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Earlier this month, Bruce Ramsey of the Seattle Times reported on a document that he says casts doubt on my argument in In Defense of Internment that the evacuation of ethnic Japanese during World War II was based primarily on legitimate military concerns rather than racism and wartime hysteria.
The document was called to Ramsey’s attention [...]

Powerline points to this feature at Forbes.com with reviews of several of the biggest political blogs on both the left and the right. Forbes seems inclined to be nice to everyone.
Here is what they say about Michelle Malkin’s blog.
The site for columnist and author Michelle Malkin–known most for her book defending the internment of [...]

Counterpunch, a widely-read left-wing political newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, published a rambling interview the other day with America’s nuttiest professor, Ward Churchill.
It seems I’ve gotten under the blithering professor’s skin. When the interview first appeared, Churchill was quoted accusing me of “blatant plagiarism” (screenshot via Shock and Blog) and lifting [...]

There’s an intense debate in Bainbridge Island, Wa., over how the National Park Service should memorialize the WWII evacuation of ethnic Japanese. Comments are due today over several plans. Opposing sides here and here. Resident John Alpaugh, who has been active in the fight for a fair and accurate assessment of WWII relocation and evacuation [...]

I mentioned on Monday that the online errata page for my last book had been updated and that I would have more details. Before I get to them, I invite those of you with ample time on your hands to read the entire e-mail exchange in chronological order between retired law professor Peter Irons and [...]

The errata page for In Defense of Internment has been updated. Seattle Times columnist Bruce Ramsey comments on my latest correction here. I’ll have more to say about this later.
On a related note, I’ve been meaning to comment on Mark Levin’s book, “Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America. ” [...]

New York Times editorial writer Adam Cohen had some sanctimonious advice for bloggers over the weekend–and bloggers hollered back in full force. In case you missed it, Cohen thinks the reckless blogosphere should adopt a formal code of ethics. You know, since it has obviously worked so well for the MSM.
What a comedian. Among Cohen’s [...]

A few weeks ago, UNC law professor Eric Muller–the chief critic of my latest book whom I debated several times on the radio and engaged extensively (see below)–called on his blog readers to get my book banned –yes, banned–from the shelves at the Manzanar relocation center.
The staff at Manzanar received nearly 200 letters, weighed [...]

Mary Dombrowksi is the brave woman who challenged Bainbridge Island’s biased Japanese internment curriculum. She has now produced a half-dozen DVDs that relate to Japanese internment.
I just watched the first episode, an interview with Jack Klamm, a Naval radioman who was stationed at Fort Ward’s Station S during WWII. It was excellent. (See [...]

The Pentagon has released an in-depth review of its detention and interrogation policies.
James Joyner of Outside the Beltway has the best review and analysis.
Kevin McCullough has an overview from Pentagon sources and details of the Congressional hearing set for this morning on the report.
Captain Ed takes note of the New York Times‘ buried lead.

I was recently interviewed by John Hawkins of Right Wing News. He asked me for my thoughts on a wide range of topics, including immigration, internment, death threats, Chris Matthews, Wonkette, Andrew Sullivan, Eason Jordan, and the MSM’s lack of interest in Easongate. Click here to read it.

CBS4 Denver reports that hundreds of University of Colorado faculty members have come to the defense of professor Ward Churchill:
Members of the faculty bought an ad in the Monday edition of the Boulder Daily Camera. The ad demands the university stop [its] investigation.
Churchill’s defenders frame this as an issue of academic freedom, but I wonder [...]

Am scheduled to do a KPCC-FM radio debate in about 5 or 10 minutes with my old friend Eric Muller on FDR’s evacuation, relocation, and internment policies. I think you can listen live here.

Today is the 60th anniversary of Iwo Jima. Blogger tributes here and here. See also Power Line, Ace, and LGF.
It’s also the 63rd anniversary of Executive Order 9066, the West Coast evacuation order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. We’ve seen plenty of stories and op-ed pieces leading up to the [...]

Kevin Drum recently chided top conservative blogs, including this one, for not allowing comments. I initially enabled comments on a regular basis, but have severely limited them for reasons explained here. Lest you think I’m exaggerating the problem of out-of-control trolls/haters (which I touched on in a related post here), check out the gutter-level quality [...]

