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Bill Richardson: Dishonoring the dead
Welcome to Memorial Day 2007. Here’s a lesson in How Not To Honor a Fallen Soldier 101. Don’t do what Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson did to fallen Marine Lance Corporal Aaron Austin:
Get his name wrong.
Exploit his death on the campaign trail.
Insult his mother by claiming she talked [...]

Here’s the Drudge-hyped headline of a morale-undermining NYTimes article just in time for the Memorial Day holiday:

Doubts Grow as G.I.’s in Iraq Find Allies in Enemy Ranks

NYTimes reporter Michael Kamber reports from Baghdad on a story that’s not news–militia infiltration of some of the Iraq security forces being trained by American troops (we noted the [...]

Charlie Sheen: Taking off the tinfoil? (Photoshop credit: Moonbattery)
So reports the NYPost’s Page Six:
Support for the loopy 9/11 documentary “Loose Change” - which argues that the World Trade Center terror attack was part of a secret U.S. government conspiracy - is quickly losing steam.
A source tells us Charlie Sheen “is having second thoughts” about being [...]

Slate is blogging the Bible.
At Hot Air, we’ve launched a new Sunday feature with Robert Spencer blogging the Koran.
Be informed.

At West Point.
Update: Jim Hoft has more.

Counterterrorism analyst Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is embedded in Iraq. Read his latest dispatch from outside the wire: Patrolling Yarmouk.
Outside the Wire’s J.D. Johannes, embedded with the Black Lions of Task Force 1-28 in Baghdad, reports on the “cellular battlespace.”
Miblogs reporting…
Desert Flier, a flight/trauma nurse in Anbar province, blogs about Ramadi all-nighters.
Stimp at My Desert Adventure [...]

Special delivery for CBS
Lots of readers keep e-mailing me about the campaign to save the CBS show, “Jericho.” I’ve never watched it, but readers tell me it’s a conservative-friendly program. Paul M. e-mails: “This show was about a devastating nuclear terrorist attack on the US (multiple cities) and one small Kansas town dealing with the [...]

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And this:

Don Surber and Wretchard at The Belmont Club note the silence of the human rights crowd and the MSM in regard to the al Qaeda torture manual published at The Smoking Gun. Writes Wretchard:
The problem with the word “torture” is that it has been so artfully corrupted by some commentators that [...]

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He says, “Get real.” We say: Get a clue.
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Related: Hugh Hewitt’s interview with Chertoff earlier this week.
If Chertoff makes the Sunday rounds, will someone please ask him about his smearing of immigration enforcement proponents and expressed contempt for grass-roots conservatives. Please?

Pitch in: Operation Hero Miles gives family members of wounded servicemen and women free plane tickets to visit their loved ones recovering at military hospitals. This Memorial Day weekend, participating airlines will match unused frequent flyer mile donations mile-for-mile, from 6 AM, Friday, May 25th through 11:59 pm, Monday, May 28th.

If you are having trouble getting through the Capitol switchboard to express your opinion about the Bush-Kennedy shamnesty, there’s a special hotline number you might like to try.
1-800-882-2005. (Spanish number)
1-800-417-7666. (English number)
Freepers picked up on it this morning. Bryan Preston dialed it earlier today and captured audio of the hotline. He reports:
The hotline is paid [...]

Undercover Internet photojournalist Zombie was in Marin County, Calif., for an Al Gore book event. Check out the photos of all the carbon footprint-enlarging SUVs in the parking lot! And scroll all the way down for a fun Photoshop contest opportunity.
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Related: Instapundit highlights more enviro-hypocrisy.

***bumped and update: Senate approves the bill…“The Senate vote to send the legislation to the president was 80-14.”***
Oh, the nutroots are as unhappy with the White Flag Dems right now as grass-roots conservatives are with the Amnesty Republicans:
Bowing to President Bush, the Democratic-controlled House reluctantly approved fresh billions for the Iraq war on Thursday, minus [...]

Shame, shame, shame:
Proponents today narrowly defeated an amendment that would have ended the bill’s temporary worker program after five years. The measure was defeated 49 to 48, the narrow margin secured when Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) changed his vote at the last minute after an entreaty from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), the bill’s main [...]

