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We had some fun with spinnin’ Gwynnie today. And don’t worry–I haven’t gone blonde permanently:

Here’s the ISG homepage. Rick Moran writes in advance of the report’s release today: You will excuse me if I believe that talking to Syria while it is in the process of gobbling up its tiny Lebanese neighbor to be one of the most cynical, immoral, and ill-considered diplomatic ideas in a generation – which [...]

The verdict is in on Yemeni editor Muhammad Assadi of the Yemen Observer, who faced a possible death sentence for publishing the Mohammed Cartoons earlier this year. It’s a small relief, but still a fundamental travesty. Via BBC: A Yemeni editor has been fined for reprinting controversial cartoons about the Prophet Muhammad from a Danish [...]

Bloggers are coming to the aid of AP’s mystery source: No word yet on whether Katie’s on board.

Well, well. Audrey Hudson at the Washington Times reports that an internal investigation by US Airways, plus two other probes, so far conclude there was no wrongdoing by the crew in its treatment of the six flying imams: Three parallel investigations into the removal of six imams from a US Airways flight last month have [...]

Must-read: Intrepid Heather Mac Donald combats the police-bashing racial demagogues in NYC. Too bad the political “leaders” in NY don’t have the guts to do the same.

But you knew that already, if you’ve been reading this blog. Michael Cutler at The Counterterrorism Blog has the latest on ineptitude at the Citizenship and Immigration Services–which, as I’ve noted before, is headed up by a crony appointee with no immigration law expertise whatsoever outside his own personal experience as a Cuban refugee. Meanwhile, [...]

Pajamas Media has a handy holiday shopping guide for every one in the family–blogger, geek, fashionista, movie buff, sports nut, you name it. I’ve contributed a list of kid-tested, mother-approved toys and games for those of you with little ones. My 3-year-old gives two extra-strong thumbs-up to Zingo! Check ‘em all out.

Bow down The flying imams have inspired Muslim mau-mauers across the country. Now, there’s this via the Detroit News (hat tip- Debbie Schlussel): Fitness USA, a gym chain, is investigating an alleged civil rights violation involving a local Muslim woman who says her afternoon prayer was interrupted by a fellow patron, and that her complaint [...]

The Associated Press controversy over its six burning Sunnis story is not just about AP. It’s a burning credibility crisis that stretches from Pallywood to the Fauxtography scandal and beyond. Milblogger Greyhawk takes on the Times’ Ed Wong and his reporting in Hurriya. Greyhawk zeroes in on this paragraph: From morning until afternoon, at least [...]

A year ago today, Fox News broadcast the story of Pfc. Joshua Sparling. Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade and FNC “War Stories” host Oliver North had visited Walter Reedy Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. and learned of a disgusting, anti-military death wish card received by Pfc. Sparling. It was the only Christmas card he [...]

Click for full photo and gallery at SFgate.com Along with so many across the Internet, I’ve followed the heart-rending case of the Kim family–missing since the Thanksgiving holiday while on a road trip from Seattle back home to San Francisco. They were on their way to a southern Oregon resort when they disappeared. Earlier today, [...]

Sout al Kuffar, the best anti-jihad short filmmaker on the Internet bar none, has a new Jawa Report video skewering the flying imams. Watch it, favorite it, and share it: Bluto reports that a jihadi group called Oul-Al-Albab/Oul-Al-Absar has formed at YouTube to target videos and users critical of Islamist violence. Don’t let them go [...]

The New York Sun’s Josh Gerstein is trying to find out what the Bush administration is and isn’t doing to stop the drip-drip-dripping of the information faucet. He has gone to court and won a newsworthy ruling. Via the NYSun (hat tip – Betsy Newmark): A New York Sun reporter won an unusual victory in [...]

My friends at MEMRI, an absolutely indispensable resource on jihadists, terrorism, media, and the Middle East, have launched a new blog. Bookmark it. Michael Vidikan e-mails: It will specifically highlight brief NEWS ITEMS from Arabic, Persian, and Turkish language media sources. The MEMRI Blog will at first focus almost exclusively on material from our Islamist [...]

