December 4, 2006

Web Reconnaissance for 12/04/2006

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.



In the News: (Registration may be required to read some stories)
Hadley calls leaked memo 'constructive' “President Bush's national security adviser said a leaked memo from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, which lists redeployment of U.S. forces in Iraq as a potential alternative to current administration strategy, was ‘constructive’ but not a formal proposal.” (READ MORE)

Chavez defeats foe in landslide “A barrage of fireworks rattled windows last night in this expectant city as election officials announced that President Hugo Chavez, the oil-funded socialist revolutionary who has vilified the Bush administration, won a landslide victory...” (READ MORE)

Hillary networks to get likely '08 bid up and running “Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton met yesterday with New York's Democratic governor-elect to solicit his support for her likely White House bid, the latest indication she is stepping up plans to join a growing field of potential contenders for 2008.” (READ MORE)

Congress open to passing bill on immigration “Congress will approve an immigration bill that will grant citizenship rights to most of the 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in the U.S. after Democrats take control next month, predict both sides on Capitol Hill.” (READ MORE)

Episcopal Churches To Vote on Departure “Two of the country's largest and most historic Episcopal congregations -- both in Fairfax County -- will vote next week on whether to leave the U.S. church on ideological grounds and affiliate instead with a controversial Nigerian archbishop.” (READ MORE)

Democrats Who Opposed War Move Into Key Positions “New Committee Chairmen Had Warned of Postwar Disorder” (READ MORE)

Bayh Considers Presidential Bid “Indiana Senator Forms Exploratory Committee for 2008 Run” (READ MORE)

Iraq and the Danger of Psychological Entrapment “As Robert M. Gates appears this week at his Senate confirmation hearings for defense secretary, Wesleyan University psychologist Scott Plous sees a hidden trap.” (READ MORE)


News From the Front:
Pakistan promotes Taliban's approval “Senior Pakistani officials are urging NATO countries to accept the Taliban and negotiate a series of regional peace agreements similar to those that Pakistan has reached in tribal areas along its border with Afghanistan.” (READ MORE)

Omar of Iraq the Model writes Renouncing a myth, or ignoring a fact? “It's really odd that the arrest of "Baghdad Sniper" didn't get any mention in the news. Of course except for here on Pajamas Media when we reported it two days ago. And two days ago it was understandable since the only source available back then had been a short report aired on Radio Sawa Wednesday afternoon. Next day, that's yesterday morning, the two major newspapers in Iraq had the news on their first pages, yet the story didn't spread to the MSM!” (READ MORE)

Greyhawk writes More from Basra “The latest news from Iraq's second largest city, via email from Haider Ajina: Greetings, The following is my translation of a headline and article, which appeared in Iraq's ‘Alsabah’ & ‘Aswat Al-Iraq’ of November 30th. ‘Basra’s Sunni religious leaders issue a Fatwa banning killing Shiites or belonging to extremist or terrorist groups.’” (READ MORE)


On the Web:
Jules Crittenden writes At Last ... “Someone is saying it. If we want to win in Iraq, we need more troops, not less. The Wall Street Journal reports on a resurgent view among senior military officers:” (READ MORE)

The Online Chaplain writes He Done all He Could “If you ever get a chance to travel in Arizona I hope you will visit Tombstone. In one of the most unlikely spots, in Tombstone AZ, on Boot Hill you will find a great definition of Christian faithfulness, or any other kind for that matter.” (READ MORE)

Harry R. Jackson, Jr. writing at Townhall.com writes Revolutionaries Needed! Will You Sign Up? “The unanswered question from November 2006 is: 'What should Bible believing Christians do about the last election?'” (READ MORE)

Thomas Sowell writing at Townhall.com writes Flickering signs “Despite years of getting a steady diet of ‘non-judgmental’ attitudes from our educational system and the media, we have not yet lost all sense of right and wrong.” (READ MORE)

Robert D. Novak writing at Townhall.com writes Bush's Iraq dilemma “As a creature of Congress (an institution that Bush dislikes), Baker's group spells trouble for Bush when it releases its report Wednesday.” (READ MORE)

