Rape Victim Found Guilty (7 links)
Seeing the Forest
This one is beyond belief. A judge decides that since he doesn't know who to believe he'll convict the woman for filing the charges in the first place.
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3 senior al-Qaeda leaders taken down (9 links)
Winds of Change.NET
I touched on the capture of Mustafa Setmariam Nasar (Abu Musab al-Suri) when it occurred, but now that it has been confirmed by both the US government and al-Qaeda itself, I thought it might be...
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Instapundit.com
MAJOR JOHN TAMMES, an Illinois National Guardsman recently returned from Afghanistan, responds to Rep. Murtha's "broken army" comments, and he's not happy: Unmitigated crap. And I don't say this out of defensiveness or serv
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Terrence goes shooting! (10 links)
Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey
Terrence had never shot a gun before (he's from Canada), so Wednesday night I took him shooting at Wade's Eastside Gun Range. I think he did relatively well for a first-timer: (He shot a much tighter grouping on his second...
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Reports: Senior Saudi Al-Qaida Member Sets Off Suicide Blast in Dagestan (7 links)
The Counterterrorism Blog
According to various reports from credible mujahideen sources, Abu Omar Mohammed bin Abdullah al-Saif (a.k.a. Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Saif al-Jaber)--a top tier Saudi Arabian Al-Qaida commander in Chechnya and personal military advisor to Shamil
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Plame Update (8 links)
Eschaton
According to CNN both Luskin and Viveca Novak will be testifying next week. At issue appears to be the fact that Fitzgerald "misinterpreted" (uhh) and thought that a conversation between Luskin and Novak actually happened between Rove and Novak.<
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Four days since the last new bloggingheads.tv episode! Withdrawal symptoms coming on. Can't...breathe...

Max Blumenthal: Dobson Meets With Bolton (7 links)
The Huffington Post
During the debate on John R. Bolton's nomination as US ambassador to the UN, I was a little dismayed about the lack of attention devoted to his long and troubling history of collaboration with Christian right interest groups to, for in

Get Real (7 links)
Vodkapundit - All the News That's Fit to Drink
Talk about "lost perspective" – now Matt Welch thinks friendly propaganda is as bad as weapons of mass destruction: There's...
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New Video: Peace Activists Threatened With Death (7 links)
The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta
According to Matt Drudge, Al Jazeera has broadcast a video which purportedly threatens the life of four Western peace activists in Iraq. The names of the four activists are American Thomas Fox, Canadians Harmeet Singh Sooden and James Loney, and...
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Jobs Bounce Back (7 links)
Power Line
The November jobs report came out this morning; 215,000 payroll jobs were added in November. This indicates that employment has...
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Bouncing back? (7 links)
Power Line
The latest Fox News poll shows that President Bush's approval rating has risen by 6 percentage points during the past...
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NYT: Viveca - Luskin Conversation Later Than We Thought (7 links)
TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime
The New York Times details Time reporter Viveca Novak's conversation with Robert Luskin, lawyer for

Friday Ark #63 (10 links)
Modulator
We'll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and....? We will

Four Years Ago Today (8 links)
JunkYardBlog
this blog got started. I started blogging to try and counter the already evident (in Dec 2001) anti-war and anti-American bias in the MSM, and to counter the already evident bias in the liberatarian-dominated blogosphere against anyone who claimed a
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A word from Richard Miniter (7 links)
Power Line
Richard Miniter is the prominent journalist and author, most recently, of Disinformation: 22 Media Myths that Undermine the War on...
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War and Piece
Broken yesterday by the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times has another major installment on the story that the Pentagon is paying the Lincoln Group tens of millions of dollars, and Iraqi journalists hundreds of dollars per month, to...
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QUICK LINKS (9 links)
Michelle Malkin
Got places to go, non-blog things to do, and kids' noses to wipe this afternoon. Meantime, here are some good reads:
- Who's behind the "Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools?" David Schaefer at
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THE END OF THE AFFAIR: Okay, so: There's this docu... (7 links)
EveTushnet.com
THE END OF THE AFFAIR: Okay, so: There's this document, see? And it's about what you gotta be to be a priest. (For example, apparently you can't be a lesbian. Who knew?) And there are these articles that people write, be
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Picturing Polls, <em>Red</em> vs. <em>Blue</em> (7 links)
Gateway Pundit
Poll Numbers put in PicturesHere are recent poll numbers put into picture form of President George W. Bush's
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New Ipsos Poll Puts Canada In Dead Heat (7 links)
Captain's Quarters
A new poll by AP-Ipsos, based on a survey done during the debate over the no-confidence motion, shows that the Liberals have dropped into a dead heat with the Conservatives on a national basis. This data has not received wide...
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Bush and Churchill’s Mid-War Speeches (9 links)
Jewish Current Issues
George W. Bush’s extraordinary “Strategy for Victory� speech yesterday was a direct response to the crisis of confidence created from a combination of adverse developments in the war, incessant political attacks from Democrats, and the nonsto

More on the CIA's War Against the P (7 links)
Power Line
Tom Joscelyn has an excellent piece on the CIA's campaign against the Bush administration in today's Standard: "Anatomy of a...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS, ACLU (7 links)
Michelle Malkin
Kevin McCullough is organizing a Christmas card campaign.]]>
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IT'S THE SCENERY, STUPID. A few days bac (10 links)
TAPPED
IT'S THE SCENERY, STUPID. A few days back, I wrote a post arguing that the 5,000 janitors SEIU unionized in...

