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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 [...]

Milblogs are on the story:
J.D. Johannes is there.
Mudville Gazette has a big round-up.

Standing up in Standish, Michigan.

Major Chris Galloway, 36, was a writer at group blog Flopping Aces. He served in Iraq and Afghanistan. In June, he took his own life. His devastated fellow writers at Flopping Aces have a moving group tribute to their friend.
Please read it. A tragic loss. A lasting legacy. Service to this country that won’t be [...]

Cpl. Benjamin Kopp, R.I.P.

Pushback from GOP Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas on the Obama plans to dump Gitmo detainees at Ft. Leavenworth.
Message: No. Hell. No.
Via The Hill’s Michael O’Brien:
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) threatened to “shut down the Senate” before he allows terrorist suspects to be relocated to Leavenworth, Kansas.
Roberts heatedly pledged to prevent detainees currently housed in Guantanamo [...]

CBS News reports:
The Department of Defense has positively identified the remains of a U.S. Navy pilot shot down over Iraq in the opening hours of the 1991 Gulf War.
CBS News Pentagon correspondent David Martin reports that remains found in Iraq have been confirmed to be that of Captain Michael “Scott” Speicher, who disappeared on [...]

Chicken run.

Make room for jihadi! Tim Sumner reports at 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America that the Obama administration is shuffling prisoners and clearing out beds for Gitmo detainees.
The news comes as the Senate prepares to vote on Sen. Inhofe’s amendment to keep Gitmo detainees off American soil.
Read the whole report and pass it [...]

Former Democrat Rep. Nancy Boyda of Kansas was once so allergic to positive reports about the surge in Iraq that she walked out of a House hearing in a snit fit.
Flashback 2007:
Kansas Rep. Nancy Boyda is defending her decision to step out of a hearing room last week while a retired Army general testified about [...]

Scroll down for updates…evidence of desertion mounting…

My prayers are with the family of Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier seen on the Taliban abduction video released this weekend. The Jawa Report has the full clip.
All Americans should hope and pray for his release from jihadi custody.
There’s one question I have, though, about strange details initially [...]

The Democrats in Washington don’t want to talk about Obama’s Gitmo release policies.
But you do have a voice.
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a Senior Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has posted a video and petition opposing the transfers of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the United States. He’s also sponsoring an amendment, [...]

Photo credit: U.S. Marines and about 650 Afghan soldiers and police officers prepare to board CH-53D Sea Stallion and CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters on Forward Operating Base Dwyer, Afghanistan, July 2, 2009. The Marines are assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 3, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade. The Marines and Afghan [...]

They don’t want to talk about it. From GOP Rep. Roy Blunt’s office:
Missouri Congressman Roy Blunt accused the House Democratic leadership of refusing to debate the use of tax dollars to compensate foreign nations for relocating Guantanamo detainees. The Democrat-led House Rules Committee last night blocked Blunt’s amendment to the House Intelligence Authorization Bill [...]

My column below memorializes some true American heroes whose funerals won’t get wall-to-wall cable coverage. But first I wanted to share an e-mail from reader Noelle, who wrote me yesterday:
We spent a nailbiting Sunday wondering if one of the men killed at [Combat Outpost] Zerok in Afghanistan on July 4th was our son. God [...]

“He wanted to do his part.”

Some people said it was a hoax.
It was most certainly not.
The Seattle Times has a story on Army Private Aaron Fairbairn, who was killed by a jihadi suicide bomber on his base in eastern Afghanistan over the weekend. Read the whole account here:
David Masters and his wife, Shelley, laughed in relief Friday when they [...]

Got back to my hotel after a wonderful time at the Dallas Tea Party only to read of a father’s heartbreak.
David M. Masters passed along devastating news on Twitter this evening that his son, Aaron, was one of two American soldiers killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan today.
His message:

America’s North Shore Journal has [...]

Keep our Marines in your prayers as head off for the holiday weekend. Freedom is not free. Via AHN, the latest on the surge in Afghanistan:
One American Marine has been killed as U.S. and Afghan forces on Friday continued their massive offensive deeper into Helmand River valley. The assault, the first major Afghan operation by [...]

Ugh. I am so maddeningly sick of the never-ending Michael Jackson circus, sucking up all the MSM oxygen and drawing out all the race hustlers and cable TV rats. Al Sharpton. Jesse Jackson. Celebrity lawyers. Sewage on parade.
Here’s a man whose legacy and name you should tell your children about instead: U.S. Marine Corps Col. [...]

Is the world still watching?
Jim Hoft is. Here’s his latest round-up of developments today — with details and links on a reported new massacre at Baharestan Square in Tehran.
More from Ed Morrissey.
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