Finally...The New York Times held Accountable...

A BAN ON 'VICTORY'

February 4, 2007 -- Question: When is a U.S. military victory not a victory?

Answer: When it's reported by The New York Times.

Read the account from Baghdad in the Jan. 30 Times about a battle the previous weekend in the city of Najaf - one of the biggest engagements of the war - and you'd think that U.S. and Iraqi forces had suffered a terrible defeat at the hands of what was described as "an obscure renegade militia."
"Iraqi forces were surprised and nearly overwhelmed by the ferocity" of the fighters arrayed against them, read the piece by correspondent Marc Santora, who added, "They needed far more help from American forces than previously disclosed."

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02042007/postopinion/editorials/a_ban_on_victory_editorials_.htm

The Last Days of Old Europe ..

Below you will find a very telling article about the Islamic extremism taking place throughout Europe and how most Western countries allow it to fester unchecked right in their own backyards. Understanding that writers of such articles actually take their own life in their hands, I commend the author for putting this piece out. It is interesting to notice that on at least three separate occasions in the article he went to great lengths to pacify Muslim readers, a step I am certain he would not have taken were it about any other religious group.

A sign of the times in a rapidly changing Europe.

Tolerating intolerance is still this country's besetting sin

If the majority of Muslims truly want to integrate, they could start by kicking out the preachers of hatred from their mosques

Henry Porter, Sunday February 4, 2007, The Observer

Imagine the Archbishop of Canterbury or any senior Anglican clergyman giving a sermon which suggested that homosexual men should be thrown off a mountain; that they were no better than filthy dogs. Imagine another priest rising in another church to preach that children should be hit for not praying, that women were deficient, should walk behind men and only go out with their man's permission. Consider what the reaction would be if a third joined in by saying all Jews were born liars.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2005511,00.html