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They claimed to have dropped the John Does from their discrimination lawsuit. The Becket Fund challenges them to do what they say.

Admissions…and denial.

Interesting development in a civil suit that should be getting more attention: Five reporters must reveal their government sources for stories they wrote about Steven J. Hatfill and investigators’ suspicions that the former Army scientist was behind the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, a federal judge ruled yesterday. The decision from U.S. District Judge Reggie [...]

Stifling the sound of freedom.

Catch and release = More dead bodies.

Standing up for the West.

“Gesture of good will.” More: The released hostages are Kim Gina, 32, and Kim Kyung-ja, 37, ministry spokesman Cho Hee-yong told reporters.

Do as I say.

C-H-U-T-Z-P-A-H.

Update 4pm Eastern. Radar talks to Fred Thompson rep Mark Corallo, who seems to shoot down rumors of a Rove jump to the campaign. Update: Video highlights and a parting shot. Update: Press conference at 11:35am. Update: 11:25am Eastern. The President is talking about Rove’s family “making huge sacrifices. We’re going to be friends for [...]

Because the last one worked so well.

Sen. Clinton does the Milkshake Dance. Figuratively, anyway.

Eugene Cho keeps track of all the latest twists, turns, and continued apathy/hostility towards South Korean Christian hostages being held by Taliban thugs in Afghanistan. The Islamo-killers changed their minds and have decided not to release two women captives after dangling a promise to do so earlier this weekend. Not much solid info. Here’s Chosun’s [...]

Tracing the social network of Yousef Megahed and Ahmed Mohamed.

Combating the moonbat convergence.

Blue on blue.

Hold the line.

Fill-in.

How do you say “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out” in Arabic?

Wake up and smell the suicide bomb smoke.

Update – related note: Lots of folks are asking about the accused killer in the Newark execution-style murders of four young students. Yes, he’s here illegally according to media and law enforcement officials and he just pleaded not guilty this morning. More: “Carranza, who spoke through an interpreter, admitted he was not a U.S. citizen [...]

Not in our courts.

Barbara Lee: “Knowing what we know now, we would not have provided such support, and we are reviewing our casework intake process in an effort to avoid any such circumstance in the future.”

Mind the gap. Some big environmental news that you haven’t heard much about: NASA has revised much-publicized US temperature data that have been used to claim 1998 as a record-breaking hottest year in the millenium. Michael Asher at DailyTech reports: My earlier column this week detailed the work of a volunteer team to assess problems [...]

Police said 15-year-old Dani Countryman was trying to fight off Alejandro Rivera Gamboa and his cousin, 23-year-old cousin Gilberto Javier Rivera Gamboa when they strangled her to death at a Milwaukie, Oregon apartment in late July.

Of Bradleys, dogs, and Quotey McQuoterton.

Keeping an eye on the grievance-mongers.

Over to you, Jack Murtha.

Baltimore-ese: “A-rabs and Arabs.”

This blog post soliciting terrorism attack ideas by best-selling author/economist Steven Levitt at the NYTimes yesterday has caused quite a stir: Inspired by an article about TSA restrictions, Levitt muses about terror plot possibilities: “Hearing about these rules got me thinking about what I would do to maximize terror if I were a terrorist with [...]