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Brian Turner is a part time professor at a Bay Area college and a published poet.
He’s also a soldier.
Words written by the light of a red-tinted flashlight offer a poet’s-eye view of American soldiers’ life in Iraq: the fear, the loss, the heartache, the uncertainty and the rare moments of calm and beauty in an [...]

Comparing notes with Blackfive today, it appears we’ve both been infected with the same “sock puppet” troll. So, as a public service to bloggers and bulletin board moderators everywhere, I’m publishing the details on the troll I call “Punk.”
IP addresses:
68.33.185.185 — Rockville MD (work?)
66.160.120.185 — Washington DC (home?)
68.62.72.192 — Auburn Hills MI (Mom’s [...]

Hi, I’m Ben, a 25-year-old white guy from rural Virginia. I used to be a directory assistance operator, but now I work at the Wal Mart in Waynesboro. I still live with my parents.

Sometimes, I like to go to the big city and play in the streets. My favorite game is to [...]

Via the BBC:
Internet site Wikipedia has been hit by controversy after the disclosure that a prominent editor had assumed a false identity complete with fake PhD.
The editor, known as Essjay, had described himself as a professor of religion at a private university.
But he was in fact Ryan Jordan, 24, a college student from Kentucky [...]

Under no circumstances should anybody even imagine, even for a nanosecond entertain the notion, that this post is by our dearest Michelle (who is either in Iraq or in next-door Okinawa, as I understand it, but I’ve never been either place, so what do I know?) Rather, this post is by Dafydd of Big [...]

A broken window is seen behind the emblem of the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece. (AP)No injuries, thank God, and minor damage.
The blast smashed glass in the front of the building near the U.S. emblem of the embassy. Police did not report any injuries and embassy officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
“This [...]

Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 film “Triumph des Willens” (Triumph of the Will) went a long way toward making the Nazis look cool, or at least, rather less like a bunch of pasty sausage-gobbling dorkozoids.
Now, consider this “promotional” film for the radical Muslim group Hizb-ut-Tahrir (more about them here and here). Although [...]

Continued from previous Lizard post…
This post is by Big Lizards (mostly Sachi), not by our dearest Michelle; the host is on holiday somewhere — I couldn’t quite make out where she was, but she shouted something that sounded remarkably like “earache.” Faugh; earache, my eye.
You put your left foot in…
If the mainstream media has [...]

Mystical Nativity by Sandro Botticelli
For unto Us a Child is born
Unto Us a Son is given
And the government shall be upon His shoulder
And His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor,
The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
- Isaiah 9:6
Merry Christmas, dear readers. Hope your day is filled with joy and love. A few [...]

Attention, congressional staff members on both sides of the aisle:
Please have your bosses read this Dean Barnett Sunni-Shia Cheat Sheet over the holidays in order to avoid another Jeff Stein gotcha moment.
While you’re at it, The Truth About Muhammad would make an informative gift for the clueless.
Bryan Preston offers his recommended reading list here.
One [...]

Left-handers of the world, unite!
We left-handed people have a special bond. At book signings, left-handers always make a point of noticing that I’m one of them. Fellow left-handers will ask which hand I shoot or bowl with (right-handed–but I crochet and sew left-handed). We all have stories of elementary school persecution. We have the same [...]

Like I said earlier today, information wants to be free. And freedom is something Iran is just not going to tolerate. Via The Guardian (hat tip: Greg Tinti):
Iran yesterday shut down access to some of the world’s most popular websites. Users were unable to open popular sites including Amazon.com and YouTube following instructions to [...]

Rebuffed by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the NYTimes puts out a desperate editorial this morning asking someone, anyone–paging Nancy Pelosi!–to help protect them from accountability for protecting illegal leakers and reporters accused of tipping off terrorist charities:
A journalist’s ability to protect the identity of confidential sources has been further eroded by the Supreme Court’s refusal [...]

Two simple, little reminders about the things that matter most.
The first is from the Times of London: “Mother in coma laughs at her children’s jokes.”
A mother of two who has spent two years in a coma has started chuckling at her children’s jokes. It was the first sound Andrea Brushneen, 31, had made since suffering [...]

Howie at The Jawa Report points me to Juba Online, an apparent jihadi sniper site that glorifies the murder of our American soldiers. They’ve been around for a year. The site affiliates itself with the Islamic Army, which happens to be the same group that supplied CNN the Global Sniper News Network with its terrorist [...]

