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How do you say “Trojan Horse” in Arabic?

Jihadi bastards take an innocent life. Victim is a male pastor, Bae Hyung-kyu. Taliban threatens to kill more.

Update 9:30pm Eastern. Shannon Love at the Chicago Boyz blog called foul on the Lancet 2004 study early on and, with vindication, reacts to David Kane’s new analysis of the 2004 Lancet Iraq death toll study: “Kane shows that if the Falluja cluster is included in the statistical calculations, the confidence interval dips below zero, [...]

No, we won’t shut up.

Universal Music Group is at it again: Another heavy-handed crackdown on a YouTube user.

Plus…breaking: German journalist said freed by Taliban

Chee-bomber, chee-bomber. Plus: Whither the John Doe amendment?

Melting.

“We must fight all for one and one for all, or we lose the moral authority to fight for anybody.”

Hillary “invests” in Kos. Plus: Breasts Not Bombs crashes Hillary’s Bay Area headquarters. Ewwwww.

Follow the money. Then shut it off.

Bumped…originally posted July 24, 2007 @ 08:21am
Update 2:45pm Eastern. The “final stage”…Now they want money. Meanwhile, still very little American coverage of the ongoing crisis. Maybe if the kidnapped South Korean Christian missionaries were journalists or drunken celebrities, the story would get some attention.
Update 2:15pm Eastern. “Negotiations” continue, Afghan villagers protest Taliban: CBS News [...]

Yesterday, I posted the indictment of Mahamu D. Kanneh, the accused Liberian immigrant child molester let off because of a lack of a translator. I noted that there were nine counts against him involving not one, but two girls. Both are nieces of Kanneh. As other media outlets have reported, one of those girls [...]

“There once was a phony named Jawn…”

“D-Day” for the king of the moonbats: University of Colorado ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill faces dismissal today at the hands of the school’s Board of Regents after 2 1/2 years of national controversy and investigations.

Follow the bouncing ball: The newspaper that was hoaxed by Jayson Blair covers the magazine that was hoaxed by Stephen Glass, and which is now under tough scrutiny over the work of pseudonymous soldier “Scott Thomas.” Plus: A Peter Beinart flashback.

Second degree rapes, second degree sexual offenses, and third degree sexual offenses against two young girls under the age of 14.

Wizbang. Update: How would Democrat candidates respond to Michael Yon? Update: Bumped…Let the circus begin…7:14pm First spark…Mike Gravel takes on Hillary and Obama…Hillary refuses to embrace the “liberal” label…8:31pm Eastern A snowman asks about global warming…Hillary is “agnostic” about nuke power…

Audrey Hudson has a fresh report on the status of the John Doe amendment. Take heart and take action. It’s not dead yet: “Democrats have been backed into a corner by public outrage over their efforts, so we are seeing these Democrats publicly say they support it in principle, but behind the scenes they are [...]

Terapon Adhahn charged with kidnapping, raping, and killing 12-year-old Zina Linnik.

The case of Mahamu Kanneh. Plus: An update on the Zina Linnik case. Arraignment today.

“If there is no agreement to begin impeachment proceedings by Monday, Sheehan will announce her candidacy challenging Pelosi for election in California’s 8th Congressional District.”

Update 3:28pm Eastern. Noel Sheppard notes that Markos is alarmed and trying to control the inmates in the Daily Kos asylum:
“With us or against us”
by kos
Mon Jul 23, 2007 at 10:30:19 AM PDT
There has lately been an alarming rise in diaries and comments that seek to impugn (without evidence) the motives of those they disagree [...]

“”The Taliban won’t have any option but to kill the hostages.” Plus: Taliban talks to AP by satellite phone.

Bumped…originally posted July 21, 2007 @ 22:12
Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna sends the Photoshop of the Week, dedicated to the “See Something, Shut Up” Democrats who blocked the John Doe amendment:

An Army of Photoshoppers has been unleashed again. Justin Higgins sends this:

Are We Lumberjacks:

Reader William T. sends his contribution and notes that you can [...]

Parliamentary elections: Submission or resistance?

America’s finest. And toughest. Plus: The “Scott Thomas” saga continued.

A liberal blogger at Talking Points Memo is trying to stir up the conservative pot by posting old video of Rudy saying “Bulls**t” at a police union rally in 1992. TPM claims Rudy “screamed” and was “unhinged.” Not:

I’ve expressed my disapproval before when public figures use profanity in public. But making a big deal out [...]

Convert or die.

Everything you hate about the culture of Washington is symbolized in the little story of GOP Rep. Christopher Shays going ape when challenged by a Capitol police officer. The arrogance. The elitism. The obscenity. The contempt for the common man.
Via The Crypt:
On Thursday afternoon, Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) got into a loud, angry dispute [...]