I’m in Atlanta, heading back home today after a fantastic and fascinating visit to Emory University. The College Republicans invited me to speak last night on the “Girls Gone Wild” culture, a subject which I first addressed last summer and continue to cover. The event, sponsored by the Young Americans for Freedom, was well-attended and [...]

Ken Masugi of the Claremont Institute was one of the first scholars to challenge the view that Japanese internment was solely the product of racism and wartime hysteria. His groundbreaking work helped inspire my book In Defense of Internment.
Yesterday, Masugi observed that “[o]bituaries of Japanese Americans often reveal a conflict of loyalties rarely commented on [...]

The controversy about how Japanese internment should be taught continued last week on Bainbridge Island, Wash. The Kitsap Sun reports:
New and improved?
Not everyone thought so as a revised curriculum for sixth-graders on Japanese internment was presented Thursday to the Bainbridge Island School Board and sent on its way to classrooms.
Some 120 persons again packed the [...]

During his DHS confirmation hearing, Michael Chertoff will likely receive heavy criticism for his role in the DOJ round-up of Middle Eastern illegal aliens in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News has launched the first volley in what is likely to become a meme:
[W]hile Chertoff may [...]

This is a mostly terrific Wall Street Journal editorial, but take a look at this passage:
If the Gonzales critics are really worried about civil liberties, they might ponder the domestic political response to another 9/11. Do they really think Roosevelt’s internment camps and Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus were merely products of a less enlightened [...]

Here’s how we will end up interrogating terrorists and enemy combatants if the Dems get their way.
And here’s what will happen if we don’t put sugar on top.
And here’s the truth, from Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald, about how America has bent over backwards to protect detainees’ human rights. An excerpt:
Gitmo personnel disagreed sharply [...]

On April 9, 2003, Amy Goodman of radical-left Pacifica Radio’s “Democracy Now” interviewed Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes about his areas of expertise–Middle East and Islamic issues. Out of the blue, Goodman suddenly switched gears and asked Pipes: “Did you support, do you now, looking back on the internment of Japanese Americans in World War [...]

Democratic Rep. Bob Matsui of California died last night of complications related to a rare stem cell disorder (ABC and others refer to the disease as “Milo Dysplastic Disorder,” but I think they mean this).
While I disagreed strongly with Matsui’s stance on the WWII evacuation/relocation/internment and his opposition to anti-terror threat profiling (see [...]

In today’s Japan Times (scroll down to the fourth letter), former World War II internee Ebhard E. Fuhr writes about the efforts of three U.S. activists to raise awareness about Japanese-Latin Americans who were interned in the United States during World War II:
While Japanese have been compensated to some extent for their internment, none [...]

The unhinged side of the blogosphere is having a hissy fit because I jovially highlighted Teresa Heinz (Kerry)’s quote revealing that she only uses the name of her husband, failed presidential candidate John Kerry, “for politics.”
To show that I am a hypocrite, they point to the fact that my books are copyrighted under my maiden/legal [...]

In response to reader requests, from now until December 3rd, I am offering signed, personally inscribed books for sale to those of you with PayPal accounts. Send my e-mail account (malkin@comcast.net) $25 per book plus $10 per order for postage and handling. Put “BOOK SALE” in the subject line. Gift wrapping is available for an [...]

Some critics of my most recent book have accused me of being a self-hater. Eugene Volokh deconstructed this argument here. Today, reader Richard J. Shinder points out that the accusation is based on an absurd assumption about Asian solidarity:
The left in general (and particularly leftist Caucasians) would have us believe in some sort of [...]

Last night’s speech at U.C. Berkeley is covered here and here. It was a remarkable event. Many thanks to the Berkeley College Republicans and those who came, and heartfelt apologies to the hundreds of supporters who could not get in to the lecture hall due to the limited number of seats. Pre-event [...]

On Sunday, the Sacramento Bee published a thought-provoking op-ed piece about homeland security in an age of terror by Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The major points of the piece are that “the ongoing global terrorist threat poses the greatest challenge to the American future since the Cold War and the [...]

Law professor Eric Muller’s critiques of my book, which began reasonably enough in early August, have degenerated into irrationality.
Muller’s descent began shortly after I pointed out copious factual errors and mischaracterizations in his posts–errors that remain uncorrected and unacknowledged to this day.
A few days later, Muller signed the hysterical letter by the newly-formed “Historians’ Committee [...]