As the 101st Airborne pulls out of central and eastern Afghanistan, the 10th Mountain Division from Ft. Drum N.Y. is pulling in.
Springtime will not be pretty in these provinces. It's typically when enemy fighters come down from the mountains, and when they do, they are in a killing mood. I'm sure the fresh U.S. troops are also anxious to get their barrels hot, but coalition soldiers will have to show restraint to avoid killing civilians. The U.N. announced today that civilian deaths spiked
Well, like George Clooney in the movie O Brother Where Art Thou, Ward Cammack's in a tight spot now. His Democratic campaign for governor is running out of money. Much of his meager financial support is coming from Republicans. Among them: CCA lawyer and failed federal judicial nominee Gus Puryear, his buddy from the Belle Meade Country Club. Most observers are wondering why Cammack, who himself has given heavily to Republicans in the past, hasn't dropped out of the race already.
Now, insiders
Looks pretty indiscriminate to me.​Congressman Steve Cohen, a Democrat whose district includes Memphis, is Tennessee's first Jewish congressman. With that in mind, does it seem a bit odd to anyone else that, according to a letter to the House Foreign Affairs Committee obtained by The Hill, Cohen would join Texas' Kay Granger and Kentucky's Ed Whitfield in opposition to a House resolution that would recognize as genocide the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks during World War
