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Eight British sailors and seven marines held captive.
One intransigent mullahcracy.
A handful of weak sanctions.
One flustered Prime Minister now telling Iran “efforts to secure the release of 15 Royal Navy personnel held by Iran will enter a ‘different phase’ if diplomatic moves fail.”
And from the sidelines: Rosie’s big mouth.
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Allah: “Blair threatens to move from pleading [...]

San Francisco has finally found an enemy it wants to stand up and fight:
Plastic bags.

Hillary can surround herself with troops and attempt to “cultivate” the military, but there is one image that remains indelible in the minds of countless rank-and-file soldiers and their families who vote:

I just noticed via Memeorandum that Sister Toldjah beat me to it by a few minutes , but the fact that we thought of [...]

You’ve seen the video of the Portland “peace” thugs burning an American soldier in effigy.
Now, Victoria Taft has the photo of the sicko who defecated on the American flag. (Vulgarity warning: Do not click through unless you are prepared to be totally disgusted.) Here’s a fragment of the photo. Notice the child on the left [...]

Updated
The Beltway’s buzzing over the arrest of an aide to Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) for carrying Webb’s loaded gun in a bag through security at the Russell Senate Office building while the Senator was parking his car.
Looks clear to me that the aide will get a slap on the wrist, if anything at all.
Here’s a [...]

I’ve reported on the absconder problem extensively in Invasion and in my columns. This is nothing new:
Teams assigned to make sure foreigners ordered out of the United States actually leave have a backlog of more than 600,000 cases and can’t accurately account for the fugitives’ whereabouts, the government reported Monday.
The report by the Homeland Security [...]

Who’s rocking America’s troops? WSJ reports that “the USO is having some trouble recruiting A-list stars. Increasingly, the military’s old, Bob Hope-style approach to entertainment is being partly supplanted by a different model. The new approach relies on sending little-known bands to the Middle East in an effort to provide more concerts at more [...]

Charles Johnson takes on Howard Kurtz:
There’s no comparison between the levels of profanity and hateful venom you’ll find at left-wing sites such as Huffington Post and the comments posted at Little Green Footballs. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at Howard Kurtz’s lame attempt at moral equivalence though; it’s what mainstream media does, whether the [...]

Lt. Col. Chase J. Nielsen, R.I.P.
Flashback: Veterans’ Day with the Doolittle Raiders

Who is Amorita Randall? She’s not who the New York Times said she was last week in its profile of troubled women soldiers who have served Iraq.
Welcome to the Jesse MacBeth/Micah Wright/Jimmy Massey liars’ club, Ms. Randall.
And chalk up another embarrassment for the anti-war fable enablers at the New York Times.
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Jim Hoft points out that [...]

Spot the missing word in the headline and article: Foreclosure Wave Bears Down on Immigrants
Immigrants are emerging as among the first victims of a growing wave of home foreclosures in the Washington area as mortgage lending problems multiply locally and across the country.
Nationally, 375,000 high-interest-rate loans were made to Hispanics in 2005, and nearly 73,000 [...]

Washington Post goes A1 this morning with a story about a possible Michael Bloomberg presidential candidacy: Gag.
Aren’t there enough pro-abortion, anti-gun, open borders candidates running for president?
Endorsed by Al Sharpton. Faaabulous:
“He would be a very compelling candidate,” said civil rights activist Al Sharpton, himself a once and potentially future presidential hopeful from the Big Apple, [...]

Hillary resurrects universal health care, claiming she’s “learned a lot:”
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Monday to create a universal health care system if elected, saying she “learned a lot” during the failed health care effort of her husband’s presidency.
“We’re going to have universal health care when I’m president _ there’s no doubt about [...]

Chris Kelly at Lonewacko has been doing the job no one else will do: doggedly analyzing and tracking illegal alien amnesty legislation coming down the pike.
You will hear, for example, that the amnesty bills require illegal aliens to return to their home country before being granted “temporary” guest worker status.
The requirement, dubbed the “touchback provision,” [...]

Why was Bob Woolmer killed?
Plus: Mark Steyn on the sticky wicket of creeping sharia

The GOP steps up.
The Becket Fund steps up.
Power Line on the New John Doe movement. More here.
Step up!

