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Rest in peace, BP. There’s a No. 72 car waiting for you in the sky. When I used to cover NASCAR, I was near BP’s home track in Rockingham. Benny exemplified the down-home, approachable, good-humored charm that still draws people to NASCAR. He was one of the best guys to talk to about the old [...]

This post is by Sachi of Big Lizards, not by our dearest Michelle; learn to live with it! ~^~ This is to follow up on See-Dubya’s post below: It’s not just England, America, and France that have “Moslem troubles.” It’s every civilized country in Christendom, and several of the barbaric ones An Australian blog, Occidentalism, [...]

Interview with an officer, at INDC: INDC: You mentioned that you hate the insurgents, is that just more now because you’ve been shot or did you have a different opinion of them before? Mohammed: “They hit me and they also killed some of my family. Actually they killed my uncle who used to be an [...]

Call it the hatemail special. Because I got some particularly rude e-mail this morning in response to two “Chicks with Guns” columns I wrote earlier this year– here and here– I was reminded to do another little civilian gun-defense round-up. The great thing about gun-defense stories is, not only are they just plain great stories, [...]

The anointed one announces. Via web video, not Oprah.

Since everyone is back at work today and reading a little more, I thought I’d offer a few Happy Birthday links for the Rev. King. Volokh has the video of “I have a dream.” Here’s the Letter from Birmingham Jail. I’ve always liked this line: I can assure you that it would have been much [...]

J.R. Salzman, a milblogger who survived an IED attack in December, has been in surgery all week. He’s blogging his recovery on a voice-activated Valour-IT laptop. My right arm is healing up nicely now. It’s been two weeks since the final surgery when they closed it up. It won’t be long now and they will [...]

I had forgotten that there was a second bombing attempt in London shortly after the 7-7-05 train bombings. This one failed because the jihadi swine were incompetent bombmakers, and now the whole (alleged) cell is on trial. Get a load of this loathsome toad: One man, Muktar Ibrahim, 28, had actually turned so that the [...]

Great news. The kidnapped atomic energy guys I blogged about yesterday were all rescued, and several of their captors dispatched in a gunbattle with Pakistani police. (Unfortunately a constable was killed in the shootout as well.) One of the wounded kidnappers is singing like a bird, and he says that his local Taliban commander sent [...]

So far I’ve only had a chance to watch one of the three short parts of Dispatches: Undercover Mosque, but it was very interesting. Basically, an undercover cameraman sneaks a camera into some of Britain’s more radical mosques and rolls tape. Hilarity ensues. (No, not quite this much hilarity.) The content probably isn’t that surprising [...]

KSFO, San Francisco’s conservative talk-radio station, is being hounded by left-wing bloggers. Now, most of what KSFO does is just your regular conservative talk radio, with Dr. Laura and Rush Limbaugh. A lot of my friends in earshot of their station consider it an island of sanity, and most of their shows are a nice [...]

They’re up to about 17 hours on the legislative clock, and the tally is: 2 Temper tantrums on the floor 1 loss on earmark reform that resulted in… 2 greatly embarrassed Democratic leaders 1 U.S. territory that won’t have to pay the new minimum wage 5 relatives of Harry Reid’s who have benefited from earmarks [...]

“A Christmas tree decorated with bullets. A sergeant said that a soldier had used a grenade for a Christmas ball, but apparently that was a little over the top even for Anbar Province, and so the grenade was removed from the list of acceptable Christmas decorations.” Photo and cutline by Michael Yon. Michael Yon is [...]

Blogger Gene Miller notices the British debut of Jack Hitt’s NYT magazine piece on El Salvadoran abortion law. It appeared in the Observer this Sunday with no corrections or clarifications of its false claims about Carmen Climaco. Climaco appears, just as in the NYT piece, as a sympathetic figure serving 30 years for having an [...]

John Howard’s former chief of staff has a worthwhile piece in the Times of London on why their counterterror programs have been successful. It’s refreshingly direct: the Australian system takes Islamist ideology seriously. It does not deal with radical Islamists. It confronts extremists’ views, rather than seeking to co-opt “pragmatic” radicals who happen not to [...]

