A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
Crazy Politico writes Here's An Idea “I got my laugh this morning reading the Washington Post story "Painting a Rosy Budget Picture", which probably should have been on the opinion page based on it's tone, but was put in the politics section. The laugh came from Kent Conrad, Democrat from North Dakota, who complained that the budget numbers due this week area sham.” (READ MORE)
Allahpundit writes Video: Arizona 9/11 memorial designers wanted to commemorate hijackers “Why wouldn’t they? There are no enemies in their cosmology (except Bush). Violence itself is the enemy. Which means the hijackers are victims too. Oh, and we also sort of deserved it because of our ‘total support of Israel.’ And the Afghan civilians who were accidentally killed in a bombing run ten months later belong on the memorial because they’re all ‘part of the tragedy of war, terrorism, hatred, [and] mistrust of everyone else.’” (READ MORE)
Hugh Hewitt writes The National Academy of National Security Service “When the country needed professional soldiers to officer its Army, West Point was created in 1802. When it needed professional sailors to officer its ships, Annapolis came into being in 1845. The Air Force Academy followed, and there are Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies as well. When the national interest required a highly skilled cadre of lifetime professionals, the county established colleges where those skill sets could be learned, whether artillery, engineering, sailing or flying. At the same leadership and ethics were made part of the curriculum, and detailed profiles of the students were developed so that the needs of the various services could be matched with the graduating class.” (READ MORE)
Politics of a Patriot writes U.S.O. Week 3 “Today I did not feel like volunteering at the USO. I have something going on in my life seven days a week. I don't have time to volunteer at the USO. But I go, and I do, and it makes me feel so much better. It is worth it a million times over. Today, I had a new job. (Okay, every week I've done something different.) Today I was assigned to the front desk.” (READ MORE)
Raging Anura of Stop the ACLU writes Daily Kos: If All Else Fails, Civil War Is The Answer! “Remember the aftermath of the 2004 presidential election, when all those poor little Democrats and progressives were soooooo depressed because Bush was re-elected? Remember the websites that featured photos of lefties holding signs apologizing to the rest of the world for having lost? With the mid-term elections coming up in a few weeks, it seems some Dems are already starting to get the jitters about taking a whooping for the third time, but now they’re starting to quake in their tie-dye t-shirts even before the election has begun. So says Jim J, a blogger over at Daily Kos (yes, I know, it seems I always pick on those Kos kids, but hey, they really are one can shy of a twelve pack sometimes quite often):” (READ MORE)
Captain Ed writes A Brookings Review Of The Clinton Effort On North Korea “My earlier posts on North Korea has created a debate about when the Kim regime began its cheating on the 1994 Agreed Framework. This has taken up a large part of the comments thread on John McCain's guest post from yesterday. The Brookings Institution, hardly a apologist for conservatives, makes the timeline pretty clear in a review that has plenty of sympathy for the Clinton administration (emphases mine):” (READ MORE)
Greyhawk writes al Qaeda's 'Working Paper for a Media Invasion of America' “You probably haven't heard much about the efforts of the Global Islamic Media Front - al Qaeda's "public relations" team. The group is well known to those who monitor terrorist web sites, but rarely reported on by the mainstream media. (Although the group's recent release of a video game in which the player's goal is to kill President Bush did get some coverage in the Washington Post.) But another recent effort from the group won't likely be reported anywhere in the western media - at least not directly. Titled "Working Paper for a Media Invasion of America", the recently translated document was originally posted on a known jihaddist web site, but has received scant public attention from it's target audience.” (READ MORE)
Q and O writes The NoKo Blame Game shifts into high gear: Spin and reality “Apparently, as with just about every other issue that comes to the fore now, the Democrats and Republicans response to the North Korean bomb is to point fingers of blame at each other. John McCain, in a guest blog at Captain's Quarters (way to go Cap'n Ed) says: ‘I would remind Senator Hillary Clinton and other Democrats critical of Bush Administration policies that the framework agreement her husband’s administration negotiated was a failure. The Koreans received millions in energy assistance. They diverted millions in food assistance to their military. And what did they do? They secretly enriched uranium.’” (READ MORE)
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