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“We sincerely regret this mistake.”

Shut up and dance. Plus: When is a hate crime not a hate crime?

Winter Soldier Syndrome.

“ill (sic) return to america an author.”

Moonbat of the day: An aircraft mechanic sent e-mails to the FBI claiming he had planted explosives at Utah’s Hill Air Force Base and planned to take six hostages in Idaho, authorities said Wednesday. Five buildings were evacuated Tuesday after the e-mails began surfacing, but the threat turned out to be false and no hostages [...]

Follow the bouncing ball: The newspaper that was hoaxed by Jayson Blair covers the magazine that was hoaxed by Stephen Glass, and which is now under tough scrutiny over the work of pseudonymous soldier “Scott Thomas.” Plus: A Peter Beinart flashback.

Update 3:28pm Eastern. Noel Sheppard notes that Markos is alarmed and trying to control the inmates in the Daily Kos asylum: “With us or against us” by kos Mon Jul 23, 2007 at 10:30:19 AM PDT There has lately been an alarming rise in diaries and comments that seek to impugn (without evidence) the motives [...]

“Please be assured that it is not our intention to offend anyone.”

Senior Airman Jonathan Schrieken, a loadmaster in the 6th Airlift Squadron, could use your prayers and well wishes.

Report: The Pennsauken man who shot and wounded a member of the U.S. Air Force before killing himself left suicide notes that indicated he was “angry at the government and wanted to make a statement” on Independence Day, one of the man’s relatives said yesterday.

Anti-war students shut down school board meeting. Adults cower. The cycle begins.

The moonbats continue to bash the Blue Angels in San Francisco. Here’s video of one of the leaders trying to kick the Blue Angels out of the city for Fleet Week. The Examiner’s letters page shows that there are a few sane people left there. A sampling: I find it interesting and somewhat amusing that [...]

Anti-military loons in the Bay Area are working together to drive the Blue Angels out of San Francisco for Fleet Week: The annual aerial show by the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels — a San Francisco tradition dating back to 1981 that pumps millions into the local economy — is running into opposition from three local [...]

Ready to gag? Check out this nursery school video from NYC, in which three-year-old toddlers are used as props for an anti-war protest at a local politician’s office. The video is at NYPress politics blog: That green construction-paper thingie that looks like it’s about to devour the two little boys is a “Tree of Peace.” [...]

In Portland, Oregon. Yes, question their patriotism. Speaking of which, the “patriotism” of the moonbats and the Gathering of Eagles were topics briefly discussed tonight on our O’Reilly Factor segment tonight. Fox aired a bit of our Hot Air video report. If you’re just checking in for the first time tonight and haven’t seen it, [...]

Hanoi Jane is scheduled to appear at an anti-war protest at the Navy Memorial this weekend. From the United for Peace website: 10am: Women Say Pull Out! Women’s Convergence for DC Mobilization Join Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Lynn Woolsey, Rhea Perlman, Eve Ensler, Mimi Kennedy, Q’orianka Kilcher, the Co-founders of CODEPINK [...]

Columbia University junior and Marine corporal Matt Sanchez has a must-read in today’s NYPost: DiD you hear the one about the Marines that Columbia University invited to campus for Fleet Week? Not any time in the last few decades, you didn’t. But you might have heard the one about the Marine who was told by [...]

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. [...]

***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. [...]

***update: the school backs down! Michael Graham reports: “As I’m about to report exclusively on my show in 20 minutes, King Philip High has backed down under pressure from angry supporters of the US military. They’re going to allow representatives of West Point and the ROTC at graduation on Sunday (not tonight’s awards event, alas) [...]

In the Stamford, Conn., school district. Why? Mostly, it seems, because school officials and parents didn’t want the inconvenience of an extra school day in June. I’m not so crazy about all the days kids get off from school anyway, but the veterans have a good point in response to school officials who disingenuously argue [...]

First, the UC Santa Cruz thugs drive recruiters off their campus. Then, anti-war nuts target ROTC facilities in North Carolina. Now this via the Minneapolis Star Tribune (hat tip: reader David): S-T caption: Three people were apprehended this afternoon by police after pouring paint on an Army recruiting station near the University of Minnesota during [...]

Here’s how they show support for the military at UC Santa Cruz (hat tip: Brian Maloney and reader Allen) – via the Santa Cruz News Sentinel: Military recruiters packed up their displays and left a UC Santa Cruz job fair Tuesday after several protesters attempted to force themselves inside the fair while others blocked the [...]

***scroll down for update*** In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor. Here’s a Tom Toles cartoon that our military leaders did not appreciate: Here’s a [...]

***update: Hugh Hewitt interviewed Joel Stein today and posts his thoughts…transcript and audio at Radioblogger…*** Some website has named me the 49th most loathsome person in America. (I’m just ahead of Geraldo. Others on the list: 30) Hillary Clinton; 29) Terri Schiavo; 19) James Sensenbrenner; 13) God; 4) You.) You want loathsome? I nominate LA [...]

***updated here.*** Lots of blog buzz over MoveOn.org’s latest, noxious anti-war propaganda. First, check out the video here (in Quicktime). Notice this? Best of the Web reported yesterday on a sharp-eyed Army captain’s reaction to that scene in MoveOn’s fund-raising ploy: I just got back from my third deployment from Iraq on Friday, and I [...]

From the unhinged cartoonist/columnist who sneers at our volunteer troops as murderers for Halliburton and derided Army Ranger Pat Tillman as an “idiot” and a “sap,” comes this new slander of the troops: Conservative Dialysis takes aim at Rall’s odious moral equivalence. But we mustn’t question the Left’s patriotism, right?

From the “We support the troops by smearing blood all over their offices” file: The infamous “St Patrick’s Four” anti-war zealots who “poured their blood” all over a military recruiting center in Ithaca, N.Y.–on the walls, windows, doors, and smeared on an America flag–are back in court today for a re-trial: Four anti-war protesters who [...]

I know, I know, we’re not supposed to question any leftist’s patriotism. So how then should we make sense of this? The USS Iowa joined in battles from World War II to Korea to the Persian Gulf. It carried President Franklin Roosevelt home from the Teheran conference of allied leaders, and four decades later, suffered [...]

Smash explains. Doesn’t San Diego have more important business to attend to?