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Attention, congressional staff members on both sides of the aisle:
Please have your bosses read this Dean Barnett Sunni-Shia Cheat Sheet over the holidays in order to avoid another Jeff Stein gotcha moment.
While you’re at it, The Truth About Muhammad would make an informative gift for the clueless.
Bryan Preston offers his recommended reading list here.
One [...]

Fight the power Source: NYSun
The New School gave the nation’s preeminent moonbat academic a rousing reception. He returned the favor by trashing the college’s president, former Senator and Vietnam War veteran Bob Kerrey as a “mass murder and serial killer.” Via the NYSun:
An ethnic studies professor from the University of Colorado, Ward Churchill, received a [...]

Getting away with it
Hello, culture of corruption:
Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., violated House ethics committee standards by giving reporters access to an illegally taped telephone call involving House Republican leaders a decade ago, the ethics panel said Monday.
In a report released days after Congress adjourned, the ethics panel said that McDermott, a former ranking member of [...]

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Keeping the tradition alive
Remember Fran O’Brien’s? In April, milbloggers and my friend Buzz Patterson rallied to support the restaurant in Washington, D.C. that provided free weekly steak dinners to wounded soldiers staying at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
A reader sends a brief update reported in the Washington Post yesterday. They’re [...]

Michael Fumento honors two of our troops killed in Ramadi–Marine Major Megan McClung with the First Marine Division and Captain Travis Patriquin of the Army’s First Armored Division.
You might remember one of the striking photos Fumento took on his last embed trip:

The photo was of Capt. Patriquin’s desk.
R.I.P.
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Patterico shares his experience working with Maj. McClung [...]

Taking a stand
College students in the Middle East protest a world leader by shouting “Death to the dictator!” And for once, they are not talking about George W. Bush. Jim Hoft has more.
Allah’s got video of the brave dissidents.

Peace Mom is a trespasser.
Daniel Freedman sees another hunger strike in the works. Break out the coffee and ice cream!

Ching, chong, smackdown’s on:

Hoisted by her own petard for her Asian language mimickry, diva of political correctness Rosie O’Donnell is getting blasted by a Chinese-American NYC city councilman for offending minorities:
A city councilman is demanding that Rosie O’Donnell be held accountable for comments she made on ABC’s “The View” last week that he said offended [...]

Do As I Say…

Kofi Annan plans to give the United States the finger in his farewell address. USA Today reports:
In a farewell speech on U.S. soil today, retiring United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to deliver a tough critique of President Bush’s policies. He will accuse the administration of trying to secure the United States [...]

Shakedown target
Audrey Hudson at the Washington Times has the latest on the grievance-mongering flying imams and their attempted extortion:
A group of Muslim imams is seeking an out-of-court settlement with US Airways, saying they should not have been removed from a Minnesota-to-Phoenix flight last month and were not behaving suspiciously.
Five of the six Islamic religious leaders [...]

Merriam-Webster announced theirs over the weekend. Here are your nominations. Readers sent in a few entries coined in previous years, but they’ve held their currency, so they made the cut:

What’s the word/phrase of the year?

Absolute Moral Authority

Cartoon Rage

Culture of corruption

Cut and run

Fauxtography

[Fill-in-the-blank]-gate (Plame, Foley, Jamil, etc.)

[Fill-in-the-blank] Derangement Syndrome (Bush, Rove, Diebold, etc.)

The flying imams

Reconquista

Sharia

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More end-of-the-year [...]

He’s baaaaack.
No, Jayson Blair hasn’t been hired by the Associated Press (yet). The former New York Times fabrication expert/plagiarist is now writing for a magazine that focuses on bipolar disorder. Via the Boston Herald:
After a humiliating plagiarism scandal that rocked the New York Times [NYT], Jayson Blair is quietly resurrecting his journalism career by writing [...]

If this sounds familiar, you’ve been paying attention:
Federal terrorism officials and Rhode Island authorities converged this week to arrest an Indian citizen enrolled in a Smithfield tractor-trailer training school who was trying to obtain a commercial driver’s license and permit to haul hazardous materials.
The man, Mohammed Yusef Mullawala, of Jamaica, N.Y., is being held in [...]

Merriam-Webster announced its word of the year. Stephen Colbert triumphed in the dictionary website’s online poll:
Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Year 2006
As expected, there were a few surprises in store for us as we pored through your submissions for our first Word of the Year online survey. Either the vast majority of you out there in [...]

Left-handers of the world, unite!
We left-handed people have a special bond. At book signings, left-handers always make a point of noticing that I’m one of them. Fellow left-handers will ask which hand I shoot or bowl with (right-handed–but I crochet and sew left-handed). We all have stories of elementary school persecution. We have the same [...]

