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America's North Shore Journal
America’s North Shore Journal is an on-line publication of news and opinion. It is intended to educate, enlighten, entertain and aggravate the reader. It is written from America’s North Shore, the scenic coast of the Great Lakes.
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Security Equals More Electricity
http://northshorejournal.org/security-equals-more-electricityThe electricity gains have been possible because violence in Iraq has dropped to its lowest level in more than four years. The change has been driven by the 2007 buildup of American forces, the Sunni revolt against al-Qaida in Iraq and Iraqi government crackdowns against Sunni extremists and Shiite militias, among other factors. …
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al Qaeda in Iraq Driven From Last Stronghold
http://northshorejournal.org/al-qaeda-in-iraq-driven-from-last-strongholdIn Mosul, Al-Qaeda’s last redoubt, the group still held sway as recently as Easter. Now it lacks the strength to fight the army face to face and has lost the sympathy of most of the ordinary citizens who once admired its stand against the occupying forces and their allies in the Iraqi army. …
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Mostly Flying
http://mostlyflying.blogspot.comTurks Jail Plotters
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4th Fleet Focus: Medical Diplomacy Takes Another Step
http://informationdissemination.blogspot.com/2008/06/4th-fle...Medical diplomacy at work in its early stages. Very impressive. Blogger roundtable participants included the always insightful John of Argghhh, Chris Albon from War and Health, and Chuck Simmons of the North Shore Journal. Well done all, we thought the roundtable was very interesting.
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Is This The Taliban Spring Offensive?
http://lawhawk.blogspot.com/2008/06/is-this-taliban-spring-o...The North Shore Journal wonders whether the Taliban have been busy engaging in a military offensive without actually using its thugs in fights. They've apparently been sending propaganda to media outlets, who report that the Taliban have captured territory in Afghanistan
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Taliban does not control Arghandab?
http://internetscofflaw.com/2008/06/18/taliban-does-not-cont...Recent reports of militant control in the area appear to be unfounded. The threat of militant activity still exists throughout the province, but the patrol found no indication that militants have overwhelming strength in the Arghandab area. (Via America’s North Shore Journal, via Instapundit.) Amazingly, it sounds like the AP was taken in by a fake offensive. That would be incompetent even for them. ASIDE: I’m amused by the measured language in the CJTF press release. They don
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BLACKFIVE
http://www.blackfive.net/mainWar by press releasePosted By Uncle Jimbo Questions about accuracy abound over at the North Shore Journal. Curiously, the Taliban are running rampant, everywhere but where Coalition troops can see them. I wonder who is telling the truth? Is the Taliban Making a Comeback? - Time Hundreds of Taliban insurgents swarmed through a key district just outside the
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The Mighty Taliban
http://ithinkthereforeierr.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/the-migh...American North Shore Journal has a hilarious story of the mighty Taliban swarming into Kandahar. Or not. From Time: They did From Canadian forces: They didn’t From the International Herald Tribune: They did From Coalition forces: HUH? Where?
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Pajamas Media
http://pajamasmedia.comActually, it's been one for a while. What's got people nonplussed is that Republicans have started to do it, too.EUGENE VOLOKH on religious liberty and single-sex marriage. DISASTER PREPAREDNESS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.:INSURGENCY BY PRESS RELEASE? Well, it's cheaper and safer.MORE ON Countrywide Mortgage, the "Subprime Six," and the Obama campaign.THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF coffee and chocolate. Just don't forget your red wine!DANIEL DREZNER ON China's soft power gap.
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Instapundit.com
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapunditINSURGENCY BY PRESS RELEASE? Well, it's cheaper and safer.
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Last Refuge of a Scoundrel
http://lastrefugeofascoundrel.blogspot.comLinks (in no particular order) The Drew Carey Project, Episode 1 The Fixit Shop Baboon Pirates Acute Politics Six Meat Buffet Confederate Yankee Nealz Nuze For The Record Terrorist Death Watch Law Dog Files Ambulance Driver The Hammer How We Can Save America Multi-National Force - Iraq Hatemongers Quarterly An Angeleno's View of the World Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler COB's Oxygen Thief of the Week
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Theo Spark
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