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Take time to read this.
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Don’t forget: Appeal for Courage.

Kicking a man with a Bush mask.
Feel better now?
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They call it “art.”

Erick Stakelbeck has the disturbing answer at Hot Air.

This is too funny. Andrew Marcus has footage of the Nevada Democrat presidential candidates’ forum that I hadn’t seen before. Click to the frames at the end of the video featuring Dennis Kucinich unbound:

I’m reminded of a certain puppet who performed the same song and dance…

A message from Daniel Pipes:
Dear Reader:
A further decision is due in the controversy over taxi drivers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport who refuse to transport passengers visibly carrying alcohol. The Metropolitan Airports Commission, which has jurisdiction over the drivers, invites the public’s opinion; and I urge your involvement.
MAC has sent a notice (which I [...]

Photo credit: Charles Ryder
Vietnam veterans held a press conference yesterday about their mission on March 17. On that day, anti-war activists from ANSWER plan to protest at the Vietnam War memorial in Washington. From their mission statement:
1. Gathering of Eagles is non-partisan. While each member has his or her own political beliefs, our common love [...]

In church. For Lent. LA Times:
Roman Catholic leaders in Orange and Los Angeles counties marked Ash Wednesday — the start of a season of repentance and reflection — with a plea to Catholics and others to commit themselves to immigration reform.
In Orange County, the church asked people to fast — consuming liquids only — for [...]

Robert Spencer exposes how the MSM covers for Islam. More at JihadWatch.

The Jerusalem Post follows up:
Over the past few weeks, those who track the use of media by terror groups have noted a strong trend among Iraqi insurgents to distribute their propaganda movies and violence footage not through fringe, hard-to-find websites, but by uploading them directly to popular video sharing sites such as YouTube.
Many of the [...]

***bumped to the top…updated with police report summary***

This is Richard Reed Pannell. He’s a student at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA. On Saturday, he was minding his own business, taking a shower in this house he shares with classmates…

…when an unhinged stranger–a raving leftist who had tracked him down on social [...]

The verdict against Kareem is in: three years in prison for insulting Islam and inciting sedition and another year for insulting Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Kareem will appeal. Help him. President Bush? Condi Rice? Promoters of democracy in the Middle East? Hello? Hello?
Previous Free Kareem blogging.

The Daily Kos declares war over the Nevada Democratic Party’s choice of Fox News–get out the smelling salts!–to host the Democrats’ first presidential debate in August.
Greg Tinti observes:
Maybe the Nevada Democratic Party actually wants to people to see this debate. And anyway, it’s not like there aren’t going to be dozens of other debates from [...]

By publishing extensive personal details.
Outrage? Cue the chirping crickets.

Obama’s got it locked up. Phew. The suspense was killing me.
Obama’s also got the coveted Rep. Keith Ellison endorsement. And here’s vid of him smoothing out the ruffled feathers with Hillary.
At an Obama-less forum, the rest of the Dems talk amongst themselves. Bitterness, backbiting, backstabbing, and backtracking ensue. More from the NYTimes:
wo Democratic presidential rivals [...]

Good on the Washington Post for publishing an op-ed today on the plight of Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman, the blogger on trial in Egypt for his posts critical of the government and of Islam.
Raja M. Kamal, associate dean for resource development at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and Tom [...]

18 Doughty Street, sort of a British super-sized equivalent of Hot Air, launches a video campaign to combat anti-Americanism in the U.K.
Allah Pundit’s pessimistic:
As this is hitting the airwaves, the Muslim Council of Britain is complaining that state schools have failed to accommodate Muslim students by allowing communal showering in school locker rooms, neglecting to [...]

Islamic militants in Kashmir are threatening young contestants who participate in the Indian version of American Idol.
The jihadi message: Shut up and don’t sing.

Please correct the record on our yanked anti-jihad videos. They were not “removed by the user.” They were removed by you.

Discussion at Hot Air.
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Previous:
Dhimmitude at YouTube, again
YouTube: Time’s invention of the year
YouTube and the cyberjihad
Google plus YouTube equals…
YouTube’s slippery slope
Fighting jihad at YouTube
Banned on YouTube
YouTube goes Dhimmi Pt I/ Pt II

Glenn Reynolds spanks Paul Campos at the Rocky Mountain News. Hard.
The comments section, fyi, is open.

From my column today:
Look out: Hillary Clinton is pulling the armor cloak from her rhetorical closet again. As long as she pairs it with a skirt, Italian designer Donatella Versace approves. But for any leading presidential candidate with a shred of integrity, this political wardrobe malfunction goes in the “fashion don’t” column.
In her latest campaign [...]

Monstrous:
A father killed his wife and four daughters in their sleep because he could not bear them adopting a more westernised lifestyle, an inquest heard yesterday.
Mohammed Riaz, 49, found it abhorrent that his eldest daughter wanted to be a fashion designer, and that she and her sisters were likely to reject the Muslim tradition of [...]

***update: video of milblogger Chuck Ziegenfuss on CNN discussing conditions at Walter Reed…***
I gave my opinion about the WaPo series on the mess at Walter Reed this morning. Here’s some diverse feedback from milbloggers and readers:
Smash:
It is the primary duty of every military leader to make certain that the basic needs of his troops [...]

Go read Bill Ardolino’s latest embed dispatch: Iraqi Army soldiers speak.

Glenn Reynolds takes on unhinged critics: “It’s not only important to have the right opinions — it’s important to have them at the right time.”
HEH.
*See Tim Blair for the etymology of “beclowning.”
(Whoops! Link corrected.)

Item one: Frank Gaffney sounds the alarm again about jihadi-friendly figures in the conservative movement.
Item two: ABC reports, “Accused Terrorist Is Big GOP Donor,” while the National Republican Congressional Committee refuses to say what it will do with his $15,250 in donations.
Here, let me help: Give. It. Back. Duh.
Reader Steve L. writes:
I have a [...]

I beg to differ with the last line of this Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star article. Seems pretty clear to me:
A Fredericksburg man was arrested Saturday on charges he assaulted three strangers at their home during a dispute over politics, police said. According to a Fredericksburg police report, the suspect went to a home in the 900 [...]

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Tale as old as time
Stories of shoddy care in the VA hospital and military health care systems are not new. I reported on the problem after a visit to the Perry Point, Maryland VA Medical Center eight years ago:
Perry Point, Md. - Let me take you on a [...]

A Hot Air video mash-up from Bryan Preston.
Like Hillary says, we’ll be “continuing the conversation.”
Readers are asking for an embeddable YouTube version. Here it is:

Explanation here.

Updating Orwell for President’s Day.