Jennifer Youssef has an article in The Detriot News on efforts to help veterans enter or reenter the civilian labor market after years and sometimes decades of service in the Armed Forces. The degree of difficulty faced by veterans is the nature of the job market in their state, and Michigan has one of the [...]

Deuce Four, the unit covered so well by Michael Yon in Mosul has had its Redeployment Ball, in reality its breakup and farewell ceremony. Yon files an excellent report from the proceedings. (HT: Hugh Hewitt).

Former Marine tells wild tales about atrocities commited by U.S. Forces in Iraq. Former Marine becomes media hero. Eventually a journalist actually bothers to check the stories. Oops. Michelle Malkin has the dirt.

Michelle Malkin has an important post related to Cpl. Jeffrey B. Starr, who was recently profiled in New York Times as one of the more than 2,000 U.S. soldiers who have died in iraq. Cpl. Starr had left behind a note explainign his motivation for signing up for a third tour od duty in Iraq. [...]

president George W. Bush held a televised video conference with nine U.S. and one Iraqi soldier, and immediately the liberal media started griping about the even being highly scripted. Well, according to one of the soldiers who participated, it wasn’t:
Yesterday, I (bottom right corner in the picture) was chosen to be among a small group [...]

Thomas Kilgannon claims leftie opinionator Eleanor Clift called U.S. soldiers mercenaries on The McLaughlin Group. If true, Clift’s statement is remarkably stupid, in particular as she ties her argument to the “market rate” of attracting recruits. If America had had a mercenary army, employing whoever was willing to serve, then it could have paid [...]

When I first heard of the protesters outside of military hospital Walter Reed, I assumed they were protesting the hospital’s potential closure, or budget cut backs, or some such, but no, they are, in fact, protesting against the war. Wounded warrior Chuck Ziegenfuss is currently being treated at the hospital, and he has some thoughts [...]

It isn’t likely that American universities will ever again develop any particular appreciation for our war heroes, but I hope they can at least show some - what is that word left-wing professors like to drape themselves in? - ah, yes, tolerance. Will that happen? I’m not optimistic, even though this story on National Review’s [...]

A group of comedians led by Drew Carey arrived at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan today to entertain troops, after spending most of yesterday meeting and greeting the Air Force’s 379th Expeditionary Wing in Southwest Asia yesterday. Carey, along with Dave Mordal, Jimmy Shubert, Steve Byrne, and Pedro Hernandez are scheduled to perform at Methar, [...]

In case you’re still listening, Huffington Post blogger Cindy Sheehan is going back to Crawford, Texas to President Bush’s ranch, stating that “As long as the president, who sent him to die in a senseless war, is in Crawford, that is where I belong.” Cindy went to Crawford two and a half weeks ago to [...]