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Before you read any further I hope you've watched the preceding video. And I would like you think about it for a moment. That was MSNBC's Richard Engel on assignment in Baghdad to reflect on the 5th anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Richard Engel is a reporter, his job is to "report" the news. There are a million stories worth mentioning concerning Iraq right now. Reconciliation and de-baathification laws. The ongoing surge and reduction in levels of violence. Admiral William Fallon, the commander of CENTCOM, just resigned after he was featured in an article in Esquire. Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus are slated to leave in less than a year from now. Kurdistan's prosperity. John McCain, Joe Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham just made a visit to Iraq and met with Nouri Al-Maliki. Dick Cheney did as well. The list could go on forever. Instead, what does MSNBC's correspondent spend 95% of his segment on regarding the 5th anniversary of the ...

Its amazing what a little change in scenery can do. After being forced to wait through a tornado ripping through downtown Atlanta and the Georgia Dome, which ultimately forced the SEC tournament to the campus of Georgia Tech (ugh), the Georgia Bulldogs went on an unimaginable run that only the pure chaos of March Madness could engineer. After going only 4-12 in the SEC in regular season play, the Georgia Bulldogs and their beleaguered head coach Dennis Felton went on the run of all runs, beating Ole Miss on a las second shot the first night, then winning two games, one at noon the other at 8 in the same day, and finally beating Arkansas to win their first SEC tournament in a quarter century.

I guess it goes without saying that people should always be wary of the "squeaky clean" politician. Indeed, Mitt Romney lost among a core constituency of voters in the primaries because he was viewed as "too neat." After all, when politics is in question and someone is so clean, its usually too good to be true. Once again, that old adage has rung true with the professional demise of the governor of New York, Elliot Spitzer. However, there's another old saying that comes to mind when watching this man's career come to an end, and its called "schadenfruede." Elliot Spitzer not only made a name for himself as an overly aggressive prosecutor in the state of New York, first as an attorney and then as Attorney General, he did so being known as one of the most arrogant and unsympathetic men in the history of the state. Giving himself his own nickname (an arrogant proposition in its own right) as the "steamroller" and once telling a fellow R...

This enthusiastic individual is as of now one of the front runners for the "Krippy" awards coming up at our 1 year anniversary in April. I guess they just don't make those Iranian mortars like they used to.... Hopefully Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, the majority of the Democratic Party, and pretty much all of liberal America will soon realize that its difficult to surrender to someone who doesn't know how to follow instructions.

It never takes would be dictators long before they start arbitrarily picking fights to take attention off their failing policies at home, and Hugo "Castro is my homeboy" Chavez is no exception. Just like the Argentine military junta which decided going to war with Britain over a few rocks in the Atlantic was a good idea to deflect mounting criticism, Chavez seems to think that spoiling for a fight is going to regain some lost popularity after losing his attempt to become President for life. However, it isn't just a stranglehold on power this desperate human being is after, no, something more sinister here is at play. The fact that Chavez is threatening to attack a true South American success story, Colombia, after that country has just scored one of its biggest victories in its 40 year struggle against FARC, a vicious Marxist/terrorist organization which employs kidnappings and narcotics fueled terrorism to achieve its goals, is troubling enough in its own right. Now...