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***originally posted 752am…bumping this back to the top…11am Eastern – White House says it is considering declassifying the NIE…1210pm new update: Bush will release parts of the report…video…*** President Bush on Tuesday said it is naive and a mistake to think that the war with Iraq has worsened terrorism, disputing a national intelligence assessment by [...]

No e-mail. No search engine. Seems like it’s been down all morning. Anyone know what’s going on?

This is getting ridiculous: Saddam Hussein has been ejected from his trial in Baghdad for the third time in a week after arguing with the judge. His removal came shortly after Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa gave him a stern warning to behave himself. The defence team representing Saddam Hussein and his six co-defendants are boycotting [...]

***update: photos from NZ Bear*** Congratulations to Glenn Reynolds, N.Z. Bear, and all the participants of the Porkbusters campaign! Bloggers do make a difference. The White House signing ceremony takes place at 9:45am today. Via Washington Times: President Bush has invited bloggers to join him today as he signs into law a bill creating a [...]

Sister Leonella: Paying last respects To borrow a phrase from Rush Limbaugh, the “drive-by media” gave a few hours’ attention to the victims of jihadists’ Pope Rage last weekend and then quickly moved on to the next headline. I think the murder of Sister Leonella deserves a few more seconds of your time. The latest [...]

Tom Curley: Head of the A(wt)P What do you do when you are a global news organization under fire for suppressing five-month-old news of the capture of one of your employees by American troops in a Ramadi apartment with an alleged al Qaeda leader and a weapons cache? You run to a sympathetic news organization [...]

The Code Pinkos took over the Hart Senate Office Building on Friday (hat tip: E.) Here’s video of their “War is not the answer” sing-a-long: Someone should have handed them the lyrics to “Give jihad a chance.” *** Meanwhile, their fellow travelers in Britain turned out for an anti-war pow-wow. Moonbat Media was there to [...]

Photoshop by David Lunde On Fox and Friends this morning, Chris Wallace had some interesting comments about his interview with the Finger-Jabber: His reaction to Clinton accusing him of having a “smirk:” “What it was was sheer wonder at what I was witnessing.” Heh. On what happened after the interview: “There was no making up [...]

I’ve already told you how underwhelmed I am by the GOP’s empty, election-season, unfunded border fence gestures. Mickey Kaus detected signs of a Frist fence flake-out on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulous yesterday, and I think Mickey’s radar is dead-on: Has Sen. Frist given up on the border fence? It sure sounded that way [...]

Terrible news: A leading Afghan official working on women’s rights has been shot dead in the southern province of Kandahar. Safia Amajan, head of the province’s women’s department, was leaving her home for work when a gunman on a motorcycle opened fire, police said. She may have been targeted by Taleban militants because of their [...]

The NYTimes and WaPo went big yesterday with news of a leaked classified National Intelligence Estimate report, which reportedly claims that the Iraq war is exacerbating Islamic terrorism. WaPo: The war in Iraq has become a primary recruitment vehicle for violent Islamic extremists, motivating a new generation of potential terrorists around the world whose numbers [...]

***scroll for updates…AZ Gov. Napolitano thinks the memorial is “great,” “honorable,” and “responsible…” You have got to see the entire stomach-turning photo series of the Arizona 9/11 memorial disgrace over at Hot Air. Many thanks to Hot Air commenter AZ Patriot for taking the pics. The blogswarm has been building over the moonbattered memorial, which [...]

***scroll for updates*** Wallace to Clinton: “You seem upset.” Check out Hot Air highlights of the Wallace-Clinton fireworks on Fox News Sunday. Wallace was terrific. Unflappable. Unrelenting. Unapologetic. Clinton was a basket case. Newsbusters has the transcript. “Conservative hit job?” Right. Ask your wife about that Clinton-hating Rupert Murdoch. Allah on Clinton’s math: He had [...]

For. Crying. Out. Loud: Times of London reports: “Police to brief Muslims before terror raids” Police have agreed to consult a panel of Muslim leaders before mounting counter-terrorist raids or arrests. Members of the panel will offer their assessment of whether information police have on a suspect is too flimsy and will also consider the [...]