***12:12am Eastern update from reader who attended the speech below…all went well…*** Brigitte Gabriel, the brave and dynamic author of “Because They Hate,” is asking for help tonight as she prepares to speak on the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor campus. Jihadist sympathizers have put out a call to “give Gabriel a proper welcome.” [...]

Go Navy!

Columbia University junior and Marine corporal Matt Sanchez has a must-read in today’s NYPost: DiD you hear the one about the Marines that Columbia University invited to campus for Fleet Week? Not any time in the last few decades, you didn’t. But you might have heard the one about the Marine who was told by [...]

***update: video – Jules Crittenden on Fox*** The controversy over the Associated Press’ coverage of the alleged burning of six burning Sunnis in Hurriya, Iraq last month continues–even if most of the media refuses to confront it. This morning, the New York Times’ Tom Zeller–one of the few on the case–follows up his blog coverage [...]

No details yet. AP reporting… President Bush has accepted the resignation of U.N. Ambassador John Bolton when his recess appointment expires, The Associated Press reports. Very depressing news this Monday morning. We are losing a staunch, devoted defender of America’s interests at the U.N. Reacting to the news, Eleanor Clift chuckled on Fox News that [...]

Brian Maloney has a new exclusive on the latest attempt to prop up the flailing liberal radio network and names the new set of fools ready to pour their money down a black hole.

Like I said earlier today, information wants to be free. And freedom is something Iran is just not going to tolerate. Via The Guardian (hat tip: Greg Tinti): Iran yesterday shut down access to some of the world’s most popular websites. Users were unable to open popular sites including Amazon.com and YouTube following instructions to [...]

Shallow gal Via Drudge, the AFP put a story out on the wires this weekend about Gwyneth Paltrow’s latest America-bashing: Oscar-winning US actress Gwyneth Paltrow feels dinner talk is far more interesting in her adopted homeland Britain than back in her native country. “I love the English lifestyle, it’s not as capitalistic as America. People [...]

Mark Tapscott’s excellent blog is moving under the Examiner.com umbrella. Starting tomorrow, you can find his new digshere. Bill Roggio is in Fallujah and sends word of a new project he has taken on: I’ve moved through Kuwait and Baghdad, and am now at Fallujah. I’ll spend about a week here with Regimental Combat Team [...]

Check this out. There is a new tool to circumvent government bans on Internet sites out now. It’s called “Psiphon:” Researchers at University of Toronto plan to introduce a software tool on Friday that aims to help people in countries that censor the World Wide Web. Psiphon (pronounced sigh-fawn), a web-based utility, lets individuals in [...]

All the secrets fit to print: The blabbermouths at the NYTimes got a hold of a classified memo from Don Rumsfeld exploring Iraq war options and splashed it all over its front page for all the world and America’s enemies to read. Andy McCarthy, as always, has a succinct and incisive reaction to both the [...]

Finally, the military writes off the anti-JROTC, Molotov cocktail-throwing, pro-fragging, anti-battleship zealots in San Francisco: Navy scuttles plan to commission warship here, citing local politics Secretary of the Navy Donald C. Winter vetoed plans to commission the Makin Island, the Navy’s newest and most powerful warship, in San Francisco in 2008 because of a perception [...]

Kate at Small Dead Animals, following up on Castro’s no-show, places her bets: Dead, dead, dead. Deader than a doornail. Deader than a dead cat bounce….He’d be pushing up daisies if he weren’t glued into that Adidas Bionic Tracksuit. Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead. Looks like the bettors at Tradesports are leaning Kate’s way, too:

All dressed up and nowhere to go The ailing Cuban dictator didn’t show up for his 80th birthday celebration. Val Prieto previewed the parade charade at Babalu Blog. Hugo Chavez sent his regrets that “he could not travel to Cuba to participate in the celebrations for Fidel Castro’s 80th birthday, but assured he would visit [...]

La Shawn Barber does her part for homeland security.