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***update: attention, military folks and weapons experts…please help Michael Yon identify a weapon he photographed and which troops he has talked to haven’t been able to peg*** The Democrats may not want to hear about Iran, but our troops in Iraq have an earful to say about it. In both formal briefings and informal conversations [...]

The Left’s definition of a “hero” Just in tonight from Ft. Lewis via the Seattle P-I: The court-martial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada ended in a mistrial Wednesday. The case’s judge, Lt. Col. John Head, declared the trial over after a day of wrangling over a stipulation of facts that Watada had signed before the [...]

Advantage: Blackfive. *** Update: Allah links to Johnny Dollar’s audio of Arkin on John Gibson’s radio show. You really have to listen the whole thing as Arkin gets shriekier and shriekier, but here’s my rough transcript of the exchange half-way through the segment… GIBSON: The general tone of this piece is that the troops owe [...]

The World Economic Forum in Davos is a sanctuary for America-bashers. John Kerry was the star there yesterday. In case you missed it, Allah’s got video and the lowdown. All I can say is: Thank God for the Swift Boat Veterans. *** Davos is getting feedback. LGF’ers are leading the charge. Matt at Blackfive notes [...]

A couple of convictions just handed down (via the Cleveland Plain Dealer): A jury found two Cuyahoga County elections workers guilty Wednesday of charges that they skirted Board of Elections procedures to thwart a countywide ballot recount after the divisive 2004 presidential election. The jury convicted Kathleen Dreamer, 40, of Cleveland and Jacqueline Maiden, 59, [...]

I’ll be on Fox and Friends this morning a little after 7:30am talking about our trip to Iraq. We bumped into quite a few Fox fans–including a Lt. Col. who was reading Bill O’Reilly’s book when we met (and served as a guardian angel when we were stranded at Baghdad International Airport near the beginning [...]

This post is by the lizards (mostly Sachi), not by our dearest Michelle; the host is on holiday somewhere — I think she said Akron, but the connection was bad. ~^~ The Iraq war — indeed, the larger GWOJ (global war against jihadism) — is as much a propaganda war, a war of ideas and [...]

On December 26 and December 27, I linked to a photo publicized by radio talker Scott Hennen and Power Line of Sen. John Kerry in Iraq. Milblogger Ben of Mesopotamia, an Army Captain in Iraq, had posted the photo and recounted on Dec. 18: On Saturday night, a colleague emailed me and told me to [...]

***see update here on questions about the photos*** I linked to this photo of lonely John Kerry spurned by the troops in Iraq last night via Power Line, but the photo is going viral and it’s worth re-posting as a stand-alone. Thank radio talk show host Scott Hennen for sharing the image. He tells Power [...]

I’m up in NYC tonight guest-hosting The O’Reilly Factor. Catch the show on Fox News tonight at 8pm or 11pm Eastern. *** Update: Speaking of O’Reilly, check out Power Line’s report on how O’Reilly’s reception in Iraq compared to John Kerry’s–photographic evidence included.

Syrian President Bashar Assad’s American tools and fools in the U.S. Senate: Bill Nelson, John Kerry, Christopher Dodd and Arlen Specter.

The Hill reports that Hillary Clinton has hired a “faith guru” and that other Dem prez contenders are also rushing into the pews: Burns Strider, one of the Democratic Party’s leading strategists on winning over evangelicals and other values-driven voters, will join Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as she prepares to launch her 2008 presidential [...]

I haven’t been overly thrilled with the GOP presidential candidates so far, but it looks like the other side has it worse. Wes Clark seems like he’s ready to jump in again–prompting James Joyner to observe: Interestingly, the Democratic field looks to be shaping up as Hillary Clinton versus a bunch of folks who have [...]

Photoshop via Stubborn Facts They just can’t help themselves. In case you needed to be reminded which party puts playing politics with the war above serious solutions, here’s the video of Rep. Charlie Rangel on Sunday resurrecting the draft–as a way to deter the White House and Congress from launching wars. And for those who [...]

I’m hanging it up for the night, er, morning. Unlike Michael Moore in 2004, however, I will not be staying in bed for three days in a catatonic state. I will not need PEST shock therapy. I will not move to Australia. A moonbat reader e-mailed a taunt earlier this evening: How’s it feel to [...]

