Centcom Post 10/23/07

RAIDS RESULT IN CAPTURE OF SUSPECTED AL QAEDA LEADERS

Posted: 22 Oct 2007 06:20 AM CDT

RAIDS RESULT IN CAPTURE OF SUSPECTED AL QAEDA LEADERS

TWO MILITANTS KILLED IN FIRE FIGHT WITH COALITION FORCES

Posted: 22 Oct 2007 06:13 AM

LIBERTY —(Houston Chronicle) To Jeremy Burris the word “liberty” was more than the name of his hometown. It was something worth fighting for.An all-American kid from a little all-American town, the 22-year-old Marine lance corporal died heroically in Iraq. More

Yeah, I saw some of it. I didn’t have a chance to go over the transcripts, yet, though. Just a few reactions from here:

I did tune in just in time to see Rudy steal?  a?  BitsBlog line

“I’ve been

Mark Steyn today:

Last Thursday, Nancy Pelosi, as is the fashion, used the phrase “the children” like some twitchy verbal tic, a kind of Democrat Tourette’s syndrome: “This is a discussion about America’s children … We could establish ourselves as

Captain Ed says: 

Louisiana elected its governor on the first ballot for the first time in recent memory, and the voters sent a message to the corrupt Democratic machine at the same time. Bobby Jindal, who narrowly lost a runoff

Observe with me the mainstream media fighting for its very life, in the form of a blog post at the CBS website by Matt Felling:

I’ve discussed in this space – though in the light and frothy context of inappropriate

I honestly don’t understand why I’m spending any amount of time on this story at all, except for the fact that Andrew Sullivan gets himself Bitch-slapped by Mike Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard:

Does Andrew Sullivan read stories before he

Mike Potenra, at The Corner:

Anti-Iraq War blogger Mark Shea is trying to drive a wedge between U.S. evangelicals and Israel, by posting a video on his website that he hopes will shock us into realizing that Israel is just

One of the people noticing the democrats problems with the FISA legislation is Michelle Malkin. She properly labels at the FISA obstruction legislation.  She says:

Question of the night comes from Paul Mirengoff at Power Line in the wake of

A thoughtful, caring post from RightWingDuck at IMAO today:

Ms. Rhodes was doing nothing wrong at the time except walking her dog. Many on the left are saying that this could not possibly be random. I agree, nothing is out

Steve Verdon over at OTB this morning links a Michael Canon piece at Cato:

Cannon argues that the number is overstated for the following reasons,

1. 20% of the uninsured are eligible for government health programs.
2. 75% of the uninsured can

Bit posted Lefty Fight Night earlier today. Well we already have the sequel. Matt Dudge is repoting the pending return of Don Imus. This is Dudge’s golden tidbit:

Imus is said to be particularly incensed by Senator Hillary Clinton’s “shameless

One of the best indications that there is problem in a particular subgroup in this country is when they start fighting amongst themselves.  That situation has long since started developing on the left.  Today’s evidence:

In this corner, the champion

Paul Krugman, New York Times, has an column up on anthropogenic global warming.    As usual, Krugman is less than rational.  But heck, it is the Times, the sane need not apply.

In Washington Monthly, Kevin Drumm, takes up

The Democrats and their supporters really don’t know which way to run anymore.  What they’ve been trying lately, has been working, so they’re going to try and break out the classics.  Witness Frank Rich over at the Democrat party house