Iraq War Fatalities is a map showing casualties by day and location since the end of the war. Enable the locations box on the side to see the cities. Wretchard has some insights into the shifting (and recurrent) sites of the bombing. I think his appraisal of Mosul is dead-on as well as his speculation that the envisioned end-game of the locals vs. the Al-Qaeda foreigners is also correct and the reason they've been fighting of late. Read the whole thing.
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project . Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical. Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.
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