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The arrogance of the peacock.

Requiem for magazines.

Stifling dissent.

Plus your quote of the day: “There’s a lot of anger out there,” [Democrat Rep. John] Murtha told reporters Monday at the National Press Club. “A lot of people are very unhappy with the Democrats because we haven’t been able to get anything done.”

Sunday meditation.

Bill Ardolino reports from Iraq that President Bush held a conference with bloggers and embeds. Bill writes:
President Bush met with a group bloggers today in an almost hour-long discussion of the war on terror. Eight individuals attended the meeting in the White House, while Bill Roggio and I video conferenced in from Camp Victory in [...]

The way forward.

Sober, but not disheartening.

Okay, people. The Code Pinkos got their turn. Now, it’s your turn to be heard. This is the petition of the Victory Caucus. Make your voice count:

Hey, did you know that MoveOn.org might have gotten a huge advertising rate discount for its despicable smear ad?
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Stand by for liveblogging of Brit Hume’s exclusive [...]

Update: 4:26pm Eastern. USAToday’s Mark Memmott is trying to get Dems on record regarding the MoveOn.org smear. So far: Two non-response responses from Obama and Clinton’s offices.
More reax “The Peace Racket,” you should. This is what we are up against, people.
And milblogger Austin Bay weighs in on the testimony today, using the microphone failure as [...]

Posted today at MNF-I, straight from the general to the men and women who are putting their lives on the line for the mission:

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I guess the Dems will start calling this the “Bush letter.”

Blogger on the ground.

Video in case you missed it: Here.

A liberal Democrat speaks. Will he be smeared now as a “chickenhawk?” Plus: An Iraq war round-up.

I wanna hold your hand.

The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10.

Savor the moment.

Update 9:30pm Eastern. Shannon Love at the Chicago Boyz blog called foul on the Lancet 2004 study early on and, with vindication, reacts to David Kane’s new analysis of the 2004 Lancet Iraq death toll study: “Kane shows that if the Falluja cluster is included in the statistical calculations, the confidence interval dips below zero, [...]

America’s finest. And toughest. Plus: The “Scott Thomas” saga continued.

Hey, why can’t the senators change their own sheets?
Liveblogging the Senate floor debate (refresh for latest updates)…
Jim Hoft notes that the Dems would not meet with anti-surrender veterans. Power Line has more.
Update 1:04pm Eastern. Teddy Kennedy has sent a new amendment on the education bill to the desk. SA 2327. A Senate source tells me [...]

Harry needs a crib.

Four Republicans sided with the Surrender Democrats.

Liveblogging the 10:30am Bush press conference. Gen. Helen Thomas speaks: “Bring in UN peacekeepers! Don’t you understand? You brought al Qaeda into Iraq!”

An artist pays tribute to a soldier of the 308th Civil Affairs Brigade in Iraq.

Doing the fact-checking NBC didn’t do.

Remember the Navy SEAL memorial in Littleton, Colorado, which anti-gun zealots protested for its realism? It was dedicated today. Blogger and Internet coverage here, here, and here at Slapstick Politics–with comprehensive videos and pics.
Rolling Thunder was there. Reader Mark Thomas e-mails there wasn’t a dry eye in the crowd.
God bless and Bravo Zulu.

Bill Roggio rounds up news and analysis of the twin bombings of the al-Askaria mosque’s remaining minarets this morning in Samarra. John Burns at the NYTimes reports on efforts to avert sectarian reprisals:
[A]fter Wednesday’s renewed attack on the shrine at Samarra, 75 miles north of Baghdad, appeals for calm by Shiite political and religious [...]

12:30pm Eastern update: The bastards claim the missing soldiers are all dead.

Please pray for the families.
Update: Video excerpt here.

9:02am Eastern Just in:
An Islamic militant Web site said Monday it would soon release video clips showing the capture of three American soldiers who disappeared in
Iraq in mid-May. The body of one soldier was later found, [...]

J.D. Johannes reports outside the wire.

Counterterrorism analyst Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is embedded in Iraq. Read his latest dispatch from outside the wire: Patrolling Yarmouk.
Outside the Wire’s J.D. Johannes, embedded with the Black Lions of Task Force 1-28 in Baghdad, reports on the “cellular battlespace.”
Miblogs reporting…
Desert Flier, a flight/trauma nurse in Anbar province, blogs about Ramadi all-nighters.
Stimp at My Desert Adventure [...]