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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 - possibly saving the [...]

My column this week:
There’s no polite way or time to say it: American college and universities have become coddle industries. Big Nanny administrators oversee speech codes, segregrated dorms, politically correct academic departments, and designated “safe spaces” to protect students selectively from hurtful (conservative) opinions—while allowing mob rule for approved leftist positions (textbook case: Columbia University’s [...]

Answer: It became “Let’s Roll Over.”
Dean Barnett compares the United 93 revolt and the British Royal Navy rollover:
What a strange and dismal trip it has been for the Western world, going from “Let’s Roll” to “Fighting Back Was Not An Option” in scarcely more than five years. One can only hope that when the [...]

2,996: Who are you remembering?
The time of notification of the crash of United 93 into a field at Shanksville, Pa., was 10:15 am Eastern. Who can forget: “Let’s roll!” United 93 passenger and crew list in extended entry:

My latest column, “Monumental surrender,” on the Flight 93 Memorial controversy, bubbling in the blogosphere for nearly a week, is up:
War memorials should memorialize war. If you want peace and understanding and healing and good will toward all, go build Kabbalah centers…
…A proper war memorial stirs to anger and action. We all remember passenger Todd [...]

We’ll have to see if this story holds up, but it’s amazing if true:
Mom-to-be kills alleged knife attacker
FT. MITCHELL, Ky. — A nine-months’ pregnant woman fought off and killed a knife-wielding woman who may have been trying to steal the baby, police said Friday.
Police said Sarah Brady, 26, acted in self-defense in killing Katherine Smith [...]