Chris At Home

• Brave Taliban lose up to 280 terrorists last week and their regional commander was captured.
  
  
• A Muslim majority expected in Russia by 2050. Sweden is not far behind. Demographics are a bitch.
  
  
• Gaza City a "battlefield" as Fatah and Hamas fight in the streets. Expert says peace possible between Palestinians and Israel "after the next war." Robert says the Palestinians have already lost; I say they are in the process of losing.
  
  
• Hezbollah denies they will defend Iran if Iran is attacked. Some think this is significant. Meahwhile, the FBI hunts Hezbollah terrorists in the US, finds cell in New York.
  
  
• CAIR is attacking Little Green Footballs for "incitement." Their evidence is 2 comments posted there.
  
  
• AJ says the Left needs to come to terms with a US victory in Iraq: "When a party opines for the days of Saddam’s rape rooms and mass graves instead of a US led experiment in Democracy, you know that party is dead to history and humanity." AJ misses the point; Democrats don't care about rape rooms and mass graves unless the US is at fault.
  
  
• Pseudo-Ranger does interviews, becomes hero to the Left by alleging war crimes by American soldiers. Shown to be a fraud. Again. "By any means possible," indeed. Update: more here and here, including confirmation by the military that Macbeth was neither Special Forces nor a Ranger and there are no records of him.
  
  
• Jihad Watch is pessimistic about the possibility of an Islamic reformation.
  
  
• There are allegations that Google News is purging conservative web sites due to anti-Islamist writing. Update: more sites dropped.
  
  
• US missile defense systems will be operational in Europe by 2011, protecting those who are against creating the system.
  
  
• Comparing and contrasting at Michelle's place.
  

Christopher Hitchens rips the Dutch government for their treatment of Ayaan Hirsi Ali:

Dutch courts have already required her to vacate her home as a result of her neighbors' petition to have her evicted, and she was on the verge of resigning her seat in the Dutch parliament and of requesting the right of residence in the United States. But this was not enough to satisfy her critics. A leftist news team in the Netherlands has broadcast an item about the way in which she had initially entered the country, and now the immigration minister has proposed stripping her of citizenship (and thus of her seat in parliament) as a result of the irregularities involved.

Update: China drilling for oil 50 miles off our coast because we can't. Chavez standing shoulder to shoulder with Iranians. Trouble in the Americas.