Photoshop: Flap’s Blog
Democrat Rep. William “Cold Cash” Jefferson cruised to victory yesterday, winning re-election to his ninth term in Congress. Looks like the race card paid off. NOLA.com reports:
A field of a dozen candidates began circling Jefferson in the primary. He finished first, but with only 30 percent of the vote, inspiring conjecture that his [...]

We mark the 25th anniversary of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner’s murder over at Hot Air.
Widow Maureen Faulkner keeps the flame alive:
Maureen Faulkner says she has spent half her life seeking peace.
She is 50 now, and it was 25 years ago today that her husband of one year, Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, was shot dead [...]

Typical Hollywood liberal: She’s the first and loudest to accuse others of bigotry–pausing only to take a breath before practicing it herself. Click to watch the video of Rosie O’Donnell on The View the other day mimicking an imagined Chinese newscast of Danny DeVito’s recent drunken appearance on the show:

Transcript:

O’Donnell: The fact is that it’s [...]

I just got back from a trip to the mall to see the headlines about the alleged Chicago terrorist mall plot:
ABC News has learned a Chicago-area man has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack.
Derrick Shareef, of Rockford, Ill was arrested Wednesday by the Joint Terrorism Taskforce when he met an undercover agent to trade [...]

“Who is Jamil Hussein?” is becoming the new “Who is John Galt?”–a blogospheric refrain that both summarizes and challenges MSM apathy about its questionable war reporting.
Townhall’s Mary Katharine Ham is the latest to pose the question in the Washington Examiner.
Historian and Army infantry officer Robert Bateman, using the latest AP scandal over its six burning [...]

Jeane Kirkpatrick, the former U.N. ambassador, has passed away (hat tip - The Corner).
Her death was announced Friday at the senior staff meeting of the U.S. mission to the United Nations. Spokesman Richard Grenell said that Ambassador John Bolton asked for a moment of silence.
A death announcement is also posted on the Web site of [...]

Robert Spencer administers the test.

You might want to make sure they aren’t reading this crap:
Sixth-graders at a Queens school were getting quite an education - in homosexuality, French kissing and cursing - thanks to three books widely available in classroom libraries.
But after numerous complaints from parents at Public School 150 in Sunnyside, the books - a profanity-laced poetry book, [...]

Mumia Street, St. Denis, France
In May, I noted the disgusting decision by officials in the French city of St. Denis to name a street after convicted Death Row cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal.
Last night, as the 25th anniversary of police officer Daniel Faulkner approaches, the House passed a resolution denouncing the street naming:
The House passed a [...]

Former Gingrichite Arianna Huffington scolds Hillary Rodham Clinton for being a political fake.
I think I need to go to the emergency room and get my sides sutured up from bwa-ha-ha-ing at Arianna Huffington’s op-ed attacking Hillary Clinton in the Los Angeles Times this morning.
So, what’s Arianna’s beef with Hillary?
There are politicians with great instincts as [...]

Sixty-five years ago today:

VDH:
[I]n those days, peace and reconstruction followed rather than preceded victory. In tough-minded fashion, we offered ample aid to, and imposed democracy on, war-torn nations only after the enemy was utterly defeated and humiliated. Today, to avoid such carnage, we try to help and reform countries before our enemies have been vanquished [...]

Have you seen her?
I named her unhinged academic of the year back in July. Now, she’s really living up to the title as 2006 comes to a close. Deborah Frisch, the infamous left-wing blogger/stalker who threatened Protein Wisdom blogger Jeff Goldstein and his family, had an arrest warrant issued against her today. Jeralyn Merritt of [...]

Aussie ladies are taking to the streets in their two-piece swimwear to protest those thug mullahs who attacked unveiled women as “uncovered meat.” (Hat tip - Ace)
A.M. Mora y Leon at Publius Pundit notes:
Somehow, you can’t get more Australian than that. They’re patriots. Aussies live for the beach, party like sailors, and some of [...]

Remember them? The rest of the world seems to have forgotten: (Hat tip - reader William A.)
In their first comment about the fate of two soldiers whose capture triggered a monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas last summer, Israeli officials said Wednesday the two were seriously wounded — raising the prospect they may no [...]

Very sad news: The body of C-NET editor James Kim has been found in the Oregon woods. C-NET coverage here.
San Francisco Chronicle reports:
James Kim, missing in the southern Oregon mountains since he left his stranded family Saturday to look for help, was found dead today, authorities said.
A helicopter crew spotted his body face down in [...]