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***update: blogger Ali Eteraz issues a call to action***
ranian jihadists are calling for the death of another writer charged with–yup, you guessed it–insulting Islam. Via BBC (hat tip- Jihad Watch):
One of Iran’s most senior clergymen has issued a fatwa on an Azeri writer said to have insulted the Prophet Muhammad.
The call on Muslims to murder […]

***scroll for updates…NYTimes blogger Tom Zeller Jr weighs in…plus: bloggers note the significance of the capture of Mazer Al-Jubouri, aka the Baghdad Sniper, and his group…103pm Eastern…Curt has posted the AP’s non-response response…802pm Eastern update on the source list…see below…***
I’ve been following up with CENTCOM on the Associated Press/sketchy sources brouhaha. Just heard this morning […]

I haven’t been overly thrilled with the GOP presidential candidates so far, but it looks like the other side has it worse.
Wes Clark seems like he’s ready to jump in again–prompting James Joyner to observe:
Interestingly, the Democratic field looks to be shaping up as Hillary Clinton versus a bunch of folks who have run before […]

Read Andy McCarthy:
So now comes James Baker’s Iraq Study Group, riding in on its bipartisan white horse to save the day. The democracy project having failed, this blue-ribbon panel’s solution is: Let’s talk.
Let’s talk with our enemies, Iran and Syria. Let’s talk with terror abettors as if they were good guys — just like us. […]

Americans are responding to Ahmadinejad’s letter calling for “dialogue.”

Jason Smith: “Sorry, Mahmoud, but converting to Islam under the threat of beheading and carrying out a new Holocaust are not at the top of our to-do list.”
Smash does a rewrite.
Robert Spencer compares the calls of Muhammad and Mahmoud.

Allah Pundit: “Long story short, he wants us out […]

***update: Action item…Bruce Kesler has contact info for the AP Board of Directors***
My column and Vent today cover the Associated Press controversy over the six-burned-alive-Sunnis story. Shortly after I filed and taped, the AP released its statement (which I finally received this morning after my Gmail problems) and a new story on the incident, which […]

Rebuffed by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the NYTimes puts out a desperate editorial this morning asking someone, anyone–paging Nancy Pelosi!–to help protect them from accountability for protecting illegal leakers and reporters accused of tipping off terrorist charities:
A journalist’s ability to protect the identity of confidential sources has been further eroded by the Supreme Court’s refusal […]

Out of the running in 2008. Allah sez: “Just making it official.”
Hotline reporting he’ll announce at a 1pm Eastern conference.
Next…

***update: there’s a dispute over Mirza’s immigration status***

Via Jihad Watch and KHOU, a Pakistani illegal alien and a homegrown jihadist have been charged with aiding the Taliban and accused of training with firearms so they could go to the Middle East to fight with the Taliban against coalition forces in the Middle East:
Two Houston men […]

Jihad sympathizers run amok in Australia:
A SIMULATION exercise in which Year 11 students played Arabs and Israelis has been dropped by NSW schools after parents complained it was creating racial tension and painted terrorists in a sympathetic light.
An inquiry by a senior Education Department officer found the simulation exercise, devised by Macquarie University’s centre for […]

Via Mark Levin, these exit poll results yielded some interesting results that will be ignored by open-borders lobby:
Exit polls suggest Latino voters deserted the Republican candidates at nearly twice the rate of non-Hispanic whites during this month’s congressional elections, the Pew Hispanic Center said on Monday.
But the conventional wisdom that Hispanics were turned off by […]

Daniel Freedman notes a training camp plot involving 200 members of a network that planned to assassinate 36 anti-Syrian Lebanese officials.

Two simple, little reminders about the things that matter most.
The first is from the Times of London: “Mother in coma laughs at her children’s jokes.”
A mother of two who has spent two years in a coma has started chuckling at her children’s jokes. It was the first sound Andrea Brushneen, 31, had made since suffering […]

U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins seems to have just shredded the president’s authority to designate terrorist groups: (hat tip: John Stephenson)
A federal judge struck down
President Bush’s authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutionally vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.
The Humanitarian Law Project had challenged Bush’s order, […]

***scroll for updates…(fyi, my gmail is still down. if you are trying to reach me, use this temporary address: malkinblog-at-yahoo.com)…see below for AP tinfoil hat editorializing…plus, read Mary Katharine Ham’s very useful reconstruction of how the AP story moved and evolved on the wires…***
***940pm Eastern update. This is really dishonest. Yahoo! is now featuring AP’s […]

