Associated Press: We are now winning the Iraq war
Damn. If the anti-war mediots at the AP can admit it, why can’t Barack Obama?
Weekend open thread
I’ll be away for most, if not all, of the day today. Catch up with ya’ll later.
Controversy grows over Obama’s cancellation of troop hospital visit in Germany
Memeorandum is bursting with links this evening from lefties and righties discussing yesterday’s story about Obama’s cancellation of a scheduled visit to wounded US troops in Germany.  I briefly noted in a post this morning that it sound like the apparent reason the visit was cancelled was because Obama found out he couldn’t make a photo op out of it.
Change (in sex partners) you can believe in*
The Smoking Gun reports on an emerging problem in Chicago (h/t: ST reader Sev):
How to stop a greenie in their tracks
Have you ever been given the evil eye and a stern lecture by a greenie who thinks you’re the scum of the earth for throwing that soda can in the trash rather than the recycling bin? First women’s magazine’s “Social Smarts” section recently had an awesome suggestion for how to counter repeat offenders who constantly nag co-workers, family, and friends about “wastefulness”: