Not to flog Amnesty International’s dead horse forever, but it’s worth noticing today’s op-ed by Paul Litvinov , a former Soviet dissident, in the Washington Post:
Several days ago I received a telephone call from an old friend who is a longtime Amnesty International staffer. He asked me whether I, as a former Soviet “prisoner of [...]

The Hooker’s brother-in-arms‘* mom published a few of his recent pictures from Afghanistan last Sunday. Very cool. I mean, really, very cool.
UPDATE: * The pictures are indeed really, very, cool, but I’m a total chump. See Teresa’s comment below. Clarification added above.

National Review’s editors calls for patience on Iraq:
Just as it was a year ago, the despair about our prospects in Iraq is exaggerated. But now it is beginning to issue in congressional calls for a timetable for U.S. withdrawal. The insurgents should be delighted. Washington has always been a key center of gravity for the [...]

Under pressure from Capitol Hill to develop an exit strategy from the war in Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked America for patience as the United States tries to establish democracy in the Middle East. She stated that although U.S. presence in Iraq is vital to long-term national security, responsibility has already started shifting [...]

Here’s a T-shirt print for Cafe Press entrepreneurs: “Our women can kill your men“:
For the first time since World War II, a woman soldier was awarded the Silver Star Medal today in Iraq.
Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester of the 617th Military Police Company, a National Guard unit out of Richmond, Ky., received the Silver Star, along [...]

The American Forces Press Service reports today that Afghan and coalition forces captured 17 Taliban fighters yesterday.
The insurgents, now in coalition custody, had automatic rifles, Taliban-sponsored reading material and letters threatening Afghans not to cooperate with Afghan and coalition forces, according to CFCA officials.
“That the (insurgent forces) are forced to resort to threatening letters [...]

The pathetic episode of once-respected human rights watch dog Amnesty International’s attempt to smear American terrorist-detention camps as “Gulags” almost came to an end on Sunday, when the organization’s American spokesman William F. Schulz admitted that the detention facilities obviously aren’t Gulags. Said Schiulz on “Fox News Sunday”:
There’s no question. But what in size and [...]