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This Edition features Iraqi Security Forces who are committed to protecting Citizens, Army Nurses in Baghdad and Soldiers in search of Weapons.

GOP also caucusing on Saturday You might not know it, but there's also a Republican caucus in Nevada on Saturday. While the Democratic candidates have been showering attention on the Silver State in order to sway voters in preparation for their Saturday event, Republican hopefuls have been largely absent, preferring to campaign in Michigan and South Carolina. Thus the GOP caucus here hasn't garnered nearly the attention of the Democratic one. As it stands now, there is no clear Republican front-runner nationally. Mike Huckabee won Iowa, John McCain took New Hampshire and Mitt Romney picked up Michigan. The race in...

Press Conference Update – BG Jim Yarbrough Iraqi Security Update. Stryker Operation – Strykers work toward security in Baghdad. 5/7 Cav – Soldiers remain focused on fight. The “Raid Report” – Daily update on Iraqi and Coalition security progress. Weather News Desk – Headlines from around the region. Iraqis celebrated the re-opening of the famous Abu Nawas street. The Bush administration is focusing its efforts on achieving several more limited, but achievable political goals. And finally, the Iraqi National Orchestra, composed of Shia, Sunni and Kurds, continues to play despite kidnapping and death threats from extremists. Courthouse – Opening a...

Air Power Update – Air Component Commander talks about Air Power contributions to the War on Terrorism. Runway Reconstruction – Navy Seabees work on a crucial air strip at al Taqadum. Air Strike Kills Insurgents – Apache helicopter takes out terrorists. The “Raid Report” – Daily update on Iraqi and Coalition security progress. Weather News Desk – Headlines from around the region The American Ambassador to Iraq expects to meet his Iranian counterpart in Baghdad in the coming weeks to discuss the situation in Iraq, the Government of Iraq announced more than 3,000 families have returned to their homes in...

Reduction in Violence • Massive Weapons Cache Watch Now Reduction in Violence – LTG Ray Odierno highlights reduced overall levels of violence directly attributable to Surge operations. Balad Aerial Port – Airmen at the busiest DoD Aerial Port supply missions in Iraq. Massive Weapons Cache - Soldiers uncover a huge weapons cache containing 124 fully assembled EFP’s. The “Raid Report” – Daily update on Iraqi and Coalition security progress. News Desk – Headlines from around the region. Provincial Reconstruction Teams – PRTs work with Iraqi leaders to better direct rebuilding efforts. Task Force Vigilant – Members of Task Force Vigilant...

<p>It only took the nation's most prominent business newspaper a decade and a half to figure it out, but the Job Market's Strength May Have Been Overstated.</p> <p>That was the headline the other day in The Wall Street Journal, which considers itself the nation's pre-eminent financial newspaper.</p>

Can smaller be better? As the AJC shrinks, it promises to upgradeFirst they took Furman Bisher out of Valdosta. Then the Atlanta Journal-Constitution dropped weekly news sections for Cherokee, DeKalb, Fayette, Clayton and Henry counties. Now, the city’s literati are up in arms over the newspaper’s plan to cut a book editor’s job. “Perhaps you are planning to hire a video game reviewer to speed the decline of America,” wrote Ellen Lewis, one of more than 2,400 people who signed an online petition organized by the National Book Critics Circle. “Please reconsider the book review position. The great Atlanta tradition,...

WSJ: The We’re Schizophrenic Journal The Wall Street Journal has a reputation for being conservative (at least on economic issues) and Republican. It’s true that the editorial department consistently takes pro-business, country club Republican positions. But the news department is a different story. It’s filled with journalists who went to the same lefty journalism schools as their peers at the New York Times and the Washington Post. Witness these different takes on Barack Obama’s record in the Illinois legislature. An editorial from the editorial department: http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110009664 -------------------------------- Obama downplayed his thin federal experience while championing his record on the state...

