A soldier loses his arm in combat, and fights to get back on his Special Forces team.
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Cross Your Fingers
An update on the missing SEAL in Afghanistan:
A purported Taliban spokesman said Saturday that the group has beheaded a missing American commando, but he offered no proof and the U.S. military said it was still searching for the Navy SEAL.
The commando is the last of a four-member elite commando team missing since June 28 in Kunar, near the Pakistani border. One of the men was rescued and the other two were found dead.
“This morning in Shagal district in Kunar province, the Taliban killed the American soldier and cut his head off,” Mullah Latif Hakimi, the purported spokesman, told The Associated Press in a telephone call. “We left the body on a mountainside in this area so Afghan or U.S. soldiers there can find it.”
Hakimi repeatedly has said the rebels were holding the commando. But information from him in the past has frequently proven exaggerated or untrue, and his exact tie to the Taliban leadership cannot be independently verified.
U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Jerry O’Hara said “the search for the commando continued.
“The only proof we have is that he is missing,” he said. “We will run down these reports to see if anything thing pans out.”
Hope they find him, and fast.
The Battle Against ‘Evil’ Must Be Fought on All Fronts
This is too funny:
A film festival being organized by left-wing director Michael Moore has some right-wing competition.
A local activist and a conservative group from Texas said Wednesday they were putting together an alternative to the Traverse City Film Festival, which Moore and residents of this Lake Michigan community are organizing.
“People are fed up and tired with the extreme left-wing radical fringe
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The Elephant and the Oliphant
Just read the transcript of Hugh Hewitt’s interview with the Boston Globe’s Tom Oliphant (via Instapundit), and I think I have finally come to terms with what bothers me so much about Hugh.
His blog reads like Pravda on the Potomac and his radio show is really one of the best right-wing radio shows- the contrast is really, from my perspective, amazing. His radio show is good, despite your political leanings, and it is clear he prepares, and knows what he wants to say, and advances decent arguments. On his blog, though, it just seems to be partisan shit-slinging and re-writes of Ken Mehlman RNC press releases, so even when I think he is mostly right, it pisses me off.
Just my two cents.
Plame Fall-out?
Via those crazy Kossacks, this story about the Cleveland Plain Dealer holding back on stories:
Plain Dealer Editor Doug Clifton says the Cleveland daily is not reporting two major investigative stories of “profound importance” because they are based on illegally leaked documents — and the paper fears the consequences faced now by jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller.
Lawyers for the Newhouse Newspapers-owned PD have concluded that the newspaper would almost certainly be found culpable if the leaks were investigated by authorities.
“They’ve said, this is a super, super high-risk endeavor, and you would, you know, you’d lose,” Clifton said in an interview Friday afternoon.
“The reporters say, ‘Well, we’re willing to go to jail, and I’m willing to go to jail if it gets laid on me,'” Clifton added, “but the newspaper isn’t willing to go to jail. That’s what the lawyers have told us. So this is a Time Inc. sort of situation.”
Both Miller and Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper faced jail on contempt charges for refusing to identify confidential sources, but Time agreed to hand over Cooper’s subpoenaed notes when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the reporters’ appeal. Cooper later agreed to testify to a grand jury, saying his source had given “express personal consent” to be identified.
Clifton declined to characterize the two stories, saying only they were based on material that was illegally leaked.
Clifton’s revelation that the PD was holding two investigative projects was actually first published in a column he wrote June 30 about the Miller and Cooper case. While the column garnered positive reaction, he said, almost nobody picked up on the disclosure tucked into the end of the piece.
“As I write this, two stories of profound importance languish in our hands,” Clifton wrote. “The public would be well served to know them, but both are based on documents leaked to us by people who would face deep trouble for having leaked them. Publishing the stories would almost certainly lead to a leak investigation and the ultimate choice: talk or go to jail. Because talking isn’t an option and jail is too high a price to pay, these two stories will go untold for now. How many more are out there?”
Rather than join in the chorus (or what will soon be a chorus) of wailing and beating of breasts, let me just say this:
And go do your damned job and stand up for what you believe in, for chrissakes. I don’t think Judith Miller should be in jail, but the law is not on her side, so she is doing what she thinks is right. So should you whiners, and if you have information that was leaked to you that are of ‘profound importance,’ and you don’t publish it because you are ‘afraid of jail,’ you don’t deserve my support or sympathy. You deserve my scorn.
If you think something is right, moral, and proper, you ignore the damned law and face the consequences. Some old guy who lived near a lake wrote about this once.
Don’t pay attention to ‘what could happen’ to you- do what you think is right. Thank goodness all journalists aren’t this spineless.
Not Afraid
This should show the terrorists- bomb the Brits, and you will come in for a vigorous taunting.
Pythonesque, and an admirable sentiment and statement.