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Fighter Meet 11-year-old Xochil Garcia and read this story: Street-smart 4-foot-5 girl fights off 6-foot-2 kidnap suspect, helps in arrest. Eleven-year-old Xochil Garcia kept herself ready for the worst, constantly rehearsing in her mind how she could escape an attacker or kidnapper. Little did she know her hours of mental preparation would pay off – [...]

The stage will still be crowded. Elephants soon to be in the room. Hot buttons: Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. Immigration, immigration, immigration. What do you want to see asked tonight? Comments are currently open (midnight update: comments closed. thanks for chiming in). I’m confident we won’t get MSNBC-level questions. The adults are in charge. *** The [...]

The American Legion smacks down John Edwards for his plans to politicize Memorial Day: Democrat John Edwards’ call for voters to speak out against the Iraq war on Memorial Day has drawn criticism from a leader of the American Legion, who called the effort “revolting.” In an e-mail message and on his Web site, Edwards [...]

Not welcome A Border Patrol tipster e-mailed me about this earlier today. New Black Panther Party blowhard Malik Zulu Shabazz was turned away by Canada for his hate-mongering views: The leader of the U.S.-based New Black Panther Party, whose invitation to Toronto angered Jewish groups, was denied entry into the country Tuesday morning, the Black [...]

Pardon me, but what the hell? A “war czar?” Isn’t a commander-in-chief–you know, the decider–enough?

Israelly Cool is following developments thoroughly. More: Fox News’s intrepid Reena Ninan is in Israel and was caught in the crossfire.

Local paper reporting…. Update: First obituaries coming in…McClatchy…. Admire him or revile him, the Rev. Jerry Falwell’s role in American history will reverberate long past his death Tuesday at the age of 73. *** His legacy and shadow are sure to come up in the GOP debate tonight. Here’s a flashback on McCain and Falwell. [...]

Move America Forward is leading protests at the LV and Carson City district offices of Harry Reid and the San Francisco office of Nancy Pelosi on Thursday: Make your voice heard.

Send her a packet!

Where are the wimmin’s groups?

The search continues for our missing soldiers in Iraq. And a few new details emerge: U.S. troops have questioned hundreds of people and detained 11 in the search for three American soldiers feared captured by al-Qaida during a weekend ambush in an insurgent stronghold south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Tuesday. “We have conducted [...]

Here’s the latest on that Great Moment in Public Education I linked to yesterday: Two of the public educators who thought it would be peachy to scare the bejeebers out of elementary kids on an overnight field trip by faking an unannounced gun attack in the dark have been suspended…but only until the end of [...]

Hey, you know Jose Padilla’s al Qaeda job application, posted today by ABC News? If it looks familiar, you may recall that I posted the whole thing here back in January 2006 after reading about it in the Miami Herald and then obtaining the original document from the US Attorney’s Office in Florida. All it [...]

A John Doe bill has just been introduced in Congress: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressmen Stevan Pearce, along with Rep. Peter King and Rep. Bill Shuster, introduced a bill today that would protect those who come forward to report suspicious activity from frivolous civil liability prosecution. If passed, the bill, known commonly as the ‘John Doe’ [...]

Where is it?

Check out my review of Bay Buchanan’s new book, “The Extreme Makeover of Hillary Clinton:” There’s a popular website on the Internet called “Awful Plastic Surgery.” It chronicles the most hideous makeover attempts by celebrities: Nose jobs gone bad. Eye lifts gone awry. Liposuction disasters galore. The poster child of Awful Plastic Surgery is a [...]

Ken Calvert: Grass-roots GOP revolts RedState’s Erick Erickson is leading a conservative campaign to oust shady GOP Rep. Ken Calvert from the Appropriations Committee slot vacated by disgraced GOP Rep. John Doolittle. The Hill reports: A popular conservative blog will step up its efforts this week to force Republican leaders to pull Rep. Ken Calvert [...]

The Hot Air video report on Akon that Universal Music Group didn’t want you to see is now back up on YouTube. That’s right. The music giant and the video-sharing site (who happen to be “strategic partners“) have backed down: We originally posted the Hot Air report to YouTube on May 2. On May 3, [...]

1) Scaring the hell out of elementary school kids with an unannounced faux gun-attack in Tennessee. 2) Forcing 8th graders to sit and watch “Brokeback Mountain” in Chicago. No wonder homeschooling is so popular.

***Scroll for updates…milblog readers mull over questions about the patrol…President Bush is “getting regular updates on the missing soldiers, said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the White House’s National Security Council in Washington”…perhaps he will address the nation tomorrow and underscore the need, as cited by so many of our troops who have volunteered time [...]

The NYPost has exclusive details about the John Doe hero who turned in the Jersey Jihadist suspects. He’s a teenager who at first hesitated after watching the terror training video tape the suspects dropped off at Circuit City to convert to a DVD: When the teen and another employee went into a back room and [...]

The search is on. About 4,000 American soldiers are searching for three of their fellow troops missing near Mahmoudiya in the “Triangle of Death:” Thousands of U.S. soldiers searched Sunday for three Americans who were missing after their patrol came under attack in an explosion that killed four of their comrades and an Iraqi army [...]

“I’ll give you all the lovin’ and all the huggin’s when I get home.”

Score.

The cover story of US News coming out on Monday is a must-read and must-see. It’s a comprehensive multimedia package by US News embed Alex Kingsbury about the life and death of Army Staff Sgt. Darrell Ray Griffin Jr. “Malleus Dei” is Latin for “God’s Hammer”–the phrase Griffin had written in marker on his helmet. [...]

Says Pat Dollard.

Several North Carolina readers send word of this WRAL report about a church in Spring Hope that is rankling local Muslims. The church’s sign is causing controversy: Well, as Robert Spencer has noted, Muhammad did in fact command Muslims to subjugate, convert, or kill non-Muslims (see, e.g., Sahih Muslim 4294). And salvation in Jesus Christ [...]

Cuba is decrying the “censorship” of crockumentarian Michael Moore. Yeah, Cuba is decrying censorship: Cuba characterized American filmmaker Michael Moore as a victim of censorship and the U.S. trade embargo as it reported Friday on a U.S. Treasury Department probe of his March visit here for his upcoming health-care documentary, “Sicko.” Moore took the trip, [...]

Please read: A request from Ilario Pantano.

There are many fronts in the war against global jihad and the fight against dhimmitude. During the Mohammed Cartoon rage, the newspaper pages of a Danish publication became a front. The Internet–where jihadists use video-sharing tools like YouTube to recruit–is another front. And college campuses are important battlegrounds. To wit: Eugene Volokh flags a story [...]