The body found in the Euphrates River has been identified as Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr.
“I was honored to have him serve this country,” Joseph Anzack Sr. told the [Torrance] Breeze. “I know he went over there and made a difference… It was an honor to be his father.”
Keep his family and the families of [...]

You remember WaPo blogger William “obscene amenities” Arkin. Well, he’s at it again–this time taking a swipe at milbloggers:
…The MilBloggers got an extra boost of attention after the news about the Army’s “crackdown” on blogs, with the overheated claim that the new operations security (OPSEC) and bandwidth rules cut off soldiers from their families and [...]

Lisa dePasquale recommends countering John Edwards’ politicization of Memorial Day: Support the National Memorial Day Parade in D.C.

The Bush Justice Department is going after the New York City Fire Department because minorities can’t pass the FDNY written exam. Intrepid Heather Mac Donald blows the whistle on career DOJ bureaucrats chasing phantom racism:
How much longer are public and private institutions going to be held hostage to black and Hispanic academic failure? The Center [...]

Off the rails.

Glad to know there are Republicans still out there who haven’t been infected with the “Ted Kennedy is awesome” virus:
Key House Leaders will hold a press conference on this afternoon to highlight their opposition to the Senate’s amnesty proposal which would allow 12-20 million illegal immigrants to stay in the United States and be put [...]

This is Manuel Flores. He is an illegal alien fugitive from the law. He is accused of raping and sodomizing his girlfriend’s nine-year-old daughter.
Nine-year-old daughter.
Manuel Flores is free, reportedly headed back to Mexico, because federal immigration officials screwed up, according to a local Denver report. I linked to this story earlier today, but it [...]

Breaking this afternoon…Senate votes to cut guest worker program via an amendment by Sen. Jeff Bingaman:
The Senate voted Wednesday to slash the number of foreign workers who could come to the U.S. on temporary visas as part of a broad bipartisan immigration bill. A new guest worker program would be capped at 200,000 a year [...]

Democrat presidential candidates are doing the nutroots tango. Heading to the YearlyKos Convention in Chicago this August: Edwards, Obama, and Richardson. Here’s the Kos press release published today:
MAY 23, 2007–YearlyKos Convention organizers announced today that Sen. John Edwards, Sen. Barack Obama, and Gov. Bill Richardson confirmed their participation in a Presidential Leadership Forum to be [...]

How desperately does Andrew Sullivan crave attention? So much so that he is lazily promoting and pandering to idiotic 9/11 Truthers who are pointing to a column I wrote six months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks as proof that I am part of the tinfoil brigade.
If you can’t see a distinction between asking reasonable questions [...]

My syndicated column today follows up on my blog post yesterday about the Pew poll of US Muslims.
Allah explores the “nuance.”
Ace strips the whitewash off the MSM coverage (and gets a shout-out from Rush Limbaugh!).

Chock full of enforcement tricks and illegal alien treats
John Boehner called the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill a “piece of s**t” last night. Yeah, after sifting through it the past couple of days, I need a shower.
Debate resumed in the Senate this morning. Yesterday, an amendment sponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) that would have deleted [...]

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No words:
Villagers south of Baghdad found a body in the Euphrates River late Wednesday morning that Iraqi police believe may be that of one of three U.S. soldiers missing since they were abducted in a May 12 ambush while on patrol near Mahmoudiyah.
The body was found floating near the Al Musayyib bridge around [...]

Must-see and must-read: On The O’Reilly Factor tonight, I interviewed Todd Bensman, who completed a six-month investigation of Middle Eastern illegal aliens crossing the southern border into Mexico. He traveled to Syria, Guatemala, and Mexico to trace the human pipeline of so-called “special interest aliens.” The San Antonio News Express is running his four-part series. [...]

Just a reminder: I’m guest-hosting The O’Reilly Factor tonight at 8pm Eastern. know, I know. This TV stuff is getting in the way of my blogging! But tune in tonight for a blogger-friendly show. Scott Johnson of Power Line will be reporting on an illegal immigrant prostitution bust in Minneapolis that has the open-borders [...]