A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
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Bernanke coaxes market rebound “Stocks rallied moderately yesterday, helped by assurances from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke that the economy remains solid and could strengthen later this year despite a warning from his predecessor about the possibility of recession.” (READ MORE)
McCain rejects CPAC invite “Sen. John McCain is the only major Republican presidential candidate who will not address the nation's premier gathering of conservatives this year.” (READ MORE)
N. Korea, U.S. talks 'just a first step' “The State Department yesterday ruled out "immediate results" from U.S.-North Korea talks on establishing full diplomatic relations, which officials said will take place on Monday and Tuesday in New York.” (READ MORE)
Secrecy could kill immigration reform “Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's secret work on an immigration bill threatens the chance of passing any guest-worker program this year, warned Sen. Arlen Specter, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee.” (READ MORE)
Man shot by agents stashed drugs after he got immunity “A Mexican national who was shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents after abandoning 743 pounds of marijuana on the Texas border brought a second drug load into the United States while waiting to testify under a grant of immunity against the now-imprisoned agent.” (READ MORE)
Hospital Officials Knew of Neglect “Top officials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, including the Army's surgeon general, have heard complaints about outpatient neglect from family members, veterans groups and members of Congress for more than three years.” (READ MORE)
McCain Says He'll Seek Presidency, Plans to Make It Official in April “Sen. John McCain of Arizona declared last night that he will join the 2008 race for the White House and will formally announce his candidacy in April.” (READ MORE)
Soldiers Shift to Baghdad Outposts “American soldiers are leaving their sprawling fortress-cities and establishing many small outposts in the capital's most violent neighborhoods in a major tactical shift under the two-week-old Baghdad security plan.” (READ MORE)
New Doubts On Nuclear Efforts by North Korea “The Bush administration is backing away from its long-held assertions that North Korea has an active clandestine program to enrich uranium, leading some experts to believe that the original U.S. intelligence that started the crisis over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions may have been flawed.” (READ MORE)
On the Web:
Cal Thomas: Lies and Damn Lies “In the words of Hollywood mogul David Geffen, ‘Everybody in politics lies’ But when some politicians tell lies that damage a person's character in the eyes of voters and ultimately lead to his defeat, those are damnable lies that need to be corrected.” (READ MORE)
Thomas Sowell: High Court and Low Politics: Part III “While there is a tendency to label judges ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’ -- and the labels may fit, even if somewhat loosely -- the real puzzle are judges who start out one way and move the other way over time.” (READ MORE)
Donald Lambro: An ugly turn on the road to the White House “Things are not turning out the way Democrats had hoped last November when they took control of Congress, promising to change the way things are done in Washington.” (READ MORE)
William Rusher: The Democrats take over the war “It is said that if enough monkeys were set to work poking randomly at enough typewriter keys, one of them, on the sheer law of averages, would sooner or later write ‘Hamlet.’” (READ MORE)
Michael Fumento: The Demos’ Dangerous Special Operations Plan “It was one bullet point, just two sentences in the Democrats' 31-page ‘New Direction for America’ document released last June: In order to ‘Defeat terrorists and stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction, we will . . . . Double the size of our Special Forces.’” (READ MORE)
Dick Morris and Eileen McGann: McCain's Campaign Collapses “The John McCain candidacy, launched amid much hope, fanfare, and high expectations, may be dying before our eyes. Even worse, it may go out with a whimper instead of a bang.” (READ MORE)
Iraq War Today: Meet March's Hero of the Month! “Sharon helped her son Da'Shawn write this email to nominate his Dad: ‘Hi my name is Da'Shawn I am 9 years old. Me and mommy and my brothers came across this web site,and I want to nominate my daddy,Tyrone J. C------- as Hero of the month. Our daddy is the best dad in the whole wide world, He is in Iraq and He works hard but still makes alot of time to keep in touch with us to let us no he is safe.’” (READ MORE)
Ian: (Video) H&C, Powers, Taranto on liberals hoping for Cheney’s death “Opinion Journal’s James Taranto and Democratic strategist Kirsten Powers joined Hannity & Colmes to discuss the vitriolic messages praying hoping for the death of Vice President Cheney made on the liberal HuffingtonPost.com. Should the Secret Service investigate these pathetic people like they did when Clinton was President? Hannity and Taranto get into it.” (READ MORE)
Kim Priestap: Glenn Beck: Mexico Should Compensate US for Cost of Illegals “This is a good idea actually. If the Mexican government is going out of its way to make sure their citizens successfully sneak into this country illegally, then it should foot the bill for these folks when their caught and incarcerated. Glenn Beck discussed his idea on his show last night. Here's the transcript:” (READ MORE)
