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Traveling home from Austin, TX, yesterday, I spent most of the short flight in tears–punctuated by frequent chuckles. I’m sure the lady sitting next to me thought I was a basket case as I sobbed into my Southwest Airlines cocktail napkin until it fell apart in shreds.
Why was I bawling and laughing?
I finally had a [...]

Here’s my syndicated column this week. Enjoy!
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Let us not, on this Independence Day weekend, dwell on the political pretenders to patriotism rushing to out-proclaim their love of country. Nor let us pay heed to the sneering movie directors and journalism pooh-bahs allergic to red, white, and blue.
Instead, I’d like to share a bit of [...]

(Screen grabs courtesy Tim Sumner)
I’ll be in beautiful Mountain View, CA all day today for “From the Frontlines,” our ground-breaking web-a-thon for the troops. Move America Forward’s Melanie Morgan and I will go live on Ustream.TV and right here at MichelleMalkin.com (as well as at HotAir.com) at 4pm Eastern/1pm Pacific. (Just hit the play button [...]

Just six more days ’til the awesome event I told you about over Memorial Day weekend. “From the Frontlines” is a joint project of Melanie Morgan’s Move America Forward, UStream.TV, and Hot Air. On June 26, from 4pm Eastern/1pm Pacific to 12midnight Eastern/9pm Pacific, Melanie and I will be anchoring a livestreamed, 8-hour fund-raising “web-a-thon” [...]

But for Jane Novak’s blogging, it might have been worse: they wanted to kill him.

Invisible threads.

“Wait for me at the gate.”

“‘Cuz all too soon the clock will strike midnight/And she’ll be gone.”

Danger Close.

Let’s roll.

Eagles up.

Help.

Please read this post from The Bashman at Pat Dollard’s site about Iraq war widow Julie Shumney, the widow of Bronze Star recipient 1st Lt. Dustin Shumney, who died in a helicopter crash near Ar Rutbah in 2005.
The Shumneys could use your help. Click on this button and pitch in. Thank you!

Starting over.

Leading milblog Blackfive invited bloggers to send in video greetings for the troops overseas. Hot Air pitched in with many other bloggers across the country. Here’s the collaborative result:

We can’t say thank you enough.

My friends at Move America Forward are currently on a cross-country trip, holding pro-troop events in 40 cities across America to honor and salute the men and women of the U.S. military who will be thousands of miles away from their homes and families during this holiday season. They’re collecting more than 100,000 Christmas, [...]

Over the years, I’ve tracked Mumia Chic–the Left’s deranged worship of convicted Death Row murderer Mumia Abu Jamal that has spread from Philly to St. Denis, France and points in between. This December 9th marks the 25th anniversary of the brutal murder of Abu Jamal’s victim, Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. His brave widow, [...]

Update 10:15am Eastern 11/22. Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
Milblogger Laughing Wolf at Blackfive gives thanks.
The NYPost offers its Thanksgiving prayers.
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My column this week (reprinted below) reflects on pain, compassion, gratitude, and some simple Thanksgiving advice. Feel free to share your favorite Thanksgiving traditions, recipes, and prayers here. I’m making a Thanksgiving tree [...]

Caption:
Forward Invocation — U.S. service members with 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward) and various other units bow their heads in prayer during the invocation to celebrate the Marine Corps’ 232nd birthday on Camp Taqaddum, Iraq, Nov. 10, 2007. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael J. O’Brien.
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Send your text message of thanks to the [...]

Support the troops.

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” - C.S. Lewis

Reaching across the aisle to support disabled troops. Is anybody there?

Plus: A challenge to the left-o-sphere.

Worthy cause.

“Their strength and togetherness of family show how the human spirit can endure, even in great sadness.”

Lend a hand for Blackfive.

Getcha head in the game. Plus: The Band of Mothers.

Sending embeds to the front.

Zina loved Fruit roll-ups, swimming, and tetherball.

Fight frivolous litigation: Jin and Soo Chung, the dry cleaners in the crazy pants lawsuit, need your help.