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I was traveling to Wichita for a speaking event/fundraiser (which I’ll tell you more [...]

From GOP Rep. Pete Hoekstra’s office, a demand for transparency from the Obama administration on its Gitmo relocation plans:
[Hoekstra,] the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, used a rare, open hearing of a House Intelligence Subcommittee to highlight the fact that nine months to the day after President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order [...]

Aren’t you glad you don’t live in Amherst MA?
Amherst leaders are backing a resolution offering the Massachusetts college town as a possible resettlement home for two Guantanamo detainees if they are released from the military prison.
The board voted 2-1 yesterday to endorse a warrant article filed on behalf of the two men by the group [...]

Attorney General Eric Holder’s old pals at Gitmo detainee-repping Covington & Burlington give this latest news two thumbs up. Way up:
Congress took a step toward President Barack Obama’s goal of closing Guantanamo Bay prison on Tuesday when it cleared a measure allowing foreign terrorism suspects held there to face prosecution in the United States.
The Senate’s [...]

On the day of President Obama’s glorious Nobel Appease Prize victory, a Taliban henchman gloats in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Kamdesh siege:
Speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the U.S. bombarded the outpost with airstrikes after leaving, as well as the local police headquarters.
“This means they are [...]

This is the least we can do.
Please join me in contributing to the Combat Outpost Keating Relief Fund. Please.
COP Keating was one of two outposts attacked this weekend in the siege at Kamdesh.
Mothax at the American Legion’s Burn Pit blog writes that “[i]n the battle for Combat Outpost Keating, the men of Bravo Troop 361 [...]

Please take time to read the profiles of the American soldiers who died in the siege at Kamdesh.
The Colorado Springs Gazette tells their stories here and here.
Many were fathers. All were patriots. They were stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado. They leave behind grieving wives, girlfriends, young children, family, and friends. Remember their names. Remember their [...]

Last March, I published a special report on the Left’s war against military recruiters in the U.S. It’s a topic I’ve covered extensively over the years. Unhinged devotes a sub-section of my chapter “They Don’t Support Our Troops” to the organized campaign of harassment against recruitment offices on college campuses nationwide. The anti-recruiter thugs have [...]

An incredible account from ABC News reporter Karen Russo, who notes that wounded troops refused to leave the battlefield this weekend during the deadly siege at Kamdeysh:
Flying into the besieged Afghan base during a nighttime firefight this weekend is a harrowing mix of overwhelming noise, stomach dropping maneuvers and shadows hurrying through the gloom.
When the [...]

One word comes to mind when reading the account of how President Obama is “furious” with US General Stanley McChrystal over his speech on Afghanistan.
The word is “feckless.”
Via the Telegraph:
According to sources close to the administration, Gen McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London last week. [...]

This Sunday, keep these troops — and all our men and women serving in uniform — in your thoughts and prayers (via the Washington Post):
Firing rockets and rifles, Taliban militiamen attacked American and Afghan military outposts in a daylong siege on Saturday that killed eight U.S. soldiers and two Afghan security forces in one of [...]

Words, just words.

That’s how many times President Obama has talked to General Stanley McChrystal.
Obama is for “engagement” and “dialogue” with everyone else in the world except his own military commanders.

A Facebook friend told me about Lt. Daniel Cnossen.
He is an amazing patriot and I’m asking you to read his story…
…here…
…and then please do what you can to contribute to help support Lt. Cnossen and his family on the road to recovery.
God bless you, Lt. Cnossen.
Your service, spirit, and courage will not be forgotten.

“Give them what they need.”

Where’s everyone else? Via the National Post:
Canada will boycott Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the United Nations on Wednesday, saying his outbursts about the Holocaust and Israel are “shameful.”
Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon will be at the world body to attend the opening of the UN General Assembly’s annual debate, but officials signal he and [...]