Michael Barone writing at Townhall.com writes Sticking to his guns “While George W. Bush's many critics and detractors portray him as facing the same dilemma as Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam, Bush himself seems determined to proceed the way Harry Truman did in Korea -- or, as some might put it, as Winston Churchill did after Dunkirk.” (READ MORE)

Jeff Jacoby writing at Townhall.com writes Fighting to win in Iraq “If Bush the Elder is remembered for a rather heartless and cynical foreign policy, then much of the credit must go to Baker. And what Baker did for the father, he is now poised to do for the son.” (READ MORE)

Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr, MD writing at Townhall.com writes The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness “Like all other human beings, the modern liberal reveals his true character, including his madness, in what he values and devalues, in what he articulates with passion.” (READ MORE)

Mike S. Adams writing at Townhall.com writes A Letter in Support of Keith Ellison “I am seldom embarrassed to be a Republican. But recent Republican efforts to keep newly elected Democrat Representative Keith Ellison from taking his oath of office on the Koran are indeed embarrassing.” (READ MORE)

Victor Davis Hanson writes War Stories-Two versions of what we should do next. “Five years after September 11, and three-and-a-half years after toppling Saddam Hussein, the U.S. is almost as angry at itself as it is at the enemy. Two quite antithetical views of the war on terror — and indeed, the entire American role in the Middle East — are now crystallizing.” (READ MORE)

Allahpundit writes Jamilgate: NYT circles the wagons for the AP “An attack on one is an attack on all: ‘It is important to find out if this really happened in order to separate the hyperbole from the merely horrible in Iraq, so that the horrible will still have meaning. Otherwise it will all become din.’” (READ MORE)

Captain Ed writes Momentum For More Troops Building “Over the last few weeks, a momentum appears to have built for the deployment of more troops to Iraq within the White House, rather than beginning a withdrawal from the country and its efforts to provide security for itself. The departure of Donald Rumsfeld and the nomination of Robert Gates, a member of the Iraq Study Group that is expected to recommend a slow retreat, supposedly signaled an exit for George Bush. Instead, as the Wall Street Journal reports, it may have freed him to try one big push to secure Baghdad:” (READ MORE)

Michelle Malkin writes The alleged war atrocity that the NYTimes can't substantiate “The controversy over the Associated Press' coverage of the alleged burning of six burning Sunnis in Hurriya, Iraq last month continues--even if most of the media refuses to confront it. This morning, the New York Times' Tom Zeller--one of the few on the case--follows up his blog coverage with an article that calls for separating ‘hyperbole from horror.’” (READ MORE)

Cassandra writes If Only The President Had Explained The War “In all the time I've been writing - three years now - the single thing that infuriates me most, and in my opinion the most unfair hit against George W. Bush, is the charge that he has failed to explain the war to the American people.” (READ MORE)

The Belmont Club writes Blogs “The ‘Captain Jamil Hussein’ problem, an incident in which the Associated Press appears to have used a fake policeman as a source for an extended period of time, raises the generic problem of how to verify news stories generated by a field correspondent. The problem is not confined to the MSM. Bloggers are increasingly bombarded with tips and reports from individuals they may have corresponded with, but whom they have never met, and whose information may be questionable.” (READ MORE)

Sgt B writes First Drill… “And thus it was that I found myself clad in the woodland camouflage Battle Dress Utilities of the United States Army, having driven to the drill hall with the Mad Irishman, checked into a hotel (no, gentle reader, THIS old warhorse doesn’t do cots and sleeping bags iff’n he don’t have to!), changed, and now stood in the administrative office of my unit.” (READ MORE)

Dan Riehl writes Siege: From Vienna To Beirut “ Many blogs seem to be ignoring developments in Lebanon. I think we tend to get excited about exciting news and not the long slow process of what appears to be playing out in Beirut. But history suggests it shouldn't be ignored. It may be impossible to comprehend the significance of today's event in Lebanon without a walk back through history. We seem to be experiencing the modern day equivalent of a siege.” (READ MORE)


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