NEW YORK Managing Editor Paul Steiger of The Wall Street Journal and Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. of The Washington Post were both asked to be part of last weekend's unique joint Op-Ed piece by the editors of The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, which defended the publication of stories about the secret SWIFT bank monitoring program, E&P has learned. But each declined. "We had talked about doing something together," Steiger said. "But when I looked at it and thought about it, our position was so different from theirs -- that nobody asked us not to publish [our...

I am looking for recommendations for interesting and well written conservative publications. Not ones that regurgitate each other but new cutting edge thinking. I need to spice up my bedtime reading.

The poll, conducted by the Wall Street Journal, is the latest to indicate a slump in public support for the US leader as his Republican party heads into the campaign for mid-term elections in November. In the poll, released in the newspaper's online edition, Bush has lost six percentage points in a month. Iraq remains the main concern. Twenty-eight percent of Americans say it is one of the two most important topics, up from 23 percent in April, followed by IMMIGRATION (16 percent) and the price of petrol (gasoline) (14 percent). Only 24 percent of the 1,003 people asked between...

AP Dow Jones Shares Decline After Downgrade Wednesday April 5, 4:52 pm ET Dow Jones Shares Drop 3.2 Percent After Analyst Reduces Rating on Stock to 'Sell' NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, fell more than 3 percent Wednesday after an analyst reduced her rating on the stock to "sell," citing a high price for the shares and the likelihood that ad revenue growth could be slowing. Dow Jones shares fell $1.26, or 3.2 percent, to close at $37.85 on the the New York Stock Exchange. However, even with the...

Science Journal: Caveman crooners may have aided early human life Friday, March 31, 2006 By Sharon Begley, The Wall Street Journal In Steven Mithen's imagination, the small band of Neanderthals gathered 50,000 years ago around the caves of Le Moustier, in what is now the Dordogne region of France, were butchering carcasses, scraping skins, shaping ax heads -- and singing. One of the fur-clad men started it, a rhythmic sound with rising and falling pitch, and others picked it up, indicating their willingness to cooperate both in the moment and in the future, when the group would have to hunt...

MAXWELL-GUNTER AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. (AFPN) -- When Algerian-born Remy Mauduit, editor of the new French edition of the Air and Space Power Journal, sees terrorism and insurgency taking place in Iraq, he recalls a time when he, too, was an insurgent. Life was not good for Algerian citizens in the early 1950s. After French colonization, native Algerians were prisoners in their own country. "We were second-class citizens," Mr. Mauduit said. "The French had all the highest positions, all the land, basically everything. We (Algerians) could never get anywhere, regardless of our education." Tired of the occupation, a group of...

FINALLY, LAURA HAS A WAY TO GET TO THE STUDIO ON TIME! Laura's Iraq Journal Day 1: Feb. 5th, 2006First let me repeat what I already knew--the troops serving over here are a stellar, inspiring group. I have been thoroughly impressed from the moment of our first contact with the 4th Infantry Division personnel who helped faciitate our trip into Iraq. In the middle of the night we were whisked off to an undisclosed location, and a few hours later flown to Baghdad by a great Air Force crew out of Alaska and a trusty old C-130. A number of...

Washington Prism – Babak Yektafar It was strange watching Brian Lamb, the founder of C-SPAN, on TV at a party in mid-town Tehran last month. Stranger yet, was the number of people at that party who were familiar with him, and his call-in show, Washington Journal. After talking to a few people at that party, and later on at another gathering, I came to realize that Brian Lamb, the pride of Lafayette, Indiana, actually has a small and rather cultish following in Iran. C-SPAN is carried via World Net satellite network, which among other programs, carries programming by the US...

Scientists are over the moon at the W.M. Keck Observatory and the California Institute of Technology over a new discovery of a satellite orbiting the Solar System's 10th planet (2003 UB313). The newly discovered moon orbits the farthest object ever seen in the Solar System. The existence of the moon will help astronomers resolve the question of whether 2003 UB313, temporarily nicknamed "Xena," is more massive than Pluto and hence the 10th planet. A paper describing the discovery was submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters on October 3, 2005. "We were surprised because this is a completely different type of...

