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They dissed a soldier and now they’re getting their due. Good. Blackfive has more. A reader wants to know how to send mats to the troops. Input appreciated.

What if tens of thousands of protesters poured into Washington, D.C., exercising their free speech and joining peacefully to participate in public debate? How would the MSM cover them? If it’s tens of thousands of pro-illegal alien marchers, they get front-page, banner headline-plus-multimedia bonanza, panoramic coverage gushing over their ability to “flood the Mall” with [...]

Source: SFGate.com Via the San Francisco Chronicle, they’ve taken over an old oak tree, because they’d rather leave the grove it belongs to standing than allow university officials to make an athletic building more earthquake-safe for staff and students. But I love this paragraph the most: UC plans to remove about three dozen trees from [...]

A lie detector test. As the FNC story points out, the document-filching Clinton aide did agree to take a polygraph test as part of a plea deal reached in September 2005. Now, some GOP lawmakers want to know why the Justice Department won’t follow through: The Justice Department should administer a polygraph test to former [...]

Steve Bainbridge provides a withering side-by-side comparison.

Read this now. All of it.

***update: new Zawahiri tape released*** Drudge is headlining the story–and I also just received the mass e-mail from ABC News’s p.r. arm–about a reported al Qaeda plot based in Iraq to send terrorists to the U.S. on student visas. Just like the 9/11 hijackers: Sources tell ABC News that the plot may have involved moving [...]

In Iraq. And at home. Update: FYI, here’s Insight’s response to the Kurtz/Obama story.

La Shawn Barber is blogging events in Washington. More at Blogs 4 Life. And at Charmaine Yoest. It’s good to see pro-lifers on the New Media playing field.

Embedded milbloggers are providing invaluable first-hand reports of the military’s successes and setbacks in helping stand up the Iraqi Army. Bill Roggio reports on successes: In November and December of 2005, I embedded in the Qaim region with the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, which partnered with the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Division of the [...]

I have worked with, known, and continue to admire many lovely, talented speechwriters. In general, I have nothing against speechwriters. But some of them really need to get a little more outside-the-Beltway perspective. Their tone-deafness makes their boss look bad. The New York Times spotlights White House scribes toiling away on the State of the [...]

In City Journal. And he’s got his own supplemental eight-point plan for “facing the Islamist menace.”

By the liberals on Saturday Night Live, believe it or not. Watch here. Maybe there’s hope yet.

My report on our investigation of the Associated Press’s four destroyed mosques/six immolated Sunnis story is up at the New York Post. We’ll have video and audio, including comments from Dagger Brigade members about the AP’s faulty coverage and rumor-based war reporting, at Hot Air tomorrow morning. Excerpt: WELL, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior says [...]

Let the games begin…

National Review is holding a big conservative summit next week. I’ll be joining a “night owl session” on Friday with Kate O’Beirne, Kathryn Lopez,Laura Ingraham, and Mona Charen. The rest of the who’s who list here. Come join us! Sign up here.

Today on Hot Air TV, our second report from Baghdad highlights Iraqi voices. Bryan writes about the kids in the slums and the Oil for Food legacy in Iraq. Both the troops and Iraqis we met stressed the importance of jobs as a preventive measure against militia and insurgency recruitment. This jibes with the sentiments [...]

Army 2nd Lt. Mark J. Daily, 23 A reader e-mails that 2LT Mark Daily was killed in an IED attack in Mosul along with three other soldiers. He was named the ROTC’s outstanding cadet for 2005 and also a Distinguished Military Graduate, the highest ROTC award. The OC Register profiles him here. This was his [...]

AP reporting… BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested a top aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday in Baghdad, an official in his office said. Sheik Abdul-Hadi al-Darraji, al-Sadr’s media director in Baghdad, was captured in the eastern neighborhood of Baladiyat, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because [...]

Since these stories don’t fit into the “grim milestone”/”if it bleeds, it leads” pre-sets, you won’t read about them on the front page. It’s the kind of cooperation we learned about on our short embed trip last week. It’s progress. It’s happening. In small steps. But forward progress, nonetheless. First story: Tip leads to hostage [...]

Charles Johnson spots a very interesting piece of information about the Reuters faked photo scandal: In all of Reuters’ statements and reports on the incident, they’ve never mentioned that a “top photo editor” was also fired. Why were they secretive about this, and why won’t they release the editor’s name? Here’s Reuters contact page.

O’Reilly and Colbert.

ABC News: There may be a growing battle between Congress and the president over the Iraq War strategy, but new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she won’t block funding for additional troops. Pelosi’s position, revealed in an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer, came a day after a group of senators announced a [...]

Iron Shrink dissects the latest “conservatives are crazy” study published in Psychology Today. More blogger reax. *** Previous: Politicized science More on the conservatives=racists study Who are the whiny kids?

I’ve uploaded all the pics from our Iraq trip on Flickr. One of my faves–taken inside one of the Dagger Brigade Humvees: And there’s no escaping Che Chic. Snapped this dude at a blanket drop in Khadamiya: More: www.flickr.com

This is just…depressing. Bush administration = Lucy. Bush administration defenders = Charlie Brown. Argh. *** Update: Dafydd and John Hinderaker have a different take. I hope they’re right.

I’ll be on Fox and Friends this morning a little after 7:30am talking about our trip to Iraq. We bumped into quite a few Fox fans–including a Lt. Col. who was reading Bill O’Reilly’s book when we met (and served as a guardian angel when we were stranded at Baghdad International Airport near the beginning [...]

The digs at FOB Justice My HotAir.com colleague Bryan Preston and I are back from Iraq. Thanks to Allah and Ian for holding down the fort at HA and thanks much to guest-bloggers Mary Katharine Ham, See-Dubya, and the Big Lizards for filling in here during my absence. Be sure to bookmark their blogs. Our [...]

Now here’s a fair and thorough look at the aftermath of a federal immigration raid at a chicken-processing plant in Georgia that sent hundreds illegal workers packing. The plant, Crider, was forced to hire Georgians–many of them black, and many from off the welfare rolls: …for local African-Americans, the dramatic appearance of federal agents presented [...]

Taliban helper James Ujaama–who was acting as a government witness against terrorist kingpins like Abu “Captain Hook” Hamza al-Masri, got picked up in December down in Belize. He had reached a plea bargain that forbade him to leave the country, so of course, he left the country. Now he’s back in Seattle, looking at a [...]