More: 9/11 Families for a Secure America steps up.

The toilet paper-offsetting life: It stinks.
A “guilty liberal” family tries to live a “no impact” lifestyle in New York City.
The New York Times reporter, Pamela Green(!), chronicles the family in “The Year Without Toilet Paper.” They use baking powder instead of toothpaste. Scooters instead of the subway. And no utilities in their no-impact [...]

AP: “Presidential spokesman Tony Snow is undergoing surgery Monday to remove a growth in his lower abdomen, a procedure he said was being done “out of an aggressive sense of caution” because he had colon cancer two years ago.”

In light of the latest Iran-initiated hostage situation, Pat Dollard revisits MSNBC’s “Dumb and Dumber.”

Jackie Calmes has a fascinating, sad piece in the WSJ about Keith Kakugawa, a troubled high school friend and mentor of Sen. Barack Obama’s. Obama featured Kakugawa (whom he referred to with a pseudoym) in his best-selling memoir. Journalists uncovered Kakugawa’s identity and tracked him down. He had just been released from prison after a [...]

Bumped to the top:
Update: Bush vows veto.
Update: Bill passes, 218-212 in the House. Here’s the roll call.
Update:
Rep. Mike Pence quips:
“Here are some examples of what the Democrats consider ‘urgent’ needs that require ‘prompt action: ‘
– $25 million for payments to spinach producers
– [...]

…in Manhattan, you might want to check if it’s run by a bunch of Bush Derangement Syndrome loons. Judith Weiss, who hat tips Manhattan Chowder, sends word that Manhattan Mini-Storage is running these moonbat ads on NYC billboards:

Can’t these people ever give it a rest? All I am saying is: Give politics-neutral storage space a [...]

Conservative video blogging is on the rise. Lots to choose from today:
Mary Katharine Ham’s got a hilariously clever take on enviro-nuttiness: Better Living Through Lefty Activism. It’s Allahpundit-approved!
Jonah Goldberg is testing out a v-blog dialogue with Peter Beinart at NRO.
Uncle Jimbo posts his Friday Freefly.
And at Hot Air, we’re screening the trailer for Americanizing Shelley.

Baron Bodissey issues a call to action:
Most of our readers are aware of Rep. John Conyers’ efforts to pass a congressional resolution against the desecration of the Koran. One of the highest priorities of Muslim interest groups in the United States is to get this legislation and similar initiatives passed. They are following multiple strategies [...]

Unsettling, to say the least:
The genteel sport of cricket was dealt a brutal blow when Jamaican police said Pakistan’s national coach was murdered in his hotel room a day after his team suffered a humiliating World Cup loss.
Bob Woolmer, 58, was found unconscious in his blood- and vomit-splattered hotel room in Jamaica on Sunday after [...]

When I was writing Invasion five years ago, I interviewed immigration officials who joked that the rule for border-crossing prosecutions in southern California and Arizona was “thirteen strikes and you’re out.” So this new story from the Associated Press headlined “Border crossings rarely prosecuted” in Texas is no surprise. Same old, same old:
Guidelines issued [...]

The Capitol Police couldn’t or wouldn’t stop anti-war thugs from vandalizing government property in January.
But they made sure to protect Nancy Pelosi’s office from anti-war protesters who wanted to embarrass her today:
Four members of the anti-war group Code Pink were arrested outside the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Thursday afternoon, following an announcement [...]

Kudos:
England’s Queen Elizabeth II awarded the British Distinguished Flying Cross to a U.S. pilot for the first time since World War II during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London on March 21, according to a Corps release.
Marine Maj. William Chesarek was serving as an exchange officer with England’s 847 Naval Air Squadron in Amarah, [...]

Is Your Cat Ownership Environmentally Sustainable?

Llama Butchers asks the questions of the day: Did the Portland punks who burned American flags and a US soldier in effigy “buy carbon offsets for their American flag burning exercise?”
And:
[W]hat is the carbon offset value for burning an American soldier effigy anyway measured in GHTUs (Gore Hypocrisy Thermal Units)?
Al?