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LIEUTENANT IN IRAQ SLAMS NYT FOR ENDANGERING HIS MEN:

A letter written by one of our military officers in Iraq to the Executive Editor of the New York Times and the reporters who wrote the terrorist banking data story last week should have all of you cheering: "You may think you have done a public service, but you have gravely endangered the lives of my soldiers and all other soldiers and innocent Iraqis here. Next time I hear that familiar explosion -- or next time I feel it -- I will wonder whether we could have stopped that bomb had you not instructed terrorists how to evade our financial surveillance," writes Army LT. Tom Cotton in the blog Powerline.


THE GRISLY TRUTH ABOUT SADDAM'S HITLERIAN MASSACRES:

The mass graves in Iraq have revealed more disturbing information about the methods that Saddam Hussein's regime used to round up people and execute them. Why the deafening silence from the human rights organizations? Read the Los Angeles Times.


GOOD NEWS FOR BUSH AND THE REPUBLICANS:

According to a new ABC News poll, "[President Bush has] improved by 14 points among Republicans in the past month, to 82 percent approval. Seventy-eight percent of moderate Republicans now approve of his performance, up 21 points from a career-low 57 percent in May." Read more.


GOOD NEWS FOR IRAQ--THE SCHOOLS ARE FILLING:

Believe it or not, the NYT ran a cover story on schoolchildren returning to the Iraq's classrooms. It's a small sign of hope, but important nonetheless.
UTAH HOUSE RACE--IS THE RNC WATCHING?! Just weeks ago Brian Bilbray won a House seat in San Diego County by running as a tough border enforcement candidate--no amnesty, no guest workers. Period. Dot. Bingo. So will a Republican incumbent in Utah with a "legalize-them" mind-set resist a primary challenge by another Republican who promises a border enforcement crackdown? It's a dead heat! Read more.