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I call it a “Two Girls, One Camera, No Editing Experience” Production. I do a video blog every week, but my producer was busy yesterday, so it’s myself and Townhall intern Katie Favazza goofing around with my digital camera and laptop. The results are, uhh, well, I’ll let you be the judge. Thanks to Ace [...]

Allah is collecting links on the Athens embassy attack like nobody’s business, so I’ll send you over there rather than try to keep up. Before you do, though, consider this: Most U.S. Consular buildings–especially those in dangerous areas–look like freaking Castle Wolfenstein. They are ugly and defense-minded, set back out of car-bomb range with tiny [...]

A broken window is seen behind the emblem of the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece. (AP)No injuries, thank God, and minor damage. The blast smashed glass in the front of the building near the U.S. emblem of the embassy. Police did not report any injuries and embassy officials could not immediately be reached for comment. [...]

Via Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty’s Iran Report: Iranian state security agents arrested 14 Christians in three cities on December 10, apparently to prevent them from celebrating Christmas and New Year, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reported on December 17, citing the group Human Rights Activists in Iran. The group issued a December 16 statement to report [...]

Tony Snow, in an interview with Hugh Hewitt, just now said that more people are going to get the word about what’s really going on in Iraq, because more people are going over there to embed and get the word out. For example, “Michelle Malkin is over there right now“, he said. That’s second-hand via [...]

My Hot Air colleague Bryan Preston and I have been in Iraq, embedded with an incredibly dedicated Army unit in Baghdad tasked with training Iraqi security forces (both Shia and Sunni) conducting counterinsurgency operations, and carrying out civil affairs work. Yes, there is danger and chaos and unspeakable bloodshed in parts of Baghdad. Sectarian violence–compounded [...]

Can you make against plural? Againsts. Anyway, here are some of the prominent ones from today.

This post is absolutely not by our dearest Michelle; instead, it’s by those rascals at Big Lizards, who crawled out of their holes long enough to bespeak themselves. ~^~ Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) was just a guest on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. Hugh just asked him if he knows who the Supreme Leader of Iran [...]

Bush speech pre-game. It’s like ESPN Gameday, but with a disappointing lack of Kirk Herbstreit. Tonight at 9 p.m., the President will admit mistakes in Iraq or lay out a plan for victory, depending on which side of the aisle you’re seated. Let’s go over what we actually know before tonight, which given the leaks, [...]

Today on Vent.

There was one of the sequels to The Dirty Dozen–I forget which one, but it wasn’t very good–in which the Dozen were sent into Germany in order to kill an SS Major in order to keep him from killing Hitler. The theory was that since Hitler’s crazy-evil leadership was hampering the German war effort, it [...]

Iraqi army, Iraqi police, Shiites, Sunnis, U.S. troops, local tribes, insurgents, and how to win. Bill of INDC is in Iraq, and puts them all into one dispatch for the Examiner: The radio crackled: a M1A-1 Abrams tank was hit by a large IED while patrolling a notoriously active downtown street. The typically invulnerable behemoth [...]

This post is by Dafydd of Big Lizards, not by our dearest Michelle. No, seriously… I really mean it. I don’t look anything like her, and I’m married to a lady, not a dude. And I think I’m taller than she. ~^~ I must take unusual exception to the conclusion of one of my blogmates [...]

I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry at this entry from Patterico. Actually, scratch that: it’s pretty clearly cryin’ time. The LA Times’ cluelessness is chuckle-worthy, but their subject matter here is outrageous and tragic. In 2005, the LA Times wrote a sparkly puff piece about a “community leader” and former gang member [...]

Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 film “Triumph des Willens” (Triumph of the Will) went a long way toward making the Nazis look cool, or at least, rather less like a bunch of pasty sausage-gobbling dorkozoids. Now, consider this “promotional” film for the radical Muslim group Hizb-ut-Tahrir (more about them here and here). Although they take themselves every [...]

