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Here’s a grass-roots effort by and for active-duty members of the military to support the mission in Iraq.
The petition is a response to a left-wing astroturf group of anti-war vets.
Hat tip: Smash

Michael Barone at RCP boils it down:
The Bush critics’ position is that we must believe without reservation or criticism any intelligence that can be used to argue against military action and that we should never believe any intelligence, however plausible, that can be used to argue for it. That’s not very intelligent.

Must-read: The latest report from Mohammed Fadhil, PJM Baghdad editor, after Sunday’s market bombings.
MNF-Iraq has issued its 2006 year-in-review report here.
Now available on iTunes: the Baghdad daily radio show, ‘Cav Roundup.’

We’re featuring a trailer at Hot Air for a neat film about George Washington by LionHeart FilmWorks.
Blogger/history teacher Betsy Newmark notes that Maryland is unveiling today the original draft of George Washington’s resignation letter to the Continental Congress at the end of the Revolutionary War, and adds:
I often ask my students to picture some other [...]

In San Diego.

The Washington Examiner reports that some strange bedfellows are finally waking up:
None other than former Mayor Marion Barry, now representing Ward 8 on the D.C. Council, is waving the white flag of surrender by introducing legislation to provide potential victims a limited window of opportunity to arm themselves in self defense. “We are in the [...]

From Scott Johnson at Power Line.

There’s a horrid development in the case of Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman, the Egyptian blogger on trial for posting to his website statements calling for equal rights for women and protection of free speech, as well as other statements critical of the Egyptian government and Islam. The Free Kareem website reports:

Reported by Al-Masree Al-Yawm (The [...]

Gee, I wonder what religion they were arguing about:
A local cab driver allegedly tried to run over two customers after a fight over religion became heated.
The incident happened early Sunday morning on the Vanderbilt campus and left one man hospitalized and a cab driver arrested, said police
Two students visiting from Ohio were coming from a [...]

Remember my random gallery of “lone” shooters?
One of the entries was this one:

Feb. 23, 1997
New York City
Abu Kamal, a Palestinian teacher shoots seven tourists on the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building, killing one. AP: “‘[He carried a note blaming the United States for using Israel as “an instrument’ against his people. The [...]

Busted–at LGF, of course.

The immortal words of 2LT Mark Daily live on. The Los Angeles Times has picked up the story: “Mark Daily wrote on MySpace that he joined the Army to help the suffering people of Iraq. In death, his words have become a call to service.”
A small sample:
In a 2005 videotape of his officers’ commissioning ceremony, [...]

***856am Eastern 2/17 updated with troop feedback from Iraq below and armored Humvee photos***
254pm Eastern 2/17 update: GOP blocks Senate vote on House anti-surge resolution
bumped back to the top
Whenever leftists need to show they really, really do care more about the troops than their political opponents, they pull out the armor card. Hillary Clinton did [...]

Last night on The O’Reilly Factor, one of the segments addressed winter airline delays. The producers booked Kate Hanni, a consumer activist leading the charge to get Congress to pass a “Passenger Bill of Rights.” I noted my skepticism about gimmicky legislation with the words “Bill of Rights” tacked onto the end of it…
…which caused [...]

Spc. Andy Johnson from A. Co., 1/506th, 101st Airborne made this video of his tour in Ramadi. Some of the video footage came from embed Michael Fumento. Music by Johnny Cash. Good, good stuff:

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Byron York writes at The Corner:
Predictions that 30, or even 40 House Republicans would side with Democrats and vote for Nancy Pelosi’s [...]

No way!
Way:
Rep. Jefferson Gets Seat on Homeland Security
Rep. William Jefferson, the Louisiana Democrat who’s facing an ongoing federal corruption probe, is being granted a spot on the Homeland Security Committee, according to Democratic aides.
The appointment will be announced Friday, according to one aide who requested anonymity because the decision isn’t yet official.
Jefferson was removed from [...]

I’ll be guest-hosting The O’Reilly Factor tonight, 8pm Eastern. Yes, there will be an Anna Nicole Smith segment. That’s the biz. But stay tuned. There will be other good stuff. Pinky swear.

…it can happen anywhere: the plight of a moderate Muslim.

Order the cookbook. Yum.

Bill Ardolino continues his excellent reporting on his month-long embed in Iraq. The message from an interview with a Fallujah Military Transition Team (MiTT) leader is the same message Bryan Preston and I heard from our embed unit in western Baghdad and the same message President Bush and Gen. Petraeus continue to underscore: It’s going [...]

***update at PJM ***
Allah’s been tracking the news. Catch up on all the latest.
Ragnar and Rusty have more.

Andrew Cochran approaches the news with caution: “I suggest waiting until U.S. forces in Iraq confirm this new report before breaking out the champagne.”
Bill Roggio:
Iraqi and Coalition forces may have gotten a lucky break in the hunt for [...]

La Shawn Barber reports on a white student who was accepted to an Urban Journalism Workshop — sponsored by Virginia Commonwealth University (taxpayer-supported), the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, and the Richmond Times Dispatch — based on her qualifications and then rejected based on her race. Smith won her case and now the UJW is open [...]

Charles Johnson and Internet Haganah report.

The Netherlands.

The niqab is the new black. Yikes.

Now, I love them even more.

Video: Dennis Miller cashes out of Bank of America in protest of its new credit card program for illegal immigrants.
Baltimore Sun:
“At face value the program seems to be problematic,” said Russ Knocke, a department spokesman. “It seems to be lending itself to possibilities of perpetrating identity theft or creating more risk for money laundering.”
The [...]

He’s in Iraq. No, he’s in Iran. On a sight-seeing trip. Yeah, that’s the ticket:
An adviser to
Iraq’s prime minister said Thursday that radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is in Iran, but denied he fled due to fear of arrest during an escalating security crackdown.
Sami al-Askari said al-Sadr traveled to Iran by land “a few days [...]

…takes on The Surrender Caucus. Lots of interesting internal and external debate. Check it out.

One word: “Disgusting.”