This edition features stories on security and infrastructure progress in Baghdad, U.S. Soldiers conducting an airThis edition features stories on security and infrastructure progress in Baghdad, U.S. Soldiers conducting an air assault in Western Iraq, military patrols in Charikar revealing improvements in the region, U.S. troops partnering with Iraqi forces in Baghdad and a U.S. […]

Birmingham, Alabama’s mayor accepted more than $156,000 in cash and benefits from the head of a regional underwriting firm that reaped more than $6.7 million in fees from bond offerings and interest-rate swaps, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said.
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Candidate faces down his former pastor, but what took so long? — Boston Globe — …after Obama’s uncategorical repudiation yesterday of the man who presided at his wedding and the baptism of his daughters, voters and other political observers will inevitably wonder what took so long - and how Obama could have misjudged someone to […]

UK: Random Muslim stabs two random Orthodox Jews; no “faith hate” involved — Jihad Watch — Nothing to see here. Go back to sleep. “Man charged over Golders Green stabbings,” by Kevin Bradford for the Hendon Times.
Islamic Jihad: Sure, let’s have a truce, as long as we can keep on killing Israelis — Jihad Watch […]

Matt Sanchez went from the war in Iraq to the war here in South Florida. I had to take a second look, mostly because this isn’t far from where I live now.
Florida Falling
In Florida, in certain regions, the “value” of some homes have fallen as much as 50%. Last, week, I went house hunting […]