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Buy A Gun Day III Background & Schedule for Week For the third year, we’re turning the liberal holiday of forcible asset seizure into one of our own. It’s a little solace. Let's get out the word and encourage not-yet-owners to at least become better informed and owners to make an effort to recruit those who may be standing on the fence or to move from the opposition to the ranks of the uncertain. That the blogosphere enables us to coordinate the third Buy A Gun Day while I live in the shadow of the Hollywood sign only makes...

MYRIAM MARQUEZ: DON'T DISMISS CHANGES FOR IRAQI WOMEN Ever since Safia Taleb al-Suhail triumphantly lifted her purple finger at President Bush in Congress -- signaling women's right to vote in a new Iraq -- the critics have wagged a finger back purporting that nothing will change. Oh, really? Where else in the Middle East do women make up almost a third of the parliament? Because that's what happened in Iraq's elections. It includes 45 women among the 140 members of the Shiite party blessed by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, hardly known as a liberal. In all, 31 percent of the...

By Paul Greenberg Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Did you see the pictures from Beirut? How could anybody miss them? A tidal wave of mourners/demonstrators had turned out for the funeral of Rafik Hariri, who had been blown up -- along with various of his bodyguards -- after he started objecting to the Syrian occupation of his country. A billionaire who had helped rebuild Lebanon after its disastrous civil war, Rafik Hariri had served as its prime minister off and on for a decade, but he was a marked man as soon as he began objecting to Syria's occupation. Washington now has recalled...

On September 14, in the midst of the CBS/Rathergate scandal, Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone sold 341,500 shares of his options -- 1/3 of his shares. Insider info, anyone?

2:30 pm SPECIAL BULLETIN…. - HUGH-LANCHE! from Hugh Hewitt! 10:00 am SPECIAL BULLETIN….. INSTALANCHE! - Instapundit mentioned Buy A Gun Day. BAG Day is mainstream. Cool. What is Buy A Gun Day? A year ago, the I proudly launched my first big meme and for the first time joined both the NRA and the JPFO. Make April 15 Buy A Gun for (to Spite) Michael Moore Day Why? April 15 is a day of frustration and pain and liberal asset-seizing glee. I wanted to channel that energy, plus annoyance at Moore and his cronies, into something constructive. A good idea...

“I could go zoop! and Democrats would disappear.” Sounds kinda like something Kos would say is genocidal, no? “Disappear” is not quite the same as “change their minds”. Except the quote was: “I could go zoop! and Republicans would disappear.”

Grassroots blogger counter-holiday: Buy a Gun for (to spite) Michael Moore Day, April 15Pass it along to your favorite blogs and email friends. Definitely want/need Photoshop posters in the vein of Meryl Yourish's "Eat an animal for PETA day." Just think that there may be thousands more guns in the hands of responsible Second Amendment-loving citizens BECAUSE of Michael Moore!!!! Just imagine his nightmares that thousands more guns are purchased in reaction to him. My guess is that his actions may cause more guns in the hands of more Americans than he intended his movie to take away. No violence...

Buy A Gun For Michael Moore Day, April 15 Click and read all about it. Pass the link along to your favorite blogs and email pals.Definitely want/need Photoshop posters. In the vein of "Eat an animal for PETA day" from March 15. You WILL be amused. Get thousands more guns in the hands of responsible Second Amendment-loving citizens BECAUSE of Michael Moore!!!! Give him nightmares. What sweet revenge!

US TROOPS CAPTURE CHEMICAL PLANT Caroline Glick Mar. 24, 2003 US forces of the 3rd Infantry Division have captured a huge installation in southern Iraq apparently used to produce chemical weapons. A general was among 30 Iraqi soldiers who immediately surrendered to the soldiers on Sunday afternoon in the complex near Najaf, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) south of Baghdad. Asked about The Jerusalem Post's exclusive coverage of this development, US Lt. Gen. John Abizaid, Deputy Commander of Central Command, told reporters: "I'm not going to confirm that report, but we have one or two generals officers who are providing...