Some Bill's Bites posts, some things I excerpted and linked but I'm sending you to the original post. I may rearrange the order of the items within this post as I add new things that I think belong "above the fold."

• And This Cowardly Show Pony Wants to be President?

• Spirit of America

• Seven GOP Senators Demand Complete Debate

• The Petraeus Thinkers: Five Challenges (H/T)

• Challenging the DNC's imam

• Watada's Revolt-ing Mistrial
  By Andrew Walden (H/T: Michelle)
  
  From the fever swamps of the anti-American-war Left a new cause celebre has emerged: Lt Ehren Watada, a soldier from Hawaii who last year refused orders to deploy to Iraq. Yesterday, the judge declared a mistrial in his court martial proceedings at Ft. Lewis, Washington, claiming Watada did not fully understand a document he signed admitting he had a duty to deploy to Iraq.
  
  But Watada is no fuzzy-minded pacifist conscientious objector. Quite the opposite: If he had any followers, Lt. Watada would be an American caudillo. Watada is on trial effectively for calling for a military coup d’etat to overthrow Congress and the president. ...

• Gulf Gaming

• Muslims vs. Muslims = Someone Else’s Fault

• Israel, Lebanon Exchange Fire At Border
  Ed Morrissey
  
  Israeli and Lebanese Army troops exchanged fire on the border near Maroun al-Ras, the first shots fired since the cessation of hostilities last summer. A wayward bulldozer apparently sparked the incident, and the UN has started deploying peacekeepers in the area (via Israel Matzav): ...

• The New York Times' Arthur Sulzberger Sees the Writing on the Wall
  His goal is to make the Times' transition from print to Internet as smooth as possible: ...

• Surge?

• Hillary on Iraq 
  From stalwart hawk to get out fast. 
  
  One pleasant surprise of Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as New York Senator has been her tough-minded approach on national security. She responded to 9/11 by supporting President Bush's strategy of taking on not just terrorists but the states that harbor them. She also voted for the war in Iraq and has refused to follow much of her party in alleging that Mr. Bush "lied" about weapons of mass destruction.
  
  But as Mrs. Clinton bids to win the Democratic Presidential nomination, she is taking a marked turn to the left. Pressured by other candidates and by her party's left wing, she is walking back her hawkish statements and is now all but part of the antiwar camp. The polls show her to be the favorite to be the next Commander in Chief, so what she really believes, and how firmly she'll stick to it, deserves to be debated. Here's a summary of the arc of Mrs. Clinton's public thinking on Iraq:  ...

• American Tragedy

Contributed by Bill Faith on February 8, 2007 at 12:45 AM in Bill Faith | Permalink

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