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• Indefinite light blogging

• 2006.06.25 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup
  • Illegal Immigrants Targeted By States
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Some things worth knowing about that I didn't devote separate posts to:

• Baqubah: The Noose Tightens
  Michael Yon gives us another update from Operation Arrowhead Ripper, and he tells us the US and Iraqi forces have come close to liberating Baqubah. Yon also reports that the Iraqi Army has performed well in the operation, but that the Iraqi police leave a lot to be desired: ...

• Restoring the 1st Amendment
• SCOTUS rocks McCain-Feingold, protects faith-based initiatives, says schools can censor “Bong Hits 4 Jesus”; Update: Dry cleaner wins $54 million “pants” suit

Prince Charles fights global cooling
Last year, the Prince of Wales produced 3 million pounds of carbon dioxide, the Times of London reported. That is great news in the battle against global cooling. The news comes less than a week after Professor Timothy Patterson of Carleton University announced that global warming has ended and that a period of global cooling lies ahead. Wrote Patterson: ...

• Reality Check for the Antiwar Crowd
  LT Pete Hegseth: As an Iraq war veteran who participated in combat operations and political reconciliation efforts, I take issue with some of the arguments repeatedly being made on Capitol Hill. Most recently I was bothered by statements from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who cited three common antiwar arguments in his June 21 op-ed, " Lincoln's Example for Iraq," all of which run counter to realities on the ground in Iraq. ...

• Iwo Jima flag-raiser dies
  Michelle Malkin: Another hero of the Greatest Generation passes: Charles W. Lindberg, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 86. Lindberg died Sunday at Fairview Southdale hospital in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina, said John Pose, director of the Morris Nilsen Funeral Home in Richfield, which is handling Lindberg’s funeral. ...

• New York Times and Washington Post Give Voice to Terrorists
  Both the New York Times and the Washington Post published op/eds by a senior member of Hamas as if he were a legitimate government official when he's nothing more than a terrorist thug. Jewish groups, rightly, are furious: ...

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