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Thank you, Michelle, for the wonderful opportunity to Blog-sit this week. I’m in transit today, so I will leave everyone with the words of President Bush–or, rather, what I wrote in my column this week as the words of President Bush: What I think he should tell the nation to re-focus the war on Islamic [...]

If the Rolling Stones (and other aged rock stars) have successfully avoided growing up, they have not, as has been duly noted, successfully avoided growing old. And it only gets worse. The Daily Mail is reporting “apparent apathy surrounding ticket sales” for the group’s upcoming British concerts as promoters hastily erect billboards and take out [...]

Here’s hoping this is another false alarm. Either way, it appears that transportation security is indeed on full alert, and possible threats are being handled quickly and decisively. The Charleston, W.V. Gazette: HUNTINGTON — Tri-State Airport in Huntington was evacuated just before 11:30 a.m. Thursday after a suspicious liquid was found in a passenger’s carry-on [...]

Andrew Sullivan, clearly wanting to engage with the “deranged”, has asked that I provide evidence that an attack was imminent, and therefore, as I argued, that torture to obtain information about the impending attack was necessary and legitimate. The entirety of Sullivan’s argument, in particular his criticism of me, actually makes no sense. He writes: [...]

Check this out. In a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times today, Nicole Kidman and 83 other Hollywood notables signed onto an anti-terror statement remarkable for its (gasp) clarity. “We the undersigned are pained and devastated by the civilian casualties in Israel and Lebanon caused by terrorist actions initiated by terrorist organisations such as [...]

My friend Julia Gorin has a great piece in today’s Opinion Journal about how she was almost aborted and her offense to Ms. Magazine’s new campaign to destigmatize abortion by having their readers fess up to having had one. Julia and I are both from the former Soviet Union and I’ve written before about the [...]

Scroll for updates, injunction posted…44-page opinion posted ABC has it on its Breaking News bar. Detroit Free-Press has the story: A federal judge in Detroit has ruled that the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program violates the Constitution. U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security [...]

Her Aug 3 speech to the Young America’s Foundation is exerpted in today’s Vent.

Because this white Republican’s about to talk about race and politics. My take on the game of Whack-a-Racist, in light of the George Allen incident this week,in my Examiner column today. The incident happened Friday. Since then, it’s been worth two stories and an editorial in The New York Times and eight stories — three [...]

While world powers talk big over who “won” the ceasefire following Israel’s incursion into Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon, the scales of victory may be seen to be tipped by actions of tiny countries like Costa Rica. The president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, announced on Wednesday that his country would transfer its embassy from Jerusalem to [...]

If you’re reading this right now, chances are you’re sitting down on a nice comfy chair in a nice, well lit, air conditioned room. You’re probably typing or working with a relatively new computer replete with all the whoozits and whatsits with all the bells and whistles. You probably have a reliable and relatively fast [...]

Cam Edwards has news of a victory for gunowners in New Orleans.

False alarm, scroll for updates… Via Drudge, here’s the story: Authorities set up a half-mile perimeter around a terminal at the Port of Seattle on Wednesday after bomb-sniffing dogs indicated that at least one container recently unloaded from a ship could contain explosives. Dozens of personnel were evacuated from Terminal 18, on Harbor Island south [...]

Oh, Lordy: Officials at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport say they’re reviewing security measures after police arrested an allegedly drunken man found on the tarmac early Tuesday. Christopher Beyerbach, 42, of Lexington, S.C., was arrested outside a ramp near Concourse C and charged with second-degree trespassing, being intoxicated and disruptive, resisting a public officer and injury to [...]

A quick look around the ‘series of tubes’: **Dawn Summers wonders why the UN recognizes Hezbollah but not Taiwan. **Allahpundit notes there have been no demands or taking of responsibility for kidnapped FOX news employee Steve Centanni. **James Taranto agrees that the George Allen ‘kerfuffle’ is pretty silly as far as kerfuffles go. **Kathryn Jean [...]

