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We lost power here at work for a good bit this morning. I hope it wasn't some attempt to send it over to New England. I'd hate to think that my job was turned upside down just to send electricity over to a bunch of Yankees.

Maher Hawash plead guilty to conspiring to provide services to the Taliban. He and six other had travelled to China in order to cross the border into Afghanistan and fight the US. He's a US citizen, and thus is a traitor; he should be hanged for it, but instead gets a minimum seven year sentence.

I've just formatted an account of the Second Gulf War written by a chopper pilot in the Marines, Major Jamie Cox. Interesting read.

The National Review has a great article on the failed Policy Analysis Market proposal. It's much better written than my own screed. Well worth reading.

This article about the cancellation of a promising intelligence-gathering method has been retracted.

CNN reports that another purported tape of Hussein has been released, this one commenting on the loss of his sons and grand-son. I find it amusing how loony-islamist the guy gets over time. For someone who started out as a great secularist, the armed might of the United States and her allies sure has put the fear of God back into him.