Jay Tea: How can we miss them if they won't go away? “One of the hallmarks of Hillary Clinton's campaign for coronation the presidency has been her demands that she not be held accountable for any of the misdeeds of her husband's tenure, while reaping the benefits that might be derived from the good parts. And for some reason, a lot of people seem willing to indulge her.” (READ MORE)
Robert Mayer: Free Kareem! And The Rest? “The organized campaign to see Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer, who was jailed this month for insulting Islam and the government, is quite a thing to behold. Between FreeKareem.org, online petitions, blog posts, and articles in huge publications like the Washington Post, rarely has there been such an interest in the blogosphere as a whole on one human rights issue involving one person in a country so far away.” (READ MORE)
Baron Bodissey: All Her Dreams Will Warm and Sweeter Be “There will be no leniency for the murderers of Ghazala Khan. The Danish Supreme Court has upheld the verdicts — and then some — on her murderers.” (READ MORE)
The Anchoress: But don’t call her a 'fringe liberal' “Joy Behar can declare that the Bush administration are 'liars and murderers,' but don’t call her a 'fringe liberal,' because 'that’s like name calling.'” (READ MORE)
Don Surber: Rooting for a vice president's death is evil “The assassination attempt on Vice President Dick Cheney in Afghanistan drew praise from a few members of the antiwar left. Have these people lost their minds? At the popular Huffington Post Web site, dozens of comments were posted. Right-wing columnist Michelle Malkin captured them and posted them at her Web site.” (READ MORE)
Right Wing Nut House: The Words None Dare Say: Lakoff is an Idiot “It’s one thing for an hysteric like Seymour Hersh to go off the deep and and talk about the real possibility that we would use nuclear weapons to destroy Iranian nuclear research and development sites. We expect such stupidity from the man who accused the American government of deliberately testing the Soviet Union’s air defenses by sending a passenger plane into Russian air space only to have it shot down much to our propaganda advantage.” (READ MORE)
Bill Roggio: Pressuring Pakistan “The U.S. confronts Pakistan on the Taliban and al-Qaeda camps - The Pakistani government can no longer hide the the Taliban and al-Qaeda safe havens in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the border with Afghanistan.” (READ MORE)
Flopping Aces: Jamil Hussein Is On The Move “The spirit of Jamil Hussein has arisen once more from Iraq with the report yesterday that more then a dozen children were killed in Ramadi: ‘A bomb attack near a soccer field in the volatile Iraqi city of Ramadi on Tuesday killed or wounded 19 people, most of them children, police said.’” (READ MORE)
Euphoric Reality: Answering the Call of Our Fallen “Decades ago, we expected total victory against the Germans and the Japanese. We demanded it, for we knew what anything less would bring to our homeland–and yes, it was our homeland, regardless of our place of birth. We were united, together in the absolute, unshakeable belief that freedom was worth blood, even our own lives.” (READ MORE)
Dan Riehl: Dems Play More Politics With Soldier's Lives “Caught between the anti-war Left and their more responsible elements, the Democrats are taking their cut and run strategy to a new low by attempting to carve out what amounts to nothing more than a political move at a time when our country is at war. Even the New York Times is forced to acknowledge the purely political move. But they fail to point out the larger ramifications.” (READ MORE)
Robert Connolly: The Kid is Alright! “A few weeks back, we took a swing at helping out the soldiers of the 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division. They have been in Eastern Afghanistan for the past 12 months taking care of business in that very rugged territory. At the last minute, their tour was extended until June. They are professionals, so when the word came to turn around and head back, they did it.” (READ MORE)
John Hawkins: Kent State University: Paying A Professor To Promote Jihad “Not only should this professor at Kent State be fired, he should be put on trial for treason and executed if he's convicted (and if the blog referenced is his, he deserves to be convicted):” (READ MORE)
Captain Ed: Democrats Have To Double Down On Dollar Bill “Normally, committee assignments get approved by voice vote with no opposition. The political parties have plenty of incentives to allow themselves to police their own, and confrontation will breed more confrontation later. However, the Republicans have decided to risk it in order to force individual Democrats in the House to cast a vote approving the assignment of William Jefferson to the Homeland Security Committee, despite an ongoing corruption probe:” (READ MORE)
Blackfive: Us Paratroopers - WWII to the War on Terror “Entry found in the diary of a German officer killed at Anzio about the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment: ‘American parachutists -- devils in baggy pants -- are less than 100 meters from my outpost line. I can't sleep at night; they pop up from nowhere and we never know when or how they will strike next. Seems like the black-hearted devils are everywhere...’ And, via SapperMike at US Paratroopers.org, comes a voice intercept in Iraq is given by the battalion commander, "BlueDevil6", of the 3-504th PIR as it's colors were cased last May to become the 1-508th PIR:” (READ MORE)
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