***update: Harman out of the picture, too***
Congressional Quarterly’s Tim Starks reports that Pelosi may be putting the ix-nay on Alcee Hastings’ bid to become House Intel Committee chair (via TPMMuckraker/hat tip Influence Peddler):
House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi was to meet with Rep. Alcee L. Hastings late Tuesday to close the door on his bid to become […]

Ed Morrissey points to this disturbing Washington Times report:
A Mississippi Democrat in line to become chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee has warned the nation’s largest uniform supplier it faces criminal charges if it follows a White House proposal to recheck workers with mismatched Social Security numbers and fire those who cannot resolve the […]

Looks like Pope Benedict XVI is safe so far. Via Breitbart.com:
He began his first visit to a Muslim country Tuesday with a message of dialogue and “brotherhood” between faiths, and Turkey’s chief Islamic cleric said at a joint appearance that growing “Islamophobia” hurts all Muslims…
… The pope is expected to call for greater rights and […]

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Audrey Hudson at the Washington Times investigates the Minneapolis Six and gets feedback from air marshals.
We take a closer look at Omar Shahin over at Hot Air. Discussion on O’Reilly last night here.
HA affiliate Charles Ryder has more video and spotted another hate-spewer at the praying imams’ protest yesterday at Reagan National.
Scott Johnson at Power […]

What a waste of time and space Michael Kinsley’s latest piece of superficial snark is:
Social networking sites such as MySpace (for which Rupert Murdoch paid $580 million last year) are vast celebrations of solipsism. “My interests are music, girls, sports, clothes, cars and oo did i forget to mention girls,” writes Lex, a featured […]

Poll time:

Who’s the biggest terrorist propaganda tool?

The Associated Press

The New York Times

CNN

al Jazeera

10:35am Eastern update: Here are the results three hours into the pollling. The blabbermouths at the NYTimes are still ahead…

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Not to skew the poll results, but the Associated (with terrorists) Press has a lot of explaining to do. I’ve re-sent my unanswered e-mail […]

I noted the NYTimes’ attempt this weekend to seek protection from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for two accused blabbermouth reporters, whom the feds believe tipped off two Muslim charities fronting for terror.
Well, wonders never cease. The Times reports this afternoon that the court rebuffed the leak-dependent paper:
The United States Supreme Court refused today to stop […]

***4:30pm Eastern update: when it rains, it pours…here’s a third must-read from milblogger John Noonan raising questions about AP stringer Bassem Mroue…more from Lorie Byrd on media malpractice…***

***8:58pm Eastern update: more questions for the AP…see Allah and See-Dubya: “Who is Qais al-Bashir?”…more here…still no word from AP in response to my query this morning…***
***All of […]

Fool
Last week, disgraced and disgraceful Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) fired off an unhinged rant to fellow House Democrats denying he was corrupt and attacking “Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Michael Barone, Drudge, anonymous bloggers, and other assorted misinformed fools” who have cited his House impeachment and Senate conviction on bribery and […]

***update: here’s the AP dispatch of the event this morning…***

Imam Omar Shahin: Milking it
The saga of the flying imams continues. It ain’t over ’til the grievance-mongers sing.
One of the Muslim clerics who was questioned and detained in Minnesota on a US Airways flight after passengers reported suspicious behavior is staging a protest here in Washington […]

Kamal al-Olufi: Sentenced and censored (Source: Yemen Observer)

Muhammad al-Asadi: Awaiting a verdict
An editor received his punishment for “insulting Islam” in Yemen this weekend–one year in jail and a six-month newspaper shutdown (via BBC):
A court in Yemen has sentenced a newspaper editor to a year in jail for reprinting Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
The […]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the rescue?
Blabbermouths at the New York Times, who have been accused by federal prosecutors of tipping off Islamic charities fronting for terror, want Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to protect them:
The New York Times asked the Supreme Court yesterday to bar a federal prosecutor from reviewing the phone records of […]

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I’m on a holiday schedule, counting blessings and enjoying family time.
There are a number of worthy causes I wanted to mention. Instead of spending on Black Friday, how about contributing to one of these?
*A group from one of my favorite, indispensable blogs, My Pet Jawa, is […]

In between breathless condemnations of the Bush administration for stifling its free speech, endless court filings demanding classified and sensitive information from the military and intelligence agencies, and self-pitying media industry confabs bemoaning their hemorrhaging circulations (with the exception of the New York Post), my colleagues in the American media don’t have much to time […]