War is Peace By William John Hagan (Houston Home Journal, Perry, GA) New York, Washington, London and Madrid have all become victims of terrorism as a direct result of state sponsored terrorism. Prior to September 11th, 2001, several Islamic nations virtually declared war on the Western Alliance of the United States, Britain, and Israel by funding Al-Qaeda. Starting in 1988, Iran funded Ayman al Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda's number two in command. Iraq was also a direct and indirect supporter of Al-Qaeda. Prior to, during and after my career in Yugoslavia during the Croatian-Serbian War, I kept a close eye on the...

By ELLEN SIMON, AP Technology Writer GREENSBORO, N.C. - It's a journalist's job to ask questions, but they're usually aimed at outsiders. At the News & Record, a 93,000-daily circulation newspaper in Greensboro, reporters and editors are asking tough questions about the paper itself. The biggest questions: If the paper needs to change to survive, what changes should be made? What can it do, especially online, to make itself the electronic equivalent of a town square? Seeking the answers, the paper has launched an audacious online experiment. The News & Record's Web site features 11 staff-written Web journals, or blogs,...

The lovely and talented Leanne Larmondin, editrix of Canada's Anglican Journal, sounds like she's just about out of patience:Members of the Council of General Synod have some critical decisions ahead of them at their regular meeting next month. This will be only their second meeting together since they were elected at last year’s triennial meeting of General Synod. They will truly be put to the test when they are called on to vote on the request from the primates of the Anglican Communion that the Canadian church “voluntarily withdraw” its members from the Anglican Consultative Council. They will also consider...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

By PETER PORCO Anchorage Daily News November 26, 2004 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sixteen-year-old Rachelle A. Waterman would appear to be any parent's ideal child - an honor student, an athlete, a gifted singer. But for months, she planned her mother's murder with two of her former boyfriends who are eight years her senior, according to Alaska State Troopers. Two weekends ago on Southeast's Prince of Wales Island, their plot ended in the death of 48-year-old Lauri Waterman of Craig, according to court papers. Lauri Waterman, a teacher's aide and community activist, was killed by one of the men using a...

Dear Dad - Just came out of the city and I honestly do not know where to start. I am afraid that whatever I send you will not do sufficient honor to the men who fought and took Fallujah. Shortly before the attack, Task Force Fallujah was built. It consisted of Regimental Combat Team 1 built around 1st Marine Regiment and Regimental Combat Team 7 built around 7th Marine Regiment. Each Regiment consisted of two Marine Rifle Battalions reinforced and one Army mechanized infantry battalion. Regimental Combat Team 1 (RCT-1) consisted of 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (3rd LAR), 3rd...

The chief apologist for the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Public Editor Mike King, issues his monthly denial of liberal bias at his newspaper. I'm not sure of the rules of quoting a newspaper at Free Republic, so click on the link above to read the article. (Also see my blog post here). The part that caught my eye was the section on the AJC's coverage of memogate. It seems to me that the AJC is reluctant to publish any rebuttal from solid sources, such as Col Staudt, about if President Bush recived preferrential treatment in joining the Texas Air National Guard. I...

The answers to all the questions raised by critics of John Kerry could probably be answered by the large archive of documents he keeps in his home. Douglas Brinkley, the 43-year-old author who wrote "Tour of Duty," the biographical account of Kerry's time in Vietnam, described it this way: "I'm talking a massive archive. I had to sit in his house, with this woman watching me, and go through the collection – 12-page letters, notebooks, journals. I made three different trips, and stayed there for days." Brinkley is the only one who's been allowed to handle this extensive resource. Indeed,...

We all know Kerry's journal says he was in Sa Dec on Christmas Eve 1968. The Kerryiods have begun to claim that he just misremembered the date (yeah, right). I seem to recall having run into an article on Kerry's journal from right before he left Vietnam saying something to the effect of; I've looked over at Cambodia a number of times and I wonder what it is like over there? Obviously this would be pretty damning. So can anyone help me out with a link?

