Is freedom on the march in the Middle East?
According to an organization called “Freedom House”: yes:
Past presidents and the NSA
Sigh … the more that comes to light about past presidents and their ‘eavesdropping’ the more this so-called ‘scandal’ – which has been reported to the extent you’d think it was worse than Watergate – becomes much ado about *nothing*, outside of a President trying to do his job by doing his level best to prevent another terrorist attack on our soil via using established precedent in extraordinary times.
Video on Iraqi elections
Michael Yon has a fantastic link to a video someone sent him of the Iraqi elections. Good stuff!
Letter from a proud father
Greyhawk over at Mudville Gazette has posted a letter he rec’d from the father of SGT Michael “Mike” James Stokely. Sgt. Stokely was killed in Iraq on August 15th.