He heard the news today, oh boy (7 links)
Power Line
In his Blogometer column yesterday, the National Journal's excellent William Beutler took note of John Fund's Political Diary item on...
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BELTWAY SLEAZE (7 links)
Michelle Malkin
It's everywhere.]]>
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KATRINA FOLLOW-UP: WHO BOMBED THE LEVEE? (7 links)
Michelle Malkin
Um, no one.
Sorry to disappoint the moonbats and Mother Ship riders, but the flooding of New Orleans wasn't a Republican conspiracy to kill black people. Via Paul at
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Thank you Congressman Murtha (7 links)
Two Babes and a Brain
Well, well, well...everyone send a big thank you out to Congressman Murtha for the President's speech. He is the reason the President has decided to become responsive to the American people. Congressman Murtha is the reason the President has de

A Great Speech (8 links)
Power Line
President Bush's speech at the Naval Academy today was a brilliant exposition of his strategy in Iraq and in the...
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The Good Economic News Keeps Coming (7 links)
Power Line
GDP grew at a remarkable 4.3% clip during the third quarter, despite hurricanes and high gas prices. Some economists reportedly...
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Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood]]> (7 links)
reasoned audacity at charmaineyoest.com
I'm sitting on the fountain at the base of the steps of the Supreme Court, waiting for the press conference at the conclusion of oral arguments in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood.
Kelly Ayotte is the Attorney General of New Hampshir
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Open Post (7 links)
Mudville Gazette

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Air Battle (7 links)
Vodkapundit - All the News That's Fit to Drink
The LA Times reports on the US propaganda effort in Iraq: As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the...
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Propaganda in a State of War (7 links)
The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta
Far too many people are unclear on the concept of propaganda. In their minds, propaganda is equated with intentional lies spread by governments. This is wrong. From Merriam-Webster we learn that propaganda is:2 : the spreading of ideas, information,
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MOVEON RETREATS (8 links)
Michelle Malkin
That clueless British camo ad has been pulled, reports CNSNews:
The liberal political group MoveOn.org has yanked a video ad fr
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Here's an appalling little exchange I heard on NPR this morning, where Senator Russ Feingold, everybody's favorite defender of free speech, exercises his own to question the legitimacy of the elected Iraqi government.

Feingold was thrillled to point out that Iraqi leaders meeting in Egypt at an Arab League summit called for a timetable for U.S. forces to withdraw from Iraq. Steve Inskeep of NPR, to his credit, pointed out that the position of the elected government of Iraq differs from that expressed at the summit, but Feingold would have none of it (RealAudio):

Inskeep: "We heard earlier this hour from the national security advisor in Iraq, who said Iraqi politicians said [that they wanted a timetable for withdrawal] but the government of Iraq essentially agrees with the Bush administration."

Feingold: That's right: the government of Iraq that was produced basically as a result of an American occupation as opposed to a general consensus from the country is not the test. The test is what the major interests in the country said. The major interests in the country, the political parties, hey, these are the people that are going to decide the future of the country. If you got the Sunnis, the Shiites, and the Kurds all agreeing that we need a timetable, who do you listen do? Do you listen to them, or do you listen to these folks that have a very shaky government that frankly was a result --- of course, of an election --- but also of an American invasion of the country... that is a very bad way to ignore the wishes of the Iraqi people."

Absolutely charming.

Another way of describing, as Feingold put it in disapproving tones, "a very shaky government that frankly was a result... of an American invasion of the country," would be "One of the first democratic governments in the history of the Middle East which over two thousand American soldiers have given their lives to establish, and which many more stand in harm's way every day to protect."

I think my formulation is more appropriate, and I'd like to wager Senator Feingold that the vast majority of the American soldiers he protests so much to support with demands for a withdrawal timetable would agree with me.

I'd also appreciate if someone on Senator Feingold's staff could explain to me the following:

a) If the good Senator truly means what he implies: that he does not accept the legitimacy of the elected Iraqi government.

b) Whether he believes that the foreign policy of the United States will be aided, or hindered, by casting such aspersions on the Iraqi government and de facto agreeing with the terrorists who, not incidentally, are also quite interested in undermining the credibility and legitimacy of the government in the eyes of Iraqis and the world

It is apparently not sufficient for Senator Feingold to focus exclusively on the failures which have undeniably occurred during the Iraq war. He now finds it necessary to also cast aspersions on the actual victories ---- i.e., the conduct of elections and the establishment of a democratically, if imperfectly, elected government.

One has to wonder what, exactly, would constitute "success" for the Senator --- other than, of course, the political humiliation of George W. Bush.