The federal government’s looking at recidivism in illegal aliens who are arrested and let go. They chose 100 cases at random from 2004 and figured out how many of them got arrested again: Of the sample group of 100, according to the audit, 73 immigrants were later arrested a collective 429 times _ on charges [...]

This post is by Dafydd of Big Lizards, not by our dearest Michelle. So there. ~^~ According to Curt at Flopping Aces, one reason that the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior (MOI) — boss of the National Police — and Multinational Force Iraq (MNFI) were unable to locate Police Captain Jamil Hussein at the Khadra [...]

“Obsession” is, of course, a documentary about radical Islam. You may have caught it on Fox News or Hot Air. Students: Michael Abdurakhmanov, president of Pace Hillel, said two deans warned that showing the documentary film would implicate club members as suspects in two hate crimes involving the desecration of the Koran at the university’s [...]

If you haven’t followed the Abu Omar case, you might want to brush up. In a nutshell, right before the Iraq war started, CIA agents allegedly kidnapped an Egyptian Imam, Abu Omar, from the streets of Milan and shipped him off to Egypt. Since then, AO has claimed he was tortured there. What’s more, Italy [...]

So many of yesterday’s questions answered today: 1. What was with the bird deaths in Austin? Sepuku? Mass suicide? The delayed effects of some Bushitler environmental policy? An old roommate of mine posited that someone threw rice at a wedding instead of the more feathered-friend-friendly bird seed. I did her one better and suggested that [...]

This entry at Isaac Schrodinger’s blog is a fascinating and inspiring look at how an ex-Muslim realized that his life was in danger if he returned home to Pakistan as an apostate. So he applied for Refugee status in Canada. Now here’s the kicker: most blogs are just people blowing off steam and noodling around. [...]

On the ground, with the troops, three good stories. You’ll want to hear them all. On Vent today.

Universal health care. Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. With emphasis on serving illegal aliens, of course. Much more at my blog.

Arrgh! The SF Chronicle went into Baghdad’s al-Khadra police station. They even talked to a policeman there, who refused to give his name. I had a few questions I hope they could have asked about Khadra’s most famous Captain, but he’s rarely there… The account of life in Khadra is, naturally, harrowing. But it’s interesting [...]

And now, another PSA from See-Dubya: Tinfoil-hat syndrome can affect earnest, sincere lefties anywhere, at any time. Wherever progressives gather, whether in a hotel lobby in Vegas, or now at a protest on a beach near San Francisco, you never know when the spontaneous, irresistible urge to swaddle one’s noggin in tinfoil will strike. Won’t [...]

Continued yet again from the previous lizard post… This is the last part of the triptych; you are now free to move about the cabin. ~^~ This post is by the lizards (mostly Sachi), not by our dearest Michelle; third time’s the charm: I finally understood, after MM switched to a real cell phone instead [...]

They’re in Iraq, patrolling “one of the most explosive stretches of highway on the planet.” “Successful missions for me … bottom line is bringing everyone back into the wire, alive, with all of their fingers and toes attached, and everything working the same way it was when we left. If I can do that, it’s [...]

Remember how the Iraq Survey Group report suggested we ought to strengthen Iraq’s moderates and negotiate with the insurgency’s national sponsors–Iran and Syria–to bring it under control? The ISG report just wasn’t wrong enough for some “experts”, who want to skip the middlemen and negotiate directly with the terrorists. Problem is, the terrorists don’t want [...]

Just heard it on Fox, which noted “casualties on the ground,” but didn’t specify beyond that. Story here: A U.S. helicopter gunship conducted a strike against two suspected al-Qaida operatives in southern Somalia, but it was not known whether the mission was successful, CBS News reported on Monday. The U.S. Air Force helicopter, operated by [...]

Rock star. Obama’s bathing suit shots just made a People Magazine spread. Ana Marie must positively have the vapors. As for good-looking candidates who won’t find themselves media darlings anytime soon, Mitt Romney was on the phone all day today, with pretty good results. The Boston Globe reports “more than a million,” but HotLine is [...]