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Presidential candidates are pumping out new books like Pez candy.
But why bother hiring a ghostwriter to concoct fresh pabulum when you recycle old pabulum?
That’s the Hillary Clinton way. On Tuesday, she’s bringing back the 10-year-old “It Takes a Village.” New cover, same old Big Nanny solutions:

Amanda Carpenter revisits Hillary’s failed village visions.
Suburbarazzi is tracking Hillary’s [...]

The New York Times and Newsweek finally try to catch up with my friend and investigative blogger Brian Maloney.
They fail miserably. Don’t bother reading their “exclusives.”
Go straight to the source for the real scoops.

Milblogger Bill Roggio is on patrol with 3 Company, 3-2-1 Iraqi Army in southern Fallujah:
The Iraqi soldiers, or jundi, in southwestern Fallujah run multiple patrols on their own; the Marines do not accompany the jundi every time they leave the wire. They provide for their own food, ammunition, “3 Company gathers their intelligence, plan and [...]

In all its breathless purple prose about the “new digital democracy” and the “unmediated free-for-all” on YouTube, Time magazine ignores certain citizen journalists and overlooks those who have been banned from participating for expressing unpopular views.

We remember.

A wake-up call for Florida airports.

Crystal ball award today goes to William Beutler, who predicted Time’s predictable gimmick two months ago.
Any bets for next year? Odds on Obama–who’s busy apologizing for his land deal with indicted Chicago influence peddler Antoin “Tony” Rezko.

Hannity went last week. O’Reilly was there this week to thank the troops. MNF-I reports:
In a war that has perhaps been even hotter in debates than it is on the streets of Baghdad, the one constant in the media has been “spin.”
It was fitting, then, that Bill O’Reilly, host of the Fox News talk show [...]

***10/16 update…Marc Danziger at Armed Liberal claims there may be a “Jamail Hussein in the Yarmouk police station in Baghdad”…See-Dubya is skeptical…I have contacted CENTCOM for comment…stay tuned…***
Eason Jordan has further comment on his invitation and my acceptance:
Some of you have asked what’s up with IraqSlogger’s invitation to send Michelle Malkin to Iraq. It was [...]

The photo that moved the nation
The Wreaths Across America celebration was held yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery and across the country. Thousands of volunteers participated:
Every December for the past 15 years, Morrill Worcester, owner of one of the world’s largest holiday wreath companies, has taken time in the midst of his busiest season to haul [...]

Yahoo! News is currently featuring a slideshow of Reuters pictures of the year.
The gallery of 208 images includes everything from a guy submerged in tomatoes, to soccer shots, celebrity cheesecake, more celebrity cheesecake, more sports shots, the Chavez-Castro lovefest, the lady speared with a javelin, Mel Gibson’s mugshot, more celebrity cheesecake, and, oh, did I [...]

Dolls only Britney could love Source: Powers Point
Kirsten Powers takes on skanky dolls in the NYPost today:
WHEN did the doll section turn into a porn shop?
I’d gone to FAO Schwarz with a friend and her three small children; while they shopped for stuffed animals, I wandered over to recapture some of the innocence of my [...]

Over at Patterico’s. This could become a trend!

You’ve got to see it to believe it.
I guess Joy Behar thinks it’s funny to suggest that Sen. Tim Johnson’s stroke was “man-made.” Because she can’t be serious, can she?
Transcript:
Behar - “Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to him?”
[Audience laughter]
I like Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s reaction. [...]

Dr. Sanity has your Victimhood 101 playbook–how to get it and how to keep it.

Didn’t have the TV on this morning, but am hearing that…
…Rosie O’Donnell “apologized” for her ching-chong routine. *Update: Here’s the vid.*
Despite her apology, she says she will probably do it again because that’s how her “braink works.”
…Harry Reid has just addressed the press regarding Sen. Tim Johnson. He had visited Sen. Johnson last night and [...]

Maj. Megan McClung was an American Girl. She was the highest-ranking female officer killed in Iraq last week.

Watch this video. You will not forget her. (More about Maj. McClung in the OC Register.) Thanks to Ken Noland for pointing us to the memorial video and to the terrific website, Digital Imagery and Video Distribution System [...]

