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I respect the historic tradition of inauguration day, not the cult of personality driving the schlock festivities now taking place.
Pomp and circumstance have been replaced with pimp and self-aggrandizement — all topped with a heapful of double standards.
I’m not the only one who thinks so. Politico’s Daniel Libit has a piece this morning quoting several [...]

So far this morning, it’s been an endless parade of Save the Children shrieking. A few bright lights about House Republicans.
GOP Rep. John Culberson chastised the Dems for refusing to hold hearings and refusing to allow Republicans to add amendments:
Said Culberson: “This is a blind yes vote for all of you. No hearings. What [...]

An unhinged Iraqi journalist fulfills the dream of every MSNBC anchor and NYTimes editorial columnist by throwing his shoes at President Bush during an impromptu news conference in Baghdad.
Watch.
Thankfully, President Bush was not hurt.
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Snort. Patterico writes: “I think I heard that Iraqi journalist scream ‘Don’t tase me, bro!’ as he got swarmed.”
Reader David: “Dear Michelle, [...]

“He just started shaking and he collapsed.”

Salute.

“[W]rong way to go.”

I shouldn’t be surprised about this newest outrage; we’ve seen no shortage of it in Iraq from Sadr’s goons.
Chunks of hair waft lazily across the floor in the hot Baghdad breeze.
“This was the torture room,” said Muhanad, the leader of a U.S.-backed armed group that now controls the mosque.
“This is what they used for [...]

Typical liberal elitist.

Scroll down for updates/liveblogging of hearing…2:45pm Eastern. I’m adding some of the key slides Gen. Petraeus used in his testimony (thanks to Jack Holt). Click to enlarge:

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Want to send a thank-you card to Gen. Petraeus? Click on the envelope to sign:

Testimony starts at 9:30am. You can get the C-SPAN livestream here.
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As Gen. David Petraeus [...]

“Matt is coming home. He’s completed his mission.”

Scroll down for updates…Honolulu Advertiser reports on YouTube vid investigation by Marines…possible ID on Marine…
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Tons of left-wing Digg users today sent me the video Allahpundit posted at Hot Air of a soldier Marine(?) allegedly throwing a puppy over a cliff in Afghanistan Iraq?.
Watch the clip closely. The puppy doesn’t move. It’s clear to me [...]

Religion of pieces.

Update: One more for you–a heartbreaking reminder of the sacrifices so many American families made this year for our country.
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Last week, I shared a few favorite Baghdad photos I took in January. Here are a few more noteworthy images from 2007 that I won’t soon forget:
Michael Yon’s iconic image of hope and unity in Iraq:

I [...]

A Yale professor named “Don’t tase me, bro” as the most memorable phrase of 2007 last week. Here’s the first of my two-part list of obvious and not-so-obvious notable quotables, words, headlines, and phrases of the year. Part I covers January through June. Part II will cover July through December.
January:
“Obscene amenities.” – WaPo troop-basher William [...]

Top story of 2007.

I meant to note this intriguing New York Times story on Associated Press stringer/suspected jihadi collaborator Bilal Hussein earlier today, but got tied up with column-writing duties. As the Jawa Report points out, there are some important details revealed in the piece that once again downplays the dangers of collaborating with foreign stringers. Look:
A spokesman [...]

Update: Jim Hanson at PJM reports on how Hussesin first came under military scrutiny
in 2004.
Pajamas Media has seen an email from a military source involved with the operation, confirming that Bilal Hussein and several others in the Fallujah area during 2004 had come to the attention of US forces tasked with information operations.
They noted ongoing [...]

“My Thanksgiving here has been as satisfying as any in memory.”

The New York Times catches up to milbloggers, embeds.

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Update 11:50pm Eastern: Via the AFP, the US military reveals some details…
The US military has filed a formal complaint with an Iraqi criminal court accusing a detained, award-winning Associated Press photographer of being a “terrorist media operative,” the Pentagon said Monday.
Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, said the military made the complaint about Bilal Hussein, [...]

Coddling Foggy Bottom.

“Urination competition.”

Update 7:21am Eastern 11/7. A Daily Kossack suggests that Kucinich to do it over and over and over again.”

Update 8:00pm Eastern: Quip of the night goes to corruptocrat Alcee Hastings. Gotta love the blue-on-blue action:
Kucinich “is on a quest of his own. He sees flying saucers and he acts like one,” Hastings said.
Update 7:45pm Eastern. [...]

Finally, TNR’s editors get around to addressing the latest Beauchamp mess. They’re doubling down. And publicly sticking to their story.
Which is more than you can say for Scott Thomas Beauchamp.
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Foer and company persist in blaming “the Army” for the magazine’s failure to keep its readers apprised of the scandal in a timely, forthcoming manner:
The New [...]

Exoneration.

Lt. Michael P. Murphy, The Protector

Courage. Sacrifice. Valor.

Update 9:40pm Eastern. Need another reason to get off your duff and join one of the protests in NYC or DC tomorrow. Check out Allahpundit’s summary of the Iranian nutjob’s talking points from his 60 Minutes’ appearance, which was taped in Iran on Thursday.
Meantime, filed tonight by the Associated Press, charges from the US about [...]

Plus your quote of the day: “There’s a lot of anger out there,” [Democrat Rep. John] Murtha told reporters Monday at the National Press Club. “A lot of people are very unhappy with the Democrats because we haven’t been able to get anything done.”

Bill Ardolino reports from Iraq that President Bush held a conference with bloggers and embeds. Bill writes:
President Bush met with a group bloggers today in an almost hour-long discussion of the war on terror. Eight individuals attended the meeting in the White House, while Bill Roggio and I video conferenced in from Camp Victory in [...]