Bill Roggio reports on the consequences of Obama’s Afghanistan waffle:
Within 24 hours of the leak of the Afghanistan assessment to The Washington Post, General Stanley McChrystal’s team fired its second shot across the bow of the Obama administration. According to McClatchy, military officers close to General McChrystal said he is prepared to resign if he [...]

On August 26, my syndicated column blasted the ACLU for its spying operation on undercover CIA agents. The pictures of covert American CIA officers – “in some cases surreptitiously taken outside their homes” – were shown to jihadi suspects tied to the 9/11 attacks in order to identify the interrogators.
The ACLU responded to my column [...]

Don’t worry, be happy:
The Obama administration will scrap the controversial missile defense shield program in Eastern Europe, a senior administration official confirmed to CNN Thursday.
The U.S. has been testing the ability of ground-based interceptor missiles to hit long-range ballistic missiles.
The comment followed similar statements from officials in Poland and the Czech Republic — where key [...]

Dear God (hat tip – Lynn S):
NATO-led forces are investigating the death of four Marines in eastern Afghanistan after their commanders reportedly rejected requests for artillery fire in a battle with insurgents, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
Tuesday’s incident was “under investigation” and details remained unclear, press secretary Geoff Morrell told a news conference.
A McClatchy newspapers’ [...]

What’s more shameless than the Associated Press defying the wishes of a dying Marine’s family and splashing his bloody body all over the wires?
Why, the Huffington Post reprinting a massively large version of the image on its front page with an accompanying blog commentary praising the AP photographer’s work as “tasteful” — along with thousands [...]

Before I get to the Associated Press and its vile decision to publish an embedded photographer’s image of a dying Marine in Afghanistan over the objections of the Marine’s family and the Pentagon, I want to remind you that we’ve been down this disgusting road before.
In February 2007, the New York Times published an embedded [...]

The Libyan government defied work-stoppage orders on its construction project at Moammar Gadhafi’s NJ compound.
Now, a judge has issued a halt to work on the Libyan estate’s driveway.
Just in tonight:
A judge has ordered a halt to work being done outside a northern New Jersey mansion where Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi wanted to stay during his [...]

Responding to a question about Afghanistan during today’s White House press briefing, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs assailed Bush/Cheney for having “under-resourced Afghanistan for the better part of a decade” and declared the region “the most important part of our war on terror.”
Whoops. That’s “Overseas Continegency Operation” to you, Bobby.
Flashback:
After days of confusion and denial about [...]

Thousands of people in Colorado Springs turned out this morning for the Red, White & Brave parade to welcome home the troops. The Colorado Springs Gazette put the crowd estimate at 45,000 downtown.
It was a privilege to be among the throngs and throngs shouting “THANK YOU!” as our men and women in uniform marched with [...]

Have you heard a peep from ACLU supporters about the group’s special spying project on undercover CIA agents? Me neither. It’s the subject of my syndicated column this week. IBD has an excellent editorial. Few other MSM papers have weighed in.
ACLU: Spying for America’s enemies
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Savor the silence of America’s self-serving champions [...]

GOP Sen. Kit Bond voted to confirm crime-coddling Attorney General Eric Holder on February 2, 2009.
Sen. Bon cluelessly explained that Holder was “a good listener.” As I reported at the time, 19 Bend Over Republicans joined the majority to install Holder as head of the Obama Justice Department. Let me refresh your memories:
Alexander (R-TN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond [...]

Can’t say I’m getting all wee-weed up about the DOJ disclosure today that Bush/CIA interrogators threatened 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s family (info that isn’t even new.)
Nope. No tears.
How about you?
Flashback: 9/11 Children
Flashback: Angels on loan from God
Via Sgt. Tim Sumner, photos of the angel children murdered on 9/11:

Lan astaslem: Arabic for “I will not [...]

All wee-wee’d up.

What better way for the Left to show its true stripes than to share classified information and photos of undercover CIA officers with Gitmo detainees.
But, hey, don’t you dare question their love of country. After all, endangering America is the ultimate form of dissent!
We also now learn that the privacy zealots at the ACLU hired [...]