Hello? Mainsteam Media??? Are You Awake (8 links)
Wizbang
For reasons that escape me, the mainstream media has completely ignored the fact New Orleans was not flooded by a hurricane but by an act of negligence by the Federal Government. I've known this (and been posting about it) for...
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MoveOn.org Dresses British Soldiers To Look Like Americans (7 links)
Wizbang
James Taranto leads off yesterday's Best Of The Web with this e-mail from a captain in the U.S. Army. I just got back from my third deployment from Iraq on Friday, and I happened to be at the dentist and...
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"U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run (7 links)
protein wisdom
From the LA Times:As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
The articles, written
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CPL. JEFFREY STARR'S HONOR (7 links)
Michelle Malkin
The president delivered a very necessary speech at the Naval Academy defending the war in Iraq. He also paid tribute to Cpl. Jeffrey Starr, whose memory was butchered by the Ne
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President Outlines Strategy On Iraq (7 links)
Power Line
This morning, the White House released a document outlining the administration's strategy for victory in Iraq; it is accessible here....
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Embrace Our Zombie Dissident Overlords (7 links)
Eschaton
Via Catch, Joe Dante discusses his Showtime show:"T

HOLLERING BACK AT JANEANE GAROFALO (7 links)
Michelle Malkin
She. Is. Mad.
I think you will get a kick out of my latest,
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At the law schools (7 links)
Power Line
The folks at the New York Observer have sent us their editors' advance table of contents for the new issue....
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(7 links)
Instapundit.com
THE WHITE HOUSE has released its Iraq strategy document. I think it owes a bit of a debt to Steven Den Beste. But hey, you can't always rely on bloggers to explain the war plan....
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Moveon.org Continues to Cater to the Clu (8 links)
G e n e r a t i o n W h y ?
Moveon.org Continues to Cater to the Clueless
Moveon.org tries to exploit our brave men and women by producing a commercial about American soldiers stuck in Iraq over Thanksgiving.
Here's the video... and
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99.93% Don't Care (7 links)
Don Surber After Hours
When Rupert Murdoch speaks, would-be mediamoguls listen. His recent interview with the Brit journalism rag, Press Gazette contained this gem:"We now have one billion people - not with broadband, but access
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Rumsfeld and Pace (7 links)
The Washington Monthly
RUMSFELD AND PACE....Via Tim Dunlop, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post reports on a recent exchange between Donald Rumsfeld and General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The subject was torture:When UPI's Pam Hess asked about

The Joy of Conservatism: An Interview wi (7 links)
Right Reason


A few questions for Senator Reid (7 links)
Power Line
GOP.com has posted an excerpt from John Fund's subscription-only Political Diary: "Senator Sieve." Fund reports: Is Senator Harry Reid all...
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DON'T SUPPORT OUR TROOPS]]> (13 links)
Michelle Malkin
Lots of blog buzz over MoveOn.org's latest, noxious anti-war propaganda. First, check out the video here (in Quicktime).
Notice this?
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CALIF. QUAKE: ARNOLD TURNS TO THE DARK S (7 links)
Michelle Malkin
Been hearing rumblings all night about a controversial shake-up in Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office. Here's what Capitol Weekly is reporting:
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Down And Out In Mexico Part 1 (27 links)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
[Breakfast: 2 piña coladas and huevos rancheros] Hola from Mexico. So yes, I am in Mexico on holiday and am writing — not a usual occurrence. If I could be disciplined enough to go to a tanning salon before this trip (something I’ve never done...]]

Wenesday Politically Correct Linkfest Party (14 links)
Stuck On Stupid
Some of the most politically correct words of 2005: Deferred Success rather than Failure- so as not to embarrass those that do not succeed. Misguided Criminals:One of the Phrases used by the BBC instead of the word terrorists Womyn: For women to di

Hillary Takes A Stand (8 links)
Power Line
Hillary Clinton has been under considerable pressure to join antiwar Democrats in attacking the administration and bailing on the war...
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Business Proposition (8 links)
Popagandhi
This school, being a business school after all, supposedly encourages the entrepreneurial spirit. We think we’ve found a probable money spinner which they will be ambivalent about. You know how the Chinese like to b

Leaking At All Costs (7 links)
Power Line
My article in the Daily Standard this week is about the CIA's war on the Bush administration: "Leaking At All...
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BACK TO THE BORDER (7 links)
Michelle Malkin
So, President Bush is at the border this week paying lip service to new "immigration reform"--even as he pushes his same old, enforcement-undermini
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I Call Partial Mulligan... (7 links)
firedoglake
After quite a bit of late-night e-mailing with Jeralyn, and a subsequent good night's sleep (well, as good as it can get with an early-rising toddler in the house), I've decided that my theory on opening t
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Vietnamizing Iraq (7 links)
Power Line
The estimable editors of the New York Sun have a far higher threshold for pain than we do. They are...
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Lawyers High and Low (7 links)
Power Line
Low would be Ramsey Clark, the lunatic lefty who has trafficked for forty years on the fact that Lyndon Johnson,...
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What a mesh (8 links)
Power Line
I've spent the last few days reading Mary Mapes's Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of...
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