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I thought I'd wish my Christian friends a very blessed Resurrection Sunday ( Easter) today. My apologies to my Jewish friends for missing the opportunity to wish them a blessed Pesach (Passover) on the first day of the observance. God bless and keep you all during these sacred holidays and always!

Multi-national Forces in Iraq have embraced the phenomenon that is YouTube . You can now add the MNF-Iraq channel to your favorites line-up now on YouTube! With terrorists feeding their videos directly to CNN for free airtime/publicity, I suppose the most we pro-victory folks can hope for is a YouTube channel, eh? Kind of a sad commentary on the choices made by our media, really. NPR's " On the Media " did an interview with Major Armando Hernandez who is the media outreach embed chief with the multinational forces in Iraq. The interviewers mention almost immediately that terrorists have been using the internet to get their messages out for years now while our own forces have largely passed on the opportunities the internet presents (apart from the random videos produced and posted by soldiers). I've subscribed to the new channel and am looking forward to watching these videos as they are released. I post the news from CENTCOM already and I'm sure we'll be s...

The Gathering of Eagles in DC on St. Patrick's Day this year was a roaring success and revived the spirit of patriotism in many of us. The organization itself has been busy since that gathering with other smaller gatherings across the country and planning for the next big one in DC. Larry Bailey's announcement of GOE II was posted today: [...] The next Gathering will be held, as most of you know by now, back on the Mall in Washington, DC, on May 26th. We are teaming with Rolling Thunder to put on one of the biggest “Support the Troops” rallies ever seen in this nation. Check the website for details and start organizing your car pools and bus charters. The Headquarters Hotel is the Georgetown Holiday Inn in the District of Columbia. We have 150 rooms available at a significantly discounted price; they’re filling up fast, so make your reservations soon. [...] See you there?

Well America, way to go! Thanks for voicing your discontent by electing a majority that is notorious for raising taxes rather than trimming spending. (You are sensing the sarcasm here, aren't you?) At least those of us in the 4th District know that Representative Geoff Davis has our back on tax increases! This article is from his newsletter this week. (I wish they would publish this particular newsletter in full form to the Congressman's website -- it's always worth a read.) Congress Continues Work on the Budget Last week before adjourning for the spring recess, House Democrats ushered their fiscally-irresponsible budget proposal for FY2008 through the House. I was proud to vote against this budget that includes an average tax increase of $2,563 for an estimated 1,405,000 Kentuckians. I supported the alternative budget offered by the Republicans. The Republican substitute achieves a balanced budget by 2012 and would maintain the tax relief enacted in 2001 and 2003. Without...

I posted about this a while back when Daveed Gartenstein-Ross's piece about South Waziristan was published in The Weekly Standard. He wrote extensively about the Warizistan Accords and what they meant to our efforts in Afghanistan. Pakistan's surrender of that territory to al-Qaeda was indeed bad news for our forces. Now in a new story from CBN News, " Bajaur: When 'Peace' Yields War ," we find that the Waziristan Accords have indeed cost us mightily: ...since that deal, al-Qaeda and the Taliban have increased their attacks into Afghanistan by some 300 percent. ... And, the saga of Musharraf's peace-making in Pakistan continues with the surrender of Bajaur to a Taliban leader: ... Sources told CBN News this accord is similar to the Waziristan treaty, in which Pakistan turned control of that region over to the Taliban and al-Qaeda. "Bajaur is right by an area where there's been a lot of insurgent activity in Afghanistan. So there's obviously a...