What would a bunch of armed men in rural northwest Pakistan want with four atomic energy guys? Hopefully, just a ransom payment.

I figure if you’re here, you’re reading Mark Steyn anyway, but just in case, here’s his latest take on the media coverage of the incoronation of Spokesgranny of the House Pelosi, and also the coverage of the Boxer-Rice dustup. Note that Steyn thought the Boxer match was worthy of comment for his national column in [...]

This post is by Dafydd of Big Lizards, not by our dearest Michelle; you want to make something out of it? ~^~ So it’s official: the US military says that the 5 Iranians we seized in Irbil (Kurdistan region of Iraq) were Qods Force: “Preliminary results revealed the five detainees are connected to the Iranian [...]

Here’s some good news (via WorldMagBlog) about an issue Michelle has followed quite a bit: a previous order requiring the City of San Diego to remove the Mount Soledad War Memorial Cross has been vacated–by the (extremely liberal) Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The litigation continues, however.

Saturday’s New York Times identifies by name the anonymous senior government official who talked to the WSJ’s Rob Pollock about the lawyers at Gitmo and said that major American law firms were effectively subsidizing the interned terrorists. The Times names him as Charles Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs. Law professors and [...]

Pajamas Media’s Daveed Gartenstein-Ross says Eritrea sent 2,000 troops into Somalia to back up the Al-Qaeda linked Islamic Courts Union. Eritrea and Ethiopia hate each other and fought a nasty war from 1998-2000, so I can see the logic of supporting a proxy war against your enemy. But when that proxy is an Al-Qaeda stalking-horse, [...]

Zeroing in the mortars in Basra: Soldiers from the Royal Green Jackets based at the Basra Palace base said they had considered suing Google Earth if they were injured by mortar rounds that had been directed on the camp by the aerial footage. “Even if they did blank out the areas where we are based [...]

Remember the new Congressman from Wisconsin who took great pride in the fact that he greeted Laura Bush in Green Bay and deliberately called her “Barbara”? (oooooooh, BURN!) White House official says no, that didn’t happen. Now Congressman Kagen has climbed down a bit. Now that Kagen’s longer story about his White House visit is [...]

Today Hewitt hosted a “liberal” Toronto-based Iranian blogger named Hossein Derakshan. Quite revealing. He–Derakshan– thinks the United States and Iran are at war and fighting by proxies: HH: And so, and you would rebuke the United States if the United States struck back in self defense against that intermeddling by Iranians in Iraq? HD: Absolutely. [...]

Under no circumstances should anybody even imagine, even for a nanosecond entertain the notion, that this post is by our dearest Michelle (who is either in Iraq or in next-door Okinawa, as I understand it, but I’ve never been either place, so what do I know?) Rather, this post is by Dafydd of Big Lizards [...]

We’ve seen this before, but now the WSJ’s Rob Pollock writes up a junket to Gitmo. (It’s subscriber-only at this point, but will probably show up on Opinionjournal.com in a day or two.) The terrorists are fat and happy, sittin’ in La-Z-Boys, watching Harry Potter. It tracks pretty well with Patterico’s extensive interviews with former [...]

Slow Friday, but if you need some inspiration check out the Anchoress. Her liberal commenters, in between the ones that wish death upon her children, ask her how as a Christian she can support the war. Her answer is a good one; not the most hopeful ever, but an honest one. When Islamofascism rolls in [...]

Its construction, protection, and restoration. Another good story you won’t hear about elsewhere, on Vent today.

Wait for it…REAL. But the DUers aren’t buying it.

I’ll let his actions speak for themselves: In April 2004, Dunham, a 22-year-old corporal, received a report that a Marine convoy had been ambushed, according to a Marine Corps account. Dunham led his men to the site near Husaybah, halting a convoy of departing cars. An insurgent in one of the vehicles grabbed him by [...]