I know it’s a Greta Van Susteren story, but it’s interesting: NBC News is reporting that an arrest has been made in the in the murder case of Jon Benet Ramsey. They are reporting that offiicals from Boulder, Colo. will be transporing a suspect to the United States from Thailand within the next two days. [...]

One of my mentors on Islam–because before 9/11, who knew?–is Robert Spencer, a gifted writer whose books and journalism are informed by careful scholarship and logical analysis. His most recent book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), made the New York Times bestseller list–with virtually no MSM reviews. Meanwhile, his website, JihadWatch, [...]

Saw this @ Little Green Footballs, but once is not enough.

Karol!

Allah was on this from the get-go. The “unruly passenger” was reportedly carrying Vaseline, matches, a screw driver, and a note referencing Al Qaeda. The flight was carrying 182 passengers and 12 crew. The flight, with 182 passengers and 12 crew members landed safely, UAL Corp. spokesman Brandon Borrman said. Borrman said a female passenger [...]

I have totally arrived. Andrew Sullivan has labeled me ‘deranged’ for my earlier post on torture being acceptable when innocent lives are in imminent danger. Of course, the fact that he’s hysterically arguing that there was no terror plot out of London makes his charges against me, let’s say slightly less believeable. UPDATE, 11:06am: And [...]

Michelle revisits the Cartoon Jihad in today’s Vent at Hot Air.

To their stunned friends and neighbors in a housing project in north London, the Alis were known as quiet, struggling parents and observant Muslims who showed no signs of terror ties. Of course they were. Cossor, a British citizen like her husband, lived with her parents and two older sisters before marrying Ali three years [...]

NewsFLASH: HEZBOLLAH LEADS WORK TO REBUILD, GAINING STATURE ——— Filling Void in Lebanon ——— Militia Moves Fast With Bulldozers and Pledge of Cash From Iran Is this a joke, a parody, somebody’s idea of turning the moral realm on its head and portraying a genocidal guerilla army as a cross between the Lady Bountiiful, Santa [...]

Could towns and cities be prevented from enacting laws on illegal immigration? The town of Hazleton, PA might be the first: PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Civil rights campaigners sued the Pennsylvania town of Hazleton on Tuesday, seeking to block one of America’s toughest local laws against illegal immigrants. The suit says Hazelton’s City Council violated the [...]

You Tube has been down since yesterday, though Reuters’ report suggests it must have been back up for a while: Web video sensation YouTube.com, which serves up more than 100 million videos online a day, suffered a six-hour breakdown on Tuesday — its first-ever unplanned outage, a company spokeswoman confirmed. “We are experiencing a temporary [...]

Brilliant marketing from M.A.C. Cosmetics. (Her big line is about halfway through, if you want to fast-forward.) Man, and I was all excited that pseudo-intellectual, politically conscious grrrrrl power was available in shimmery lip-gloss form. Sigh. Next up, Patricia Heaton for Venus razors: “These legs pounded the pavement in the Goldwater campaign, okay? I could [...]

Allah has more details. The San Jose Mercury-News interviews the Bay Area native’s family: Nicholas Centanni said that Steve’s love of travel and desire to tell human stories drives his passion for reporting overseas. “He is probably hoping his work will do some good to stop this madness,” Nicholas Centanni said. Nicholas Centanni describes his [...]

We know who armed Hezbollah–Iran and Syria, both of whom, quite disastrously, seem to be getting away scot-free with state-sponsored terrorism in the First Degree. But who will disarm Hezbollah? Here’s the UN “plan,” as described by Reuters, which sounds like the climax of an old Keystones Kops two-reeler: First, there’s the international UN contingent [...]

I’ve got a fun game for all of us to play, the object of which is to make the worst of the Congressional appropriators pee their pants…err, get really nervous (because I couldn’t think of a more Congressionally-appropriate figure of speech). Are you in? All right. Here’s how it goes. This is what the pork [...]