere sniffs out another Hezbollywood production–fake charity, fake money. Start at Snapped Shots, LGF, Allah, and ALF.
I agree with the Boston Herald: Better no pictures than phony ones.

MKH vents while I’m away.

***scroll for updates***

Missing: Day 7

Steve Centanni reporting
I’ve tried to stay away from the computer and the news as much as possible during my time off, but I couldn’t help checking in every day for word of Fox News correspondent Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig since their kidnapping last Monday.
I don’t know Centanni at all, [...]

Patterico takes a closer look at that bone-headed ruling against the NSA terrorist surveillance program, and finds more damning evidence of how the blabbermouths have underminded national security:
According to the plaintiffs — lawyers, scholars, journalists, and others who communicate internationally with terrorists — the disclosure of the surveillance program has caused terrorists to discontinue [...]

Hello, readers. I’m still in semi-vacation mode for the next few days, but am taking back the reins from my fabulous group of guest-bloggers. Big props to Mary Katharine Ham, Karol Sheinin, Val Prieto, and Diana West for all their great work last week.
You can catch Mary Katharine at Townhall–and at Hot Air tomorrow [...]

Thanks, thanks, thanks for letting me hang out all week, Malkin-readers! It was a pleasure and a privilege to blog alongside Karol, Diana, and Val.
Great company, great crib. Thanks for letting us look after it for a while, Michelle.
As for me, I’m headed back home, and I really hope y’all will come visit [...]

A great big thank you to Michelle for letting me guest-blog on her site this week. It’s been quite an experience and I’m very thankful that she deemed me worthy to cover for her.
You might think my favorite part of it was my fight with Andrew Sullivan and, sure, that was fun, but the highlight [...]

Allah writes that all the wrong lessons have been learned from the cease-fire.
Update, 12:51pm: Jeff Goldstein’s dancing armadillo seems to agree.

Getting an email from Michelle is great because you know you’re in for some pretty major blogging action - she’s usually at the forefront of things and, of course, an exceptional writer - but when you get an email from her asking if you’d like to guest blog while she’s away, well, you kinda get [...]

John Edwards, the 2004 Democratic vice presidential candidate, says his vote on the Iraq war was a mistake.
Edwards, who essentially rose to prominence because of his pretty face and his bouncy hair, has now come full-circle on his Iraq position.
Edwards didn’t just vote to authorize force, he was one of the co-sponsors [...]

I know you can show me.

Looks like Southerners can sing, and Mormons can dance. Catholic Midwesterners, go forth and find your reality show!
Very little word on Steve Centanni and his cameraman, but Spruiell heard Shep say they’re okay. Let’s hope so.
I missed this scare. Man, and I do so hate to disappoint the World o’ [...]

Today’s Vent, featuring rare footage from the caves of Iwo Jima and a preview of next week’s shows.

The woman that disrupted the London-NY flight on Wednesday appeared in federal court yesterday.
The word is that she’s simply crazy, and not a terrorist, although her circumstances are more than a little suspicious:
Ms. Mayo’s 31-year-old son, Josh, told reporters in Vermont that his mother was a peace activist who had been visiting a [...]

From my editorial at Townhall on Cuba’s Independent Journalists:
Right now there remain at least two dozen independent journalists incarcerated in Cuba simply because they dared speak the truth. Some have been locked away since 2003, still in the infancy of their 15 or 20 year sentences. Truth has made them suffer beatings, torture and [...]