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Take a tour of the terrorist propaganda network, from Tailwind to its terrorist propagandizing.
Jim Hoft has more on CNN’s disgusting double standards.

Byron Calame: NYTimes’ lapdog tucks tail
I am sure that the New York Times public editor, Byron Calame, is hoping we will all go away now.
Fat chance.
Three months after defending his paper’s decision to blow the cover of a top-secret terrorist banking data surveillance program, he issued a weasel-worded retraction yesterday in his Sunday [...]

A love story behind the “human remains” found at Ground Zero: Read this when you have a chance today.
More on Matthew D. Horning from Poetic Exodus, who honored him as part of the 2996 Project.

State Dept. tool Alberto al-Fernandez on al Jazeera
Andy McCarthy weighs in on Alberto al-Fernandez:
State’s assessment from the senior diplomat responsible for conveying our position: The U.S. is arrogant and stupid, and what we need to pursue is the chatter course preferred by the Iraqi government. And, yes, that would be the same government whose thoroughly [...]

Alberto Fernandez: Not sorry enough
US State Department mouthpiece Alberto Fernandez issued a statement tonight saying he’s sorry for condemning American “arrogance and stupidity” in Iraq:
“Upon reading the transcript of my appearance on Al-Jazeera, I realized that I seriously misspoke by using the phrase ‘there has been arrogance and stupidity’ by the U.S. in Iraq,” [...]

Photoshop: Bob D.
Un. Freaking. Believable. The NYTimes ombudsman, Byron Calame, buried a bombshell mea culpa in his column today–reversing his prior defense of the Times’ blabbermouth report on a once-secret terrorist banking data surveillance program and now admitting the paper was wrong to publish it:
Since the job of public editor requires me to probe and [...]

Meet Alberto Fernandez: State Dept. apologist for jihad
Alberto Fernandez, director of public diplomacy in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the US State Department, is al Jazeera’s favorite pet tool. He has been praised as “sassy” and is a fixture on Arab TV. From a Newsweek profile published in August, which proclaimed him “the [...]

If only CNN were honest enough to admit what the BBC now admits: They’re biased. They’re dhimmis. And they hate America! Via the Daily Mail:
It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who [...]

Michael Yon has a disturbing article in the Weekly Standard challenging an information blockade by the Pentagon:
In September, when the popular blog conglomerate Pajamas Media reported that there were only nine embedded journalists in Iraq, readers lashed out, blaming a cowardly media. But the reality is convoluted. The Pentagon permits an extremely limited number of [...]

They were watching Oliver Stone’s movie.
PajamaHadin has the English translation, if you can stomach it.
Guess they cheered this news, too.
Meanwhile, in France, 112 cars are burning a day. The cars don’t torch themselves. Guess who’s cheering?

Someone else celebrated a birthday yesterday. Congrats and welcome to the world, baby Grace.

Fox News and the Los Angeles Times report on the identity of the Democrat leak suspect–a staffer in the office of House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.). LA Times:
The aide was identified by other congressional officials as Larry Hanauer. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of a pending investigation into [...]

I’m going offline to shoot an interview with an interesting old friend of mine–which will probably surprise and alarm people on both sides of the aisle. But I love surprises, don’t you?
After that, I’m taking the rest of the day off to reflect. Count blessings. And enjoy my greatest gifts: my family. It’s my birthday, [...]

The Hot Air women are back. This week’s episode of our Internet version of The View with a clue tackles abortion, feminist extremism, faith-based pregnancy centers, and Planned Parenthood’s refusal to allow women to be fully informed about their reproductive choices. Four women not screaming about life issues and openly challenging the callousness of the [...]

Well, well. The Dems are “appalled” and outraged. Not by the possibility that one of their own may have leaked classified info about the war to damage President Bush, of course. But by the suspension of an unnamed Dem staffer over concerns that he/she may have leaked National Intelligence Estimate summary findings to the [...]

Like Tigerhawk (hat tip - Instapundit) and many other observers, I theorized that the illegal leak of the National Intelligence Estimate summary findings last month came from former or current CIA bureaucrats with an anti-Bush axe to grind. That assumption fit a well-worn pattern.
Now comes word that a Democratic staffer has been suspended over concerns [...]

Have you seen this incredible image from the Hubble telescope:

Yahoo! News caption: This Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are [...]

John Hinderaker notes Victor Davis Hanson channeling Unhinged:
The Democrats have not elected congressional majorities in 12 years, and they’ve occupied the White House in only eight of the last 26 years. The left’s current unruliness seems a way of scapegoating others for a more elemental frustration - that they can’t gain a national majority based [...]

You can watch the new national GOP campaign ad on “The Stakes” by clicking:

It’s a hell of an improvement over this piece of…

Moonbat on the dole
Because he is still employed by the University of Colorado and collecting a publicly-subsidized paycheck (hat tip: Rick):
The University of Colorado’s efforts to fire Ward Churchill are on hold because of a dispute over whether the university has to come up with $20,000 in state funds for the professor’s defense.
Churchill’s attorney, David [...]

President Bush honored Muslims who have assisted the War on Terror at an iftar dinner Monday night at the White House. He praised “New York City police officers and a EMT worker who risked their lives to save their fellow citizens on 9/11; a military doctor and a member of the Navy’s Chaplain Corps; members [...]

How many times will they run the video of jihadist snipers killing American troops?
Tools.
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Bad news for exposers of fauxtography: Looks like the French TV station has won (hat tip: Ellen). More to come.

Richard Landes reports:

I have heard from Paris that Philippe Karsenty was found liable for insulting Charles Enderlin and France2 to the sum of 3000 Euros to Enderlin and 5 symbolic Euros to France2. I do not [...]

Matt at Blackfive warns Army monitors against overzealous policing of military bloggers, who have contributed so much valuable reporting and analysis on the war.
I hope they listen.

Ugh.

Christian convert Abdul Rahman: Still a marked man
Remember Abdul Rahman, the Christian convert who fled Afghanistan and found safety in Italy after Muslim mobs demanded he be killed for abandoning Islam?
Well, while the rest of the world has forgotten about Rahman, the sharia-embracers and Koran-thumpers who believe all apostates should be murdered have not forgotten [...]

Mary Katharine Ham debuts Ham Nation at Townhall.com. Excellent.
Kirsten Powers takes on the thuggish Left.
La Shawn Barber weighs in on Juan Williams.

In my syndicated column today, I teach Angelina Jolie a few things about the corruptocrats at her beloved United Nations. She really should do her homework before lecturing the West about refugee exploitation:
Hollywood actress and United Nations spokesmodel Angelina Jolie is wagging her finger at the West for its indifference to refugees.
“It’s a scandal, [...]

I’m continuing to track the EU’s move to regulate Internet videobloggers via the “Television without Frontiers (TVwF)” regulatory plan. Help fight back.
Bryan Preston:
Some might argue in the EU’s defense that what it’s doing is no different from what the FCC does and has done for decades with respect to broadcast spectrum space. But that is [...]