Sadly, Hugh Hewitt fought harder for Harriet Miers than he does for the embattled Danes:
The cartoons were in bad taste, an unnecessary affront to many of the 1.3 billion Muslims in the world, just as Joel Stein affronted the military, the families and friends of the military, and as Toles did the same to the [...]

They’re tolerant, too!

The New York Times reports that newspapers in The Netherlands, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland have published the cartoons that originally appeared in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten last year. The cartoons have set off a firestorm of protest in Muslim countries around the world and it is possible that a series of bomb attacks in [...]

A series of bombings of churches in Kurdish-dominated northern Iraq last Sunday may have been retaliatory attacks in response to the 12 anti-Islamist cartoons published in a newspaper in Denmark last year. Three people were killed and another nine wounded.
Several Muslim leaders in Iraq have denounced the attacks, including Shiite leaders Grand Ayatollah Sistani and [...]

President Bill Clinton today upbraided the Danes for not punishing a Danish newspaper for publishing a dozen cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohammed:

Former US president Bill Clinton warned of rising anti-Islamic prejudice, comparing it to historic anti-Semitism as he condemned the publishing of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper.
“So now what are we going [...]

Great pictures from 2005 snapped U.S. Army photographers.

Deuce Four, the unit covered so well by Michael Yon in Mosul has had its Redeployment Ball, in reality its breakup and farewell ceremony. Yon files an excellent report from the proceedings. (HT: Hugh Hewitt).

Kevin Sites tells the story of Captain Scott Walton of the 6th Civil Affairs Group from the 2nd Marine Division. Walton is a reservist who oversees investment projects in battle-scarred Fallujah. Sites follows Scott through the city, from one place in need of infrastructure investment to another.
[Walton] says the Marine Corps understands how important the [...]

Former Marine tells wild tales about atrocities commited by U.S. Forces in Iraq. Former Marine becomes media hero. Eventually a journalist actually bothers to check the stories. Oops. Michelle Malkin has the dirt.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade is using classi flytrapping techniques to engage and defeat Taliban units. Small numbers of American’s - sometimes with Afghan national Army troops tagging along -move into Taliban-held territory in an attempt to lure Taliban fighters out in the open. When the tactic works, the result is deadly - especially for the [...]