I don’t need to see it, but in case you are one of those people who needs to be reminded how evil and bloodthirsty our enemies are, click on the photo for more images and video of al Qaeda’s latest death porn production. Jawa Report has the lowdown. AP report here: An al-Qaida-linked group posted [...]

…think Hugo. From my friends at The Peoples Cube:

Unverified rumors bubbling up again–this time from France and the Saudis. Lots of readers are wondering if that funeral gathering of Taliban leaders is tied into this latest report of bin Laden’s demise. Mary Katharine has a monster round-up; Allah points to bigger news at the Jawa Report: …a much bigger story is that the [...]

Posting was light today because I’ve been trapped in travel hell. Been hustling back and forth across the Chicago airport for the last three and a half hours waiting for “tornado” conditions to pass. Just venting. Speaking of “Vent,” there’s lots of good stuff over at Hot Air: Kathleen of Rightwingsparkle gets Kinky. Bill Clinton [...]

Yes, it’s worrisome (hat tip- LM): More than 200 Somalian and Bosnian immigrants illegally obtained Missouri commercial driver’s licenses or certifications to handle hazardous materials through a West Plains truck-driving school that had a contract with the state, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Fifteen people were named in a federal grand jury indictment unsealed Thursday, including [...]

Still traveling and catching up on news/mail. The three Christians in Indonesia I blogged about last week were executed yesterday by firing squad. Indonesian blogger Stan liveblogged the day’s events. BBC coverage here. Context here and here and here. My initial post prompted much caterwauling from tone-deaf moonbat bloggers who accused me of hypocrisy for [...]

Tons of readers are asking me for information about boycotting CITGO to protest sulfur-sniffing Hugo Chavez. Movement growing here and here. More here and here. Jim Hoft notes that CITGO held a Chavez pep rally in Harlem. Fox News reports: Chavez, dressed in his signature red shirt, was introduced at the podium by activist actor [...]

Just got off a cross-country plane ride and am catching up on Charlie Rangel’s faux chivalry rebuke of Hugo Chavez and the Dems’ purported defense of President Bush. Whatever. He’s hardly one to chastise anyone else for unhinged, anti-Bush administration rhetoric.

Yesterday evening, I received a call from my column syndicate, Creators Syndicate. The Associated Press had phoned my editor to inform her that it would be sending a response to my column yesterday about detained AP photographer Bilal Hussein. (Funny how quickly they respond now. Where have they been the past five months? Oh, right: [...]

You could be put on trial.

Lots of folks asking me about Hamid Mir’s reports of an al Qaeda nuclear plot. Yes, it’s worrisome.

It’s spin time. The Associated (With Terrorists) Press is now waging a p.r. campaign against what it calls the “so-called blogosphere” over detained photographer Bilal Hussein. After five months of stonewalling, the “so-called reporters” at AP finally reported what this blog reported on April 12–that Hussein had indeed been captured by the US military in [...]

Watch the video: Cindy Sheehan’s main squeeze is addressing the U.N. Moonbats are going to love it. He held up Noam Chomsky’s book and called President Bush the devil: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took his verbal battle with the United States to the floor of the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, calling President Bush “the [...]

Here’s what you get when you politely ask Muslims to help root out jihadists: Home Secretary John Reid has called on British Muslims to do more to help root out potential extremists. In a speech Mr Reid asked Muslim parents to keep a close eye on their children and act if they suspected they were [...]

Andrew McCarthy explains. His take on the new liberal cause celebre, Maher Arar, is here. The White House appears to backtrack. NRO on the tortured debate. And my take on the Republican Surrender Caucus. Mary Katherine Ham has the latest on all the legislative manuevering.

A former Archbishop of Canterbury minces no words about Islamic violence and the man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II issues a warning to Pope Benedict XVI: THE former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey of Clifton has issued his own challenge to “violent” Islam in a lecture in which he defends the Pope’s [...]