It looked like Google’s stockmarket flotation might be derailed at the last minute by an interview in Playboy magazine that seemed to contravene listing rules. However, the Securities and Exchange Commission has reportedly given it the go-ahead, and the search-engine company could be valued at as much as $36 billion when its shares start trading later this week. Is it worth anything like that? GOOGLE’S founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have always had an air of niceness about them: after all, Google was the first company to promise “not to be evil” in the prospectus for its initial public...

Somewhat sentimentally, Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment of the Humanities, states the obvious in an editoral for the Wall Street Journal: the study of the humanities has gone to hell in a hand basket. It has been said that the erosion of freedom comes from three sources: from without, from within and from the passing of time. Though not as visible as marching armies, the injuries of time lead to the same outcome: a surrender of American ideals. Abraham Lincoln warned of this "silent artillery"--the fading memory of what we believe as Americans and why. And this loss...

DALLAS, Oct. 10 – High pollution levels may make people more susceptible to stroke, according to a report in today’s rapid access issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.Researchers collected data on 23,179 hospital stroke admissions from 1997 to 2000 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan – the island’s second largest city and heavy industrial area.  They compared air pollution levels on the dates of admissions with air pollution levels one week before and one week after admissions, said Chun-Yuh Yang, Ph.D., M.P.H., professor, director and dean at the Institute of Public Health, College of Health Sciences at the Kaohsiung Medical...

A new online science journal aimed at changing the paradigm of scholarly publishing has proved so popular it's been mired in a crush of traffic since its Sunday night launch. The inaugural issue of the journal, called the Public Library of Science Biology, is the first journal to be published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a San Francisco nonprofit that's backed by several highly regarded scientists who want to see scientific research freely distributed online. Instead of charging subscription fees that cost thousands of dollars annually, as do many traditional scientific journals, PLoS charges authors $1,500 per published...

Feb. 25, 2003 The professor is a terrorist By Daniel Pipes It was quiet in [Cooper Hall] 464 Thursday night, where [Sameeh] Hammoudeh's 6 p.m. Arabic IV class was scheduled to meet. Two students who hadn't heard of his arrest came to class, and a substitute was assigned to teach in Hammoudeh's place. Hammoudeh missed teaching his Arabic class last week due to a slight inconvenience: he had just been charged with racketeering and conspiracy to murder. In fact, he was one of eight men indicted at a US District Court in Florida as "material supporters of a foreign terrorist...

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<p>The stars look to be in perfect alignment for tax relief. With a GOP majority in both houses of Congress, the Bush Administration is making eager and energetic noises, and the economy is in what Fed Chairman Greenspan calls a soft spot.</p>

More than a year ago I wrote a column about my eager participation in what I called the Blogger revolution. “Bloggers”, for the uninitiated, are people who keep a weblog, a diary of thoughts, argument, musings or whatever on their own website, with links to other sites and oodles of commentary besides. In the past, if you wanted to get published, you needed a newspaper or magazine or access to a printing press; you had to get past editors, agents, media proprietors, and so on. It was a gruelling process making your way as a writer — and some of...

Journal worker kills 2, injures 1 06/09/2002 BY AMANDA MILKOVITS Journal Staff Writer -- An employee of The Providence Journal Co. fatally shot two coworkers, wounded a third, and may have then died in a car fire after a wave of violence yesterday morning that swept from the newspaper's production plant in the city to a suburban neighborhood in Warwick. The police said that Carlos Pacheco, 38, a 20-year employee at The Journal, entered the building at 210 Kinsley Ave. at about 9:30 a.m., and shot a supervisor, Robert Benetti, 38, of Pawtucket. Benetti died. Pacheco then shot and wounded...

<p>CHICAGO -- One of the world's leading medical journals has put itself and its competitors under the microscope with research showing that published studies are sometimes misleading and frequently do not mention weaknesses.</p> <p>Some problems can be traced to biases among peer reviewers, outside scientists tapped by journal editors to help decide whether a paper should be published, said several articles in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.</p>