Meet Alberto Fernandez: State Dept. apologist for jihad
Alberto Fernandez, director of public diplomacy in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the US State Department, is al Jazeera’s favorite pet tool. He has been praised as “sassy” and is a fixture on Arab TV. From a Newsweek profile published in August, which proclaimed him “the [...]

Disgraced GOP Rep. Mark Foley’s instant messages with an underage page are absolutely appalling. He was a 54-year-old man abusing his position of power with a 16-year-old boy. Based on all the reporting so far, and there may yet be more to come, Rep. Foley was exactly the kind of sexual predator–“sicko,” in his own [...]

Apostasy. The last time I visited the subject, an ex-Muslim man’s life was at stake in Afghanistan. Remember Abdul Rahman?
Now, meet Lina Joy. Like Rahman, she was born Muslim, converted to Christianity, and is facing death threats for abandoning Islam. She wants to marry a fellow Christian man in her native Malaysia. A Muslim legal [...]

Harry Reid had to return a contribution of $3000, with interest, to one Ben Barnes because Barnes is a lobbyist and accepting money from lobbyists is a no-no:
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., last year refunded a $3,000 check he got in 1999 from a Texas friend, Ben Barnes, after a public interest group revealed it was [...]

Since Michelle has so generously launched me into GuestBlog-dom as someone who, as she puts it, gave her a nudge “in the right direction on jihad and dhimmitude,” I’ll take the bait and hit the topic straight off. Above all else, understanding jihad and dhimmitude is crucial to understanding what we call the war on [...]

I haven’t heard Fox report on it yet, but Drudge links this story:
Palestinian gunmen ambushed a car carrying a Fox News crew in Gaza City on Monday and kidnapped two of the journalists inside, according to witnesses and Fox. “We can confirm that two of our people were taken against their will in Gaza,” Fox [...]

Via London Telegraph
Answer: Nothing–unless you are a British Passport Office worker who fear the wrath of Muslim fanatics offended by a little girl’s bare shoulders. Her passport application was rejected by bureaucrats who told the girl’s mom “that the exposed skin might be considered offensive in a Muslim country.”
I suppose if the girl wore [...]

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I went to bed last night after blogging about the Dearbornistan terror arrests and the still missing 8 Egyptians. Twenty minutes after I went to sleep, the news broke about a massive terrorist plot to blow up several aircraft mid-flight between the United States and Britain using explosives smuggled in hand luggage.
Are [...]

I’m getting lots of moonbat mail from people who finally discovered the Seattle P-I’s article mentioning that accused Jew-killer Naveed Haq had reportedly been baptized at one point at an evangelical Christian church. Yeah, I noted that two days ago, Sherlocks. (Thought: Have you heard of taqiyya?) I also noted that the article reported that [...]

***updated…10pm Eastern-new details about Haq via AP - he “forced his way through a security door by holding a gun to a 13-year-old girl’s head”…told 911 dispatcher, “These are Jews and I’m tired of getting pushed around and our people getting pushed around by the situation in the Middle East…”***
***new photo of Haq via AP…***

***7/30 [...]

***update: Kerry-Feingold defeated 86-13. Levin-Reed defeated 60-39.***

Ouch.
Like the hapless Simpsons’ character who can’t stop walking into rakes, the Democrat Party is set to thwack itself in the head again today with two votes to pull out troops from Iraq with no regard for the conditions on the ground.
WaPo:
Yesterday’s lengthy Senate debate over Iraq offered early [...]

Hot Air has a special correspondent in Las Vegas for the “nutroots convention” convened by The Daily Kos.
An excerpt from Dispatch 1:
People here are largely, disappointingly, golf-shirted, short-haired, and white bread. Grooming and hygiene are up to western business standards. There is one dude wearing a pith helmet and another guy in a kilt, but [...]

Oh, dear Lord. A jihadist plot, possibly of global scale, possibly imminent, unravels in Canada…and what do law enforcement officials do? Try to whitewash the obvious jihadi profile from the public’s mind.
At the press briefing held by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police today, the suspects who appeared in court–all sporting traditional Muslim male beards and [...]

In response to the “Nuestro Himno” illegal alien anthem nonsense, I thought it would be nice to celebrate the history of our national anthem–instead of rewriting it to pander to ethnic grievance-mongers who don’t respect Amerian laws or traditions.
Via Wikipedia, here’s a copy of Francis Scott Key’s original manuscript of the “Star-Spangled Banner” poem:

And here’s [...]