Please send ideas/artwork for Protein Wisdom items for the hols.Thanks, Dan 

Andrew Sullivan exclusively reports that security in Iraq has improved because the US has set up security walls around neighborhoods and along highways, based on e-mail from a reader whose son is in the Army and stationed in Iraq. Apparently, Sullivan failed to notice or follow this story when it was reported by Reuters, the New York Times (and sister pub the International Herald-Tribune), the Christian Science Monitor, Stars & Stripes, the AP

UPDATE: Karl’s piece, below, is much better than this (which is like shooting fish in a barrel with dynamite).  Meet William Neal, juror at a trial regarding Hamas-funding “charities”: The defendants were accused of illegally routing more than $12 million in support to the terrorist group Hamas through a series of charities, known as zakat committees. Prosecutors said those committees are controlled by Hamas. Defense attorneys argued HLF simply helped

That guy was always under foot.  Y’dig?

In “The Big Picture(s),” I noted the case of Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi stringer working for the Associated Press with a history of taking staged photographs of Islamic terrorists, who was detained by the US military as a security threat in April 2006. An Iraqi investigating magistrate convened the first criminal hearing in the case on Sunday.  The AP coverage is thisclose to a press release from the lawyer the AP