For crying out loud:
A high school choir was asked to stop singing Christmas carols during an ice skating show featuring Olympic medalist Sasha Cohen out of concern the skater would be offended because she’s Jewish.
A city staff member, accompanied by a police officer, approached the Rubidoux High School Madrigals at the Riverside Outdoor Ice Skating [...]

Hmmm, this doesn’t sound good (via NYSun’s Josh Gerstein):
A key legal deadline has passed, raising doubts about whether criminal charges will ever be filed in an investigation of leaks to the New York Times about planned federal raids on Islamic charities in America.
The statute of limitations pertaining to the latest of the leaks, which took [...]

My new travel partner?
Eason Jordan reports on his new website, Iraqslogger, that his team is in Baghdad looking for Jamil Hussein. They have not found him yet–which is newsworthy in itself–and get this: He has offered to pay for me to join the search in Iraq and accompany me:
Who is Jamil Hussein? Michelle Malkin is [...]

Well, this should be interesting. I’m sure bloggers will be checking in to see what defamatory statements and rumors former CNN head Eason Jordan will be posting on his new website, Iraqslogger:
For the past four years there has been no shortage of news and views on Iraq and the long-running war there. What’s been missing: [...]

Commentary magazine features a must-read lead article by Leon Aron on troubling re-nationalization developments in Russia.
Read it in light of the latest news of Russia’s designs on Shell. The Wall Street Journal puts it this way:
The authoritarian drift of Russia continues apace. On Monday the Kremlin managed to pull the rug out from under [...]

Syrian President Bashar Assad’s American tools and fools in the U.S. Senate:
Bill Nelson, John Kerry, Christopher Dodd and Arlen Specter.

***Update: Spokesman says it was not a stroke. Johnson underwent emergency surgery of an unknown nature last night…926am update - http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/14/sen-johnson-in-critical-condition/…***

It’s unconfirmed, but word is that U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) has suffered a stroke. First and foremost, keep him and his family in your thoughts and prayers. There’s already a rush to calculate [...]

Mark Bauerlein, a professor of English at Emory University, has an interesting article in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “How Academe Shortchanges Conservative Thinking:”
The absence of conservative minds from the liberal-arts curriculum and the off-campus ignorance of them — or worse, treatment of them as hired hands — are standard features of intellectual life, and [...]

Over the weekend, I noted the arrest of illegal alien Mohammed Yusef Mullawala, of Jamaica, N.Y., who enrolled in a Smithfield tractor-trailer training school in order to obtain a commercial driver’s license and permit to haul hazardous materials. He’s the guy who was in a hurry to learn how to steer a tractor-trailer, but not [...]

First, check out this reaction to yesterday’s illegal alien worker raids published in the Des Moines Register:

Caption: Hector Angel, a Marshalltown business owner, states his point of view about the raid as ICE buses roll away from the plant.
A natural response from open-borders zealots who’ve been giving the finger to immigration law for years. Right [...]

The Hill reports that Hillary Clinton has hired a “faith guru” and that other Dem prez contenders are also rushing into the pews:
Burns Strider, one of the Democratic Party’s leading strategists on winning over evangelicals and other values-driven voters, will join Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as she prepares to launch her 2008 presidential campaign.
Strider [...]

Babalu Blog is hearing rumors.
Pajamas Media is checking things out and reports:
“Spanish Radio said to have reported Castro dead. Miami police on alert.”
Related: The Ileana Ros-Lehtinen flap.
Meanwhile, North Korea has awarded Castro a “Labor Hero” decoration:
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Yonhap) — North Korea has awarded its decorative title of Labor Hero to Cuban President Fidel Castro, [...]

Don’t you love farce?
Eric Boehlert has a post titled “Michelle Malkin fiddles while Baghdad burns” that’s making the rounds on the moonbat side of the blogosphere.
Bob Owens has a takedown of the Media Matters bloviator here:
In Michelle Malkin fiddles while Baghdad burns, Boehlert dishonestly addresses the continuing Associated Press scandal surrounding the “Burning Six” story [...]

The good news:
Federal agents raided six Swift & Co. processing plants in six states on Tuesday in search of illegal immigrants who stole the identities of lawful U.S. residents and used their Social Security numbers to get jobs at the beef and pork company.
Agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency executed search warrants at [...]