Obama’s first miracle

U.S. drone attacks on al Qaeda terrorists hiding in Pakistan are apparently no longer capable of killing innocent women and children.  Twenty killed, but no mention of even one innocent woman or child.
4:38 pm EST

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Sarah Palin Rumors: The List

Charles Martin at Explorations is keeping a running list of Palin Rumors being floated on the net and in the media.  If, like me, you’re having a hard time keeping track of them all, what’s true and what isn’t, check it out.  Some funny stuff.
12:59 am EST

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Newseum in D.C.

Via Subsunk at Blackfive, an opinion column by Ralph Peters in the New York Post.
TODAY [ed. - April 11, 2008], the Newseum – a 250,000-square-foot homage to journalism that cost $450 million to build – opens on Pennsylvania Avenue, midway between the White House and the Capitol.
What’s wrong with this picture?
Other than the (symbolic?) fact [...]

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Teflon Don is back in Iraq

Gordon Alanko, a/k/a Teflon Don, recently arrived back in Baghdad. This time he’s there as a photojournalist with credentials from Public Multimedia, Inc. rather than as part of an Army EOD team performing route clearance. Also read his thoughts on what he learned the last time he was there.
Bookmark his site. Check it [...]

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Bylines of Brutality

As Casualties Mount, Some Question The Emotional Stability of Media Vets
An Iowahawk Special Investigative Report
With Statistical Guidance from the New York Times
(via Instapundit)
2:32:00 pm EST

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A Purple Heart, a Distinguished Service Cross, and the Cold-Shoulder

On November 2nd, 2007, First Lt. Walter Bryan Jackson received the Distinguished Service Cross, “the second highest military decoration of the United States Army, awarded for extreme gallantry and risk of life in actual combat with an armed enemy force.” He’s only the seventh soldier to have received it since 1975 when the Vietnam War [...]

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What has made the difference?

What makes public support for today’s Iraq War different from the Vietnam War? Why has the anti-war “movement” been such a pathetic failure this time around? Because ordinary Americans are no longer stuck with nothing but nightly newscasters shoving their anti-American, anti-war, anti-military drivel down our throats, that’s why. The media and Hollywood no longer [...]

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Tonight at 8:00 PM on The History Channel

Band of Bloggers. The show features stories from deployed military bloggers, including live combat footage taken by the soldiers themselves. Here’s a video preview at The History Channel site of some combat video taken by J.D. Johannes from Outside the Wire. There are more excerpts of feature videos in the sidebar [...]

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Journalists in Iraq

I haven’t blogged about the firestorm that erupted when a reporter for the Sacramento Bee, Bobby Calvan, posted this regarding an encounter with a soldier in Iraq. (He has since apologized via a new post here.) With his typical wit, Greyhawk recounts a similar story from the soldier’s perspective, and offers helpful advice [...]

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What will happen now?

Now that there’s proof the surge is working what will we hear in news reports? The many stories of Iraqi civilians stepping up to the plate to help coalition soldiers rid their country of the potential violence? Stories about Shia and Sunni working together for reconciliation at the local level? Reconstruction and [...]

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