News from Michael Yon via email:
Greetings:
I am back in Iraq, currently in South Baghdad on FOB Falcon with 1-4Cav. This battalion is doing so well with counterinsurgency that it has not been attacked a single time since 9 September 2007. Their area was one of the worst in all Iraq before they [...]

It has taken me until today to find that feel good story which I look for every week. This one has to rank up there among my favorites.
ENCINO, CA. - Operation Gratitude founder, Carolyn Blashek, and Director of Operations, Charlie Othold, traveled 9,000 miles to surprise an unknowing Soldier with the keys to [...]

If Senator Obama does not secure the Democratic nomination, perhaps he should become a campaign advisor whose forte is fundraising:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised $32 million in the single month of January, [Emphasis, mine] a whopping figure that has permitted the campaign to boost staff and extend advertising to states beyond [...]

Because the Republican race is down to McCain and Romney (in spite of Huckabee and Ron Paul still being in) I was particularly interested in watching Wednesday night’s debate from the Reagan Library.
My thoughts:
McCain seemed very self-confident to the point of my wanting to wipe the smirk off his face.
Romney challenged McCain directly about [...]

In viewing Wednesday evening’s debate I was struck by something which surprised me a bit. I found myself bored with much of the questioning, worse yet, many of the answers.
Mitt Romney, in a forum where there are no time limits, drones on to a point where his original thoughts many times disappear.
In [...]

Should this article be correct, John Edwards will depart the presidential race today:
DENVER (AP) - Democrat John Edwards is exiting the presidential race Wednesday, ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals while grappling with family hardship that roused voters’ sympathies but never diverted his campaign, The Associated Press [...]

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Mark Noonan:
Future generations will marvel, I think, over the amount of invective directed towards a center/right American politcian who bent over backwards - some times to the great dismay of his core supporters - to be kind to his opponents. President Bush is a man of first principles, but [...]

[Updated and bumped] Via the Jawa Report comes the following interview with Lt. Col. Gadson the gentleman mentioned in the article I cited below with reference to comments by Giants Coach, Tom Coughlin.

I can’t think of a better “good luck charm.”
[End Update]
It remains to be seen if the New York Giants can [...]

Mr. Strata praises the President.
I thank Mr. Strata for putting eloquently into words what so many of us feel:
America is blessed - very blessed. We have had an amazing leader who believes in the wisdom of ‘we the people’. Through 7 years of attack from within and without. from across the aisle and [...]

Will the imposed penalty for this:
January 29, 2008 — ALBANY - A sharp-eyed Civil War buff from Virginia was credited yesterday with blowing the whistle on a New York State Library archivist who was busted for stealing hundreds of important historical documents - and selling them on eBay.
Joseph Romito spotted an original, four-page letter [...]

Imagine the patience and talent it requires to work with one sheet of paper and produce a work of art such as the one below.
Peter Callesen is obviously a man who has the ability to do so.

If you visit his site, please check out the links in the left sidebar. The completed works you [...]

Democrats around the country are all in a tizzy trying to decide whether Bill is hurting or helping Hill.
Democrats inside and outside the Clinton campaign on Sunday debated and in some cases bemoaned the degree to which former President Bill Clinton’s criticism of Senator Barack Obama last week had inflicted lasting damage on his wife’s [...]

Twenty two years ago today America watched as Challenger lifted off.
Take a moment today to remember those who perished following their dream.

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With both parties in close races to see who the eventual winners of their nominations for president will be, I thought it was time to ask the questions others have but don’t seem to be asking publicly.
Are we as a nation ready to elect a charasmatic black man as president, or will hidden prejudices play [...]

Updated: Results are in.
Those interested in following the results of today’s South Carolina Primary may want to check out this site.
They will begin posting results after the polls close this evening and generally do a decent job of updating the tally.
This was a huge win for Barack Obama. With 99% of the precincts [...]

I have great admiration for the former First Lady.
Mrs. Bush has always handled herself with grace and it was always obvious that family was extremely important to her.
It seems as though little has changed in reading the exchanges in this interview:
On the difference between being wife of President George H.W. Bush [...]

After all these years of being told “Bush lied. People died.” over and over again we see a CBS 60 Minutes excerpt of an interview with Saddam’s handler while in custody.
The question has always been that if Saddam had no WMD why did he persist in allowing everyone to believe he did, even to the [...]

Shame on any city in this country who would not allow our Military to film a recruiting ad in their midst.
Via Gateway Pundit:
Here is the latest US Marine recruiting ad.
San Francisco officials refused to allow the US Marines to film in their city for this ad.

What a stunning tour of our beautiful country incorporated with [...]

“Men of Valor: Part VI of VII” has been posted at Michael Yon’s site. If you have been following this series don’t miss this latest dispatch.
From the cities to the deserts, the malarial jungles to stiff-frozen lakes, from counterinsurgencies to head-on battles in cragged mountains, it takes years to make a good infantry soldier. [...]

The administration and Congress have reached a tentative deal on the tax rebate and business tax cut package.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats running Congress and the Bush administration reached a tentative deal Thursday on $300-$1,200 tax rebates and business tax cuts to jolt the slumping economy.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed to drop increases in food [...]

This weeks choice to showcase the arts is no other than Gene Kelly.
He had an effortless mastery of the art of dance which will be showcased for generations to come.
Singin’ In The Rain

Well, knock me over with a feather. A liberal radio show host takes on Bill Clinton.
All those on the Right who are contemplating staying home in November because the GOP nominee does not meet your standards should take heed in this post from Sister Toldjah.
She sure got me to thinking.
I’m a daily reader of [...]

Amazing color photography from the Great Depression and World War II.
For history buffs, this is a bonanza.
These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created [...]

In an emergency action to stave off a feared recession the Fed has cut interest rates by 3/4 of a point, the largest one-time cut in recent memory.
Markets have been going down all over the world over recession worries and now the Fed has taken action.
The Fed said it was cutting the federal funds rate, [...]

Who knew? Body heat could be the answer to our energy woes.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — A Swedish company plans to harness the body heat generated by thousands of commuters scrambling to catch their trains at Stockholm’s main railway station and use it for heating a nearby office building.
Real estate firm Jernhusen AB believes [...]

Barack Obama: “I can’t tell who I’m running against sometimes.”
The gloves are off.

If Obama must defend his campaign on two fronts, then it is only fair to make the former first couple understand he will not take it lying down. If you listen to the crowd reaction, I think there are [...]

In todays email from Michael Yon:
Greetings:
I am preparing to head back to Iraq at the end of this week.
We’ve added a lot of new material to the site in the past week, including updates on units I’ve embedded with and stories published during 2007, and links to news items, like a profile [...]

You know how we feel about polls here. They’re just a snapshot of a period in time. Even though Rasmussen has a great record his poll is also just a snapshot in time.
In polls taken recently these are his conclusions:
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that, if the Congressional Election were [...]

Get the munchies ready.
The New York Giants and New England Patriots are heading to the Super Bowl.

Vs. [...]