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President Obama isn’t traveling abroad to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago today.
Of course not. There’s nothing in it for his Chicago cronies.
Also: There’s nothing for America to apologize for there today.
Guess which U.S. celebrity is in Germany to mark the anniversary? David Haselhoff.
When David Haselhoff is doing a better job [...]

The latest in Commie Chic: “Oba Mao” t-shirts!
Nope, not manufactured by RAAAACIST Tea Party protesters. Manufactured in China and sold by the Chinese for the rest of the Citizens of the World.
Mao-cheerleading White House communication director Anita Dunn has already put in a special order (via Breitbart TV):

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On a related note, Bill Gertz reported [...]

Shall we dance?

At around 12:30pm Eastern, Barack Obama will put down his ice cream cone and boldly condemn repression in Iran.
Why now?
Andrew Malcolm explains the timing:
You don’t need to be a basketball-loving president of the United States to know that if you’re trying to block opponents’ shots in your end, you sure aren’t increasing your own totals. [...]

Hackers vs. China whitewash.

Because they can.

“The result really is a shame. Feel bad?”

The good news: Team America won all-around gold and silver yesterday.
The bad news: the ChiComs will get away with their cheating ways and the fecklessness of the IOC will be given a pass.
My second syndicated column this week rips international athletic officials for turning a blind eye.
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Cheating ChiComs, Crouching IOC
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
I have [...]

A little bit of history repeating itself.

Whitewashing Red China.

Keep this in mind as you watch the Olympics.

Yingying the jailed Tibetan antelope.

Apostate may face death.

They’re coming to take me away, ha ha! (UPDATED)

But for Jane Novak’s blogging, it might have been worse: they wanted to kill him.

What, didn’t you like the condoms?

We’re from the People’s Revolutionary Government, and we’re here to help. UPDATE: Same companies tried to smuggle 2000 full-auto AK’s to L.A. gangs in 1996.

Red China shows its true colors.

Don’t mention Tibet!

Sad news: The Egyptian blogger who blogs at Rantings of a Sandmonkey is calling it quits: (hat tip – Susan)
Today is going to be the day that I’ve been dreading for quite sometime now. Today is the day I walk away from this blog. Done. Finished.
There are many reasons, each would take a post to [...]

“Kathy Sierra” is currently the top search term at Technorati.com. Sierra is a tech blogger here. Yesterday, she announced she would not appear at a public convention because anonymous death threats and nasty comments had left her terrified and house-bound:
I have cancelled all speaking engagements.
I am afraid to leave my yard.
I will never feel the [...]

Bad news:
An Egyptian appeals court endorsed a verdict sentencing a blogger to 4 years in prison on charges of insulting Islam and the president.
Judicial sources said Monday an appeals court in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria approved the verdict issued last month against 22-year-old Abdul Karim Nabil Amer. He was convicted on charges of [...]

The verdict against Kareem is in: three years in prison for insulting Islam and inciting sedition and another year for insulting Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Kareem will appeal. Help him. President Bush? Condi Rice? Promoters of democracy in the Middle East? Hello? Hello?
Previous Free Kareem blogging.

Good on the Washington Post for publishing an op-ed today on the plight of Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman, the blogger on trial in Egypt for his posts critical of the government and of Islam.
Raja M. Kamal, associate dean for resource development at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and Tom [...]

There’s a horrid development in the case of Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman, the Egyptian blogger on trial for posting to his website statements calling for equal rights for women and protection of free speech, as well as other statements critical of the Egyptian government and Islam. The Free Kareem website reports:

Reported by Al-Masree Al-Yawm (The [...]

A reader sends word of a protest tomorrow on behalf of Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer. If you’re in the NYC, please consider showing your support:
NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2007 – Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer’s trial is scheduled for this Thursday. An informal group of New York City residents are joining together in solidarity for a [...]

In between breathless condemnations of the Bush administration for stifling its free speech, endless court filings demanding classified and sensitive information from the military and intelligence agencies, and self-pitying media industry confabs bemoaning their hemorrhaging circulations (with the exception of the New York Post), my colleagues in the American media don’t have much to time [...]

Alaa Abd el-Fatah, an Egyptian blogger, and several compatriots have been detained for holding a peaceful protest supporting the independence of the country’s judiciary.
Info here, here, and here.
Instapundit is tracking the story.
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The Seattle Times has an interesting story about staunch anti-Communists in the Vietnamese-American community who are protesting a Vietnamese government-sponsored art exhibit at the University of Washington.

From Beijing:
Nike on Thursday apologised for a “blasphemous” television commercial which was banned by China after a wave of protest, saying it was only intended to inspire courage among youngsters.
China imposed a nationwide ban on the advert which featured United States basketball star LeBron James defeating a kung fu master, two women in traditional Chinese [...]