“Secret database obtained by NBC News tracks ‘suspicious’ domestic groups”: A year ago, at a Quaker Meeting House in Lake Worth, Fla., a small group of activists met to plan a protest of military recruiting at local high schools. What they didn’t know was that their meeting had come to the attention of the U.S. military. A secret 400-page Defense Department document obtained by NBC News lists the Lake Worth

An editiorial by David Tell in this week’s Weekly Standard argues that the only way the US can lose the Iraq war is to lose the will to fight it—which in itself isn’t anything different than what a lot of pro-war writers as have argued.  But what I found interesting was this bit toward the end of the piece.  From “Truth or Consequences”: On October 24, the ACLU made public

On the cusp of nationwide elections in Iraq—as insurgent Sunni Arabs eager to join the political process “actively support the voting, reportedly promising to provide security at polling places, and informing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other terrorist elements that they oppose any effort to disrupt the elections”—it strikes me that those left arguing that the insurgency is really but a manifestation of Iraqi nationalism have placed themselves in the strange

About those mandatory sexual harassment training courses that many companies put employees through as a way of minimizing their own legal liability in the event charges are brought (and to justify an easy way to terminate an employee should charges be leveled), Hubris notes in the comments to yesterday’s post: Mileage varies on sexual harrassment training (I’ve taken it at several different companies). […] As for myself, I think it’s

From DefenseLINK: The highest-ranking military officer in Iraq said over the past year his country’s armed forces have accomplished “almost a miracle.” Speaking through a translator, Army Gen. Babakir Shawkat Zebari said only one battalion was capable of operating with coalition forces when he became the Iraqi military’s chief of staff. Now dozens are taking the lead in the counterinsurgency fight, and many more are operating with coalition forces.

he WSJ today features this powerful account of the Dem establishment turning it’s back on one-time Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman.  From “Lieberman at the Bridge” (subscription only, so I’ll quote at length):

Barring Supreme Court intervention, Williams will be executed one minute after midnight PST. I’ll post Schwarzenegger’s statement here when it becomes available, but from initial reports, he seems to have based his decision on showing deference to the jury.  Initial AP report here.