A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
In the News: (Registration may be required to read some stories)
White House Looked Past Alarms on Kerik “When former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani urged President Bush to make Bernard B. Kerik the next secretary of homeland security, White House aides knew Kerik as the take-charge top cop from Sept. 11, 2001. But it did not take them long to compile an extensive dossier of damaging information...” (READ MORE)
Politics Collide With Iraq Realities “There are two Iraq wars being waged, according to military officers on the ground and defense experts: the one fought in the streets of Baghdad, and the war as it is perceived in Washington.” (READ MORE)
U.S. Allowed N. Korea Arms Sale “The United States did not act to prevent a recent shipment of arms from North Korea to Ethiopia, even though sketchy intelligence indicated the delivery might violate a U.N. Security Council resolution restricting North Korean arms sales, Bush administration officials said yesterday.” (READ MORE)
Jerusalem hosts Easter rites “Worshippers filled Christianity's most revered church yesterday, lighting rows of candles, dripping hot wax on their faces and dancing in celebration of the Orthodox Easter "holy fire" ritual.” (READ MORE)
U.S. bombs Shi'ite militia near Baghdad “U.S. warplanes blasted a militia team firing rocket-propelled grenades yesterday, the second day of heavy fighting in a major offensive to drive Shi'ite Mahdi Army militiamen out of Diwaniyah, a farm-belt city south of Baghdad.” (READ MORE)
Funds spat threatens Crawford Peace House “With charges of money mismanagement, threats of court action and some members leaving, a group that has sponsored war protests in President Bush's adopted hometown has been anything but peaceful.” (READ MORE)
From the Front:
Afghanistan Jag: EASTER SERVICE "Today is Easter Sunday.We just got word that there was a village of thousands that was washed out by a flood. The priority for them is food, blankets, and essential clothing. We got a rush delivery of food and blankets last week. I was part of a group yesterday that reconned the area and formulated our distribution plan.The next step was to get the items separated and loaded onto trucks for delivery. That's the hard part." (READ MORE)
On the Web:
Kathryn Jean Lopez: Two sides to every Iraq story “A positive attitude can't win a war, but it helps. Instead, defeatism reigns supreme here at home.” (READ MORE)
Debra J. Saunders: Not the Flying Imams “Last month, the imams filed a lawsuit against US Airways, the airport and unnamed passengers who complained to airline personnel about the imams' behavior.” (READ MORE)
George Will: Is there anyone else up there? “This is the ‘Anyone else up there?’ phase of the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, which explains the political flavor du jour, Fred Thompson, the former senator from Tennessee. Conservatives are dissatisfied with the array of candidates. Of course, people usually want what they do not see, a candidate who is a combination of John Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln -- handsome, energetic and wise.” (READ MORE)
Frank Pastore: A Leftist Declaration of DE-pendence “Despite a 45-year monopoly on public education, the Left has been unable to persuade most Americans to abandon their belief in God and creation and replace it with a belief in atheism and evolution.” (READ MORE)
Doug Giles: How Wives Can Kill Their Marriage: The Final Straw “I think the world is coming to an end. I didn’t come to this conclusion simply because a lot of people actually read and like my column, but primarily because of the tons of positive emails I’m getting from former livid ladies confessing their remorse for their previous acts of husband hating.” (READ MORE)
William F. Buckley: Good news can be good “It's sad, the difficulty of saying anything about the Iraq venture that is other than apocalyptic. Sen. John McCain has problems, but focus on the recent event.” (READ MORE)
Patrick J. Buchanan: Magnanimous Mahmoud “The Easter pardon by Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the 15 British sailors and Marines, seized by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in waters off the Iraqi coast two weeks ago, ends the crisis.” (READ MORE)
Donald Lambro: Her aura of invincibility is fading fast “Sen. Hillary Clinton's declining support in the New Hampshire Democratic primary sent shock waves through her party last week, but one set of troubling numbers stood out over all the others.” (READ MORE)
WSJ Opinion Journal: The Democrats' Choice “Do they want to get something done, or just wage war on the president? Next week the Democrats will mark their 100th day running Congress, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi has declared herself ‘enormously proud’ of their record.” (READ MORE)
Dean Barnett: What ever happened to "Let's Roll" “What a strange and dismal trip it has been for the Western world, going from ‘Let’s Roll’ to ‘Fighting Back Was Not An Option’ in scarcely more than five years.” (READ MORE)
The Hatemongers Quarterly: W(h)ither Democracy? “Our friends on the political Left seem fond of imbuing certain words with talismanic power. ‘Multiculturalism,’ ‘diversity,’ ‘dialogue’--these and kindred phrases figure prominently in the rhetorical arsenal of our lefty pals. In fact, one probably can't attend college in the United States these days without hearing multiple paeans to ‘diversity’ and ‘dialogue.’ These locutions are simply inescapable.” (READ MORE)
Dan Riehl: Britain’s Great Military Tradition “If I wasn't convinced Britain was done for with the whole hostage debacle, I'm convinced it's gone now. Evidently nothing means anything anymore. World affairs are being reduced to entertainment TV fodder. File this under chapter 11 in the moral bankruptcy file. If Britain is a bellwether, the West is lost.” (READ MORE)
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