John Kerry has been found! I don’t why this came into my mailbox this morning, but it did. Reprinting for the snort-worthiness of it: Dear Friend, We’ve been working hard to get to this moment. And, here we are — we can see the finish line. But, if we want to produce the Democratic victories [...]

I wrote last week that we’d see more outbreaks of anti-military vandalism leading up to Election Day. In upstate New York on Halloween eve, “(expletive) Bush” and a depiction of a penis were scrawled on the 20-by-40-foot flag and similar pictures in the same shade of green were painted on the American Legion Mohawk Post. [...]

***updated with more info*** The Wall Street Journal reports on a “new breed” of poll watchers who will be out in full force tomorrow. Beware. Behind the civic-minded facade are far Left radicals whose main conern is not in ensuring a fair election process–but in preemptively undermining and delegitimizing it: When Americans go to vote [...]

John Kerry’s “botched joke”/habitual troop slander has soaked up most of the blogosphere and MSM’s attention the past week. But under the radar screen, another embarrassing controversy involving the Democrats and the military has been brewing. Two separate Democrat ad campaigns–run statewide by Missouri Senate candiate Claire McCaskill and run nationally on CNN and FOX [...]

A reader sent Matt at Blackfive another classic banner message from the troops to John Kerry, on display at the Army-Air Force Game last night: Photo from Blackfive Another soon-to-be viral photo you won’t see in the MSM! *** Related: Gold Star Families go to Iraq.

She’s sorry now The blogospheric-led uproar, spearheaded by Winfield Myers, over University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann’s idiotic decision to pose for a Halloween photo with a student in suicide bomber gear has yielded results. Here’s her apology: Each year, the president hosts a Halloween party for Penn students. More than 700 students attend. They [...]

***update: Kerry un-apologizes*** My old friend D.F. Oliveria at the Spokane Spokesman-Review sends along an exclusive photo that you will not see on the front page of the New York Times or the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times. Do you see who’s signing the poster? (Hint below.) I bet the Minnesota National Guard [...]

Roughly one in six or seven of my e-mails over the last 12 hours has included an attachment of the famous “Stuck in Irak” banner response to John Kerry. Hugh Hewitt notes MSM newspapers where you can’t find the photo and wants to know if it ran in your local paper. But you know what [...]

The Philly Daily News cover today: Right photo, wrong spin (hat tip: Richard Davis) So much for John Kerry’s “joke” excuse. He meant what he said and, as Rove says, it’s a lifelong habit. Someone other than Jennifer Loven at the Associated Press reports on Kerry’s disparaging remarks in 1972 about America’s volunteer army–which he [...]

***9:12pm Eastern update: Video of Kerry’s remarks now up at Hot Air. Notice the perfect, seamless delivery of the “botched” joke. I’m with Dafyyd: …it is also quite clear that Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA, 100%) said exactly what he meant to say. The reason he resisted apologizing for so long is that the “joke” [...]

***2:15pm Eastern update: Watch the press corps frenzy*** Attention, John Kerry: Here’s a banner message from the troops “stuck in Iraq” that’s spreading like wildfire across the ‘Net. (Hat tip: Leonard and Anthony J.) Click for enlarged photo: Laffing out lowd! Update: Drudge just picked up on it. It’s gone viral. Well done, troops. *** [...]

***scroll for updates*** Dan Riehl notes that libs are rallying behind Kerry because he was just speaking “the truth.” Via the SFChronicle website: (Note: Images removed 06/07/2007 to facilitate web site re-design. As of June 2007, the SF Chronicle link still works.) Chickenhawk invocation? Check. Absolute moral authority card? Check. Unapologetic elitism? Check. Check. Check. [...]

Guess the NYTimes couldn’t stand to see the Associated Press doing all the water-carrying for Kerry and the Dems. Here’s the Times’ contribution to the save-Kerry’s-backside campaign available tonight on the Times website. The headline? Nope, not “Kerry scorns troops, Bush defends military.” This: You have to read 15 paragraphs down into the story before [...]

***update: Kerry to speak at 2pm press conference…I expect nothing less than full-throated indignance, condescension, and blame avoidance…great news for the GOP…see, what did I tell ya: Kerry: “I apologize to no one for my criticisms of President Bush…” ***update: American Legion asks for apology: The National Commander of The American Legion called on Sen. [...]